Organizing Made Fun

Organizher Product Giveaway!

2012-02-15T10:00:00.000-08:00

Today I have another SUPER organizing product to show you AND to giveaway!! Yippee!!

If you haven't ever been to Target's office section, then you may not know about these fantastic new products that have appeared from the Mead Company - you know, the one you bought your spiral notebook from when you were a kid in school? They have a new product line called Organizher and it's really neat!

They sent me a few of their products to try out AND they want to give away their Menu Organizer to one of my wonderful readers!! Aren't you just so excited?

The week to week magnetic notepad, that they sent me, is great for anyone who likes to have something easy to write things down on. You can stick it to your fridge and it's got your week on the front of it to keep track of what's going on for that week. Then, it's got a place for to-do's for you or others and a place to put what you need to buy {like your groceries} on the back. It's pretty neat!

They also sent me some C-U-T-E paper clips! Are they not the cutest things? I can't wait to use them for my piano pages or books or my Bible! They coordinate with all the other Organizher products, too!

What I will be giving away is the menu organizer. It is really a great organizer to use to take with you or keep in a drawer. It's got sheets to help you organize who likes what, a pad to help you with your take out orders, several pockets to organize your restaurant coupons or recipes or whatever. It also has a clear zipper pocket that opens and closes to keep coupons or pens or whatever you need. The other SUPER cool thing is that Organizher has a website where you can download MORE printables for free of other fun things to use in it, too. My favorite printable is the party planner! This organizer is durable, with a plastic cover and really neat way you can open and close to put more papers in.

So, are you interested in winning one of these? I hope you are! This giveaway ends February 20th at 6 PM {PST time}!! Don't miss it!! I will announce the winner on February 21st at 10 AM {PST time}...

To enter, do the following, and leave one comment for each one you do:

- Leave a comment in THIS comment section of OMF blog telling me if you plan your menu and, if you do, how often {weekly, monthly} OR anything else you want to comment on pertaining to meal planning or eating out! Remember, I DO read your comments! {If you are an email subscriber, you must click over and leave comment in comment section - don't send me an email}.

- Tweet and/or retweet about the giveaway using both the OMF handle and Organizher handle (The Organizher’s handle on Twitter is @Organizher) and leave a comment here. A sample tweet would be: @OrganizeMadeFun is having an @Organizher giveaway! Don't miss it! It ends February 20th!

- “Like” Organizher on Facebook and leave a comment here! While you're there, check out their other products, too!

Please leave all comments here on my blog, NOT on my Facebook wall, NOT in an email...you will not be entered if you do it that way. If you are an email subscriber, you must click over to the blog and leave a comment! Thanks! I want to be sure you don't miss out on a chance to get organized!

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For the love of organizing: Pinterest

2012-02-13T10:00:00.002-08:00

If you haven't figured out by now, I LOVE Pinterest! It is truly a wonderful website...an organizer's dream. Well, it's anyone's dream, since it's got just about everything you can imagine on there to look up and search for and SO many of you have come to OMF from being on Pinterest.

In my attempt to organize just about everything possible, I'm going to give you some ways to keep organized by using Pinterest, while you're on Pinterest, or just trying to keep up with Pinterest etiquette.

If you are wondering "What in the world is Pinterest?"...well, you my friend, are in for a treat! In order to be a part of Pinterest, you must be invited {which you can ALWAYS ask me for an invitation and I will gladly send you one}. Once you are invited, you can begin to find friends or follow others on there. You can also use the tool called a "pin-it button" that can sit in your tool bar. Anytime you see something fantastic on the internet, you can "pin" it into one of your many pinboards - a virtual bulletin board, and how organized is that?

1. Have a set time each day to go on Pinterest. If you find yourself lost on Pinterest for hours at a time, set a timer and stop when it's up - cause I know too many of you can go overboard and waste time {cause you've left comments about it}. That's not a good thing...so be careful. Or, better yet, set a specific time each day/week to go on there to get inspiration. You don't want to get lost for a long time. I usually go on Pinterest in the evening with my laptop and watching a TV show with hubby.

2. Make your pinboards fit your needs. For instance, if you mostly like certain things, say, organizing - you can label all kinds of boards about organizing. Also, feel free to add more...make up your own theme of boards. I have a plethora of organizing boards.

