Showing posts with label i love to organize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i love to organize. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Organizing Cards!

this is really a pretty simple craft/organization project for your wedding, baby shower, or Christmas cards! it took me about 30 minutes, and that was because i had soooo many cards and mementos! 

here's whatcha need:
1. cards/notes
2. hole puncher {you can purchase a similar one here, though i recommend getting one for 20 papers instead of 10}

3. binder. i can be a larger one or a smaller one, depending on the size and number of your cards. we had a lot of cards, so i knew i'd need a bigger one. 

steps:
1. organize your cards/mementos into piles. i put my wedding mementos like invitations and what not in the front.

then i organized the cards into what shower they were from or if they were from work people or family or mutual friends. {i sometimes overly organize, lol}

2. punch the holes and put them in the binder! to separate where they came from, i would punch some holes on the top 2 and then the next category i would punch the bottom two holes. you can see that in the pic below:


and, well, that's it!! 

a bottom view of the finished product! they barely fit into the binder!


since the binder wasn't that cute, i will be doing another post on decorating the binder soon!! 

Have any of you done something with their wedding materials? I'd love to hear your ideas!! 

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

organizing without throwing anything away.

here's me trying to organize with out throwing things away. we are staying in hao's family home while they are away, so i can't really do anything except move things around and attempt to organize the chaos. 

BEFORE

left side of the room

right side

closet. so much waisted space! 

AFTER
left side. i tried to put as many things as i could on the bookshelves with out making them look too cluttery. i hate clutter. the items on the ground were the overflow from the closet. that's their home because i can't do anything with them. 

right side. this is my stuff from college/our wedding/paperwork/out of season clothes. i tried to stack it as neatly as possible to make the room neater. my hope was to roll out the rugs, but they were too big to do so. you can see where i moved the glass table to make the space less congested. 

the closet. since i couldn't throw anything away, i tried the real-life version of tetris and tried to put as many things safely in the closet as possible.

a better comparison view. honestly, i was pretty proud of myself, though i know it's not cute since i couldn't really add anything to the room.