Semi-nervous and terrified in Georgia :)

I am a stay at home mom from Georgia. I have two little girls, ages 3 and 7 months. To be honest, I'm very nervous about taking this on. LOL! My husband has done building projects before, but he always ends up very frustrated (and has left a few projects undone out of this frustration). He laughs at me when I tell him I want to build things myself. I'm sure he's thinking I would never be able to figure all of this out. To be honest, I'm worried about that myself. Anyway, our home is pretty small and I love for everything to be neat. So, I am always looking for affordable, practical pieces of furniture (or shelves, etc.). Our budget is extremely tight, so most often I'm left buying from Walmart. That wouldn't be a huge deal, except that most of the furniture items we've purchased from Walmart end up being total junk. Ikea is awesome, but the closest one is a 2 hour drive. Anyone with small kids knows how fun (not) a 4 hour round trip with 2 small kids can be!  Toy storage is a huge issue for me right now, as is shoe storage. You see, we take our shoes off at the door and place them on a little rack. It's worked great...until my baby started crawling! Now, I cannot for the life of me keep her out of the shoes. Of course, they go straight to her mouth! I have other projects I'd love to work on as well...here's a list. ;)

-Play kitchen (I want to do this first, as a Christmas gift for my 3 year old) - I'd love for it to have a washing machine, too. This will most likely go in our real kitchen, so I'd love it to have storage space where we could tuck play food/dishes away neatly.

-Art table similar to this one   - My 3 yo loves to color, but her little sister is constantly tearing up her coloring books or trying to grab her crayons. I'd love a place for her to sit and color, with some sort of storage for coloring books/crayons/etc. that her little sister couldn't get into. I actually saw an awesome table at a craft fair that just looked like a coffee table with a chalk board on top. The chalk board lifted to reveal storage underneath...perfect! However, my daughter has lots of allergies, so I'd rather go with a dry erase board.

-Dress Up Station like this - Dressing up is one of my daughter's favorite things to do, and my little bins that hold her dress up clothes are totally stuffed! She has an adorable mirror I bought at Goodwill and painted white (it looks like a mirror you'd see in a Princess's room) and I'd love to incorporate that into her dress up center somehow.

-By-the-door kitchen storage similar to this - I'd like it to be a little different, though. I need something that will hold recyling items until I can get them out the door to the big recycling bin, small towels/laundry that end up by the back door, and shoes that we take off when we come in the door. That's a tall order, I know. But, I have faith that there's a piece of furniture out there somewhere like that...

-I also just need ideas for toy storage in general. My daughter's room is very small and she has lots of toys. I have gone through and donated tons of her toys that she doesn't play with. Now, we're down to only toys she plays with regularly. But, there are still lots of them!

I'm sure there are more projects I'll want to take on, but that's about it for now! Nice to meet you all! Now, let's all say a prayer that I don't saw off any digits...