Show me your drawers.

No, not those drawers... pervs.

I ordered some new makeup storage from ebay a few weeks ago and it finally arrived today :D My makeup 'storage' previously consisted of an old Fererro Rocher box stacked with my bits and bobs. Now I've got a lovely set of clear perspex drawers to keep everything (well, my most used cosmetics) in order. My lesser used items are still stashed in the cupboard below, but hopefully this will help keep my benchtop nice and tidy. 

It looks so pretty and clean and shiny! From the bottom I've got: Eyeshadows/mascara, face powders/bronzer/blush, eyeliners and lipsticks and on the top, there's just enough room to keep some moisturiser, foundation and fragrances. Of course one day I'd like to have a large and impressive enough collection to warrant one of the bad boys the Kardashian girls have, but for now this will do just nicely :)

Hubba Bubba and My Wonderful Wardrobe

I'm like one of those little children that gets sucked in by the goodies that stores display at the cash register (minus the screaming tantrum) so when I saw the Hubba Bubba tape while waiting to pay for my purchases I simply had to have it.

In other news, I ordered some clear shoe boxes from ebay the other week and they came in the mail today so I got a little excited and rearranged my wardrobe. The result: I think they make my closet look much more organised and less cluttered (with room for more clothes!) I'm currently thinking of how I can add in a second rail, maybe buy a portable clothes rack and cut it down to the height I need? I don't really want to go drilling into the walls...

Ideas?

Before:

The new storage:

Tidy! :)

The mess I had to clean up afterwards :|

Letters From the Past.

This lazy Sunday, in my quest to keep my closet looking chic and minimalistic (and of course to make room for more stuff :P), I spent most of my time cleaning out all the accumulated crap residing in a heap of old shoeboxes. In one of those boxes I found a tin that I had crammed a whole heap of letters and notes that friends had written to me in high school and sticky taped shut, a sort of time capsule if you will. As soon as I snipped open the tape a few of them sprung out as if imitating a jack-in-the-box.


Some of the letters were good, others not so much, but most just made me laugh and contained gossip about what we did on the weekend, how annoying our teachers were, the boys we liked and how much we appreciated each others' friendship. There was even one from my (still!) boyfriend- I decided to keep that one :)


It's funny how easy life seemed to be when we were younger, the things we worried about, the things we thought were cool (in one of the letters my friend wrote every single letter 'a' as an '@' symbol!). After reading them all they were thoughtfully disposed of so our secrets remain so.


What's the best thing you've found whilst doing a major cleanup?