How to create more storage space in bathroom

Shelf above a door in bathroom

I first found this great storage organizing idea on TipJunkie

A lot of us with smaller bathrooms in apartments or anywhere we are tight on space have a creative way to add more storage.  Build a shelf with two brackets and a board above a doorway to create extra storage for baskets, linens, toiletries, etc.

The idea came from MarthaStewart Home and Garden.  In her,

Organizing Good Things 2005, October/November 2006

Install a Toiletry Shelf

Make space for supplies over the bathroom door so that they'll be accessible when they need to be replenished. Use wood screws to secure a pair of wooden shelf brackets to either side of the door frame; screw shelf to brackets. The shelf should rest on top of the door molding, which will help support the weight. Keep small bottled items and toilet paper in handled boxes. Bars of soap can be stored, unwrapped, in an airtight glass container.

Strawberry Lemonade Cake

Strawberry Lemonade Cake

Martha Stewart Strawberry cupcakes

McD Frozen Strawberry Lemonade

When McDonald's came out with their McCafe Frozen Strawberry Lemonade I fell in love, it is so refreshing and delicious!  When I saw a recipe using Strawberry cake mix I decided to add lemonade to the cake mix to make a Strawberry Lemonade Cake. YUM!

RECIPE :

Duncan Hines Strawberry cake Mix

You Will Need:

• 1  Cups Water
• 1/3 cup lemonade
• 1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
• 3 Large Eggs

Pan Size / Bake Time:

• 2 8": 33-36 minutes
• 2 9": 28-31 minutes
• 13 x 9-inch: 32-35 minutes
• Bundt®: 38-43 minutes
• 24 Cupcakes:
• 18-21 minutes
  
  
  

  1. Prep: PREHEAT oven to 350°F for metal or glass pans, 325°F for dark or coated pans. GREASE sides and bottom of each pan with shortening. FLOUR lightly. (Use baking cups for cupcakes).

  
  

1. Mix: BLEND dry mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl at low speed until moistened (about 30 seconds). BEAT at medium speed for 2 minutes. POUR batter in pans and bake immediately.
2. Bake: BAKE following chart below. Add 3-5 minutes to bake time for dark or coated pans. Cake is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. COOL in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Cool completely before frosting

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Mix the Strawberry lemonade cake with this pink hand mixer.

Have coffee with your Strawberry Lemonade cake on this adorable pink coffee pot!

Solving the Kitchen Dish Towel Dilemma

The Kitchen Dish Towel Dilemma

Blue Coastal dish Towels Click on photo

What is the dilemma? Where to stash them to keep them dry and have them nearby and handy. Dish towels are a cute kitchen accessory and a necessary item in the kitchen. For a while we were using paper towels and wasting a lot of money until we found towels with cute patterns and variety of materials we could get for less money. Cotton dish towels versus paper towels besides cost was keeping the cloth towels dry till the next use. There are many towel racks available from pull out racks in cabinet to an adorable over the door holder!                        

There are over cabinet racks, over drawer racks, but most of us hang the towels over the edge of the sink, on stove handles, refrigerator handles, dish drainers. But they can slip off the oven handles and refrigerator handles. 

Oven door handle

I saw a great idea called bull clips 

Use pretty ribbons with the clips attached to hold the towels

Store additional dry towels in a pretty wire mesh basket, roll the towels and place them in the wire holder.

Wire Mesh Holder

Adhesive V-towel holders

Because we need a lot of the towels, they get soiled, or burnt, buying them in bulk is the way to go, after all we use them as pot holders at times, or to clean our hands. 

Now you can see why we referred to this as solving the kitchen towel DILLEMA, hope we helped to solve the dilemma for you. Would love to hear your ideas.


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Trade in electronics get gift cards

Alert- Wealthy moms cash alert!

Just discovered a way to get cash fast, well actually gift cards. Walmart, Target and Best Buy have an electronics trade-in program, trade in electronics, movies, Dvds, for gift cards.