3. When you are pinning something from a website or blog, be sure to not click on the Home Page, but click on the specific post. When you click on the Home page and try to go back and follow your pin, you won't be able to find it. That costs you {and anyone else who's re-pinning} time. I often go back to look up a recipe I've pinned to cook it, so I want to be sure I don't spend my time searching the whole website again. See the above tutorial on how to pin a permalink URL.

4. Get the Pinterest app...well, it's fun. Anytime I have a moment I'm waiting in line somewhere, I pull out my phone and Pin!! This is probably the best use of wasted time anyway...so THIS is a great app! Plus, if you are out and about and need to refer to something you pinned - pick up a craft supply, a grocery item, etc. - it's right there with you. I often want to share a pin with a friend and can show them - party stuff, cute ideas, etc.

5. When searching, try using different words to type your search. For instance, if you want to find some ways to organize your closet, you could type "organized closet" or "organized" or "organize" or "organizing" or "closet" - note: organize vs. organized! You'd be surprised that it changes a lot! Be creative when searching and remember to look at the pin AND the board in the search engine.

6. Organize your boards by using the rearrange button. I try to organize mine with having all my main "themed" {organizing} boards at the top of my page, so when people want to follow my Pinterest, they can choose those first. I put my more personal boards {kids stuff, gifts for the family, stuff I find for my friends} WAY down at the bottom so that they don't have to choose that. You can do whatever you want, but I don't necessarily want to follow everyone's boards. If I see some nasty stuff pop up on my home page, I immediately go to that person's pin boards and unclick from their board that contains that. I mostly want a few main categories to follow anyways.

7. Now, when you pin, please don't copy the entire blog post. I know most of you have no idea why that's bad "pinner" etiquette, but it IS considered so. I am not really that concerned with most of my stuff, but if you copy a cleaning tip or recipe it's not nice. Bloggers work hard to put out a lot of this information that you pin and we are happy to let you pin - putting together the project, taking photos of it, editing photos, writing the post, and editing that. So, if you could only put necessary information when you pin, so that when others re-pin from you, it will have them go TO our websites and find out what else we have there, too. I know that when I've pinned a recipe, I usually JUST put the title. It's really best to go TO their website and get the full recipe/directions/tutorial that's much more accurate and you can see more photos of it, generally, to actually help YOU, too!

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8. Last {my favorite part}, since you have ALL your favorite pictures stored in Pinterest and can add more and more each day....you now have no reason to keep all those magazines that you've been holding on to for so long. It's time to purge and get rid of whatever stuff you've been hanging on to! Donate or recycle but you don't need to hang on them once you realize that there is amazing stuff on there you can keep virtually forever!! Did you know HGTV, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, and many more have Pinterest boards? As well, Pottery Barn, West Elm, Etsy, and William Sonoma {many more, I'm sure}...so why hang on to those catalogs either?

OK...so now that's out of the way! You know lots of etiquette, organizing, and ways to do things when using Pinterest! Tell me, do you LOVE Pinterest?

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Curb Appeal: Customized planters

2012-02-10T10:00:00.000-08:00

More curb appeal! Our house is now looking so much more personable. So, to add even MORE personality to this fun entry, I decided to make some personalized planters.

I bought some galvanized planters at Ikea, one tall and one mid-sized planter.

Since I don't have a Cricut or Silhouette machine, I asked my friend Marti if she could help me out. She has a Cricut {which was SO fun to use} and found a great font that I liked in a large size. We used clear contact paper to cut the stencil out. I wanted to have a reverse stencil effect, so this was just right. She also made a set of matching numbers for my house number.

I took some "frog tape" and taped off around the top of the planter - of course, I measured it first. I measured out where to put the letter and numbers on each planter. Then, I spray painted a flat black in light coats. The last coat, I immediately peeled off the cut letter/numbers {I practiced doing this with an extra number on the bottom of one of the planters}. I took a pin to prick the corner and then tweezers to pull it off. {the house numbers are obscure on purpose, by the way}.

You may have noticed that some of the black came off when I was pulling off the stencil, but I just took a black marker and filled in those spots - you can't even tell! Then, I sprayed a glossy clear acrylic over the whole thing - to seal it all in and give it a nice shine.

Now, I just have to actually put some plants in them! Soon!

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