Even Easier Accordion File Folder

A little while ago I posted about my upgrades to the accordion file folder I use to keep my receipts. I had another smaller one laying around that I wasn’t using so decided it would be a good place to organize some of the miscellaneous things I cut out of magazines (products to try, hairstyles I like, etc). The original inserts were labeled with the months so I took those out and made my own on pink paper, added a coordinating pink paper to the inside front section only, and tied it together with a pink ribbon. It makes me happy.

While I’m on the topic of shoes…

I’m loving all of these J.Crew ballet flats –

And while I would normally say I can’t justify paying that much for ballet flats, even if they are made in Italy, I think I might *need* these –

Bookshelves

Continuing on with the bright pink theme I seem to have going on (Pete says he’s OK with it, I do always ask first since he has to live here too!), I covered the backs of two bookshelves we have in our living room (serving as our media center – all of our DVD’s are hiding in those boxes!) with another pretty paper I found at Paper Source and some double sided tape. For less than $15 it really changes the look! 

Paper Daisies

I saw these adorable paper daisies on Making it Lovely a little while ago and knew they’d be perfect to solve one of my ongoing design dilemmas. The furniture in our living room is positioned so that the couch and love seat are both angled against the corners. Looks great from a layout perspective but it left me with these big empty corners that I didn’t know what to do with. A sofa table and some lamps solved the problem behind one but I really didn’t know what to do with the other. The solution I most commonly came across was to to put a big plant back there but, given my not so green thumb and the fact that we’re currently using the area for storage of some smaller items, that didn’t seem to be a good one. I also bought the Photographer’s Tripod Lamp from Pottery Barn thinking that could go back there. Nope, not right. I already had the idea of hanging something back there but wasn’t sure about investing the money or the holes in my ceiling to do so for fear I wouldn’t like that either. And then came the paper daisies. So here’s the before and after of the empty and then lovely corner of our living room.