Showing posts with label organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organization. Show all posts

Monday, May 12, 2014

Bookshelf Tour Spring 2014 Part 1


I have two favorite things in my room. They are my bookshelf and my nail polish shelf. Weirdly enough, I haven't done a tour for either of them. Today I am going to show you my bookshelf (well half of it) and all of its amazingness.  I am having a lot of fun with this, so I hope you do too!

Row 1


So I don't want to pick favorites or anything but.... I like this one more then the rest. Probably because I have a lot of my favorite books on the top row! I put these on the first row because I wanted to show off their beauty, and they are at great staring height from my bed. (Yeah... okay.)


The Bloodlines Series: I finally managed to get all of them! They look so beautiful together. They are the spinoff series of Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. These are my favorite books of all time.

Spirit Bound: Sadly I only have the 5th book of the Vampire Academy series, but I plan to change that. I just loved the whole series. Richelle Mead is brilliant. BRILLIANT.

The Fault In Our Stars: Depressing,  beautiful, and brilliant, The Fault In Our Stars has managed to become of my favorite books, period. 

Paper Towns: Paper Towns impressed me with the humor and love that went into it. The book was just so funny. Seriously, I had to refrain myself from rolling on the floor, laughing. 

The Infernal Devices Trilogy: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess make up one of my favorite series, The Infernal Devices! The Infernal Devices is a series set in the amazing shadow hunter world, that I love. And these books are damn beautiful. 

The Mortal Instruments: The Mortal Instruments my third favorite series of all time. I just love the whole shadow hunter world and the romance between Jace and Clary. Also, MAGNUS. Who can forget Magnus? 

    

Alright, on top of my Mortal Instruments collection, I have a smelly stuffed frog. It smells like watermelon. I got it from my friends and it is one of two stuffed animals that I own. Yes, be jealous. 

Row 2


Oh, row two and your complete randomness. This is basically completely random. I did put all of the Divergent books together and Sarah Dessen's books together. But the rest is just random convenience.


Divergent Series: Oh how I love you. The Divergent series is my favorite dystopian series that I have read so far. They look so perfect together.

Sarah Dessen Books: So I am missing a few of Dessen's books but I have most of them. I love her girly writing and yes, all of the cheesy love stories. It kind of bugs me that they changed all of the covers, so I have one book that doesn't look like the rest. Ahhh.

Every Soul A Star: I have no idea what so ever, what this book is about. But it was pretty and on sale. (Story of my spending habits)

Hold Still: I actually read this one like last week, and it was great. It is a story about loss and friendship and it was pretty emotional. I should have a review up soon!

If I Stay: I just finished If I Stay and it was amazing. I feel like its better if you go into this one with not knowing anything about it, so I'm keeping my mouth shut.

Thirteen Reasons Why: I blame the hype. I thought it was okay but not as great as everyone thought. I reviewed this one sometime this year.

Speak: Speak is a very emotional book about a girl's story with rape. I honestly loved the story but it was hard to read some times.

Chains: I have no clue what this is about but it was .50 cents at a garage sale and it is by Laurie Halse Anderson, so I'm in.

It's Kind of A Funny Story: I really really want to read this, and I hope I can get to it soon!

Impulse: Impulse has something to do with suicide but I have never read it. I am looking forward to it!

Crazy: No clue what this about. Again.

Cut: The title is pretty self explanatory. It is about a girl who cuts. I haven't read it yet, but I want to! I just have too big of a tbr pile.

This is my awesome bird that I got from my aunt when I was in the hospital last year. It has great meaning to me.


I also have a tbr (to be read) jar. Some times I pick a piece of paper out of it and read what it says. It is a way of getting through all of my books that I own!

I'll have the second half later this week or next week! Have a great day :)

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Nail Polish Organization: My New Nail Polish Rack

Hey! So I said in my other nail polish organization post that my dad was going to help me build a rack. But I found a book shelf at my aunt's house that she never uses, and I ended up getting it! I love finally having a big, nice place to organize all my nail polish! It makes me feel like a true addict. :)

So here is the rack. It was like love at first site. It fits perfect to!

So the bottom shelf is going to be for nail art stuff.

 I went threw the closet and found this cute wooden pencil holder, and it is now holding my nail brushes, dotting tools, files, and my clean up brush!

 I took a lot of sandwich bags and put some stickers on them with categories like "beads and glitter", "makeup sponges", "stickers and decals", etc.. and put my nail art stuff in the bags!

 This green container has all of my bags, my water marble cup, and all of my base and top coats!

So my bottom shelf has the green container, cotton balls in a container, toothpicks and q-tips in a container, brushes, nail polish removers, and my swatch book!

So next I had to think about how I wanted to organize my polishes and trust me, it was a hard choice. No joke, I sat at my computer for like a half an hour looking at different shelves. Then I decided I was going to organize them by brand. Then I realized it would be stupid because I have so many brands with only one polish. So I organized them by finish, then color.




 The 3rd shelf from the top has my crackles, holographics, magnetics, and glitters.




The 2nd shelf from the top has all of my foil and shimmer polishes!




The top rack has all my cremes and jellies. This is the one shelf that I might have to worry about filling soon!


What do you guys think? How do you organize your nail polish? Feel free to send my some links in the comments! Have a great day :)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Nail Polish and Nail Art Items Organization & Swatch Book

Hey! Today I figured I would show you all how I organize all my polish related items. I used to have a ton of different random racks for my polish. But then that got pretty old, because they didn't match at all. So now they are in a few bins until I get my dad to help me make my 6 foot tall, dream nail polish rack. I'm hoping that we will go buy the supplies this weekend. So here is my temporary storage for my 150+ bottles of polish.

So I have all of my e.l.f. polishes in the top green bin and the rest of them in the bottom clear bin.

Basically right next to my polishes I have a shelf for all my nail art stuff.

So I did a really really crappy painting job on this shelf, then put flower fabric on the shelves. On the top shelf I have all my nail tape. Next shelf has all my stamping stuff. Next has a bunch of random nail art items like beads, glitter, nail art pens, and stickers. Next shelf has all my nail care items. The bottom shelf has cosmetic sponges for gradients and vaseline for easy clean up for water marbles!

And right below that shelf I have my acetone, polish remover, base and top coats, water marbling container, tweezers, brushes, dotting tools, and my fake nails that I use when I break one of my naturals.

I just recently made a nail polish swatch book for finding the right color for nail art. It is super fun and easy to do. Plus with my bins, the colors aren't all layed out, so this book helps a lot. You can make yours how ever you want but I put mine into color categories. I also used a binder so when I run out of space for a color, I can just add a new page.




I used some scissors and cut out some polish bottles and brands from the Nail It! Magazine. Im not done yet because they didn't have enough ads (which is a good thing). So when I get the next issue, I will add to it! I have a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, nude, and other category. Pretty straight forward!

When I finish that rack, I will put up another post! Have a great day everyone!



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