WALMART 


Read about Walmart's electronics trade-in program HERE you can search for the brands of all the electronics that they accept, get an offer, ship it to them, get a gift card. That easy!


TARGET


Target calls their program a Eco-friendly get rewards program for electronics and DVD'S, they provide a link to Nextworth trade-in program to get a Target gift card. Check it out HERE.


BEST BUY


Best Buy website has trade-in categories to check the estimate value and the good thing about their program is you can bring the item into the store OR ship it and get the Best Buy gift card. Check out their entire program HERE

Personally I love getting and using gift cards, we just purchased a refrigerator using gift cards at Best Buy this weekend and it was tax free weekend for energy efficient refrigerators, we got a great deal tax free! I will be using these programs very soon what about you?  


Thanks to DFW Mommy for bringing this program to my attention and about a sale Target has on cutlery.
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A Chocolate guilt free delight

Chocolate guilt free, is that possible? Well if not taken to the extreme. I ate Jello lo-cal chocolate pudding from time to time, which helped me to lose 60 lbs while satisfying a sweet tooth, no the pudding didn't help me lose the weight, I used this program and I watched my food intake, for excercise I walked. But to satisfy my sweet tooth I ate lo-cal goodies once in a while.

Even tho I ate jello puddings and Cool whip separately I never thought to put them together:

Photo Courtesy of Twig and Thistle 

Not until I read a post on TwigandThistle Blog titled "Guilt Free Mousse" of course her photo's helped to get my attention as well 

Photo from Kraft foods

See what I mean? Got my attention all right. I got to thinking what else other than mousse in a cup could it be used for,  I came up with putting it in a pie crust to make a delicious Chocolate cream pie, instead of putting more cool whip on the top of the pie allow each guest to put a dollop of cream on their individual piece.  Fold two tablespoons of fat free cool whip into 60 calorie pudding gives you a 75 calorie dessert!

Add Banana slices, strawberries, white chocolate pieces, put it in a pretty glass and first put cool whip than the mousse and keep varying it for a pretty presentation. Use it as a filling in cupcakes or a cake, Add Amaretto for a grownup dessert. How about freezing it to make a popsicle. WOW, all this goodness from one inspired idea! Thanks Twig and Thistle! 

Please leave a comment and let us know what other ways this recipe could be used..

Are You a Paper Crafter?

Of all the crafts I have tried I like paper crafts the most, love making greeting cards and using paper kits for other uses as well. There are a lot of paper craft kits out there one of my favorite places to get BEAUTIFUL  kits with flowers, ribbons, colorful pattern papers, is TwoPeasInABucket  I check out their Gallery for some great INSPIRATION! 

A PAPER CAKE! How cool is that? 

I found this inspiration card with butterflies and flowers :

Project-Butterfly Card By- by Websters Pages

This card has all the elements I like, Butterflies, Flowers, Country Estate paper kit !

Look at how they used Butterflies and Flowers, 

Project Butterfly Card- 

Paper Butterfly Wreath

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Inspiration White Vase paper flowers

Love, love, love flowers!  Fresh cut flowers in a beautiful vase can make a room come alive with their unique, fragrant, colorful beauty.  Placed in a creamy white vase or a crystal vase stunning!  How can we capture the color of real flowers?  What about paper flowers? INSPIRATION came from the Wedding Chick website who posted a TUTORIAL on their site.

Photo courtesy of weddingchicks.com

I get my inspiration from the extremely creative and talented DIY'ers who are kind enough to share a tutorial with the rest of us. Currently I am researching different types of cameras as I don't have one at the moment except for a iPhone camera. Soon as I decide on one that will take good photo's I will take pictures of different projects I am working on. I have a project I am about to start, it was a craft kit I WON from a TipJunkie giveaway.  It's a wood project that is reversible for Spring/Summer. 

So head on over to weddingchicks website and see the full tutorial, would love to see all the paper flower bouquets all you crafty ladies will make, and soon as I get my camera I will display the one I make. (Found a tutorial on making a flower shaped die here.)

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