Knoxville Restaurant Week - March 2 - 7

Knoxville Restaurant Week is March 2 - 7 this year. This wonderful event offers $25 and $35 three-course fixed menus at over 30 participating restaurants. Five dollars of every meal purchased during Knoxville Restaurant Week will be donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.

Second Harvest Food Bank is East Tennessee's largest hunger-relief charity, operating programs in 18 counties. Second Harvest is committed to eliminating hunger in our 18-county service area by providing food, services and education to address the nutritional needs of all people at risk of hunger. Knoxville Restaurant Week gives the community a unique opportunity to have your food and share it, too.

Fabulously Free Finds - Printables to Organize Your Home

In the 14 Ways to Organize a Rental Home post, I provided you with links to a few of my favorite FREE printables for organizing your life and your home. Here they are with pictures for your viewing pleasure and easy reference!

Family Binder Printables on World Label Blog

Design Trends 2014

Good news for Renters who can not paint their walls! One of the Design Trends for 2014 is decorating with a neutral base and pops of color as accents. So what does this mean for you? WHITE WALLS ARE IN! To celebrate, I gathered a nice collection of beautifully decorated rooms featuring, you guessed it, WHITE (or light colored) WALLS!

Small Shop Studio

Fabulously Free Finds - Easter Labels

I found these beauties yesterday while I was surfing WorldLabel's Blog. I love the colors in these labels! You can check them out and download them here. What will you use them for? Tell us in the comments below!

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14 Tips for Organizing a Rental Home

Break It Down

When I was first decided to organize my home, I was completely overwhelmed by the number of “projects” that I would need to complete in order to be organized. I was looking at the big picture of my home instead of looking at the smaller spaces. To help yourself feel less overwhelmed by the task of organizing your home, try looking at your home in smaller chunks. Try tackling just the junk drawer or a single cabinet in the kitchen. Accomplishing multiple organizing projects (the junk drawer AND the cabinet) as opposed to just one project (the whole house) you will feel much more accomplished and less overwhelmed.

Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day

I had this idea in my head that organizing my entire home was going to happen all in one day and that my organizing system would be perfect in every way. I soon realized that this was not always going to be the case. Realize that you don’t have to organize every piece of your home all at once and that your organizing system may require a few tweaks along the way.

Fabulously Free Finds - Printables from World Label

I have found my new source for fantastic FREE printables! WorldLabel has an awesome blog with so many adorable and useful printables! Check out some of my favorites below:

I am absolutely in love with this colorful and editable Organizing Planner and these Home Inventory Worksheets designed by Erin Rippy of InkTreePress.com.

Fabulously Free Finds

I came across an online word and shape image generator today that I love! Tagxedo allows you to choose the color, shape and words you would like to use as well as allows you to save and share your creations. Below is a shooting star I created for my cousin's son's bedroom.

Warning: You will want to spend ALL day creating all kinds of nifty images! Share some of your creations with us! We would love to see them!

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Home Organization Challenge - Pantry Organization

So I am one of those people who look at what everyone else has done to organize their home and then I pick and choose little details of their systems for my own. My niece and great nephew just moved in with me and our little pantry is now BUSTING at the seams! Our pantry is less than 2 feet wide, but it is deep which creates a problem for me. I get so frustrated having to move everything out of the way to reach the boxes/cans in the back. We can’t see what canned goods we do have so we end up with multiples of everything we already have. Somehow we have accumulated 3 GIANT jars of peanut butter. Don’t get me wrong, I love peanut butter just as much as I do chocolate, but I don’t think we can go through this much peanut buttery goodness any time soon! So I have culled through numerous Pinterest pins and blog posts and have come up with my most favorite solutions:

(For those of you who don’t know, I am a photographer and “cull” is a word that photogs use to describe the process of going through photos and picking out the best ones to edit and/or keep.)

The House of Smiths

I love the stenciled backdrop in the pantry above as well as how uncluttered this pantry looks!

Home Organization Challenge - Command Center

If you are like me, you love the idea of a family command center, but the visual clutter of most command centers can be just as overwhelming as not being organized in the first place. For me, I need a command center that is simplistic yet contains everything I need to access on a daily basis as well as fit with the décor of my rental home. Below is a collection of some inspiring minimalistic command centers:

Simple As That Blog

I love the use of a bookshelf to house the home management paperwork and most frequently used items. My other favorite is the white slotted divider that offers a place for each family member’s incoming papers. Everything you could need is all in the one spot, but it isn’t so visually heavy that you feel bogged down by it.