2011 January 17 | Beneath My Heart

You heard me right!

I have the awesome opportunity to be giving away an amazing Silhouette Electronic Cutting Tools to one of my fabulous Beneath My Heart readers!

You have to be living under a rock in blogland to not have heard about this amazing machine.

But just in case you have been hanging out under a rock lately, here are some projects you can do with a Silhouette…

Paper Crafts Custom Apparel

Sketched Designs Cards

Scrapbook Pages Etched Glass

Vinyl Decor

Isn’t this machine incredible?!

I had so much fun using my new Silhouette machine to make labels for my pantry.

I used it to make these…

And these…

And this little sign for my pantry door! Love it.

Okay, so have I teased you enough?

Do you want one for yourself?

Here is what Silhouette is giving you the opportunity to win:

A Silhouette Machine

2 rolls of premium Silhouette vinyl

1 roll of transfer tape

and

The new Home Decor CD!

That is $395.00 worth of materials. Yowza!!

Also, during the week of January 17-22, Silhouette has two great promotions going on:

Promotion #1:

You can purchase the above package : Machine, Vinyl, Transfer Tape, and Home Decor CD,

for only $225. That’s a savings of $150.00!

When you purchase the package, just apply the promo code “HEART” to receive the discount.

Promotion #2:

If you are one of those lucky people who already have a Silhouette, there is a

Premium Vinyl promotion going on too!

All Premium Vinyl is 25% off, just enter “HEART” to receive the disount!

Now let’s get to the giveaway:

Here’s how you can enter to win your very own Silhouette!

The first three entries are mandatory.

#1. Visit the Silhouette website and take a look around. Come back and tell me in a comment what you would make with your new Silhouette machine?

#2. Visit the Silhouette Blog and become a follower and leave a comment telling them that Beneath My Heart sent you. Then come back here and tell me in a separate comment that you did both.

#3. Become a public follower of Beneath My Heart (through Google Friends or by subscribing, or both! (I promise to make my blog one that you are glad you follow!) :) Tell me in a comment if you follow me!

#4. Tweet, Blog, or tell about this giveaway on Facebook and come back and tell me you did in a separate comment for each.

Be sure to leave a separate comment for each entry. I will choose a winner through a random generator.

And be sure to leave your email address so I can contact you.

Goodluck!

Now get busy and start entering this fantabulous giveaway!!

Woohoo!!!!

(The giveaway will end at midnight EST on Friday, January 21st, and I will announce the winner on Saturday,the 22nd!)

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Update: Giveaway is closed.

Welcome to Organizing Your Heart and Home 2011!

If you missed the introduction to this series, click on the button to find out the details.

My sister and I are having so much fun getting to know you as we organize our hearts and homes together!

This week I am focusing on organizing your kitchen and my sister is focusing on organizing your prayer time. So when you are finished reading my post, click on my sister’s button at the bottom of this post and pay her a visit. You will be glad you did. :)

I hope you are having as much fun as I am organizing your home!

Last week, I showed you my craft closet makeover…

I was so impressed with all the closet makeover that were linked up to my Closet Makeover Party on Friday! If you missed them, you can see them HERE.

All of the participants were entered in a giveaway for a set of chalkboard labels from Leen the Graphics Queen and a Chalk-ink marker.

The winner is….

Heather’s Driveland Whatnot!

Congratulations!

I will be emailing you to get your address so I can ship your goodies to you! :)

Thanks for linking up!

Now this week I am going to show you my pantry makeover!

You will have one week to work on your kitchen makeover and join my “Kitchen Clean Up Linky Party” on Friday, January 21st. You can organized a drawer, a cabinet, or a pantry. Whatever needs to be done in your kitchen! Can’t wait to see it!

This is embarassing, but here is what my pantry looked like last week…

Holiday-whoobie-whatie?

Shut. The. Door.

No rhyme, no reason…just a mess!

My husband actually built this pantry in our kitchen 3 years ago. Before that, we had absolutely NO storage for food. We had to take up cabinet space with groceries.

He installed the wired shelving when he built it. It has worked okay, but my boxes tend to fall over a lot, and it drives me crazy.

