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The hashtag inspired me to share some tips today! So I picked 3 blogs-great-finds from Pinterest! I looooove pinning and I am kinda of addicted to it!

HERE THEY GO!

1.  Of course the first one has to be about organizing/de-cluttering! This post has the key to get an organized home in 31 days! Amazing. Check it out on Home Organizing 31 Day Detox Diet Challenge
 
2. home decor is a passion I have since I was little {and I think it goes great with my organizing talents}. So I picked these inspiring posts to share with you!– need some help decorationg the walls? Here: Dozens of ideas and a little more HERE.

– what about 31 DIY ideas to make your home look more expensive?

– some Ideas to decorate a bathroom can also be good, right?

​​​​​3. I love DIY projects! Do you?– ever though about making your own cellphone cases? Well… These are under $2 and is one of my favorites finds!

– Have you ever thought about using your Bottle caps as photo frame?

– And what about these gifts in a jar ideas?

To see the tips, you need to access the links. And I guarantee you won’t regret it! Now… Do you have any tips you would like to share for next Tuesday?

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I am Izabelle Azevedo – Professional Organizer at Neat-a-Holic Solutions

It took me a while to decide how to put our coffee station together with the low budget we had, but with a little bit of creativity and rides to dollar stores, anything is possible, right? ;)

It had to be something nice, useful and nice {yes, nice appears twice cause it’s important haha}.

We got this Bake Rack from Amazon for $80 {this is just an option of many you can find on the web} I chose this one becausebesides looking nice, it also has a good price and turned out it was very easy to assemble {bonus!}.
I got some place mats from Dollar Tree with coffee figures and two hot pads that I found by chance {total cost here was $5}. The mugs on the up shelf are from Five Below {$8 total}, and the wood tray is from The Container Store {$5,99}.
Now the wall decoration was tricky… At first I was looking just for pictures, then I wanted the name “Coffee Station” up. So I went to Michael’s and boom! Game over! Ideas started to pop on my mind and I wanted something different, yet that didn’t cost me much. I found these four Cork tiles on sale for $12, and had the idea of using those cute papers they have for scrapbooks, to make the letters {'cause I wanted the name there and no one would take this right from me} and some red ones to use behind some things I wanted to put there to make it cute {red is the main color for my kitchen, where the coffee station is}. For the rack, I used place mats from Dollar Tree, with coffee prints.
I think the total cost of this coffee station was about $120 {with the rack and counting the sale taxes}.
Our kitchen is small, and I didn’t want the counter to be crowded. Plus, the rack helps making good use of the vertical space and it’s also part of the decoration and coffee stations are trending!
There are many ways and ideas on the Internet, you just need to set up your budget. It could be cheap shelves from Home Depot, $1 picture frames from Dollar Tree to decorate, just use your imagination ;)

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I am Izabelle Azevedo – Professional Organizer at Neat-a-Holic Solutions

I just felt like sharing this with you.

It is sad, but for now, I don’t have a space to call “mine” that can actually be my home office, so I ended up using our kitchen table {which is very nice and I love it}, but it is still the kitchen. So how can I manage to not leave my material all over the place {especially if this place is the kitchen}? I started using an old box I have, but I couldn’t really fit everything – then on a visit to one of my favorite dollar stores {this one was Five Below}, I found this cute one with the colors that actually match my logo for only $4 {plus it has a chalk board!}. My happiness was complete when I noticed all my things could actually go inside that medium sized box, turning it into my cute mobile office.

Anyway, my point is that with organization, even extra small spaces can be neat and functional. You just need to put your love into it and be patient to find a way to do so. I say that organizing is like solving puzzles – you gotta think and put the pieces in the right place.

I know I don’t have too much stuff somebody probably noticed and that you can’t really see everything, but inside the box I have my planner, notepads, a binder, my glasses, a desktop pen holder, papers, and a few small things – I just need to keep it organized and I can carry my office anywhere inside or outside the house.

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I am Izabelle Azevedo  – Professional Organizer at Neat-a-Holic Solutions.

​What is it? What do Professional Organizers do? I found myself thinking about these topics and how I see Professional Organizers, how I see myself and what I do and stand for.

There’s a difference between a Professional Organizer and someone who comes to your house to clean and make it more organized and neat, like a housekeeper. Housekeepers or cleaners come to your house to clean up only or also to organize what is out of space, putting things where they belong. Also housekeepers come every week or every other week or so. Professional Organizers are, as the name says, Professionals. We come to your house/space to change it not only temporarily (not to clean the kitchen, bathrooms, etc), and our job can be a little more challenging, because we are there to fix the system of organization you currently have, with the mission of making your life easier, more productive and stress free as I always say.

Our job is to help you – yes! This is what I see and why I decided to do this. I believe that a neat place brings you calm, relaxes your brain which leads to thinking better; also, if your system is organized you will find what you’re looking for quick which saves you time. And who doesn’t like to see the house/office neat? Yes, we make it looks better, though this isn’t the main reason we do this job, but all these together are the math we make to see our clients happy and satisfied – mission accomplished.

• What and how you do it?

Well, here it is: we come to see you and the space you need some work on (kitchen, closets, etc – some organizers do digital organizing too!), we listen to your needs, frustrations, expectations first of all, then we study a way to get what you want and need, make a project and come back to get it done. It all takes some time, but since we are professionals, it takes us less than it would be for a random person to do it.

• How people end up as Professional Organizers?

I’ve read some stories of Professional Organizers and each of us have a different one, but the main reason is that we all are organizers by nature and we came with the talent “to solve the puzzles” the organizing job requires. In my case, I come from another country and my plan was to finish school (I was studying physical therapy in my country and I had 2,5 years of 5 done), but things here work a little different… I couldn’t just transfer my credits, the school is expensive, it would take me more years then I expected, all these things so I dropped it. I dropped my dream of becoming a physical therapist and decided that it doesn’t make any sense to go to school and pay (a bunch of money) for something that isn’t what I want and probably wouldn’t make me happy – and being happy with what I do and where I am is very important to me – life is short. So I started looking for options and there it was. So I searched more about it and made a self reflection – so I remembered how I used to rearrange the shelves while visiting a grocery store when I was about 8 years old, how I used to try typing up friends’ places, how I used to spend summer at the beach and organize my closet first thing when getting there (and almost every day). Oh! Last but not less important, how I moved from country to country 3 times, how I became a “home less” (long story) for 2 months and how I rented a couch and had just one closet to put all my stuff for 4 months (I’m so glad I have a house to live now). And the reasons just grow… After reading some books and reading some blogs, I also noticed that this profession can help people – what? But this was the motivation to become a physical therapist, wasn’t it? Eureka! I found something that I love doing and I still can affect people’s lives in a good way and it also brings me an income! How awesome is that?

The post got a little longer than I thought it would be, But I hope I have answered some doubts about this profession. If you have any questions, let me know!

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