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New Goals for a New Year Printables

Hey all, it’s Krista from While He Was Napping again! I hope your holiday celebrations were fantastic and that you’re ready to tackle a new year! In all honesty, I wasn’t too sad to say good-bye to 2014. We had some good times, like adding our littlest little guy to the family, but it was kind of a rough year for us. I’m ready for a new start and the motivation to make some changes in our little world, to set some new goals for a new year. You with me? I’m not sure what it is about the clock striking… Read More

Organizing Under the Kitchen Sink

Welcome to day #2 of 15 ways to get organized for less than $15! I totally thought I had shared this post with you already but when I was looking for it I couldn’t find it. I realized I’d taken all the pictures but never posted it, oops. 🙂 So today I’m finally going to show you how I organize under the kitchen sink in our new house. It’s pretty similar to how I did it at our other house but I have more space under this sink because I don’t have our trash cans under the sink (they are… Read More

Frozen Inspired Monogram Wreath

Front doors tend to look bare and sad after all the Christmas decorations come down, don’t you think? So, this year, I came up with the idea of creating a Frozen inspired wreath that can be left up all winter! I made my Frozen monogram wreath for my friend, Kim, because like Anna was there for Elsa, Kim has been there for me. (We even had our own “Frozen” inspired adventure last winter when I slipped on ice and broke my wrist, and she took a very scary ambulance ride with me to the hospital on icy roads!) Supplies Styrofoam wreath form… Read More

How to Organize DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

This is a simple tip for organizing DVDs and Blu-ray discs. It will clean off your bookshelves and minimize the clutter. If you have shelves, or storage boxes, full of DVDs, this tutorial is for you! Today I’m going to show you how to organize DVDs and blu-ray discs. Last year I wrote a post on how I organize our living room with our TV console, and everyone saw this picture of our organized DVD collection, and wanted to know how I organized my DVD discs and blu-rays. So let me back up here for a second. I started writing… Read More

New Series – 15 ways to Organize for under $15!

Happy New Year! I hope you had a fun New Years Eve and now that it’s 2015, it’s time to start thinking about getting organized this year. Starting tomorrow I’m starting a new series called 15 ways to Organize for under $15. The budget every day will vary but it will never go over $15, I promise! Join me as I organize everything from my refrigerator, under the bathroom sink, the remotes and even my Scentsy waxes! Tomorrow I’ll be starting the series off with a highly asked questions, how I organize my DVDs. See you tomorrow! Come prepared to… Read More

Year end Roundup of my favorite HomeRight tools & a Giveaway!

In the spirit of year end round-ups and Christmas giveaways I wanted to highlight some of my favorite tools that have helped make all our projects this year possible, and giveaway the one that I’ve used the most, to hopefully inspire some 2015 projects in your home! In the past I have put off painting projects or big tasks, like painting the kitchen cabinets, because I didn’t have the right tools. But this year I got to work closely with HomeRight, as a brand ambassador, and I got to see how when you have the right tools, jobs are SO… Read More

Coat Closet Organization: Thinking Outside the Box

As the Holidays end and the New year begins, it is common to get the itch to clean and organize. My coat closet is one that I go through about twice a year. Years ago I had this novel idea to assign each family member a plastic shoe box with their name on it to hold their hats, gloves, and scarves. It seemed great, in theory, and even looked organized on the shelf, until the children actually started using them. They would climb up to look for their things, open lids and grab what they were looking for, while the… Read More

2014 Projects in Review

I always love to look back over each year and see how far we’ve come since last year. 2013 was a HUGE year for our house – demo, new flooring, etc. – but this year was pretty busy too. Here’s a quick round up of all the projects we accomplished in 2014 and at the end I’ll share my house goals for 2015. (Click on the link in the description OR click on the picture to take you to the post). In February I stared by adding a gallery wall to the humungous new wall in our living room. It… Read More