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Closet Door School Week Clothes Organizer

October 3, 2012 By JourneyChic Leave a Comment

Most parents, particularly those that work outside the home, have an insane morning routine. Anything that helps the family to get out the door faster is welcomed! One of the time-saving tools I use in my boy's room is a days of the week clothes rack - a simple hook rack that my dad made coupled with decoupaged wooden numbers. There isn't enough wall space in my daughter's nursery for a clothes rack, so instead I looked to her closet, which has double doors. First, I decorated the numbers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: nursery and kid spaces, organization, our house

DIY Jewelry Board

August 23, 2012 By JourneyChic 4 Comments

After months of sitting in my pantry, I finally hung up the jewelry board that I made ages and ages ago. This was a super easy project that was very quick to make (too bad it wasn't quick to hang - my bad). Cork board "canvas" from Target A few boxes of decorative nailheads from JoAnn Fabric remnant Hot glue Thumb tacks I cut the fabric to size with pinking shears to minimize fraying (allowing room for it to wrap around the edge of the cork board and onto the back. Then, I ironed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: crafts & sewing, organization

My Kitchen Revelation

June 18, 2012 By JourneyChic 4 Comments

Last Thursday a thought popped into my head: I can't see half the food that's in my kitchen cabinets. That seemingly small revelation led to a few hours of work over the weekend (and more to come this weekend) that completely changed the way I use my kitchen. Here's the deal with our kitchen: 3 upper cabinets dedicated to food 2 glass-front upper cabinets for plates and glasses Several lower cabinets and drawers under the counters and island for pots, pans, and cooking dishes, … [Read more...]

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The Garage: Final Frontier of Organization

January 17, 2012 By JourneyChic 2 Comments

A major organizational project for our home in 2012 is the garage. The fact that we live in Boston and have a garage - let along a two-car garage - is an anomaly and a luxury. It's also a the primary storage facility in our home since we don't have an attic or basement. Since we moved to our home in the fall of 2008, we've accumulated a lot of stuff. Last spring we eliminated a lot of junk by having a yard sale with a neighbor, but some of it remains. The biggest obstacles to organizing our … [Read more...]

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Cheap & Chic Ways To Corral Coupons

June 3, 2011 By JourneyChic 3 Comments

I'm not a coupon clipper. I was once, back when I was single and barely making enough money to make car payments and support my shoe habit. Those coupon-clipping days are gone, not because I don't want to save money (this blog is about living stylishly without breaking the bank, after all) but because I simply don't have time. The coupons still make their way into the house, either through the mail, my inbox, or my mother. Here are the coupons that I have now: What's wrong with this picture? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: cheap chic, organization

Confessions of a Product Junkie

February 24, 2011 By JourneyChic 4 Comments

Ever since the fourth grade, I've worn some kind of makeup. First, it was the Bonne Bell Lipsmackers; I had countless flavors. By sixth grade I was applying Cover Girl tinted lipgloss, and using my allowance money to buy all the colors available, regardless of how they looked with my skin tone. Fueled by my obsession with everything written and advertised in teen magazines (remember YM?), my products started to pile up. Around eighth grade my grandma decided I was ready to graduate to … [Read more...]

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Travel Toiletry Organization

July 19, 2010 By JourneyChic 2 Comments

Do you head to the drugstore the day before a trip to stock up on travel-sized products, only to come home and realize that you already have five tiny tubes of toothpaste buried under your bathroom sink? That's happened to me more times than I care to count. In an effort to clean under the bathroom sink and reclaim a plastic bin to put all of Junior's bottles in, I used a cheap storage solution to organize all our travel toiletries: At $1.79 each, The Container Store's basic … [Read more...]

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