How to Organize Your Closet and Find New Outfits

One of the results of starting to DIY so much is that my closet space is quickly vanishing and I now officially don't have enough hangers to hang up the stuff that needs hanging (hashtagfirstworldproblems). As a college student, there's not many more hangers that could fit in my teeny little closet anyways.

A great, long-term solution: go through closet (and dresser) and just donate all the old clothes I don't wear anymore.

The easy solution: something apparently everyone else already does, but I couldn't resist sharing for the three of us still out of the loop. I present, double-hanging!!

This works especially well with tank tops or dresses on hangers with these hook-things (yes, that's the technical term for them).

Added bonus: by mixing up what shirts you hang together, you can even stumble across new outfit inspirations, like I did with my favorite chambray shirt and a yellow oxford sweater that I never wear.

DIY: A Not-So-Chevron Circle Rug

I've been seeing chevron everywhere recently.

Yes, I'm including the recent tribal craze in this category - there are chevrons in there!

So when my good friend and beautiful co-worker Kate showed me this chevron braided rug DIY, I instantly ran to the fabric store. I mean, who needs three rugs in your room when you can have four??

This is what I was aiming for:

And this is what I ended up with:

A braided circle rug with a distinct lack of chevrons. I tried three different ways to get the chevron rug to work, but alas, it was not meant to be. Mostly because I didn't buy enough fabric. Boo. But a circle braided rug is nice too, I suppose. So here's a tutorial!

What you need:
Strips of cotton or whatever fabric scraps you have lying around
Needle
Thread
Scissors

What you do:
1) Braid strips of cotton.

2) Sew them in a spiral pattern. (Since I very loosely braided all of my strips, I had to handsew them all together, which took me waaaaaay longer than I'd care to admit. I'd recommend you braid the strips pretty tightly so you can machine sew them together with a zig-zag stitch)

3) Step on it!

On Social Media

*begin rant*
I've been increasingly interested in the areas of event planning and social media, and am  currently in the process for applying for a job I really, really, really want. It's a social media marketing associate position with Joule Assets, a company working towards energy reduction by interacting with and educating the general public. I happen to have a great deal of knowledge about the energy efficiency/reduction industry thanks to my internship last summer with the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, a non-profit out in Boston (the report I worked on all summer actually went live on their website yesterday woo hoo!).

Shout-out on page 3! Not quite Page Six, but close enough.

The only problem then, is the social media side.

Don't get me wrong, I actively use my personal Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Instagram, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Pinterest accounts. I have this blog, and confession, I even have an email account, Twitter account, and will be starting an Instagram account for this here blog! But since I don't have a whole ton of readers, I don't update the Twitter too frequently, and have never gotten a legitimate email. In other words, I have a comprehensive plan set up for the "marketing" of my blog, but I haven't really ever used it.

Yes, I do have barnwood as my background. Deal with it.

So how on earth do I convince a company like Joule Assets that little ol' 22-year-old, fashion-blogger-wannabe, DIY-er me could be the absolute best person not only to create a comprehensive social media plan for their entire company, but implement it into the company culture?? And how can I get them to look past the fact that I'm blogging about fashion and get them to realize that I actually have really good ideas about how to improve their social media presence as a professional energy efficiency organization, even though much of my social media presence/experience is fairly informal?

My residents/followers aren't as fanatic about Instagram as I am. And yes, those are hair curlers in my picture.

I have no idea. But I think it starts with me committing to my (or at least, my blog's) social media presence. I want this job badly enough, so I'm gonna try. And with that...
*end rant*

Just wanted to say that you should totally follow me on Twitter, shoot me an email, and/or follow me on Instagram (when I get that set up...)!!