My cookbooks fall through the cracks…

The inside of the pantry was painted the same yellow that our kitchen used to be painted. But now that our kitchen is Khaki Shade by Sherwin Williams, I knew I was going to repaint the inside.

The floor is where I stored my crock pots, dog food, and the boys’ lunch boxes. Ugh.

The door has wire baskets on it to store my spices, sandwich bags, plastic wrap. etc.

I like having it there, but when we installed this door on the pantry, we never painted the back of it. So it was an off-white color.

And the door was still sporting the greasy handprint that my hubby left when he installed it. (See right side of door.)

We are sentimental like that. :)

So I cleared out the pantry door so I could give it a fresh coat of white paint.

And I cleared out the pantry. Notice the difference in colors?

Since the boys had a couple of snow days last week, I decided to put them to work.

Luke helped me put my spices in alphabetical order. It is my goal to someday be able to afford matching spice jars to put them in, but can’t do it right now.

And Jonathan checked all the dates to see which ones had expired…

We had to throw the pile in the front of the picture below away…all expired!

Since I didn’t have the time or money to install new wood shelves, I decided just to add a thin piece of material to each shelf to make it more sturdy.

So I went to Lowe’s and bought a large 4 ft x 8ft piece of tempered hardboard (item #15483) for only $7.25.

I had the Lowe’s guy cut it into five pieces the same size as my wire shelves.

There were several pieces left over that I hope to use for later projects.

I painted the fronts and backs white and put them in my closet.

The closet was already looking better with newly painted walls and new white shelves.

And the door got a fresh coat of white paint too.

Here is something I learned during my pantry makeover:

CONTAINERS ARE EXPENSIVE!!!!

I mean….seriously?!

I trotted down to Walmart to buy some containers, saw the prices, and left empty handed! I wasn’t trotting when I left. :(

So I have been frequenting Goodwill on the hunt for containers.

I found some, but was still needing more.

So I had to break down and spend a little money on a few. But I tried to get them as cheap as possible. I have less than $30.00 in this whole makeover.

Here is a look at my new clean pantry!!!

Isn’t she lovely?!

I am so happy with it!!! (Sorry the pics are a little blurry. We had no sunlight today and I tried to take pictures manually…obviously, I’m still learning.)

Here is a breakdown of what I paid for my containers purchased at Goodwill, Dollar General, and Kroger….

The cute rectangular chalkboard labels are from Leen the Graphics Queen. The two curvy ones I made using my new Silhouette Machine!

I used a chalk-ink pen to write on the labels.

I fell in love with these little jars from Kroger. I wish I had the money to buy more. They were on sale last week and may still be.

And I love the two tall glass jars I found at the Dollar General. They are very sturdy. They have smaller ones for $2.00 that I am wanting to go back and get.

See those cute little tin containers on the left wall in the picture below?

I found them at Goodwill for $1.50 a piece and I love them!

I used my Silhouette Machine again to make labels for each container.

I used wall screws to attach them to the wall.

We eat a lot of popcorn and oatmeal at our house. :)

And the bottom container holds drink mixes that usually get lost in our pantry: hot cocoa, lemonade, crystal light packets, etc.

And look at how my cookbooks stand up nice and tall now!

Notice my favorite? Reluctant Entertainer, by Sandy Coughlin, of course! :)

The next shelf holds my plastic containers and white bowl full of soup mixes and sauces.

I got two packages of 3 plastic white containers at Kroger for $5.00 each. The boys love being able to see their cereal in the containers.

And they are so much neater than those cereal bags!

All of the baskets in my pantry used to belong to my mom.

I made one a bread basket and used the two matching ones to hold baking supplies and boxed goods. (I am still planning on making labels for my baskets. Just got a cute idea tonight!)

On the floor, I have our chip basket and potato basket.

I don’t like having the baskets sitting directly on the floor, so I sat them on two things that I use very often. The chip basket is sitting on my large flat skillet, and the potato basket is sitting on my crock pot.

Perfect!

I am so very pleased with how it turned out!

The spices I just put back in the racks on the door, but they are in alphabetical order now, so hopefully I will be able to find things more easily.