This One's For The "Girls"

Awhile back I was checking out Pinterest (love Pinterest!) and I ran across this cool idea for a hanging bra storage.

I love this idea because I HATE trying to shove bras into my underwear drawer and technically, it's not good for the wear on them anyway. 

I knew it was fate when I went on a shopping trip to Ikea with my friends, Brandy and Naomi and ran across packs of 8 wooden hangers for $3.99! They weren't notched like the ones that were used in the tutorial, but I knew I could make it work. 

These hangers did have a cross bar to hang pants on, but I pulled them off and took out the nails with pliers. I did that before I decided to share this idea. The cup hooks are 7/8 inch. 

I started by screwing the cup hooks into the bottom of the hangers, all except one hanger, which would be the bottom hanger on the rack. 

 The tutorial I followed suggested pinching the hooks closed to be more like eyelet hooks, but I decided that I was just going to leave the hooks alone. Once all your hooks are screwed in, it's time to hook them all together.

To keep the bras from slipping off the wooden hangers, I used a neat little trick I saw on Pinterest and put hot glue across the ends of the hangers. 

Once the hot glue dried, I linked all the hangers together and hung my bras up! 

 Such an simple idea that I absolutely LOVE!!! 


 

Who Says Storage has to be Ugly?

  At my house we play a lot of board games. And since that we live basically in one very large room, we don't have a ton of storage space. I wanted to have a nice place to store our games when we weren't playing them, I decided I wanted storage boxes that fit under our futon couch. But since there is only seven inches of space, I was having a hard time finding a box that was big enough to fit our games, but short enough to fit under the futon. So what was my solution? 

To make my own storage boxes. 
 

Did you think that I wouldn't figure out some clever way to decorate these boxes? (If the answer to that last question was no then you really don't know me at all.) 

So I give you burlap covered storage boxes...

Awesome, right?


I used by handy dandy glue gun, Debra, to glue on the burlap, then lined the inside of the boxes with teal Duck Tape, which helps make the boxes more sturdy. 

I'm so happy that we now have a nice looking, but effective way of storing our games and other things away that isn't completely ugly. Or in Amazing Boyfriend's opinion : "They're just boxes covered in fabric and tape."


At least I can always count on him to tell it like it is.