Vintage Homemaking: Keeping up the living space.

I once had a friend call me the queen of pre-fab. I take that as a compliment. I don't have much real furniture because I find it bulky. No dressers or anything like that, I just have a lot of industrial shelving. I love it and use it for everything. Not vintage, I know, but its easy to transport and customize to a new space. I've had some of the shelving since 2001. My collection has grown since.

I've fashioned a lot of the shelving into a wardrobe where I store most of my clothes. I bought some denim a while ago to use as covers. Keeps the dust off the clothing. In the closet of my apartment I've made a vanity. And yes, that is a kick the Cheat doll on the top shelf.

Well, kind of a vanity. I don't really have space for a make up table, nor would I want one, but those two black shelves I store my jewelry in.

I also decided to reorganize my vintage sewing patterns.

I had recently grown into a fourth box and was just tired of rooting around to search for them. I poured them all out on the floor and organized the by decade.

I also had two friend to help me. One even kept my knee warm as I was sorting.

Once I had them all straightened up, I cut out some labels I made and taped them to the boxes. Now I know what is where and it's so nice! I don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

In the spirit of home organizing I've brought up more scans from my 1003 Household Hints book.

Enjoy!