One Month Later

Hello All!

As many of you may know, Matt has officially moved to Iowa about a month ago. It was a HUGE adjustment for me. Only child syndrome calling. Thankfully, I have Pinterest on my side and Matt has power tools on his. Matt has been a GREAT sport about all of this. He says its his love of power tools. As soon as one project is done, he is asking what we will be working on next. If only he got that excited about "projects" like laundry and the dishes. Before I get started on a project updates, a big shout-out to Perry for buying "us" a new fancy pants drill impact driver thingy for Christmas. It was a huge help during most of these projects. If any of you readers out there need an exact name of what this thingy is, better as him. Bigger project updates to come, for now a few new things we have added since the "big" move.

Scarf rack! A girl can never have enough scarves. This required drilling into studs in the closet but it adds some nice color and one less thing in the dresser drawers

Matt and I have become grownups with white towels. I'm very thankful for bleach. One does not know how much the professionally styled hair color bleeds until you own white towels. 

New rug from Target. Best $5 spent this week. Don't worry though, the rug about flowers that came from one of my bridal showers will be making an appearance as soon as the grass is green again. 

Mini Bathroom Makeover

Today, as I checked the weather and discovered subzero temperatures, I decided it would be a good day for a Pinterest project. At the very least my bathroom needed a little cleaning and organizing.

I started with this:

 Looks a little "meh" right? Somehow I always end up with my jewelry on the counter and I don't even want to tell you about the dust bunnies behind the stereo. There is also the grungy toothbrush holder. It was once a favorite and gift from Matt on our first Valentine's day but it has become covered in toothbrush gunk that even my bleaching skills couldn't remove. My biggest blight though is the makeup bag. I'm always in too much of a rush in the morning to put things away or maybe its because the drawer the makeup bag belongs in looks like this:

The electric shaver isn't mine but all those pony tails are. So I decided to take charge!  After nearly 2 hours looking for the right stuff in Walmart and going through all my previous Pinterest ideas, I decided to go for it.

I'm pretty proud of the final result:

 Nice and clean! I bought a corner dish rack to put my radio on top of. Its not totally sturdy, but it gets the job done.

I also bought 2 glass bowls that fit on the rack. My everyday makeup just barley fits in the one but that is good incentive to purge every so often.

The other glass bowl has my spare pair of glasses and my everyday jewelry. 

 The drawer that once housed random stuff now hold our toothbrushes. Even Ponzi was happy to help.