home decorating ideas in australia
hi everyone. i’m alejandra from alejandra.tv.and in this video, i’m going to show you how to make your own organizing products withstuff you have already around the house or things that you might throw away, you mightwant to keep. i’m going to show you all the things that i made and just really howto get organized on a budget. so if you feel like you have to spend a lot of money to getorganized, i’m going to show you that that’s not the case. so if this is your first time watching anyof my videos, you can check out my free organizing video series on my website, alejandra.tv.there is a link below. ok. so i’ve spent probably like two monthsmaking my own organizing products and i’m
excited to share with you everything thati’ve created. all right. so the first thing is i’ve grabbed a shoe box just like this.this is kind of a large one. but i wrapped it in duct tape, red duct tape to make itreally strong. and i’ve created my own homework caddy for students. so a homework caddy is like all the suppliesthey might need to get all their homework done. so when they come home from school,they grab their homework caddy, they sit at the kitchen table or wherever they do theirhomework and they have everything in front of them like everything they might need. so, what i did on the ends was i took theends of like toilet paper rolls and i wrapped
them in duct tape to create this little penand pencil caddies just like that and they’re hot glue gunned to the bottom. over here,i took an empty toothpaste box. i glued it to the bottom and then now, i can put likecrayons, a calculator. and then down here is a pencil case. there is binder clips alongthe edge. and then right here, i took clam shell container that came with command strips.i saved it. and now, i just out sticky notes in there. it’s like a sticky note organizer.so i just found whatever i had around the house and created something cool. so, totalcost was zero dollars. all right. the second thing i created wasi took prescription bottles from around the house. i covered them in pretty contact paperthat matched the bottles. i hot glue gunned
them together. and now, i have a pen and pencilcaddy for the top of my desk. and it’s so cool. it’s round. you can store a lot ofthings and it is – the cost of just the contact paper. all right. the next thing i created was iwent to the beer and wine store and i asked if they had extra wine boxes. and they gaveme a couple. and so, i took one of them and i cut the bottom off. i cut the dividers.i covered the bottom in white duct tape to make it nice and strong and then i hot gluegunned the dividers to the bottom to create a tea organizer. and now, you can just takethis and put this in a kitchen drawer and all your teas are nice and visible. they’reeasy to access and when you have guests over,
you can pull this out and ask them what theywant and they’re just nice and organized. so that was fun to make. the next thing and this is not my idea. igot this from robert mahar from kin community. he has a video on exactly how to make this,which i’ll put a link below. but he made this perler bead cord wrap just like this.so perler beads are these little beads that you iron together just like this and he madeit into a cookie which i thought was really fun. so then i just took my earbuds, wrapthem around and now, it just keeps them tangle-free just like that. in his video, he walks youthrough exactly how to make it. ok. the next thing i made which i was reallyexcited about this, so one of my favorite
organizing products is a lazy susan becausethey spin nicely and makes everything easy to find and they’re just great in pantriesand cabinets. so they’re hard to find. they’re expensive to buy. and if you live somewherewhere you don’t have access to organizing products, you might not have access to this. so i decided to make own and i’m reallyexcited about this. i found two baking pans. they’re 8-inch baking pans from the dollarstore. they were a dollar each. i found a pack of marbles from the dollar store, putthe marbles in between the pans. and now, i have a $3 lazy susan made all by myself.it took like, once i have the supplies, it literally took 10 seconds to put togetherand it’s just so fun. it spins really nicely
and smoothly and it’s just really simpleto make. as you can see, the marbles are just likethrown in there just like that and it’s seriously the simplest thing to make. ok. the next thing was my own jewelry organizer.so i took a piece of wood. i sanded it. i painted it pretty color. i sanded it againto make it look a little bit distressed. i hammered nails and change in there to giveit more of a distressed feel. i don’t know if that was accomplished or not but then itook hardware and i put nails here for rings, for earrings. then i put bigger nails herefor bulkier bracelets and stuff. and then there are hooks at the bottom like these – they’recalled i-loop hooks or something, i-hooks,
for all of the necklaces. and now, i can justmount this inside of my closet to detangle and store all of my jewelry in a cost-effectivejewelry organizer. all right. so that was fun to make. the nextthing, i like this. this is a plastic wrap box from the kitchen. i just saved it. i tookthe blade off, the blade just like peels right off. i covered it in pretty contact paper.and then i found these little containers from the dollar store. they come ten for a dollarand they fit perfectly in here. they fit nine to a box and it’s like they were just madeto go inside this organizer. but it’s great for craft supplies, offices, supplies, beadsor anything small around the house like you can put hardware in here in the garage. so,just a cool little organizer for the cost
of a dollar, and you can put a rubber bandaround it if you want to keep it shut. then the next thing was this little mail centerfor the top of my desk. so all i did was take three cereal boxes. i cut them in half. i’vewrapped them in duct tape to make it strong. i stapled them together and then i added labelsso there’s – you put bills here, things to process here, and then things to call,ask, or cancel go here. and an easier way to do this because i spent a lot of time cuttingit is to just use granola bar boxes because they’re all the same size if you buy thesame brand. and just do it that way. so, that was a cheap project. and then the last thing i made was i tooka pizza box and you could totally do this
with a smaller box. but i took a pizza boxand i made my own tackle box. so if you open it, you can see i found all of these minired cups from the dollar store. they’re so cute. they come 20 for a dollar, and ijust velcro-ed them down to the bottom of the box to create little sections. so, thisis like my label – this is all my labeling supplies. so, i put all my labeling suppliesin here. but the reason why i velcro-ed them down was– so you can make your tackle box flexible. so if you’re storing a bunch of small thingsone year, the next year, you might use this to store bigger the bigger things so you canalways take the cups out and create like bigger sections just like this. then you can alwaysput them back. so if i take some out then
i have a bigger section right here for biggerthings like these guys. so, that was fun to make. and really, thecost was just the cups and then the velcro. and now, you have a tackle box. and this iskind of like a big version so you could do it with a tiny box. it’s just the conceptis what i wanted to show. so anyways, so this is part 1 of my do ityourself organizing products video. in the second part, i’m going to show you nineor ten other things that i created out of stuff i just have around the house. but itjust goes to show that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on organizing products.you can just get creative, think outside the box and you can still get organized. so ihope you enjoyed this video.
and if this is your first time watching anyof my videos, you can check out my website, alejandra.tv or subscribe to my channel formore videos. thanks for watching and i’ll see you soon. bye!