Brilliant Artist & Thinker Extraordinaire

Well, I'm not sure about that. But thank you to Julie, Tricia and the other amazing moms at Mabel's Labels for linking to me from their blog!

(And a special tip of the hat to whomever was responsible for the nice meta data in the link to me!)

Welcome readers!

Welcome readers of Neatorama and bonjour aux lecteurs de Gonzague Dambricourt!

With a special thanks to Alex for getting the ball rolling.

DIY: coat stand

[Edited to add: Welcome Parent Hackers! Have a look around, I hope you enoy your stay! And thanks for the link, Asha.]

Tired of picking up your litte one's outer wear? Is your child too small to hang up their clothes in the closet? Are you unable to install coat pegs in your wall? Can't find a child-size coat-tree that isn't an eye-poking hazard, or with a non-tip base smaller than Newfoundland?

That's where I was was when I created this simple child-sized coat-stand. The parts cost me less than $30 Cdn (including tax) and it took me 10 minutes to assemble.

Now little hats and coats are off the floor and hung up with no effort (other than a little reminding) from me!




Instructions:

1. Get a clothes horse. I used the HOPLAND Valet Stand from IKEA.
   
   
   
   
2. Select some "hook" accessories. The top one in the photo below is a tie organizer designed to be screwed into a wall. The one in the bottom of the photo is a series of hooks designed to fit over a door.
   
   
   
   
3. Add the hooks to the clothes horse as desired.
   
   
   
   
4. I used the 'twist-tie' fasteners, annoyingly found fastening toys to their packaging, to add the tie organizer to the stand.
   
   
   
   
5. Voila! A child-sized coat-stand! No power tools required!
   (If you're concerned about tipping, weight the feet down.)
   
   
   

Welcome, welcome!

Welcome to everyone coming here from:

• Neatorama (thanks Alex)
• Irgendwas ist ja immer (can someone help me out with a translation?)
• Christopher Hayes
• Fazed (thanks to "ph ap st er" for acknowleding the source of his inspiration for the modified version of my doodle! -- though I think "ph ap st er" should also claim partial credit on the modified image )
• and to everyone who tripped over StumbledUpon me!

Hope y'all come back soon!

Thanks Parent Hacks!

A belated thank you to Asha at Parent Hacks for the recent links to Secret Messages and Finger Jell-o posts! And welcome to Parent Hacks readers!

Welcome Neatorama visitors

Welcome Neatorama visitors!

Here's the link to the Motivation and Happiness doodle along with the code to publish it in your blog.

I hope you enjoy your stay!