Rio 2016 Spirit

06 Saturday Aug 2016

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DIY, JoAnn's, Kids' Craft, Olympic Craft, Rio 2016

It’s time for the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I have amazing fond memories of watching the Summer Olympics with friends in the neighborhood. Staying up way past bedtime to watch while our parents chatted on the front porch.

For that reason, and the fact that I stumbled upon 4th of July clearence at JoAnn’s, G and I tackled this craft with her friend yesterday.

It was so simple. Start with paper plates, dessert size (approx 6 3/4 inches). Cut around the the center of the plate where it starts to curve up. You’ll want to cut through the side of the plate as well, so you can intertwine the rings later.

Pull out your paint- We used acrylic since it’s going to be outside for the duration of the Olympics, it should be relatively water proof. Yellow, Blue, Green, Red and Black. We painted the both sides of the plate. The back of the plate is the side that we decided would face out. The paint coverage was better since it doesn’t have that coating making it hard for the paint to stick.

This is the banner that originally inspired me — 50% off at JoAnn’s ($7)

After the rings were dry, we added glitter glue to our rings for a little more pizzazz. Then we taped the the rings together in the proper order paying special attention to the over under weaving of each color by looking at the rings on Wikipedia.

Olympic Rings

After tying the rings to the banner using twine, I hung it by extending the length of the banner with additional twine and wrapping and cinching it under the vinyl wrap covering the pillars on our porch.

Ta Da!

I hope you enjoy the Rio 2016 Olympics with your family as much as we will.

Boot Organizing

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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binder clips, boot organizing, shower hooks, shower rings, shower tension rod

This is not part of my 40 Weeks Whole House Challenge, which is going pretty well so far. I did this out of pure aggravation.

Do you wish your boots were better organized? So did I! My boots were just thrown into the bottom of our front hall closet. and I was desperate for a solution. I started seeing lots options (online, of course) using actual boot hangers and boot clips, but I couldn’t find any online that were reasonably priced. So frustrating! So I started thinking and here is what I came up with.

Tension shower rods, binder clips and these double hooked shower rings. I got everything at Walmart.

The hardest part was getting the tension rod to stay put. The boots are pretty heavy so getting the right mix (weight distribution) was a challenge too. I decided to use 2 rods to hold all the boots. Each binder clip holds one boot and each hook hold one pair. So far it’s been up for about month and it’s working great! G loves to hang her own boots, so that’s just an added bonus. How’s your organizing coming?

I am in!

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

Posted by clearlycorinna in 40 Week Challenge, Home, Organizing

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40 week Challenge, Lisa Woodruff, Organize 365, Sunday Basket, Whole House Organizing

I need to get organized. I can’t take it anymore. I am going to try this program…The 40 Week Challenge! It is designed to start at the beginning of the school year, but I am kicking it off this week. It is free podcasts and emails linking you to Lisa Woodruff’s website, Organize 365. Who wants to join me? Together we can be accountable, which is exactly why I am posting this — to be accountable.

Today, I am creating a Sunday Basket. One child is going to a friend’s house, the other is having a friend here. Should give me a couple of hours to sort. I am supposed to go through my whole house and take all the paper and put it into a laundry basket, I’m guessing if I really took all the paper — it would fit into 5. So I am going to tackle my downstairs and upstairs living spaces, but not my office. That is for another week. I’ll post a pic of my nightmare as soon as I gather this paper.

Day 1: Gathering and sorting, Pics of phase 1 (laundry basket) and phase 2 (secret closet/dumping ground).

Day 2: phase 1 and 2 completed. From laundry basket craziness to this:

Kids’ art is a whole different pile — which is huge. I have a plan for that. Hope to reveal it soon.

Light Bulb! Business Card Magnets

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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Business Crad Magnets, DIY Photo Magnet, Great ideas for Magnets, Refrigerator Gallery Wall, School Photos, Team Photos

I have been using Business Card Magnets for years! I started buying them for their intended use, to put my business card on them for customers. Now I use them for so much more! I have mini gallery walls on my fridge and the door going into the garage. I’ve also used it on bumper stickers that I didn’t want stuck and this past vacation, when I couldn’t find a souvenir I liked, I bought a patch of the Turks and Caicos flag for less than $5 and made it into a magnet. They are so useful, I recommend picking up a pack and creating your own refrigerator gallery wall!

DIY Chandelier

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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chandelier, DIY, exposed bulbs, gold spray paint, Krylon 18k gold plate, Tory Burch office

I have been looking at chandeliers for my family room for a long time (maybe 2 years?). It takes me a long time to make decisions on these kinds of things but when I do, I love what I’ve chosen. So of course, the one that I drooled over was $15,000. Not happening. Even the knock off was $1,700. Better, but still…no. I was looking for the knock off of the knock off, but it never came, so I switched gears.

Then I started watching Hostages on CBS and saw this chandelier…

and it started me in a new direction.. but I wasn’t sold. I wanted something more modern looking, less traditional, is that transitional? Anyway, I started looking on Overstock for something more reasonable. Then I saw some more photos of inspiration..

and

but this put me into action..Tory Burch’s Office, I’m in love…

So this is my plan, find a chandelier and paint it gold. Also, I wanted to take advantage of the exposed bulb trend going on right now (like this and this). Of course Hubby was against it. Why would you buy something and then paint it? But let’s face it, girls, sometimes that haven’t even designed the things that we want. So we have to take matters in our own hands.

I finally wore him down. I found this one at Home Depot.

and this paint, Krylon 18k Gold Plate spray paint.

Then my magic Hubby put his perfectionist in gear. We took out all the pieces and figured out how to reassemble them so the Chandelier would be the right height. There were 2 poles that connected to give it a maximum height that was way higher than we need so we took one of the poles out and it gave us the perfect drop from the center beam of our great room. Then M put pieces of painter’s tape over the bulb sockets before painting.

Pretty easy, right? This is what we have so far with exposed bulbs…

but I was in Target the other day and spied these little lamps for $22 and I might have to add shades to look more like the Tory Burch Chandelier… hmmmm…stay tuned.