Jessica's Corner

Well, it has been one week since I posted on my plans of starting to clean my attic and I have not done that yet. I did put away my Christmas decor and cleaned the house, which reminded me even more how much I need to get organizing in this house! While I have featured a link to my Cleaning board on Pinterest in other posts, I have never made it a feature post. In hopes to motivate you all and myself, I have been updating that board recently and I wanted to share some great finds with you. I am thinking that you will get an update on some of this tricks for Trial Tuesday! The pictures below are not links but the link for my board with all of the original links is below. dawn, vinegar, and baking soda paper towel soaked in vinegar, wrapped around the pupe To see any of the original links to this post, please visit my Cleaning Ideas  board on Pinterest. Follow the board if you like what you see! I also wanted to mention that this is...

If you live in a place where it snows regularly, nothing is worse than when you bust your butt shoveling and later realize that you are out of salt for the ground! And if you use special salts, like those safe for dogs' paws, you could be out of luck in getting your salt until the next day if stores are closed. I wanted to find a method online that used items that I would likely have. So, I went to Pinterest and I found this pin: I checked out the website to make sure that it was legitimate and it actually had some great tips for frugal living. If you are interested, visit the  Debt Free Spending  Website after you finish reading this post. ;) Homemade Ice Melt Ingredients 1-Teaspoon Dawn dish soap 1-Tablespoon Rubbing Alcohol 1/2-Gallon (2-Quarts) Warm Water Directions  Mix all ingredients in a bucket or spray bottle.  Use on ice. Note: This formula is said to be safe for pets and concrete. Pre-Trial Questions to Myself Does t...

When doing my eye make-up I tend to wing my eyeliner just about every time. Since I do this look so often, I almost always use a liquid liner to line the top of my eye. While there are tons of great high-end liquid liners that would get the job done guaranteed or your money back, who can afford to buy them monthly? I sure can't so I am always on the hunt for the best drug store liquid eyeliners. For the last six months, I have been trying out various products, so here are my opinions on those I purchased from worst to best. WORST NYC Liquid Eyeliner Walmart Price: $2.74 USD My Rating: 2/10 This eyeliner is cheap so I wasn't sure if it was going to work, but it did at first. The brush is long so you will need to be experienced in liquid liner to use this product. While the formula is thick, this liner is not waterproof, so you may have smudging or missing liner as the day goes on, And not to mention, do not get this in your eye when wet because it burns! Th...

Image from wedesign.la So, it has been a while since I did a YouTube Spotlight so I thought, why not for Thrifty Thursday? There are tons of DIY videos on YouTube, but I feel lucky to have found a few that consistently make great videos! Since this page will load slowly because the videos are linked, I am not going to write too much in this post. DoItOnaDime SparklyBlonde1 Pinksofoxy DazzleDIY If you liked any of these videos, subscribe to the channels! There are tons of great ideas on all four. Explore YouTube while you are there! **I will be back to my own DIYs soon! Who are your favorite YouTube DIYers? Let me know in the comments below! Thanks for reading.**

Well, it's 2015 and the year is already moving along. Was getting more organized one of your New Year's resolutions? If it was, have you started organizing or are you putting it off until Spring? If you are procrastinating, don't wait JUST START TODAY! Becoming an organized person is not something that happens over night; organization is a process. For those of you who have no idea where to start or if you are naturally disorganized, I am here to help! Make To-Do Lists . Use your phone, tablet, or a pen and paper to make lists for everything. Keep post-its and pens in various places in your home so that you can jot down things as you go. Your list can be as detailed as what you are going to do each hour, to as general as things that you need to accomplish some time in that week or even month. And I know, sometimes you forget to take a list when you need it but you are more likely to remember something after writing it down. Set a  Deadline . While you can take y...

For those of you who already don't know, I decided not to continue with Non-Fat Tuesday, so here is my very first post to Trial Tuesday! To recap, Trial Tuesday is me trying out different methods for questions that I have for the internet. Do you know what is the worst? When you plan to make guacamole and the avocados are not ripe enough when you need them to be. Let me just start by saying that I bought my avocados a week in advance and they still looked like the stock image above after 5 days. So, I went to the internet. I found two methods that were "guaranteed" to work so I chose one and used the other as a backup. Method One Brown Paper Bag Method Like bananas, avocados release gases that naturally ripen the fruit on its own. When you trap the gases, it is said to ripen the fruit faster. The method is simple, just put the avocado in the bag. After two days, my avocado looked like this: I had a brown spot! But it was still solid so I went to m...

I am so excited for the new year every year because it just feels like the right time to organize! I recently came across the idea of doing a an annual makeup inventory and I wanted to share it with you. Why would you take inventory of your makeup? Because besides items that you use everyday like foundation, you could have expired makeup wasting space in your makeup storage system. This is also a great way to decide which products that you would like to repurchase and which ones (brands, colors, etc) that just don't work for you. After taking inventory and sorting out your makeup, you can always swap products that you don't care for with close friends (keep it sanitary). While a bright lipstick may not look good on you, it may be the perfect shade for your bestie! My Inventory Item Quantity Lipstick 10 Lip Gloss 12 Lip Stain/ Tint 8 Mascara 6 Fake Eyelashes 2 pairs Concealer 3 ...