Photo Challenge- I Wanna Dance

Sweet Emma Grace turned 2 this weekend! These sparkly shoes were just made for dancing!

I thought this picture would be a great entry for the "I Wanna Dance" for the iheartfaces (http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com) photo challenge. It is my first entry so we will see how it goes! Check out their website to see the other entries!

#12- Use it or Lose it

Day #11- Jewelry

I have a jewelry organizer hanging on the inside of my "barn" door. It was organized and then it got too full and overflowed.

New Design:

I used pushpins to hang my necklaces on the door. With all of my necklaces in sight, it makes accessorizing much easier. It also allows me to have 1-2 items per divider and not stuffed full so that I can't see anything.

Pictures to be posted soon.

Day #10- Makeup

I went through my makeup and got rid of everything I could live without. Its amazing the things that were ever in "style." Sparkly pink eye shadow, purply lip gloss... I am happy to be rid of you! The funny thing about this is that I "cleaned" this area out about a month ago and only got rid of a few things. This time I had the mindset that if I did not foresee myself using it in the next two months, I was going to pitch it. In order to set a goal of how much to throw away, I set a small wooden drawer next to me and decided to fill it. Well what do you know, I started having so much fun and filled it up so fast that I grabbed another drawer and kept going. Not the most exciting picture in the world but I wanted to share my uncluttering success.

In the picture above, the drawer on the left is what I am keeping and the other two drawers I have already disposed of. Here is a picture of my newly organized vanity. Next step-- refinishing it and hanging the mirror!

#9-Simple and Clean

This dresser is right inside my room and is a dumping zone when I need to empty my pockets or hands. Most of the items here I was able to throw away and the rest I relocated. The only thing left is a mirror with pretty edging that I grouped my perfume and lotion on. I need something on the wall above this area-- possibly a mirror hung by a bow. Ahhh... so simple and so clean.

#8- Start Fresh

I have plenty of shelving my bedroom and because of that I tend to keep too much stuff. In order to keep only things that I truly need, I pulled everything off the shelves and everything out of the baskets they were in so that I could start with a clean slate. It resulted in the shelves you see below. This is the beginning stage of the finished product-- I need to pick up a few baskets and hang some curtains for the completed look.

#7- Group with similar items

Sometimes organizing bins aren't so organized. This bin holds all of my extra lotion, shampoo, and samples. The first thing that I did was take out all of the samples that could be used in the bathroom. Since this bin is kept in my room, it does me no good to keep shampoo in here since I will always use shampoo in the bathroom. The next thing that I did was place like items together within the bin. Ideally, it would be great to have two smaller baskets but I do not want to purchase any new baskets yet so I had to get creative with this one. I placed a tupperware container inside of the bin so that I could create three distinct areas. As you can see from the picture below, I was able to group like items together so that they will be easier to find and it is easier to see what I have so that I don't but duplicates.