Organization

I spent the weekend being sick (yuck!) and organizing my scrapbook items/pages in preparation for LOAD. I started on Saturday to get my photos in order, pick out the paper and embellishments, etc. This is when I got a great idea and decided that I wanted to organize my scrapbook room. I didn't officially start organizing until Sunday though. My friend Mimi (That Scrappy Girl), just organized her room and so I thought "What a great idea!" Also, I need to get organized for several reasons One, you can ask most of my friends and they will tell you that I am a pretty organized person, flaky but organized! It seems to me that over the past year my scrapbook room has gotten out of control which I just cannot stand. Things are just every where and I have too much junk. Two, we are preparing to put our house on the market and I have got to get the room cleaned up before that or my husband might loose it one me! Three, my scrapbook room is also my craft room and I have way too many things that are "almost" finished and really have no intention of ever finishing. LIke the blanket I wanted to crochet for my son, or the beads I wanted to start my own jewerly business with. Even though I love to learn new things I am going to stick to scrapbooking for now, which means I need to declutter some of my craft supplies. After this considreation (really didn't take me that long to decide!) I started in on it.

Here are some before photos of my scrapbook room:










So I started this on Saturday (the planning), and by Sunday late afternoon I had officially made a mess. These are some images from day 1 of organizing my scrapbook room.



I at least got the corner cleaned out, and 3 tubs of things packed up and ready to be taken to the storage unit!



And as you can see the table itself doesn't look much different. Looks like I have my work cut out for me!


I also had my favorite little man helping me out.He had several opinions for me during this process! I treated him with some green M&M's.



Well...I may not be any closer to getting my things ready for LOAD, but I have managed to create a mess in my scrapbook room.

28 day challenge - CHALLENGING!

After some consideration I have decided to take the 28 day LOAD challenge. My friend Mimi (That Scrappy Girl) sent me this link to the LOAD Challenge http://knitandpurlgrrl.blogs.com/five_things/2009/12/its-that-time-of-year.html a week or so ago. We have been back and forth and back and forth on if we should do it or not. So this morning we both decided that we were going to do it. (Come on Vicki and Trish, you should join the fun too!)Mimi and I just got signed up so we are good to go.

This weekend I am going to spend some time getting organized for the challenge. It seems the process that personally takes me the longest is getting the photos and supplies ready to scrap. Once I get that part done the actual scrapbooking doesn't seem to take that long - well...on a good day that is!

If you decided to join this challenge too please let me know. Would love to work together on this. I know it is going to be hard but in the end I think I will be really happy that I did it. If anything it will help me get closer to obtaining some of my New Years Resolutions in which I still need to finish writing.

IT IS GAME TIME! or in our case IT IS SCRAP TIME!

Ferberizing...or something like that

Last night was our first night of Ferberizing. Owen did pretty well for the most part. I on the other hand am cranky and have a sore neck. I knew that this was going to be harder on me than him! :)

Posh Designs Scrapbook Store

I just found this amazing blog that I just found called Posh Designs Scrapbook Store. They are giving away some awesome blog candy that you will want to for sure check out. Visit the site here.

I just got done packing up for my crop tomorrow I am heading to. That Scrappy Girl is having another 12 crop at the Craft Cottage in Van Meter. I am going to spend most of the day there, cropping with my girls. I cannot wait. I hope to get a lot done. Will hopefully share with you some of the cool projects that I create.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Friday Night

It has been one crazy week here. I have been sick, the weather has been not so nice here in Iowa, and my computer for work has been acting up so...needless to say I am happy it is Friday.

As soon as I got home I jumped into finishing the laundry and my husband had started dishes!! He is now running some errands and I am going to do a little scrapbooking. I am working on finishing up my 2006 scrapbooks. One of my New Years Resolutions is to finish a few of the books that I have started. It seems like I always want to jump onto the newest, latest happening. Going to try and do something differnt this year. I would like to be able to show my family a completed ablum!

Looking forward to a restful and productive weekend.

Sicko

I have a cold and I am not happy about it. Owen was sick last week and Charlie and I started to feel ill last week, came down with a cough and sore throat over the weekend and it has just gotten worse and worse as time as gone on. I was at work on Monday and Tuesday, but then Tuesday afternoon I started getting this awful pain in my left ear...I had never felt pain like this before. I wanted to cry it hurt so bad. I could consentrate any longer at work so I thought to myself that it is time to go to the walk-in clinic. So I headed over to the doctor's office, sat there for about 45 minutes and then saw the doctor which too about 3 minutes for him to tell me I had a sinus infection and an ear infection - hence the terrible ear pain. Now in all of my 33 years I cannot recall ever having an ear infection so this was a shock to me. I now understood what my little 2 year old was going through. OUCH! No wonder he cried like he did I wanted to cry too. I got some antibiotics and stayed home today to rest. I rested the best I could, between the coughing, the phone calls from my husband and running Owen to and from day care it wasn't the most peaceful day but I am feeling a bit better. I am off to put Owen to bed and then take the cough syrup that the doctor prescribed and hopefully it will knock me out for the night.

PS - I am sure that most of you know this already but, "There is no one sicker than a man!" I don't think I need to say more.