Cyndi Seidler gets together once again with actress / photographer Denice Duff in this segment of Organizing Stuff video series to help her organize her makeup.
In a previous segment, Denice showed her home in “Decorative Organization” and revealed an area in her bathroom that she could use a little help with – her makeup. So Cyndi returned to work out a better solution for that.
As a follow-up piece to the ORGANIZING STUFF – DECORATIVE ORGANIZATION video segment, I wanted to share some of my own favorite decorative tchotchkes (pronounced “choch-kas”, meaning trinkets) that provide organizing solutions in my own home (and the use of the word tchotchkes came from that segment!).
So, I walked around a snapped photos of things around my home I thought added decor and doubling as a dual purpose to organize stuff in some sort of home decor way – including the inside of cabinets. And, although some of it isn’t necessarily “decorative” in the sense of decor, it makes the space look good (in my “personal-style-opinion”, of course!).
Without further ado, take a peak inside my place (and feel free to Pin on Pinterest!).
In this segment of Organizing Stuff, Cyndi Seidler walks through the home of Denice Duff to check out her decorative organization style. Denice shows her studio, dining room, kitchen and bathroom areas.
You’ll see a transformed garage made into a photography studio. Although it’s a working studio where she brings clients, the space still contains storage – only stylish storage.
Her dining room area once had a cluttered wall filled with her young daughter’s drawings and, after her daughter grew up, she cleared the wall, painted it, put shelving on it and placed select framed photos on the shelves and walls.
The kitchen was another transformation Denice did as her other remodeling project. She painted the dark wood cabinets and walls to white and created a contrast of black chalkboard paint on the upper wall above the cabinets. On the chalkboard areas surrounding the perimeter of the kitchen were some of her favorite phrases – in Italian!
And lastly was her organized, yet decorative bathroom. Stay tuned for a future segment where we do some decorative organizing for Denice’s counter-top makeup!
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In this segment of the Organizing Stuff Series The Organizing Lady consults with a teenage girl about getting her room staged to help prepare her family’s home ready for sale.
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Cyndi consults her about clearing the room of as many personal items as possible and reducing furniture in the space. She also suggests clearing the walls of all her pictures and posters and leaving only one picture displayed.
The plan is to clear the clutter, display fewer items on surface spaces, remove some excess furniture pieces, and remove the unused dresser in her closet to make it more spacious.
Oh, and of course, to ensure the bed is made before the house is shown to potential home buyers!
She was eager to get started and began with clearing her over-crowded bookshelf unit, then her desk. The room took shape and soon looked more like a showroom than a teenage girl’s room.
In the end, she was very proud of her space. Maybe she will make her room staged all the time when she moves into their new home! You never know!
I always get great organizing ideas looking around Pinterest and found some clever makeup organizers I wanted to share with you. I even made some myself to show you some ideas of my own, adding something a little different than other similar solutions.
Basically, when it comes to beauty products, they can overcome our allotted makeup space and become unruly, especially as we add new makeup products to our “collection.”Personally, I apply the closet rule to makeup, which would be to get rid of a product when I buy a new product (with the exception of nail polish and lipstick – that is, until it gets to be too much or it has out-lived its shelf life!).
We have our face creams, our makeup foundations and powders, contouring creams, various blush colors, numerous eye shadow colors, dozens of lipsticks, lip pencils, eyebrow pencils, eyeliners, mascara, makeup brushes and pads, and heaven-knows-what-else. That’s a lot of things to help make us more beautiful.
Well, I found some cool ways to create various makeup organizers and, depending on the size of your makeup “collection”, one of these just might inspire you.
Pictured here is actually 2 acrylic organizers – a top piece with dividers and a 3-drawer piece.
Very easy to make – just a couple of flat plates, a vase for the middle pole piece and some colored glass votive candle holders. You can get creative and use just about any of these type objects to organize and store makeup and makefup brushes.
It gets really simple when you just have the basics in your makeup stash and want to display them for easy access. Just get a large plate (in this case a large ceramic pie dish) and any type of containers to compartmentalize your makeup.
These are a must for any makeup drawer. It keeps like-items grouped together and avoids the messy drawer syndrome.
These come in all shapes, sizes and types, so if you have a big collection you want to grab – this could be the way to go.
For those who need to have a large cosmetic assortment, the following vanity centers are for you! Look it over and get inspired …
There are no words other than someone found yet another use for the Ikea rail system.
What more can I say about this? It’s 6 glasses glued together to hold makeup!
This spinning makeup organizer is available at QVC
I made this, similar to the tiered makeup organizer shown above that I made.
Anyway, these are just some that I think will inspire you to organize your makeup, so no more excuses for messy makeup areas, okay?!
The next adventure in the Organizing Stuff video series takes place in the kitchen!
Working with a real client in real time, solutions are found for problems in her cabinets and with organizing the multitude of supplements she needs to take after surviving cancer using alternative treatment.
The fun began at the dollar store where we shopped for items to help get her kitchen cabinets better organized. We found everything we needed except for marbles to make a Lazy Susan turntable. So we hopped over to another dollar store to get those!
Watch this segment of Kitchen Cabinet Organization and see for yourself how much fun (and how rewarding) it is to do a bit of organizing!
(There seems to be some blacked out spots in this video. Will fix and upload new version shortly!)
In this 2-part video …
After some fun dollar-store-shopping, we returned to the house and began removing the paper party wares from the cabinet we decided to use to store all her supplements. As luck would have it, the basket bins we purchased to store her supplements fit perfectly with three baskets going across the lower shelf. We hoped everything would fit inside the baskets, and it did!
We still had an empty shelf above the lower one but that was going to be put to good use next because she had more supplements stored elsewhere in the kitchen!
