Friday Favorties

Chalk Dehumidifier - I receive Martha Stewart's organizational tips in my email daily and this one was either today or yesterday. But I am curious has anyone tried it? Does it work? It just sounds like one of those off the wall solutions that not in a million years would I have ever thought of on my own.

Chicken Paillards with Clementine Salsa - These look so good. And right now we are seeing clementines at every grocery store.

Wallpaper Maintenance - from cleaning it to to hanging it and the problems with that...just all sorts of wallpaper maintenance how-tos and suggestions.

In my Chocolate Peanut Popcorn post, I have a picture of the popcorn in ziplocks with little toppers that I stapled on to the bags. I made them in photoshop but you could easily make them in Word. The images I used for the toppers are all free vintage images from Dover. I signed up and they send me a weekly email that links to free samples. And I download the ones I like to my computer. I use them for greeting cards, gift wrap, making recipe cards, pdf files, tags and the toppers. I just find all sorts of uses for them.

Paint Your Place by Behr.com - You can upload a photo of the room and then go through colors and see it on the walls of the photo. I think it would be a cool test drive before painting. (If that link doesn't take you directly to Paint Your Place: Go to the Explore Color Smart - the menu will drop down and then Paint Your Place is the last options)

Cleaning Your Closet

I just read a tip that I thought was interesting. For organizing your closet and getting rid of things you don't wear.

You basically buy 2 different colored hangers. And you start everything out on one color. When you wear it, wash it and return it to the closet, it gets put on the other color hanger. Then at the end of 6 months or a year clothes still hanging on that original color hanger get an evaluation of why you even have in your closet since you didn't wear it.

My personal thoughts on this though...having all those extra hangers around from that first set would start to annoy me. I hate having lots of empty hangers they get all tangled into each other. But it is a good way to actually SEE what you wear - having that tangible visible proof that something didn't get worn is harder to ignore then just living in denial and saying oh I will wear it soon.