I'll Just Restart the Dryer.....

How true is picture? This is me every morning when I finally decide what I want to wear and it is wrinkled!

I swear my dryer hates me with how much I make it run! I am super bad about not folding my laundry as soon as it comes out of the dryer! My mother is awesome at this method.  She even has the dryer running in between folds.  I, however, call my method the "pull it out of the dryer and put it in a basket and spend hours folding on the weekend" or probably what my mother calls the "lazy method". 

It comes to no surprise to most of my family that I am a lazy person. I can be brilliant when I want to be, but I am content with being lazy at times. (Like one time when me and my boyfriend's sister watched all of season 1 of Bates Motel in one day......it. was. awesome!) However, my brilliance has paid off when it comes to folding my t-shirts!

I got my inspiration (or Pin-spiration!) from a blog called xoJane. When Bryan and I moved into our new home last year, I became the ruler of the clothes! I took on my own form of folding t-shirts! It makes total sense.  It was one of those "why didn't I think of that first" moments! Why wouldn't you fold your shirts so you can see all of them at once?  So here we go!

Materials

a bunch of unfolded t-shirts

a drawer

time

patience 

Step 1: Line up the seams at the top of the shirt, and fold the shirt in half long ways.

Step 2: Fold over the sleeves.

Step 3: This step is optional. I like for my shirts to be skinnier length wise, so I fold them in half again long ways! I have seen this step skipped before! Totally up to you!

Step 4: Fold the shirt in half short ways now

Step 5: Fold it one more time short ways!

Step 6: Put them in your drawer, and admire the crap out of them! Pat yourself on the back for being so clever!

***: For long sleeve t-shirts, I fold them the same way, but I fold the sleeves a little differently.  Check out the picture below.

Some side notes:

• The number of columns you get will vary on the shirt size. Bryan's shirts are bigger than mine, so he only has 4 columns while I have 5.  (This forced him to get rid of some shirts! *insert evil laugh*)
• This takes PRACTICE! It took me a while to get the fold down. However, I can whip out t-shirts in no time now that I have it figured out!
• You could also use this as "spring cleaning" method.  If you keep putting your newly clean shirts in the back, all of the shirts that you do not use will get shoved for to the front.  After some time, toss those shirts! You obviously didn't want to wear them!

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your completely fabulous and organized t-shirt drawer!

~A

Spring Was in the Air...

Living in the midwest has always kept me on my toes with the weather.  We had 70 degrees almost a week ago, and a snow storm is coming this weekend.... Despite the snow coming, my snowman wreath is coming down this weekend (actually he came down today!) He has been up since the day after Thanksgiving, and I have loved every minute of him being up!

 I took the Santa hat off once January came. I got the hat and scarf both from Walmart for cheap. Each wreath was tied together with wire.  It stayed up pretty well! Later in the post, I will show you how I keep my wreaths on my door!

So for a couple weeks now I have been scouring Pinterest for an idea for a Spring wreath! I found many that I liked. I actually wish I had more time and money, and I would make more!! But, I finally settled on a tulip wreath! I got the inspiration from Etsy and The Frugal Homemaker. I love the Etsy wreath's colors, but there is no way I can afford an $80 wreath! That is madness! So I used the color combination, and The Frugal Homemakers instructions.  It turned out fabulous!

So here are my own instructions for making your own (much cheaper!) tulip wreath.

Materials:

18 inch grapevine wreath
9-10 tulip bunches
wire cutters
ribbon/burlap

I got lucky and went to Michael's craft store to find the flowers on sale 40% off.  I also had a 25% off my entire purchase. AND since I am a teacher, I get a 15% discount at Michael's. (If you are a teacher, all you have to do is show your ID or pay stub and you will get the discount!) The bunches were $3.99 each, with all the discount, I paid around $1.50 for each of the bunches.  The wreath and ribbon came from walmart for about $10 total.  So this wreath cost me about $20! That is much better than $80!!!

So the first thing I did was cut all the flower bunches apart. When I did this, I decided to push all the leaves on stems towards the flowers. This way everything is bunched together at the top. Then cut the stems apart.  Just as a guide, I could cut an inch or two from the bottom.  It is up to you!

Next, start putting the flowers in! I really enjoyed this part.  You can make them as full as you want.  Now, the tutorial I followed said that she did not use hot glue when making her wreath.  I decided not to as well to save some time! After putting it together, I shook it and nothing fell out, so I was happy!

A tiny piece of advice...make sure you space out the flowers enough.  I can never do things the easy way the first time.  I wasn't sure how closely I could bunch them together.  Clearly I was wrong with my prediction.... 

Missed it by that much!! So I went ahead a pulled some stems where the wreath looked full.  I ended up pulling six stems out to fill in the space.  I use 9 bunches of tulips, so if you are unsure, buy the extra bunch! I knew I should have bought the extra ones when I was at the store! But, here is my finished product!

Now, for those of you wondering how I hung my wreath, I got the clever idea from Pinterest (of course!). You simply hang a Command Hook upside down on the inside side of the door.  The ribbon will go over the top of the door.  I have hung all of my wreaths like this, and it works like a charm.  Plus, I get a cute bow on the back of my door!

So there you have it! My adorable (if I do say so myself!) springtime tulip wreath! Come back to visit me before summer! I am sure I will find another wreath inspiration!

Thanks for reading! 

~A