Nesting

So I have been in my new house since April, and with one roommate moving out and taking a lot of decorations and furniture with her, I decided it was finally time to settle in. So that meant scouring pinterest for lots of cute ideas and heading to Goodwill and multiple craft stores to get my projects started. I am SO EXCITED about some of them.

One of the first things I did? Organize the kitchen cabinets of course! That included the Dollar Store and matching containers, labels, and lots of pretty organization. One roomie is Gluten free which means you don't just have white flour and whole wheat flour, you have almond flour, tapioca  corn meal, coconut flour, rice flour. Basically, if you can grind it up and cook with it, she owns it. The hard part is they come in plastic bags that can't be resealed.

So when we took everything out of the cabinet, this is the mess we were left with. Bags and containers and a hot mess of disorganization.

So after a trip to the Dollar Store, I came home with 20! containers. Blue (Gluten Free Flours) and White (Gluten filled Flours). Most of the small flour bags we had fit PERFECTLY in the containers I bought. The sugar and bigger flours were put in larger canister. To keep things straight I used black address labels, with the intention of finding or making better ones. Below you will see some of them stacked together.

Excuse the poor lighting in the picture, but I was using my iPhone and it was at night. I put all the Gluten free stuff on the left and the remaining flours, sugars, mixes on the right. The bottom shelf is reserved for sprinkles, cupcake liners, cookie cutters, and chocolates. And the coffee grinder.

And I had to take a picture of the table all cleaned off. So pretty.

And of course I instagrammed a shot of my handiwork.

I wasn't quite done though. I bought some oval labels at Staples and using their online computer program printed out pretty labels. One for the lid and one for the container.

Here's a sample of one of them.

Not to be outdone, I had to add labels (of the Chalkboard variety of course) To our canisters that sit on our counter. 

Organizing

I love organizing. Seriously, I think its so much fun. And great stress relief. I hate that feeling of looking for something, knowing it's there, but not being able to find it. When you are organized, life just goes much smoother. 

The other day, after getting back from grocery shopping, putting back my THIRD bottle of BBQ sauce, I realized I need to do a better job keeping an inventory of what is actually in my cupboard. It's small, but things get lost. 

So I pulled everything out, and as I was putting it back in, typed it in my phone notes under "currently in my cupboard" so I can check that when figuring out what my menu will be or if I can make something. 

Here is the end result:

 And just in case you were unaware, every row is for something different. 

All of my cute spices (in alphabetical order) on my lil lazy susan.  

 All of the baking supplies

 Teas (and other hot drinks)

Canned goods. 

 And up top on the left I have boxes of flour, granola, mac and cheese. In the bins on the upper right hand corner are rice and marshmallows and chocolate chips and nuts. 

 Seriously. Pure bliss.