Teenaged Girl's Bedroom in Scandinavian Design

It has been several months since we redesigned my teenaged daughter's bedroom for her birthday, but I wanted to share how lovely it turned out. It's difficult to get into her room and photograph these days, as she is now homeschooled and spends an enormous amount of time in her room, and more specifically on her bed! If you've been following me for any time now, you may remember that we re-did her bedroom a few years ago! She is now a full fledge teenager and has very specific design ideas and so for her 14th birthday, I told her we could redecorate her room. It has been FIVE years and she's a lot different at 14 then she was at 9 years old! Here is what her room looked like before:

How to Organize a Dresser Drawer of Clothes

To be quite honest with you, I do not believe that everyone must organize the same way or that your drawers have to look a certain way. But, I can at least show you a few ways that I organize my drawers and some other options to give you ideas that will work for you. 

Fashion Advice from an Organizing Blogger

One of my favorite hobbies, other than organizing is decorating, is fashion. Well, honestly, I haven't actually READ a fashion magazine in years {I can't stand all the yuck in there} but I've turned to my practical and modest "searches" on Pinterest time and time again to find cute and modest and fashionable outfits for this {almost} 44 year old girl! So, I'm sharing my "Fashion 101" through an organizer's eyes! I'll show you my favorite brands and where I get them for the best prices, too, and how I can keep my closet in shape, too! {This is NOT a sponsored post, just sharing my love of shopping and clothing}.

More Pinterest Inspiration with Fashion!

Do you ever have one of those days where you wore the RIGHT thing and you just felt good all day {follow my Instagram for more ideas}? And then...

31 Days of Spontaneous Organizing - Day #6: Closet Shelves

Today is Day #6 of 31 days of spontaneous organizing! Your mini-challenge for today is a shelf {or two} in your closet! You can do one shelf that is just bugging you or, if you have time, you can do more. It's about doing a little bit at a time.

31 Days of Spontaneous Organizing - Day #4: Closet {Long hanging}

Today is Day #4 of 31 days of spontaneous organizing! Your mini-challenge for today is the closet - long hanging! This is for you, your child, your hubby, or all of you. You can choose, but YOURS would be the best choice {you could go back next month and work on another one}. Just choose the long hanging area of the closet. 

I Work Everywhere!

{This post is sponsored by Office Depot and I get to share with you the fun things I do with their products}

As a blogger I {literally} work EVERYWHERE. It's a blessing and a curse. I'm so thankful that I get to work from home, from my van, from the doctor's office, from the car wash....well, you get the idea. So, I carry my laptop EVERYWHERE so I can work here and there and whenever I have a spare moment. 

How Pinterest can help you get more out of your closet!

This summer I seemed to get into a fashion rut! You know the kind - you look in your closet and you say "Oh, I have NOTHING to wear" and yet you have a closet FULL of clothes. It wasn't like I needed anything. I have plenty of clothes and I try to stay "fairly" current in my wardrobe - outlets, clearance centers, and thrift stores are my main source of purchasing nice clothing at cheap prices! 

11 Ways to organize under your stairs

If you have any kind of stairs in your home, you know that under those stairs is a lot of wasted space! Right? Or, if you have a closet under there, how in the world do you organize it to make useable space? 

Picking my organizing brain!

My friends like to pick my brain whenever I'm over at their homes.  They "casually" mention that they just can't seem to come up with anything to organize a certain space, then take me in and show me the dilemma.  Well, I DO love to solve a good organizing dilemma and so that always gets me thinking how we can make this work for them.

Family photo time!

I am not crazy about buying my kids' photo from school.  I'm not usually a "control freak" kind of person, but I really would like to be there to make sure they at least look decent - no hair sticking up, looking at the camera, collar laying flat, etc.  Plus they are SO expensive!  

Oh, he's so handsome.  He looks so grown up!

So, I hired my own photographer.  Her name is Carly from Freckle Fotography.  She is a college student and has some great rates as a budding {future} professional photographer.  She charges reasonable rates, I get great photos!

Rachel and I - she really captured a great moment!

I spent some time on Pinterest and floating around blogland just trying to figure out what our family should wear.  I have an entire category on there named family photo so I could figure out what we should wear. This picture was my inspiration - based on the clothes we had in our closets.  My hubby and I had pretty much every color, but it was my daughter's casual dress that helped me figure it out.  I went with the bottom row of blues and purples.

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I also found a great post on coordinating family clothing at Blue Cricket Design.  It has some great tips!

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Carly took photography classes in high school and studied it, and it shows!  She was able to capture my son beautifully.  He is HARD to get a good photograph from.  He never wants to look directly at the lense. My daughter is a natural, but even her smile and beauty radiate.  

And all of us together with our "coordinating" colors:

Do you recognize that chair in the pictures???  Why, yes, it's my favorite vintage chair!  It was a perfect prop!

And last, of me and my hubby! My only big request was that she make me look young and thin! 

If you are in the Los Angeles area...you might want to check her out!  Freckle Fotography!

And they shopped 'til they dropped! Ladies Boutique {part 4}

We chose to have the boutique on a Sunday afternoon from 1:30-4:30 PM.  It was all first come, first get!  So, I had a line of ladies waiting at the front by 1:30 PM.  I chose that time so they could go home and eat and several of them live a distance away so they could go to church, eat lunch with their family and come over!

We opened the doors and the ladies came in and began shopping.  No clothes' shopping trip would be complete if you didn't have dressing rooms, right?  So, I made SIX dressing rooms - three of our bathrooms and three bedrooms.  All but one had full length mirrors in them, too.

 {via freckle fotography}

At one point we even had a line of ladies waiting to try on clothes.  It was fantastic!  

Some of the ladies only had one or two items in their hands and so I stepped in and became their personal shopper!  These clothes were free, why not try on anything?  

Many ladies left with bags and bags full of clothing.  I requested everyone bring their own bags, since I had to use all my extra bags to put the left-over clothing in for charity. I had some ladies post-pregnancy there loving that they could get free clothes for that transitional time until they could fit into their normal size again, too.  Some just didn't have much, others just wanted to look, and still more teenage girls got so many cute things (their Moms were grateful for the LARGE savings not having to buy them clothes).

I let everyone know via email and such, that the following Monday morning between 10 AM and Noon, they could bring a friend who didn't attend our church.  Again, I didn't want strangers showing up, so they had to accompany their friends who came to go through the left-overs.  It was also open to those who couldn't make it the day before.  After noon, I closed up the "shop" and packed up all the left-over clothing.

I only had about a quarter of the clothing and accessories left to leave on my porch for the charity truck the next day.  I had booked that truck a few weeks before the boutique, knowing there would certainly be left-overs.  My hubby helped me load up the porch the night before, and that was it!  The picture above I took from my van as I was leaving for the day.  It was gone when I returned! (Note: I will not take a "tax credit" since I did not personally donate these clothes).  

So, there you have it.  That's HOW to plan a FREE Ladies Boutique.  Easy?  I thought it wasn't so bad.  Fun?  Yep.  Organizing with lots of ladies was a great opportunity to fellowship with others they may not have seen around church.  Would I do it again?  Yes, but not next year.  I have plans for a DIFFERENT kind of boutique next year!  I know, I know...I'm crazy!

If you missed any of the other posts about the boutique, here you go:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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Great Idea: Clothing dividers

So, I had this HUGE Ladies boutique and bought these cute little clothing dividers online. 

Getting Ready for School - part 2 (School supplies and clothes)

Checking your lists....check them twice!

Well, school supplies - uggh!  I'm sure that this is an area you love or hate about school!