So we moved all the others from the cabinet they were in and joined them with others in the new “supplement cabinet”. This not only stored all her vitamins in one place, but it freed up a whole other cabinet in her kitchen!
During this time, we paid attention to examining the supplements for expiration of their shelf lives before transferring them to the new cabinet. It didn’t surprise me that she didn’t know what some vitamins were!
The fun didn’t stop there.
Next up was organizing one of the food cabinets. For that, I made a DIY Lazy Susan to store some of the food items in. Everything was removed from the cabinet to be sorted and grouped before putting them back inside.
When that cabinet was done, she had room for more food and was able to see everything she had in there! Big win!
The same was done for the spice cabinet. We used two Lazy Susan turntables for spice storage after sorting through all the spices. Many were thrown away for being expired or having a shelf life that died many ages ago!
At the end, we wanted to leave all her cabinets open so that house guests would come and see the organization inside. It’s a proud moment when organizing projects like this are completed so we should take pleasure to share such accomplishments to the world!
I hope this gives you some inspiration and motivation to do some kitchen organization yourself. Just remember, make it a fun project to do and it will be fun!
Happy organizing,
The Organizing Lady
P.S. Also see Organizing Stuff 3 – Organize Home Office Papers
In this reality show styled segment of Organizing Stuff, you’ll see Cyndi Seidler working with a client in a home office to organize papers and establish a paper flow system. It’s the real deal, with a real client in a real situation.
Watch as Cyndi and client have fun going through the organizing process of sorting papers with client and establishing if paper should be kept and filed, if it requires some action, or if it can be tossed.
I’ve been seeing Facebook posts of friends taking this time of year to get organized for the new year. One friend even created a year-end challenge for her friends to post pictures in her post comments of what they organized. I thought this was such a cool thing, and she obviously created some motivation for others to join her in organizing around their own home.
The thing I noticed about this was that, in her comments it seemed like everyone posting had fun doing her challenge. Yes, fun! So this inspired me to write about it. Here are some ways I think you might be able to put the “fun” in your organizing project:
The way I see it, people seem to have fun doing organizing projects when there is someone else with them. As a professional organizer, this is very noticeable because the client did not (or could not) do it on their own. And when I joined them, they enjoyed the process of organizing.
Same goes for friends I’ve helped in organizing their space. They dreaded doing the project until I came along to join them. Somehow the task then became an adventure, and maybe that was just because we were able to hang out and do some productive thing together.
So plan a day with a friend or two or three and tackle your project together. You can even plan to have several friends over and make it an organizing party event. Younger generations would have a blast doing this together, and make the whole project loads of fun.
If you can’t get someone to join you physically during your organizing project, just call someone and put them on speaker while you sort through your stuff. I would, of course, get their agreement in advance to do this together via the phone. And making a phone appointment with them is like scheduling the appointment with yourself to do the task.
I’ve had people call me while they are cooking dinner and describe what they’re cooking, how they’re cooking it and what seasonings are going into it. We end up cooking it together, in a way, because I might suggest tossing something into the recipe they hadn’t thought of before.
Same goes for organizing – tell the person about those slacks you can’t fit into anymore and reminiscence the date you had in it. In the end, we can laugh about how it ended up staying in her closet so long!
Crank up your favorite music and let the beat move you to move out the clutter!
I’ve noticed that, when I clean my house, music makes the task much more enjoyable. Without the music, it just feels like a chore. The only down-side is if you feel like dancing and stop the task to do some moves – which actually is NOT so much a down-side at all when you’re having fun!
Just pick up where you left off and let the music move you to the next task.
Good food always cheers me up, so make a tasty healthy snack which you can munch on while organizing. As you enjoy the tasteful morsels of food, you just might find it equally enjoyable tossing all the clutter out of your life.
Whatever you do, don’t make a sugar-snack! You will crash and burn out quickly, believe me!
This may not appeal to everyone, but for some people, it just might be the thing to put fun into a project … any project!
The challenge would be to get as much done as you can BEFORE the wine completely takes over your senses. Or maybe, just maybe, it could actually help knock some sense into you and help free you from the boundaries that stuff created for you in the first place. Ya never know. I would have to say all pros on this, no cons.
One way to remember those memories of your stuff is to take a picture of it before getting rid of it. Start a digital album online and share all the strange things you’ve hung onto for years.
This way, people can share all that memorabilia you’ve kept around, especially if you provide back-stories with each item. Like, the sweater your mom gave you for your birthday that you never wanted to be caught alive wearing. Or those earrings your friend gifted to you that you thought had to be a re-gifted item handed down for centuries. And so forth and so on.
Now, if you don’t find yourself having fun trying any of these things while organizing, then call me. I’ll bring some wine.
Happy New Year!
The Organizing Lady shows how to make a tiered plate organizer to store and display just about any kind of grouped items.
There are not only numerous uses for these plate organizers, but many ways in which to make them. And you can use a variety of plates and plate stems to make them – thin vases, decorative vases, or candle-holders.
Fit your decor and design your own using things you have around the house or things you can purchase at a dollar store. Get creative and try out some combinations!
Watch video on how easy it is to do …
Some suggested uses for tiered plate organizers:
As the first in the new Organizing Lady’s DIY Organizing Series, Cyndi Seidler shows how to make a Lazy Susan turntable to organize items in cabinets, cupboards, fridge, or just about any place where you want to store a group of items.
Furthermore, the only materials you’ll need to make this turntable are 3 items, and you can get at a dollar store. If you were to go to a store to purchase a Lazy Susan, it would cost more than a few dollars however, with this method, you won’t be spending more than $3 dollars.
Watch the video and see how she does it!
Ideas of things you can store on a Lazy Susan:
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