Sneak Peek

After months of waiting, the Debbie Travis Closet Organizer finally went on sale this week at Crappy Tire. I dragged Owen out to pick it up and then spent the last 3 days putting it together. :P The main components actually did not take that long. But once I had the wide tower and narrow tower put together, I lost my steam for assembling the 3 drawers, so basically assembled on Monday and 2 yesterday.

I have to say I love this system. Tash has the Extend-it system in her closet, and while it was cheaper ($100 for everything and lacks as much storage as the DT has), it really does not maximize the space available in her closet. It also does not help that Tasha's and jellybean's closet are 90 degree angles on one end and the opposite side of the closet it's an angle/45 degree angle.

So this solves that. I put the narrow/wide tower at the 90 degree end then Owen (hopefully before she arrives) will install the 2 metal hanging rods I bought. It requires some /gasp drilling in the wall and wide tower, so it's going to take some nagging.

I also read reviews about the wood being flimsy, missing parts (screws/not enough finishing nails) and damaged pieces once out of the box. Luckily I had none of these issues and find the whole thing to be super sturdy and good quality wood.

With the 40% off, we paid $200 total for the Wide Tower, Narrow Tower, 3 drawers + 2 rubbermaid metal hanging Rods. I am a bit disappointed that 4 drawers would fit in the bottom half of the wide tower. I was pretty sure I saw set-ups of it with 4 drawers. So now I have an extra drawer..luckily I'll be doing the same set up in N's room so will just need to buy 1 pkg of drawers when we are ready to put this in Tasha's room.

And since I'm sharing the closet, I thought I'd share a couple other sneak peeks of the room. I've had the painting done for a while (like back in January), but now the crib is set up, receiving blankets are sewn, fitted crib sheets are sewn..so basically I'm sharing the crafty stuff. hah I still have to add curtains and wall decor.

Her Custom Rag Quilt (cotton) that started the obsession with doing coordinating flannel fitted crib sheets and receiving blankets. I had Heather at A La Mode Fabric make it for me, it's fabric from Sandi Henderson's Farmer's Market Collection;


Her receiving blankets - S.H. Farmer's Market - Vintage Breeze Dots, Medallion Bloom, Vintage Stripey, Vintage Cherry. I bought more of the same fabrics (minus the Vintage Cherry I could not find any) and did fitted Crib Sheets. The fourth which I did not do an RB out of but a fitted crib sheet is called Big Blooms. It's also not in the rag quilt. You can kind of see it in the closet organizer picture. :0)


Fitted Crib Sheet - It's amazing just how easy/simple these are to make!


One of 2 of her quilts. Again, made by A La Mode Fabric. I actually bought this last fall for Tasha, but she did not like it,(like it in the respect that it was not her ratty walmart blanket) so I held on to it and now jellybean gets it. :0) I love the patterns and colours.

Now if I could just find the right fabric for her curtains!