A new pantry is self care!

This is the tale of two pantries, one year apart. Thank you to Target for coming to my rescue -and for sponsoring this post!

Exactly one year ago, I organized my pantry and I literally called it self love.

And guess what- I still believe that! Self love is self care, and self care is a clean pantry to reset my year.

Pretty organized, but still needed something!

Anybody else feel a sense of peace when you pull something out of the pantry and nothing falls over? Then let’s be friends, because you understand my love language!

This time around, I took it to another level. It all started when I was setting a box of crackers down in my pantry and it fell over because of the awful wire shelving (IYKYK) Yes, I could have simply purchased some shelf liners and called it a day, but I wanted my pantry to be….cute!

My first intention was to cover the wire with a wood facade, and grab some pretty baskets to organize my things. But when I shared it with you in stories, I got dm’s with suggestions about what I should do – and they all required more work than just a few strips of wood overlayed onto my wire shelves. :/

I told one of you, “Ok you are really trying to make me do more that I had planned.” And of course, the reply was, “You can do it! I believe in you!”

How could I refuse!!!? She believed in me!
And so… my self care became wallpaper, a little elbow grease, some wood, and several functional but beautiful organizational items from Target’s new Brightroom Line.

I am in love!

So…. To the one who said she believed in me.. Thank you! Hard work actually feels like self care once you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor!

These Brightroom black metal baskets are genius. I got both the small and the large- but don’t let their beauty fool you. These baskets are more than meets the eye. Not exactly like Optimus prime, but they do transform from cubes to more shallow baskets by flipping the closure open and folding the basket the opposite way. I mean, how cool is that!?

I also got some of these Brightroom stackable potato boxes. Perfect for onions, potatoes, or for stashing reusable grocery bags and other supplies.

And these woven baskets from Brightroom are so pretty. I love the slight curve at the bottom, and the different sizes are perfect for organizing all the things! The narrow one is my favorite for smaller snacks.

And finally, since the shelves I built have a bit more room, a couple of Brightroom lazy Susan’s were in order. These are perfect for our hot sauce collection (I hid the full collection- you know I love my hot sauce!)

Don’t get it twisted. This pantry only looks this perfect for the gram! I added all rest of my food since then, and yes it’s more crowded, but gosh it’s beautiful!