My favorite

Right now this is my favorite. I just finished it yesterday for my son. It's for his books until Daddy makes a shelf for them.

First I wanted to paint "books" on it. But I am still hoping that one day the shelf is going to be ready and then we are going to use the box for something else so I just put boyish patterns everywhere.

Baby wipes and diaper boxes

I am always looking for storage solutions to get my kids, my husband's and my stuff to get organized. But I never came across the perfect solution because I had really nothing in mind. And it is hard to look for something when I don't even know what I am looking for. That's why I started to use diaper and baby wipes boxes to store our stuff.

Then one day my friend asked me why I don't wrap them into some kind of wrapping paper with patterns on it. I was thinking about it and I liked the idea but it was just not me who just simply wraps boxes in wrapping paper.

First I started to use plain scrapbooking papers and glued them on the boxes and then I stenciled flowers, animals, cars for my son and other patterns on them. But unless they are on sale scrapbooking papers are not the cheapest solution because I needed at least four of them to cover a wipes box and six for a diaper box.

I made like 8 boxes for the kids with scrapbooking paper when I came across my husbands painter covering papers in our garage. He stocked up on them because they were on sale but then he stopped using them. So they were just sitting in the garage. I measured the boxes, cut out the right pieces for the boxes, painted them and stenciled them.

Since then I made tons of them and they are perfect for my craft stuff, paints, flosses, for my husband's paperworks and stuff. And they are more then perfect to toss the kids toys in them.

But I found them not to durable. What I mean is that they got dirty easy. Espacilly what the kids used. So I got some decoupage finish and put two coats of it on the boxes. Now they are shinier, I can clean them easy.

Now that my kids are almost out of diapers, I mean, my daughter is almost potty trained too. She is potty trained during the day, we just have some problems at night. So now I am not going to have any more boxes, I just have to find another "supplier" for myself.

Vegetable diet - Summary

I finished the third week of the "green" diet yesterday. I am happy I did it and I let myself talked into it for three weeks in a row. I lost ten pounds during three weeks. I am much more energetic than I was before. But three weeks was enough.

The first week was not easy but it was not so hard than I thought before. When I first read the "rules" I was a little bit afraid because I was not a "vegetable person" before. But that changed too during the diet. I became familiar with more vegetables, how to prepare them in several ways.

The second week was actually fun. I really enjoyed it. That's why I started the the third week.

But the last week was hard. I always waited for the next day to have something else than vegetables. But I ate yogurt when it was allowed and it was not enough. I wanted to get through the day as soon as possible to have fruit on the next day. But I made it. Only on Sunday I had two slices of cheese with my vegetables.

Now I have to be careful what I eat. I have the rules, what and when I can eat. And I need them because I eat sometimes food that I don't even need, when I am not even hungry. I am still going to eat lot of vegetables but I am going to have cheese, fish, egg and meat too. And finally I could have eaten my oatmeal for breakfast today. Before my diet I had oatmeal every night, sometimes two. And this morning I could have only the half of it.

We are planning to do a week of "green" diet again before Christmas and then after Christmas an other week. We will see.