Saturday, September 29, 2012

What do YOU want to see?

I am curious as to what YOU, my readers, want to see and read about here on my blog. Just comment on this post, or any of my other posts, with you you would like to see on my blog!

Friday, September 14, 2012

How to organize your make-up table!

This article is a collection of DIY/How-to's for organizing your make-up area.

These are all things that I have found online and just pieced together, I am not sure of the original creator of any, but will post a link to the detailed instructions if there are some!

   This right here is awesome! It's a metal magnet board hung on the wall. You get adhesive magnet strips and cut them to size. You then stick them to the backs of your make-up and there you go! All your make-up is laid out for you without it being cluttered. 




This is also a really cute idea. These are just mason jars that were spray painted silver and they look super cute and work wonderfully!! Could hold eyeliners, mascara, lip pencils, lip gloss, etc.




This is a PVC pipe screwed into the wall. You could do this into the side of a vanity table, the side of a cabinet, or into the wall. Spray paint a cute color and it would be awesome!


 An old entertainment center turned into what is basically a closet! I am hoping to do something like this soon, if I do I will post the how-to with pictures, etc!


  The link for this wouldn't work but it looks like they took a jewelry tray (hence the place for the rings) and turned it into a hanging jewelry box and picture frame. They added three strips of wood across some of the open space. One has tiny hooks for necklaces and the other two are for earrings.... I can't tell if they're notches or something in the wood (maybe a gap on the other side so the other end of the earring goes over causing them to hang?), added a thin picture frame using hinges, and then hung on a wall. I love this!


A magnet strip attached to collect/hold bobby pins so they aren't all over the bottom of your drawer. Can put in cabinet, drawer, etc.
http://sprwmn.blogspot.com/2010/11/2-minute-bathroom-organization.html
  


Spice racks hung on the wall to store hair products. Spray paint a pretty color and BAM! It's super cute and frees up counter and drawer space. http://suiterevival.blogspot.com/2011/10/bathroom-tour.html    




Plastic storage bin re-vamped using scrapbooking paper!
I hope you can put some of these ideas to use!

Until next time!
XoXoEcho

Back in the Saddle!

         Hi all!! 
  So school is back in session, YAYYYY..... not. Today marks the end of the third week and it feels like it has been going for months already! Four out of my seven classes are advanced, three pre-AP and one AP, the other three are electives and my language, one of which is one semester so for the second semester I will have an AP class in it's place. I though "Freshman year was so easy and I had three pre-AP classes, throwing in 2 AP classes won't hurt!" Oh how wrong I was.

 I had to miss dance on Tuesday and Thursday because I was too tried and stressed out plus I had a lot of homework and today I am sick with the beginnings of a sinus infection. I told myself yesterday that I wasn't allowed to get sick. I don't have TIME to be sick. And what does my self go do? Skipping merrily down the trail of sickness!

 Needless to say, I stayed home today to take medicine and sleep it off, but in the process I am missing part of a project in English, probably a whole lot of AP World History notes, and a French test. All of which will have to be made up by Tuesday, meaning I will have to miss part of theatre practice on Monday to take my test, and then after practice go home and do homework AND make up work.

  The point of this post was not to rant on and on about my stressful life.... well, maybe it was just a LITTLE bit, but to try an help out anyone else who is having the same problem right now.

 For starters the biggest thing you can do to help yourself is to BE ORGANIZED! This means your binder, your backpack, your locker, and your room at home. Keep your binder organized so you are not overwhelmed when you open it up and so that you know where everything is, it'll get a bit cluttered after a while so just sit down for five to ten minutes every now and then and tidy it up. The same with your backpack, keep your load simple so that you can find things. I have a pencil back for my pencils, markers, pens, highlighters, my student ID, etc. I use the small pocket in my bag for money, my phone, make-up, lead, etc. It's good to kind of have a place for everything so that you can find it quick and easy. Your locker is for the same reason, you want to be able to see what's in there, plus it just makes you feel gross when you open it up and its a mess, same with your room. You need a place that is neat and tidy to sit down in and study or do your homework. If it's cluttered you won't want to stay there and you will not be able to focus. When everything is organized you just feel less stressed. It helps me feel like I am in control of my time and not like time is controlling me.

 Time management is ALSO key, get a planner! I got a plain one from Wal-mart that has big enough boxes that I can write my homework for each day, when things are due, reminders, etc in it. It's great! I added a few stickers on there to personalize it a bit so it wasn't so plain. A planner is a great way to help you plan out your time, especially if you are involved in extra-curricular stuff and/or advanced classes. It allows you to see your week in advance so if you have a game Thursday and a project is due Friday, then you know you need to finish it before Thursday.

                                                              Here is my schedule:
Monday: School (We get out at 2:35) then theatre practice until 5.
Tuesday: Same as Monday then dance (ballet, modern, and jazz) from 5:30-8:30 (I am home around 9)
Wednesday: Same as Monday
Thursday: Interact meeting @ school at 6:50, school,theatre practice, and then dance (Turns & elevations,                  and Hip-hop) 5:30-6:30 and 7:30-8:30 (I have an hour between, that is when I eat and do a bit of homework). I am hope around 9.
Friday: Same as Monday and every other we have football games.

 Throw in class officer meetings, etc. and I am a pretty busy person! The earliest I ever get home is around 5:30, doesn't leave much time for relaxing when you have four advanced classes and a french class that you have homework for almost every night. I am obviously still adjusting to all of this BUT being organized and having a planner really does help. Keep in mind that a planner is a tool, you have to use it and keep up with it for it to help you at all.

   Being really organized is extremely new to me, but it's certainly a necessity for me now.
 
   I hope I helped anyone out there suffering from an extremely full schedule!

Until next time!
 XoXoEcho

If you would like to see an example of an awesomely organized binder check out this video by Ailyxxxfashion on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D_zIrRrvd4