Make Your Own $3 Boot Trees

Ok I know this isn’t interior design. But I think this is so stinkin’ genius that I just had to share. And if you know me, you know if I can find a way to make something myself, that’s what I’m going to do!

I love my tall boots but hated the way they always flop over, yet I never felt like shelling out $20/pair for real boot trees for all my boots.  So here’s what I did! I bought:

-  2 large individual water bottles ($1 each)

- 1 bag of glass pebbles from Michael’s (about $1)

- After drinking the water and letting the bottles air out for a day or so, drop half the pebbles into one   

   bottle and the other half into the other bottle

-  Put down in your boots!

 

Not to toot my own horn, but...

I’m gonna! I’m on the Home & Garden design team for the Charlotte Observer newspaper and they featured me today on how to use Tangerine Tango (the 2012 color of the year) in interiors.

My personal favorite part is my practical way to use this bold color (mostly because I loooooove DIY projects):

Buy a few 8x10 and 5x7 frames that come with a white mat in them (you can get these at Michael’s, Target, etc.) and paint the mat tangerine. Stick to either a solid black frame or a funky gold frame. Pop in some of your favorite black and white photos and you have some new, current, and affordable accessories. Once you get tired of tangerine, just replace the mat. I've featured images of this idea below. 

Read the rest of my answers in the paper here. 
NOTE: This article seems to have been taken off their website. Here's the page to read the rest of my answers:

I've also done a room board with some fun and affordable items featuring tangerine.