I was getting really sick of a nasty, snowy mess constantly being in our entryway from shoes that we had to take off every time we entered the house. So, after seeing a similar idea from Martha (I think) I made a little landing station for our shoes.

I took an old cookie sheet, spay painted it red, added some river rock and that was it. Now we can put our shoes on the rocks and they absorb the messiness. That way our little doormat doesn’t get completely nasty too.