Easy, out-of-the-way storage for daily meds

So I have a few kids who take daily meds, and I've always kept them on the kitchen windowsill, right above the sink.  (Cue scary music.)  You know as well as I do that this is a Bad Idea, not only because the sunlight can't be good for the meds, but because the kids were getting a vocabulary lesson every time I knocked somebody's &%$*!# medicine into the &%$*!# sink.

But I didn't want to keep the meds in the medicine cabinet--how trite!--because then I wouldn't see them.  And  if I didn't see them, I would invariably forget to administer them.  Which is also a Bad Idea.  So finally---thanks, Pinterest!---after seeing everything from spices to puffy paint bottles to makeup magnetized and stuck to something of a metalic nature, it occurred to me:  I have magnets, and I have a great big metal fridge.

No more soggy drugs, people!  And I'm happy with the fact that they're high up enough to be inaccessible to all but the most motivated preschooler.

Now, I'm off to search for other bits and bobs to stick magnets to.  Because everybody needs a hobby, right?

Watch out, Punky Brewster! You, too, Rainbow Brite...

My 7 year old dresses herself.  Every day.  

Check out the Pinterest-inspired upccled headband. 

And the Pinterest-inspired menu board for the kitchen.  (Cabinet door from the free pile at ReStore + chalkboard paint + white paint pen.)  Me likey. (Pardon my craptastic nighttime photography.)

My Creative Space: Spray Paint Season

It's Spray Paint Season here in the Midwest---the cool, crisp days that cry out to be filled with glossy swaths of toxic color.  Loyal Midwesterner (okay, newly minted Midwesterner) that I am, I'm only too happy to do my bit.  Much has succumbed to the spell of the Rust-oleum in the past few weeks, from Esti's once-blah-now-blue dresser to the heinous, beat up metal shelves that have been knocking around the garage since our Rochester days.  A coat of Safety Red now adorns the shelves and a previously avocado-hued stepstool, making them the stars of my new, aqua and red kitchen.

Not bad for four bucks, hmm?