Getting Organized.

If you will recall the thing that triggered my "Give-Away" game was that I was organizing and RE-organizing my scrap supplies and finding lots I don't want any longer.

I thought I would share some of my organization with you, because if your anything like me you always want to know....how do other's organize their supplies!!!????? Don't worry, plenty more give-aways are coming....

My scrap area is part of my laundry room (approximately 5 1/2ft wide and 8ft long) plus I have a large cabinet in my garage that houses many supplies. I had to take into consideration the size of my space when I was organizing my supplies. Plus, I attend crops so I wanted my supplies to be easily transported, but still easily accessible while scrapping at home.

I'll start with MAGAZINES..............I have subscriptions to CK, Scrapbooks Ect., Memory Makers and Simple Scrapbooks, not to mention the numerous others I purchase from time to time. I had a hard time throwing them out and my stacks and piles were getting OUT OF CONTROL!!!! Here is a break down of what I do with them now.....

1. After I have read through each mag that arrives I go through again and tear out the pages I like. I tear out LO's, sketches, techniques, color combo's that catch my eye and page topic ideas. When I'm done I THROW IT OUT!!!

2. In a 2" binder I have sheet protectors with the following headings:

*number of photos on the page (1-15+photos; each has it's own sheet protectors)

*Page Ideas

*Techniques

*Color Combos

*Sketches

I sort the pages into their appropriate sheet protector.

3. In the evenings I pull out the binder and start cutting the pages up. I'll cut out around the lo's, simply getting rid of all the excess. After I cut it out it goes back in the binder in it's appropriate sheet protector.

4. Once I have all the items I want cut out, I start glueing them into my "Idea Book". This book is a digital post-bound photo album that I removed the post from and reessembled it with O-rings. It has the exact same catagories as the binder.

I'll share more of my organization over the next few weeks......

Winner of Game #4 is...............

Kelli Marie!! Congratulations!!!!

You should have already received an email from me!!!

Give-Away #4

Nancy and Supergirl...........your Basic Grey lunch box kits are on their way!!!!!





OK, up for give-away #4 is a BRAND NEW, UNOPENED Sarabinder mini album kit.

This kit includes:

*one tall sarabinder

*one pack tall lined papers
*one pack tall dividers
*one pack manila pockets
*seven large square slide mounts

all correct answers will be entered in a pool to win. Remember to leave your email IN YOUR FIRST RESPONSE!!!! Sorry, if you forget the first time you will NOT BE entered in the pool!!!

And the lyrics are:

Everybody wants to live,

Like they wanna live and everybody wants to love

Like they wanna love And everybody wants to be

Closer to free

Everybody wants respect, just a little bit And everybody needs a chance, once in a while

Everybody wants to be

Closer to Free

Everybody one

Everybody two everybody free

Everybody needs to touch

You know, now and then

And everybody needs a good, good friend

Everybody wants to be

Closer to

Free I said everybody one

Everybody two

Everybody Free

Everybody wants to live Like they wanna live and everybody wants to love Like they wanna love and everybody wants to be closer to free

Yeah, closer to free

Closer to free.

NAME THAT TV SHOW!!!!!!!!

Don't despair.............

Another game will be up SOON!! and my winners of the Basic Grey Lunch kits will receive their prizes ASAP!

In a household of 6, I'm currently the ONLY one healthy!!!! So, needless to say my time has been VERY limited!

I hope to get to the post office and post another game in the next day or two!! Please bare with me!!!!

And the TWO winners of "Give-Away" #3 are........

Nancy
Supergirl85306

Congratulations ladies!!!! You both should have recieved an email from me. Please send me your shipping addresses ASAP!!!!!

Give-Away #3

Todays "Give-Away" will be given to TWO WINNERS!!!! Again, all correct answers will be put in a pool and two names will be drawn from that. Remember to include your email address or you will get passed over even if you have the correct answer!!!!






Today I'm giving away TWO UNOPENED Basic Grey Lunch Box Tins!









And the lyrics are:

Deep inside the forest is a door into

another land,

Here is our life and home, We are staying, here forever in the

beauty of this place all alone,

We keep on hoping...

Maybe, there's a world where we won't have to run, and

Maybe, there's a time we'll call our own,

Living free in harmony and majesty,

Take me home,

Take me home.

NAME THAT TV SHOW!!!!!!!

And the Winner of "Give-Away" #2 is.............

Ami!

Congrates! You should have already received an email from me!

GIVE-AWAY NUMBER TWO!!!

Up for grabs today is............
"The Journaler's Handbook" by Tracy White
This is UNOPENED and still in original packaging!




For this give-away I will put all those with the correct answer in a pool and draw one winner from that! Please remember to put your email address with your answer or you will get passed over even if you have the correct answer!!!!!! One guess per email address!

Todays lyrics are

Show me that smile again. (Show me that smile)

Don’t waste another minute on your cryin’.

We're nowhere near the end (nowhere near)

The best is ready to begin.

Oooohhh. As long as we got each other

We got the world spinnin right in our hands.

Baby you and me,

we gotta be

The luckiest dreamers who never quit dreamin’.

