House Projects!

For Mother's Day, I got my very first power drill and measuring tape!  Oh the possibilities - I am one excited girl.  Since laundry is the bane of my life, I decided to make these laundry basket dressers my first project...

 I made two and each basket has a different tag - whites, colors, kids, linens, towels, etc.  Now the dirty laundry is sorted and then the clean-hopefully-folded-load will go right back in that same basket and hopefully be easily put away :).  This system has already helped us have some more sanity!  I used wooden 2 x 2s instead of the expensive metal angles.  HERE are the instructions to build.  If you want to get into building your own furniture, ana-white.com is your new best friend.

My "before" did not look that neat, so I took some fabric I already had and just bought the cheap elastic and ribbon to make a hanging grocery bag holder.  Isn't this brilliant and easy?!  You stuff bags in the top and pull out the bottom.  HERE are the instructions.