Laundry day = no fun.

Today is laundry day. No DIY projects. BOO!
Doing a DIY project every day makes me feel like I've accomplished something real brilliant! Like it makes my life just a tad bit easier. You know? But today is laundry day. Usually Mondays are, but I put it off 2 days. Hopefully, if I can get my butt in gear and get motivated, I can finish the day up with a small DIY project.. Ah-ha! Great idea!

I also need to go through my "For the kids" Pinterest board and see if there is anything I can do around the house on Friday. There is no school on friday and I want to keep the kids occupied. Not just running all over the house and messing up all the work I've done in the last 2 weeks. It's supposed to rain all day friday, so it will probably happen, but hopefully the house won't be too much of a disaster after the day is over. I'll have 8 kids for the day. So after looking through my board, I found this.
http://keepcalmandteachon.blogspot.com/2011/04/acitivity-sticks.html
I have a variety of ages 4-11 and this will be perfect for them. So, as soon as I get a break from laundry, I'll start painting sticks and write on them with permanent marker and get everything ready to go.

Succulent Crock Pot Pork Chops

Ingredients:
2  large or 4 small pork chops 
1 bullion cube (or 1 can beef broth)
1 can of cream of mushroom
1 envelope of Lipton Onion soup mix
As much onion as you desire. (chopped)
1 cup of water


*If you like more 'gravy', double soup and bullion mixture.




Directions:
Take a sharp knife or fork and stab the pork chops repeatedly all over.
Place pork chops in crock pot.
Dump ingredients over pork chops.

Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3 hours.


5 minutes before serving, add flour to thicken up gravy if needed.


*You can also add potatoes, carrots, green beans if you like. 
(I personally like mashed potatoes with pork chops though.)


I've got crescent rolls, lima beans and mashed potatoes to go with the chops tonight. Yum!

It's so easy and so good, you'll want to slap your mama. TWICE! 

It's funny because it's true.

Cleaning the Master closet.

 

It's terrible right??? Soooo messy. Disaster!

So I took this idea   http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/113856696799184641_JBsyBa9k.jpg           and ran with it. I had to make it my own, because I didn't at the time have $30 it takes to make the laundry sorter (pictured in the pinterest link above) When I see a DIY project that I would love to do, (And this may sound really strange to you) but I pray about it and ask God to give me an idea on how to "tweak" it and make it my own. Especially when I can't afford the way that the original user had intended.
So I took this project and I prayed about it and made it my own.

This is what I came up with. I used  storage shelves that I already had (I think they were $14.) I split them in half (they are the plastic storage shelves you can find them at Walmart) I took 4  laundry baskets and made my own laundry sorter. Whites, lights, darks and dry cleaning.

Then I did a bunch of sorting of my own in the closet and tidied it up.

Wallah!

Boys Bedroom 1-15-12

2 projects today. Cleaning my boys room and making a cool "fort" for privacy for each boy. It's a disaster right now. We've had kids most of the weekend and yesterday was a half day at school, so the kids destroyed the house. It's a mess, but someone has to clean it up and I'm not waiting till the kids get home from school. I want it done. Now. I will not let my ADD get the bet of me today. this has to be done.

This is before...
It's a wreck! There are DVD strewed all over the floor too. Ugh. What a disaster. Not for long! Better get to it!

Half way done. One fort down, one to go..

 Done with fishing wire, shower curtain rod, 1 twin sheet folded, hooks and more hooks. I already had the sheet. I had to buy fishing wire ($3.00), Hooks ($5.00) and the hook up in the ceiling was 8 for ($.97). The shower curtain rod was ($12.00).

 A really cheap and very easy project. Tons of fun for the kids. What kid doesn't want a fort?? Both my boys do! They love the privacy when they need it.

Done! The sheet gives them privacy. And let's face it, It's just plain FUN!

Above: Curtains closed.

Above: Curtains Open.

This project took me 2 & 1/2 hours. It took a while longer because I washed the sheets and bedding while I was moving and cleaning and putting up the sheet-curtains. I also put away everything that was on the floor and vacuumed. And moved the posters.

The Finished Project. Wallah!

I have my 2 boys and then we're always having the kids friends spend the night, so we need an air mattress.

The sheet-curtains make it look a bit messy, but they'll have tons of fun. I'm okay with slightly messy. :)