Want to join me in a Pinterest Challenge Month?

If you don't yet know about Pinterest, you might be living under a rock, Geico-style.  Just sayin'.  

If you don't yet know about Pinterest, allow me to rock your world. 

Pinterest is a glorified bookmarking tool.  Except it's also a social network.  They call it social bookmarking.  Now the hubby had to point out that it's not the first of its kind - I guess there were others like del.ici.ous (or something like that - how does one remember all those periods?).  But Pinterest is so visually appealing and totally widespread, which is important.  Allow me to deviate here for a moment - I also really love Google+ (more than facebook) but nobody's on Google+ which makes it pointless.  Right?  You can't have a social networking site without the social.  Hence why I love Pinterest - EVERYONE seems to be on it now!  

So you log in and you see all the genius, clever, creative, organizationally amazing things that others have blogged about and your friends/those you follow have deemed cool enough to bookmark, and you "pin" whichever ones you like, too, meaning you add them to a category of your choosing to come back to another time.  AWESOME, right?  Well, I think so.

Now the problem with Pinterest is that you spend so much time pinning you rarely do anything you're pinning.  One quick glance at my boards will tell you I could never accomplish it all before I die.  And that's just two months worth of pins.  

So I'm challenging myself to actually do what I've pinned!

This is rather tricky because a: I don't have much time and b: I don't have much money.  We're doing Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University, so I will mostly be sticking to the cheap things I've pinned.  The VERY, VERY DIY projects and the re-habbing and recycling old into new.  

For me, the focus is really on my house, but there are other things I want to get done, too.

Here's a collection of things I've pinned that I want to recreate: 

Create this in our laundry/mud room.  One of the projects we want to take on is converting our current coat closet into a pantry since we don't have a pantry (and you can't understand how much that sucks until you don't have one!).  So we'll need a new place or coats/boots/gloves.

I mean really, how brilliant is that?  A make-up magnet board!  We are also severely lacking space in our bathroom, so freeing up an entire drawer will be amazing.

Rope lights!  I think this would be fun under the kitchen cabinets AND in our bathroom, but this project will only happen if I find cheap, cheap rope lights.  Anyone have tips?

This is another maybe project.  I think it's super clever for each family member to have their own towel spot/toothbrush spot, but I don't know if this is worth the time and money yet, so we'll see!

"Crap baskets" for the stairs!  Yes please! 

Totally adorable and I just happen to have this exact fabric!

I've been looking for a cheap solution to set up a mail/junk station for Tim, Ben and I, but the mail sorters seem to run every bit of $10 a piece.  This one is made out of a cereal box, attached to a magnet and put on the fridge.  How smart is that?!

I want this for my office!

Tension rod for under-the-sink - SMART!

A simple way to get organized, right?

Those are CD racks turned on their sides to become tupperware lid racks.  I think that is the most genius idea of all time and we are in serious need of a solution to our tupperware DISASTER.

I would love something like this for my office/sewing room!  I have a million mason jars...let's see if I can accomplish this on the cheap!

This is actually my first choice for the above-mentioned holder thingy, but I don't have an Ikea nearby so I'm at the mercy of one of my friends who lives close to an Ikea being kind enough to buy me one and ship it to me.  :)  But seriously, isn't that just gorgeous organizational storage?

The big undertaking this month, like I said, is turning our coat closet into a pantry.  I'll be modeling it after this one though ours will be a bit different.  I just like the closet-to-pantry conversion they did and it seems easy and cheap enough.

And I could go on and on and on.  But I only have 26 days left in this month, a whole ton of other work to do and, you know, raising my kids and stuff.  I know I'm being way hopeful in thinking I'll get all this done, but I can dream!  Mostly I just want to get my house organized!  That's what happens to my brain when the seasons change.

If anyone out there wants to join along, link up a post outlining the projects you'd like to do this month and/or the ones you've done from Pinterest!  It can be an old post.  I'm cool with that.  

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