Pinterest Projects

I love to browse through Pinterest. It's so great for getting ideas. However, these ideas can sometimes become nagging or guilt-inducing when you never act on them. They sit there, on your board, and stare back at you, waiting for you to do something about it.

I have a board called DIY Adventures and I have pinned some things on there that I would love to actually do. After looking at the board recently, I noticed that I HAVE done some of these! I thought I would show you my DIY accomplishments- as small as they might be.

I saw this fridge command center and knew immediately that I could use something similar in my kitchen since it is right next to our back entrance where all the schoolwork comes through, and all the busyness occurs.

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This is my humble version... not nearly as cool but it works for us. Kailyn puts all her papers into the top folder labeled "Mommy" and I sort/recycle/complete them and then if she needs to bring them to school, I place them in her folder. I will need another one this school year for Louisa (who is starting kindergarten!).

I also keep a menu meal planner for dinners here. I usually fill a week out a time and this has helped with grocery shopping a ton. And my sanity is saved because I know what we are having! There is also an Emergency Sheet posted for (us as parents) but also for our babysitters- all important phone numbers and health information is listed here too. And in the picture above, you can kind of see that I put Louisa's daily morning routine for when school starts- she can't quite read yet, so the pictures will help.

My second Pinterest project inspiration was this photo. I loved the look of the white bookshelves as their library. I posted yesterday about our own little library.

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In case you missed the post, here is a picture of our own version. You can read more about it here.

And the last one that was inspirational is this picture window. I love what they did to it. It's absolutely beautiful. I would have loved to put a family picture in mine but we didn't have any recent ones that I loved.

And this is my version of it- with my free window! Read more about it here on this post.

So, how about you... do you find yourself accomplishing any projects through Pinterest inspiration?