Keep Organized With Baskets

I love using baskets for storage they are so functional and can add great texture to your interior decor.

I use baskets  in just about every room of our home. They are great for hiding stuff you don't want to see or coralling your stuff so you can find it.

The oldest set of baskets have been used for 20+ years.

This nesting set was originally brown, then painted blue for our daughters' nursery and now it's painted gold and it holds Qtips and cotton balls in my bathroom.  You can see that some of the gold has rubbed off and the previous blue finish shows through. Love that!

A square basket in our Breakfast Room keeps napkins handy.

A little basket next to the breakfast table keeps magazines and catalogs nearby.

Extra sets of keys are kept in a basket box by the door. I keep only one set of keys on the key rack and the rest go in here.

This heavy duty covered basket held my oldest daughter's books.

A larger basket holds more magazines and catalogs in the Family Room.

These cute baskets in the Laundry Room hold cleaning rags, stray socks and misc. stuff.

The linen closet in our Master Bath stays neat and tidy with the addition of these lined gray baskets

The latest additions to my basket collection are these three baskets

 The  three baskets add height to my vintage cabinet. I haven't decided what will be stored in them yet.

 I find almost all of my baskets at HomeGoods, Marshalls or TJ Maxx. You can't beat their prices. These lidded baskets were only $6.99.

 I am constantly looking for more baskets to keep me organized. My pantry and office could definitely use more of them.

Where do you use baskets in your home and where is your go to place to find them?

Pam

Ruby Red Glasses

There are still a couple of weeks before Valentine's Day, but I've already set the table.

HomeGoods was on the way home a few days ago and I had to stop in to see what they had. Found the red napkins on the clearance aisle and thought they'd go perfectly with my ruby red glasses. Everything else on the table is something we already had.

The sun made an appearance today and it was nice and warm at 64 degrees. Not bad for January!

The khaki placemats are too wide to put down the regular way, but they worked perfectly turned vertically.

I shopped the house for the centerpiece.

Hope you are having a good week!

Pam
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Wax Paper Crayon Hearts

Saw some wax paper crayon hearts on Martha Stewart awhile back and thought they'd be fun to make.

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I used crayons leftover from raising our two girls. Yup, still have them in a drawer in the basement.

I shaved some red and white crayons onto a sheet of wax paper, covered it with another sheet of wax paper. Then I put these two pieces between two pieces(top & bottom) of newspaper and ironed. You can read better instructions on Martha Stewart. Here hearts have less shavings and are spread more evenly.

 The windows in our breakfast room is a perfect place for them.

Little wax paper crayon hearts might be fun hanging from the chandelier, as well.The big ones look so cheery on this dreary day.

Hope you had a fun weekend! 

Wish I could say the same :(    I'm a little distracted after hearing some news from SoCal. I really can't stand not being able to fix something. Are you the same way?

Pam

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I Hate Cooking!

There, I said it...

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Anyone else feel this way?

This is how I feel when I'm thinking about what to make for dinner...

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Maybe I should get this book...

I am still grateful (see last post) for the blessing of never having gone hungry for lack of food. I am hungry right now because I don't know what I want to eat. Talk about being spoiled. 

Remember the sign in the Breakfast Room that I made awhile back? Maybe it should say, Eat Something Good Now!

It's not that I can't cook, it's just that sometimes it takes so long and there are so many other things I'd rather be doing...even......cleaning the bathrooms. Is it just me?

Mr. Fanatic and our youngest daughter love to cook...Well, Mr. Fanatic loves  to cook; I think Jenny just likes for him to cook wonderful things for her. Sorry Jenny! I am so grateful to have a husband who loves to cook. Still, since he works and I stay home, it's my job to make dinner.

My favorite dinner is steak on the grill, baked potatoes and a salad..

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Why? because there's only a salad bowl to clean up! The problem is, we can't afford to eat this 7 days a week. 

I could eat the same thing for days. Cooking and eating takes us too much time. If I didn't have to eat, it would be ok with me. Did I say that out loud?

Back to grilled chicken... it can be eaten in so many ways. I love grilling up a bunch of chicken and eating the leftovers as grilled chicken sandwiches,  quesadillas, chicken pasta salad, etc. It saves so much time when you cook for more than one meal.

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Here's the Chicken Club Quesadillas I make.

Burritos and tacos are simple...

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So is Italian Meatloaf.

It doesn't help that I don't like very many foods as this seriously limits what to cook.

So, what should I make for dinner????

Does anyone else have this problem???

Pam

One Word

Layla over at the Lettered Cottage is having a This Little Word Of Mine” link party.  My word for the year is how I'm feeling about life.

My word is...

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I saw this on Pinterest awhile back and I often think about how true it is, especially with the state of the economy of here in the US and around the world.

If you have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, your wallet, and some spare change you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the agony of imprisonment or torture, or the horrible pangs of starvation vou are luckier than 500 million people alive and suffering.

If you can read this message you are more fortunate than 3 billion people in the world who cannot read it at all.

Ungratefulness is one of my pet peeves.

Sorry, didn't mean to make you feel bad.

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So true.

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I have so many things I am grateful for that if they were listed here the would go on forever. I would like to encourage you to take the time every day and be grateful to God for the big AND the little things; big things like your family and health and little things like a comfy warm bed to sleep in at night. 

I hope you will be grateful all year long and every single day.

Pam

DIY: Sewing A Pillow Cover Is So Easy

Pillow covers are so easy to make whether you sew them or use a no sew product. If you have several pairs of them, they are easy to change  out seasonally and  take up very little space compared to having several sets of pillows.  Plus, if you make them yourselves, pillow covers are a lot cheaper to make than going out and buying a bunch of new pillows.

The other night Mr. Fanatic had to do some paperwork in the office and asked me to join him, so I thought I'd whip up a pillow cover with some fabric I found the last time I was at Mary Jo's.

Here it is:

 I just took one of the down pillows I already had, took off the cover and slipped on the cover once it was made. I think it took me all of 30 minutes to cut out the fabric and sew the pillow cover.

I thought the newly covered pillow would look great on the gray sofa.

Then I tried it on one of the leather chairs.

The gray sofa pillows were on the leather chairs, but I think the green fabric looks so much better.

Since we have 2 leather chairs, it looks like I'm going to have to make a trip to Mary Jo's and get some fabric to make another pillow cover for the second chair.

It's been cold here the past couple of days and the sun hardly shined at all last week and I would love to just skip over the next two months and go straight to Spring! 

How about you?

Hope you did something fun weekend!

Pam

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