As long as we keep on givin’

we can take anything that comes our way

Baby, rain or shine, all the time

We got each other Sharin’ the laughter and love.

NAME THAT TV SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the winner of the first "Give-Away" is........

Pam!!!!

I do have 4 Runner-Up surprise gift's that will be going to:
Sawyersmom
Jennifer
Erin Cutter
PinkisMyFavColor @ 2peas

You all should have received an email from me by now! You must respond to me by 11/28 with your shipping address or you forfiet your prize!!

Congrats Ladies!!!!

Let's start giving stuff away!!!!

Here's how my "Give-Away" is going to work............every few days I will post the lyrics to a TV sitcom theme song. The first person (or the first few people, depending on how many things I'm giving away that day) to answer the NAME OF THE TV SHOW correctly WIN. The lyrics will be from ANY sitcom between 1950 to current. I won't say what year! You MUST include your email address in your comment in order to win, if not your answer will get passed over. I will contact the winners by email to get their shipping address.

Here are just a few of the items up for grabs...................Quickuts blue squeeze, Quickuts mini alpha, Quickutz storage binder, Basic Grey lunch box tin, Making Memories album, paper kits, idea books, Becky Higgins Creative Campanion...............and the list goes on and on........ Some items are gently used and others are BRAND NEW still in original packaging!

So here is the first item up for grabs..............Pine Cone Press Book Club Kits, all UNOPENED....

2 Tra-Digi Kits with idea book (idea book cover is torn, but contents are intact)

2 "Self-Centered" kits

The winner will receive ALL 4 kits and 1 idea book!

Here are the lyrics to the first TV show...........

Maybe the world is blind,

Or just a little unkind.

Don't know.

Seems you can't be sure

Of anything anymore.

Although,

You maybe lonely and then,

One day you're smiling again.

Every time I turn around,

I see the girl that turns my world around.

Standing there...

Everytime I turn around,

Her spirit's lifting me right off the ground.

What's gonna be ?

Guess we'll just wait and see.

NAME THAT TV SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm feeling a little generous.........

Raise your hand (or post a comment!) if you're in the mood for a little give-away!!!

FYI.....I've been cleaning, organizing and RE-organizing my scrap supplies and I have LOTS to get rid of......................

Happy Halloween......a couple days past due! LOL!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!!

We had great fun trick-or-Treating with the cousins (Elizabeth, Mason, Teddy & Carson) and got soooooo much candy we have sent a few bags to Uncle Ted's shop; his employees will be happy!!

This year we had Jango Fett, a cheerleader, a Hello Kitty fairy and a 50's girl, although come trick-or-treat time Tyler decided to be an army guy like his cousins Teddy and Mason.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!!

At 11:09am Emily officially turned 3yrs old!! Where have the last 3 years gone!!!?? We celebrated on Thursday night because Steve wouldn't be here today to celebrate. Olivia, Amelia and I baked her a cake and after she blew out her candles and after I had taken her pic with her cake she looked up at Steve and said, while holding tightly to the cake pan, "Can I have a spoon?" Too cute!!!!

Pick of the Patch

Amelia and Emily had their preschool field trip to Adobe Pumpkin Farm last week. They enjoyed it alot although Emily had a rough time out in the "patch" due to her VERY sensitive nose. She kept complaining about the smell and saying "The dirt will make me throw up!!" She was much happier once we were out of the field.

Catching up.....

We are now nearly 2 months into school and Livie LOVES it!!! She has made several friends and we no longer have issues getting her to go!! She especially loves being the "Star Student" because "Glowy Coconut" the moose gets to come home with her.

Hunting season began in mid August and this saturday, Oct 20th is opening day for duck season. Why am I telling you this............it means I get to scrap VERY LITTLE!!!!! I do have to say Steve is very good about balancing his hunting with me scrapping, but with him gone so frequently during the week, getting to crops is hard if not completely impossible. Atleast he already knows he won't be hunting the first weekend of December!!!!!! He will be taking Tyler as often as he can this season. The girls have no interested what-so-ever in going. Here are some pics of Tyler's first dove hunting trip with Steve and Grandpa in September. He had a GREAT time and couldn't stop talking about it.

Second day of school..............What a "lovely" day.

Bedtime last night should have been an indication of how things were going to go today! Olivia REFUSED to get her stuff ready for school saying "I am NOT (this word said screaming) going back to school!" Lovely I thought. Things are going to go just "great!"

I get up at 6:45, shower and dress. 7:00am I start getting the kids up, She refuses to get out of bed.......I have to carry her to the dinning table to eat....which she refuses to do. Lovely I though.

8:00am we start walking to school. (a 7-8minute walk at most). We get have way there and she refuses to walk. Steve has to carry her. Lovely I thought.

8:10 we arrive at school. She refuses to hang her backpack up on the hook out side her class. I hang it....Lovely I thought.

8:15 the bell rings and she not only refuses to line-up, but starts SCREAMING....Lovely I thought.

8:17 she WILL NOT let go of me.......Her teacher and I are physically having to PEEL her off me. Lovely I thought.

8:18 I say goodbye, turn my back and leave the playground. Oh, but not before no less than 6 mothers say "I'm so sorry." Lovely I thought.

