Today I'm excited to be launching a new weekly series to the blog called 'Quick Tips'. These posts will include a simple tip or trick for things I use/do around my home that you may find useful, or may like to try in your own lives.
These tips will be related to any one of my favourite topics:
So, to start of the series, today's 'quick tip' is about lunch storage using mason jars.
As I tackled a small organising task this week, I realised that not all projects need to be on a huge scale to leave you feeling proud of what you have just accomplished. A job as simple as clearing out the junk drawer or organising the paperwork, can give you an overall feeling of calm, focus and clarity, and that can only be a good thing! It's why I love to organise so much ;)
If you've ever done a big declutter of your personal items, you would probably be able to relate to the fact that it can be very difficult to decide what keepsakes to hold onto, and what to throw out. Although I consider myself pretty ruthless at getting rid of clutter, I definitely like to hold onto things with emotional value. Today I'm showing you how we store these precious items.
I am super happy that both our children love books. We have read to our little bookworms from day dot and it is exciting to watch them now happily looking through their favourite books independently (and giving mum 5 minutes of peace). Plus I love doing bedtime stories...even if it is the same one on repeat sometimes!
To foster this love for reading, my goal has been for the kids to have easy access to books in the different areas of the house in which they play. This means we need appropriate storage so there aren't piles of books lying around the house. So here's a look at some of the storage solutions we use.
We are currently in the planning stage of a kitchen renovation, which basically involves ripping out lust-worthy pages from 'Home Beautiful', pinning kitchen inspiration, visiting kitchen showrooms, and saying to each other things like 'one day, it'll be awesome to have a breakfast station/more storage/a bigger oven'.... So, still very early days!
Although there are definite changes I'm looking forward to, I also firmly believe in working with what you currently have. I've rearranged things in my current kitchen lots of times to finally reach a storage set-up I am happy with, tweaking here and there to make it work in the most efficient way for our family. Organisation is definitely an on-going process. Today, I am talking about our organised pantry, and the adjustments we made recently that have been big game-changers in the way we use our kitchen!
