She's got legs!

And knows how to use them! And yes, I'm listening to ZZ Top right now.

Paper clutter.. my ultimate nemesis. When school started end of August, there has been a perma pile of papers on my bar. I was always shoving them over so people could actually eat there. But the pile, no matter how hard I tried, would not disappear. The kids needed access to their papers all week to work on their homework each night. I could never put them totally away. And then my bar became a magnet for all papers and other stuff. Such a nightmare mess. I thought and thought about solutions.

Then I found this little cabinet with SIX drawers. Six to match the number of people in my family. And the drawers were the size of papers. I am so glad the organizing gods decided to intervene. I bought the cabinet and put it together. It came with casters to put on the bottom which I didn't want because 1. I wanted something more stylin' 2. I don't want the cabinet to roll around. 3. I wanted to raise the cabinet up higher.

I got online and looked for legs to add to the bottom since I thought it would look classier more legit that way. I found metal hairpin legs that I loved but they were 20+ dollars per leg. I didn't feel right about spending more on legs than the cabinet itself. I asked my siblings to keep and eye out at thrift stores or garage sales. My 2 genius little brothers told me they could just make me some. They bought the metal rods and cut and welded me 4 legs for this cabinet in like 30 minutes. The total for the supplies was under $20! My brother's are so rad. And so are the legs. I really like how they turned out.

And now I have a place to put everyone's mail, homework, magazines, church papers, scout book, personal progress, chapstick, whatever. Ya-hooo!

The other huge project that has been in the works for a looong time are my boys' curtains. I bought the fabric over a year ago at Home Fabrics in Midvale. I still love the fabric- it has a lot of energy and I love the colors.

 The curtains turned out great. SO happy to finally cross this off my list!

 One step closer to finishing my boys' room!