8:19 Emily starts screaming she wants Livie. Lovely I thought.

11:35 Back to school to pick-up. Kids come out and Tyler says "Mommy the teacher wants to talk to you." Lovely I thought.

11:40 "An hour and a half!" the teacher says to me as I approach. Lovely I thought.

Well, back to school on Monday....................Lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!

First day of KINDERGARTEN!!

YIKES!!! I can't believe I have two kindergartners!!!! Today was their first day, and aside from a few tears from ME, they LOVED it!!!! They can't wait to go back! They each made a new friend which I am so thankful for. I was really worried about them starting at a new school and not knowing anyone. What's really neat for them is that they are in the exact same classroom both Steve and I had when we were in kindergarten. It's weird going back into the classroom as an adult.....it seemed SOOO much bigger when I was 5!!!

Last Day of Preschool!

Today was Tyler & Olivia's last day of preschool! They start kindergarten on the 23rd.!! I can't believe it!! My babies are growing up so fast!!

Here are pics of them with their two favorite teachers "little Lori" and "Tall Laurie".

These are two of the most special ladies and I know Tyler and Olivia will miss them alot.

Random Questions

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? yes
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? My Grandfathers Memorial Service May 29th
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?no
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT?Cotto Salami
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?yes
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?I hope so.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? When necessary
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?Yes
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Noooooo
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CEREAL?Coco Pepples
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?No
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?emotionally? no. physically, yes
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ICE CREAM?Mint Chocolate Chip
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Hair
15. RED OR PINK?pink
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?I'm forgetful
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?My Stepdad and Grandfather
.18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO BLOG THIS ?duh, of course
19. WHAT COLOUR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? No pants, pinkl skirt, bare foot
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?dinner, tacos
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?Some hunting show Steve is watching
22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOUR WOULD YOU BE?Sea Foam Green
23. FAVOURITE SMELLS? Vanilla, Cinnamon
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?My sister Traci
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHOS BLOG THIS WAS ON?yes
26. FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH?Figure Skating
27. HAIR COLOUR?natural...dark brown, colored....auburn
28. EYE COLOUR?brown
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?Yes
30. FAVOURITE FOOD?Mashed Potatoes
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Both
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?Bench Warmers
33. WHAT COLOUR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?pink
34. SUMMER OR WINTER?neither.....I prefer Autumn
35. HUGS OR KISSES?hugs and kisses
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Some Trashy romance I can't remember the name of
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?No mouse pad
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT?Law & Order SVU
42. FAVOURITE SOUND?Rain
!43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?the Beatles
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?Tahiti
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? maybe
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?Greenbrae California
47. WHAT SUPERPOWER WOULD YOU LIKE?Invisability

I'm still here!!!

I haven't posted in a looong time due to my computer CRASHING and loosing nearly two months worth of photos!!! :-( Luckily the pictures were of nothing major like a birthday or holiday, well except Mother's Day.

I went to Arizona for a week the end of May because my Grandfather passed away unexpectedly follow complications from lung cancer surgery. The week was both awful and great all at the same time. Awful because of my Grandpa being so sick, but great because it was the first time EVER my entire family (aunts, uncles, cousins) were all together for more than a day or two. We spent 7 whole days together! Some of you may cringe at the thought of spending 7 days with family, but my family all get along really well. There are a few who argue more than others, but it's dealable. The week was spent, crying and laughing. I honestly have not laughed so hard in a long time, nor have I cried so hard. Atleast not since my stepdad passed away in 2002.

Here are some pictures that were taken during the coarse of my 7 days in Arizona.

A memorial board my cousin and I put together for the Memorial Service.
This pictures is of most of the Aunts and cousins on our first day in AZ. Grandpa was still doing OK at this point.
This is my brother, Ted (left) and our cousin, Nick (right). Ted is 18yrs older than Nick and from the day Nick was born he and Ted have looked alike. Our Mothers are sisters and both have brown hair and browns eyes, but each eneded up with a blond blue eyed son.

This is my mom (center) with two of her younger sisters. The sister on the left is Nicks' mom.

This photo was taken the day of the Memorial Service. This is all family that flew in from out of state. The only people missing were my uncle who didn't want his picture taken, and 5 cousins who were unable to make it in for the service.

2P's POTD *Pampay*

This is my sister, affectionatly known as "Pampay." My kids love her too death!! She choose long ago never to have kids and has always been the "fun auntie." She'll show-up at our house just to come play with the kids. She said if she goes over a week not seeing them she has withdrawls! She'll take my kids, plus my two nephews and my neice for an entire weekend at her house. She and her DH move all the furniture out of their living room and set up a huge 3 room tent and they have a "Camp IN" (her yards not big enough for the tent!! LOL!!) My kids come home asking when they get to go to Pampay & uncle Dan's again!!!

Conversations with Connor

Amelia is slowly getting over her fear of Auntie Lisa's horses. Today she went right up to the gate and talked to Connor. She kept saying "Did you miss me Connor?" "I know you love me, Connor." "Good Horse Connor." It was very cute! She still wont pet them, she said "Next time."