Yep..Not so Organized...that's me!

Yes, I'd love to be an organized person, but I'm really not. I try..I get things clean, and then they just explode again. Some of this is because of the three munchkins that live in this house, and some is because of hubby and I (not much..LOL), but it is the way life is.

Because of my friend Emily Simmons, I've jumped into doing some organizing. I started in the craft area..and that wasn't too bad. It was mainly putting everything away.

Emily posted a picture of this awesome pantry and said she wanted to do something like it. I LOVE it! I stopped by Hobby Lobby last night and they had jars on sale! This morning I got up and went to Home Depot and got started. Now...it is not totally like I want it, but this is what I get for now, and I'm happy with it.

Let's start with the "before" picture. Yep...my super ugly pantry.



So the first thing one needs to do when cleaning out the pantry is empty it. I hate that part! You find so much stuff stuck in the back and stuff that you wonder.. "Why did I buy this?"



While this next one isn't a great picture, but you can see that the shelves were covered with awful shelf paper that HAD to go!



And of course when the kitchen is filled and you can't use it, you get to eat lunch on the living room floor.



Next came the paint! It was time for some color in the pantry. No longer was it going to be white with stains from everything again. We have this awesome grey and I have an awesome hubby to help! I did the stuff I could reach and Bryan took over and got it all finished up.



Here it comes....the new and so beautiful pantry!! Ok, there is more organizing and things to do. I'd like to put a pantry hanger thing on the door. You know the ones...the shelves that hang on the door to hold things? We are going to put a new door on there one of these days soon...so we are going to wait on that for now. Now the unveiling!!



Awesome isn't it!!??

Starting from the bottom...these tubs hold the decorating supplies and cupcake holders. We do alot of holiday cupcakes around here. The orange fabric boxes I got at a yard sale for .25, but I think I'll get better ones when they go on sale next time. The left one is 1/2 jello and pudding and 1/2 spices packets. The middle one has a bunch of bagged side dishes like noodles and rices. The one on the right hand side is the kids snack box. It is full of granola bars and small bags of pretzels etc. When they ask for a snack, they can get something out of this box.



Above the orange boxes is a shelf full of boxes items, crackers etc.



Above that is canned goods...and my favorite shelf of all! My labeled jars!



I LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea!! I used my cricut cutter to create labels for all the glass jars. I got some at Hobby Lobby and we already had some. Isn't this just really awesome?? The basket on the side holds all the opened cereals. At breakfast, we can just put the whole basket on the table, and everyone gets what they want.





Let's compare..

Ugly Pantry..



Super awesome cool pantry...



Yes!!

Now...to keep it that way....