Inexpensive Organization

Hello!

Today, I want to share some pics and hopefully theses ideas can work for you. 

I bought two magazine organizers to put my cutting boards, lids and cookie racks

With a little imagination I made a lot of space in my cabinet.

I purchased a inexpensive an over the door shoe organizer to store small items inside my kitchen pantry/closet. 

My .50cents curtain

A couple of days ago, my daughter told me that she couldn't sleep well because of the new light from our neighbor's house was shining into her bedroom. Of course, I wanted to fix the problem. I started looking for curtains, rods, brackets, and knobs, YIKES! How expensive they are. Seriously why do they have to be so expensive. 

Days of thinking in how to fix the problem, I started looking in Pinterest for ideas,  I found a lot of ideas. The best thing of finding those ideas is that I had everything in my house. I found an electrical conduit in the garage that hubby bought years ago, I think it was for some project, that he never did. I spray painted. The brackets, it was for another project, never used until now, whoops that was my fault. The fabric is from Joann's leftovers, you know the ones that they put in a shelf for less money. I bought it around 5 or 6 years ago, thinking of course, in other project but instead of doing the project it went straight to the "started-but-never-finished" bin.   

At this point you are asking "why .50 cents" :) .50 cents was what I paid for the knob, at Habitat for Humanity Restore. I love that place. Not only you can find crazy stuff but also because they are inexpensive. Oh I love that word. They were not meant for the curtain rod; those knobs were meant for cabinets but I glued them with hot glue to the "rod" 

With 0.50 cents and a little imagination, my daughter has a new curtain in her bedroom that would fix the light problem.  Hopefully she could sleep well all night long.

Office jacket

From Red Heart book , I crochet this jacket 

Crock-Pot Ribs

Do you like grilling? Do you like ribs? Well I like them too, but sometimes I am craving for ribs but I do not have the time to grill good ribs. So I found this easy way to cook ribs, without worries, in the crock-pot.

Ingredients:

1. Ribs
2. Apple cider vinegar
3. Paprika
4. Cumin
5. Chili powder
6. Brown sugar
7. Sazonador
8. Salt and pepper

Directions:

1. Rub the ribs with salt, pepper, and sazonador.
2. Mix apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, chili powder, paprika, and cumin in a separate bowl.
3. Pour the mix over the ribs.
4. Cook in the crock-pot for 6 hours on low.

Crochet work for all ages

Little girl 

Boot Cuff

Skirt

My friend Kathy modeling her crochet top

Nicky's dress

A Cup of Tea

If you are like me and drink tea everyday or almost everyday, then congratulations you are a tea lover. :) Nothing bad with that, right?

I love tea. I grew up drinking tea, back on the days when I was a little girl (only a couple years ago :) ) and living every now and them with my aunt, uncle (tia Maye and tio  Amado) and cousins. They didn't have money but they always had something to feed us. They always had lemongrass tea (hierbabuena).

So because it is a part of my culture, I always recommend tea for every sickness. I make ginger tea  for stomach aches, lemon balm tea for headaches or tooth aches,  cinnamon tea for cramps, for diarrhea lemongrass tea, and for colds lemon tea. I always going to recommend for you a cup of  tea.
Enjoy your cup of tea!

Lemongrass (hierbabuena)

Lemon Balm

Preparing medicine for a sore throat.  

Si tomas te todos los días, o casi todos los días , felicitaciones eres una amante del te. Nada malo con eso, verdad?

Creci tomando te,hace un par de anos cuando era tan solo una niña (no hace mucho tiempo de eso) recuerdo vivíamos  en casa de mi tía Maye, tío Amado, y primos, no teníamos dinero pero ellos siempre tenia hojas de alguna hierba para hacer te, la mas común y la que por lo regular tomábamos era te de hierbabuena, esto ya sea para desayuno o para cena.

Por esta razón y porque es parte de mi cultura siempre recomiendo tomar una taza de te, sea cuando estés enfermo/a o porque quieras disfrutar de algo saludable.  Recomiendo para los dolores de estomago te de gengibre, para los dolores de cabeza o muela te de bálsamo de limon, para los dolores menstruales, te de canela, para los resfriados te de limon.

Disfruta una taza de te.

SAVE MONEY GROWING YOUR OWN HERBS. It is easy!

I like to cook.  I like to add fresh herbs to all my dishes, stews or sauces.  The smell of a good dish is what opens my appetite and my husband's too.  You know Love comes from the kitchen :).  In my house, I grow my own herbs.  I have some in garden pots and others on the ground. They reproduce themselves and I do not have to water them all the time (I am bad at that), plus I do not have to go out and buy herbs all the time.

So the next time that you are in a nursery garden, think about how easy it is to save money growing your own herbs and making delicious dishes.

basil (albahaca)

green onions (cebollina) spanish basil (albahaca espanola) oregano,
rosemary(romero)

culantros

Did you notice the eggshells?  Well, the eggshells provide calcium, a nutrient that all plants needs to grow, plus the eggshells discourage pests, for that reason instead of throwing the eggshells in the trash I throw them in my garden.

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AHORRA DINERO PLANTANDO Y COSECHANDO TUS PROPIAS ESPECIAS O PLANTAS AROMATICAS.

A mi me gusta cocinar. Me gusta agregarles especias frescas a todos mis platos.  Por algo dicen el amor entra por la cocina.:))) En mi casa yo trato de sembrar mis plantas aromáticas o especias, algunas están en pote otras directamente en tierra,  me gusta porque no tengo que estar regándoles agua diariamente y se reproducen a travez de sus propias semillas.  La próxima vez que vayas a comprar especias piensa en lo fácil que es en sembrarlas en tu propia casa, te ahorras tiempo y dinero.

Notaron las cascaras de huevo?  Yo tiro las cascaras de huevo porque estas contienen calcio un ingrediente importante para que las plantas crezcan, aparte que sirven para controlar los insectos que siempre quieren arruinar tus plantas.