Jewelry Bottle Organizer

I've certainly pinned enough ideas like the one I'm about to show you. I needed to organize my massive amounts of jewelry (thanks, mom!) so this idea is for all those bracelets I have. I just took two wine bottles I had sitting around and piled on the bracelets around the neck. Really helps keep them from tangling up with each other.

Pallet Table and Book Storage

I needed somewhere to keep my books in my craft shed and needed extra table space. I had some smaller pallets my son collected for me outside of my shed, so I stacked them side by side and got this. You can see all my books stuck inside the open sides of the pallets and I now have extra space to sit things.

Rusted Nail Windchime

 When Life gives you a yard full of rusted nails..Make windchimes!
I took a metal clothes hanger and spiral it and tied on graduated sizes of rusted nails with nylon string. It's really hard to get a good picture of windchimes! I have two different views with not so great backgrounds.

New Direction

I am taking a new direction with this blog. It wasn't working for me and so I've decided to blog about what I hope to acquire one day, a homestead. Since we're renting we are limited to what we can do. There are still unlimited projects I can tackle. For my first venture, let's talk about home made clothes detergent. This is something I already do most of the time and while my idea may be a little different, there are as many ways to do this as there are people doing it.

My DH is a truck driver and often times ends up staying a night in a motel or eventually has to shower at a truck stop. So, while the original recipe calls for a specific kind of laundry soap, I grate up all the little tiny soaps that he brings home. Otherwise, these things end up taking over the bathroom cabinet.  I put the grated up soap in an old canning jar and sit it on my laundry room shelf. When washing clothes, I add about 1/4 cup of Borax, 1/4 cup of Washing soda and 1/4 cup of grated soap. Give or take, according to how dirty the clothes are.  And that's about it. And then I do what so many people around me think is so archaic....I hang my clothes on the line to dry!