Time and Space Designs: I love a good project...

In my haste to de-clutter the house before returning to work, I've managed to collect a growing pile of old things I no longer need. A lot of those treasures went to a local shelter, but I've retained a few to re-purpose because I can't resist a good project.

Enter an old over-the-door shoe organizer. I cringe when I say that it's been hiding behind our closet door for three years...with NOTHING in it! Originally, I placed it back there because, well, it would be out of the way. And I guess it was. Until my inner cleaning goddess reared her ugly head and said "clutter be gone!"

I perused the internet and found several sites which re-purposed shoe organizers as wall planters. Very clever if you have a horizontally-spaced organizer made of fabric. Or perhaps you need a place to stow garden tools or electronics- again, this works perfectly.

But if yours is vertical with mesh pockets like mine, let's just say it limits the possibilities.

And then I thought of something that manages to wreak havoc on us each year. Enter our garden supplies. Each Spring when the stores start displaying vegetable seeds, we snatch them up. Our storage solution? A shoebox and Ziploc bags that house various varieties of tomatoes, squash and peppers. A mess? Certainly! Good luck finding what you need when you need it.