Apartment living is rough, but even rougher when you downsize from a 1,000sqft apartment to a 600~ish sq feet... What do I do with all of my things?!
I have a huge laundry room that can be closed off that has been doubling as my shoe storage, toilet paper storage, cleaning supplies storage and my towel storage. Know that moment when you hop in the shower and you realize you forgot to bring in your towel in the bathroom? Yep. Me.
I realized I needed a better solution to this, and T helped!
I ventured out to Pinterest for a solution, and I've always been attracted to those cute storage crates in the bathroom hanging on the wall--so we decided this one would work. Off we were to Target!
We found the woven crate for around $11 on sale, not too shabby, and we had a bunch of screws laying around the apartment (not literally, man, I have a cat).
This entire process took maybe 10 minutes, mostly because T and I were fighting over how high to put it over the weirdly put towel rack (we have two....what).
We simply drilled four holes at all the corners of the basket inside, and it was sturdy enough already. Currently I have around 8 towels chilling inside and on the top of the basket, it doesn't feel like it's ready to fall down. Don't even ask why I have 8 towels, though.
I'm so in love with this idea, I want to include more of those wicker baskets around my future house, maybe in my laundry room some day!
Bam. Knocked that one out.
EXACT wicker basket: here
I swear this is my last DIY post for a while as seeing I'm going back to school in few days (see my previous post about the road trip)! I did two completely different DIY posts in the last few weeks. The first one I couldn't blog until it was completed, some kind of a secret mission if you would call it! ;)
I know you all are wondering how in the world a college student has all this time to do several DIY posts... Truth to be told, I did several DIY stuff in the same night but I never got around to posting them, so here they are!
Painted and jeweled canvas square. Not the most fanciest or the hardest DIY I have ever done, but it makes a really good wall art. (Saving this for my new apartment room next year!)
Yes, you read that right...DIY glitter heels! I thought this would be really tough to do, and never wanted to spend that ridiculous amount of money on expensive glittery shoes. (I have an obsession with glitter, but always am broke.) So when I was helping out the Alpha Sigma Alpha sisters, Britnee's sorority, for their event this Sunday--Heel Violence (psst, go check the website and the Facebook page out!). It's an event showing our support for victims of domestic violence, co-hosted with Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims (ASADV).
We were coming up with ways to make our NTID president, Gerald Buckley, and Robb Adams' heels pop out from the crowd on Sunday....we came up with the idea of glittery heels--but that sounded so hard and so time-consuming. We were sorely wrong.
Find out below! (Edited at 7:01 pm with pictures of Gerald Buckley in the heels!)
So, today I did my first DIY project for the first time in a long time. I stumbled across this blog through Pinterest. I fell in love with the glitter vase. I just HAD to have one, or even better--make my own! I thought about it for few days, and today being a super-lazy Sunday. I asked my mom if she wanted to come with me to Michael's and give me some 'mommy-input' in my crazy shopping habits. She did want to come. Once we were there, we had another DIY inspiration--a couple of silver gems/rhinestones. You'll see what we did with my DIY projects below.
