I am a magazine clipper. I have piles and piles of “very important” & must read articles to go through …. that I have never had time to pick up again. As a part of completing the office in 2012 and bookshelf organization in the New Year, I am sifting through that pile and pinning anything worth remembering and recycling the paper copy.

Here is the glorious pile of papers I was able to part with after using Pinterest to organize it all online:

Migrated to the World Wide Web here:

One of the pages I had clipped from a Real Simple.

It’s was called “the best new trends at your fingertips”.

Lord knows I can use all the help I can in that department…….aaaaaand since you are reading this…. maybe you could use it too. There was no way to Pin this page – so here are the retyped for your enjoyment:

Fashion forward booties:

www.Camper.com

www.Endless.com

www.Loefflerrandall.com

www.shoewoo.com

For Classic Preppy Footwear:

www.Bassshoes.com

www.delmanshoes.com

www.hushpuppies.com

www.sebago.com

For Lady Clothing and Accessories

www.Lacrasia.com

www.lafayette148.com

www.luluguinness.com

www.fantas-eyes.com

www.hobobags.com

www.lailarowe.com

For Vintage Inpired Jewlery:

www.azaara.com

www.ben-amun.com

www.bounkit.com

dannijo.com

verdura.com

Success!

and here are people that actually showed up!!

Here is the entry table with all the info for the Tour. Look!

It’s official!

When people were walking through the house and the basement – I really wanted every homeowner or potential homeowner to see how simple each measure is to achieve and how they affect the way a home operates.

So I made these! I taped these up around the house and basement:

and now I’m sharing them with you. If the writing s too small you can click on each one and it will open in a new window a lot larger:

I found a cabinet at the ReStore that is perfect for the kitchen sink in the basement. It was a good height AND it didn’t have doors on it so I only had to pay $20 for it. I wanted all the doors to match by using all ReStore/ReBuilding Center cabinets so in order to do that – I was prepared to make doors.

I had Miracle Mark come install it so that it would sit level and the granite would sit perfectly.

I bought 2 sheets of “cabinet grade” plywood from Home Depot. It’s what the Home Depot crew told me to pick up. It was only $14.99 per sheet.

The open spaces in the cabinets were measured and the doors were measured just a little bit larger.

It took 4 of us to comedically get 8 doors cut on a table saw. So there is no visual evidence.

Sanded both sides of the doors:

So there were no “splinters” left.

Then we painted the doors:

And then I made my weekly trip  to the ReBuilding Center to uncover this hidden box:

With these little beauties:

for $0.50 each!

I wasn’t as lucky with the hinges. I bought hinges from Builders Hardware Supply for a couple dollars a piece and screwed them all together. Easy Peezy Chicken Breezy:

[Finished Hung Cabinets]

They aren’t the most detailed kitchen cabinets, but I find them to look modern and simple.

I made Kitchen Cabinets On A Greenstring!