Julie’s frames

January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 Rachel Atwell4 Comments

A few months ago, I found some frames at Goodwill.

Yes, I know its hard to believe, but I got these cross-stitched beauties for just $2.02 each.

Poor Julie, I’m sure she’s missing her oval frame.

After a few months of them sitting in my laundry room, I decided it was time to bring out a hammer for a little picture arranging. To get an idea for arrangement, I traced the three frames on some paper and then played around with the placement.

First I tried a vertical placement.
And then a grouping.

And then I spaced the grouping out.

And decided I liked it best.

Twenty minutes, six nails, and an injured thumb nail later, they were all up.

And now I have to figure out what I want to frame. What would you do? Pictures or art?

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magazine holder update

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Rachel Atwell2 Comments

When I went to Staples to pick up supplies for my organized dvd storage project, I also picked up a few magazine holders. I had a few large yearbooks that I wanted to get out of a drawer and onto a bookshelf, but also didn’t want to look at them all the time.

I never realized how pricey decorative magazine holders were until I started looking at them, so I decided just to pick up the cheapest ones I could find and update them.

What I found at Staples is what you see below – a black, gray and white speckled cardboard rack that matched nothing. So G and I made a stop to Michael’s and visited the scrapbook paper aisle {#AtwellAdventures for me, not so much for G 😉 }. I found a simple geometric honeycomb pattern in mint and royal and picked up two sheets of each – one for each magazine rack I had.

Once I got home I laid out all four of my supplies: magazine holder, scrapbook paper, glue tape pen, and adhesive bookplate.

Magazine Holder DIY Update 2 | Atwell Adventures

After a few swipes of tape, I wrapped the faces and part of the sides of the magazine holder. The final touch was adhesive bookplate. Easy peasy!

Magazine Holder DIY Update | Atwell Adventures

The scrapbook paper doesn’t completely cover the sides, but once things are on the shelf, you don’t notice.

If you wanted to display them outside of a shelf, you could always paint them, use wrapping paper, or even a couple of sheets of scrapbook paper would do the trick. I love that this project was an easy, inexpensive update and can be changed if I ever find something else I like more.

Now excuse me while I go print some labels that fit! 🙂

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organized dvd storage

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 Rachel Atwell15 Comments

Want to know a secret about me? I hate wasting space.

Actually, I take that back. I hate wasting space on things that aren’t pretty and/or functional.

So when I saw this idea about how to condense a mountain of dvd’s, I knew ~~some~~ all Bluerays, CDs, and DVD’s in our house were about to get a new home. Thanks for agreeing to let me do this, G.

I found a decorative shoebox at Christmas Tree Shop for $2.50 {fun fact, Christmas Tree Shop is actually a pretty great store and interestingly enough, does not sell Christmas Trees} and picked up 2 packs of 50 cd/dvd sleeves at Staples for $5 each.

After putting each disc in its sleeve {making sure the dvd was facing out so you could see the label}, I then alphabetized them, and made some dividers to make it quicker to find. I took a few minutes to create a little catalog to tape inside the box too, which makes picking a movie easier than thumbing through the discs.