A clean craft room & an organized recipe book... what more could you want?!

Annnnnndd I'm back from my hiatus.  4 months is way too long.  I will try hard to write sooner next time.  Thankfully baby #2 is amazing and I have had lots of time to still be crafty.  (Nap time is a wonderful thing!)

Here's a few things I've finished over the last few months:

1. Craft room - it was a disaster zone! It got to the point where I couldn't even work in the room and started taking over other parts of the house... to my husbands dismay. So I took the plunge and did some major cleaning and throwing away!

ok, so my before picture doesn't even measure up to how bad it really got, but you get the picture...

Before:

After:

I was in need of storage and found these white cubes at Michaels, a little pricey, but you can find them on sale every now and then!

Now I can at least sit at my desk!

(once I find a chair!)

2. Recipe book - it was in need of desperate organizing. There were recipes falling out everywhere! Some were handwritten, some were typed, and some were torn out of magazines.  It needed to be organized, but my dilema was how I wanted to orgainze them. Did I want to put them in a book where I could see them all.. but then couldn't take them out? Or did I want to put them in a recipe box where I could pull them out... but couldn't see them all?

So I came up with a solution to both my problems, a book that I could put recipes in, but also take them out! (I know! so clever!)

Here's my finished product:

Took an old photo album

Typed & printed out all my recipes on 3.5" x 5.5" cards

(this actually takes a lot longer than you'd think!)

Cut pieces of patterened paper to fit inside photo sleeves

Cut out tabs to divide recipes into categories 

 And that's my finished recipe book!

Now I'm excited to do some cooking!