Organizing Page Additions and Accents: How to keep your stash of accents, dimensional stickers, and many decorative layout bits organized. Copyright 2001. originally published July 20th, 2001 by Rockester (Kathleen Aho) Need Help? How do you store your supplies? Don't you hate that feeling when you know you have a pattern or sticker SOMEWHERE-- if only you could lay your hands on it to USE it today! Do you have trouble finding things or keeping them handy? You know that you bought a paper piecing pattern or a magazine, but you can't find it when you want to show a friend or pack for a crop? What do you do with your swaps and purchases? Have you bought duplicate supplies and not known it until you dig out an old shopping bag a month later? What is the remedy for this organizational nightmare?? Need help? Well, let's alk about solutions! (Not that my way is 'right' but if you have no organization system or you have one that is NOT w...

I received this email today from a Scrapper's Challenger named Suzan (moralan@optu.....) in Australia who is active in the creative community of charitable knitters there. http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/knittingforbrisbanesneedy/ She is asking for help in a cause that will help Queensland and Brisbane, Australia's homeless and poor. Lets see what we can do by voting ONCE each for her knitting group to win prize money that will buy more supplies and help pay for the distribution of even more warm items to wear in the coming winter months. Her dedicated knitting group of 123 ladies could win if they get the most daily votes! They are in 3rd place at the moment. It won't cost you a dime to vote and it may help countless people who need it. Let's help push them up in the ranks! Rockester ========== Dearest Rockester, I belong to this group and we are trying to win some extra cash to help out. Brisbane and southeast Queensland are having a cold winter for our area and as ...

Snicker Salad 1 large box vanilla instant pudding mixed with 1/2 cup milk 6 apples, chopped to bite size pieces 12 oz. whipped topping like Cool Whip 6 bars Snicker candy bars-chopped into 1/2 inch bite sizes 1 cup of green or red grapes, optional 1 cup mini marshmallows, optional Some people also add 1 cup manderin oranges 1 cup chopped pineapple (not crushed as it is too wet) at the last minute too Mix all of the above ingredients and refrigerate. Makes a real yummy "sweet "salad." More of a dessert really. I have also frozen the leftovers (yes with the fruit in it!) to make a type of frozen ice-cream-like dessert--but you should then scoop it and eat it frozen. Do not let it defrost again! :) Makes a huge mixing bowl that serves like 20 people.

I had so much success with posting my to do list here (even if only a couple people read it) and then highlighting in RED what I got done each day. I took a list of 58 items on July 10th http://myall2.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-do-lists-as-long-as-pinocchios-nose.html l and only have 15 items left off that listing to do! I got 75% of my TO DO list done in10 days! I am now going to take those 15 items, list them again here, and add more on that popped up the last few days. I hope I have just as much success in the next ten days! Room review for Dawn Rhodes Order for Dawn and I at OT-done find that check! fold laundry-done read HP novel sort magazines and sell on SC Ad Day x3 cut baby titles/names on Cricut pack up Grma's books Clinic paperwork @ shots done Payment info for college done for Mike Shot paperwork for U sent in for J paperwork on P Paperwork on Devon clean studio-done deliver Laurie's blue items, B&B cd upload 2 more ST sets to ebay Help dd with her wall quilt make ...

My Brother Layout Sweet Teen 8 piece set. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&sspagename=STRK%3AMESC%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160138024624&rd=1&rd=1 Going up on ebay today and ending wed evening July 18th. Go to ImageShack® to Create your own Slideshow

Wow this set is HUGe and detailed. Going up on ebay tonight and ending Wed. night July 18th Sisters and Pals: Hugs and Kisses set http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160138019310 Sisters & Pals Sweet Teen set: Go to ImageShack® to Create your own Slideshow

Some of you have asked what the 75 Thank You For Your Prayers cards looked like that I made this week for Bryan's parents to use. Here are some pics. They were done with his favorite color scheme-oranges. White cardstock bases were 5.5x8.5 and folded in half. I used 5 sheets of stripe paper and 3 sheets of floral stripe cut into 4 x 5.25 for the base of the front and then 1 x 5.25 for the narrow strip on the faces of the card fronts. I used a martha stewart punch and a tiny acrylic stamp THANKS on front anchored with a black brad in a double layer of silk flower. I pulled my own silk flowers in both the large and small size stems from Michaels. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS stamp is from Archivers in Mall of America. I used this stamp inside the card on a tag and on the envelope front. I don't know the stamp brand off hand. Envelope fronts were stamped in lower left and chalked with orange and red. Back flap of envelope (not shown) was stamped with a tiny flower --also chal...

Aeryn’s Room Review (2) Are you ready? Here we go! Her second set of photos required an updated review! :) That prime real estate in front of your workspace should relate to the work you are doing. Create storage for supplies with the rest of the vertical space. You want to get more stuff OFF the tabletop. Your desktop has a nice big area clear to work. I like that! But it could be even more spacious. Let’s move the tools up onto the vertical space somehow. It still looks like you have a lot of clutter in front of your work area. Get a tool caddy of some sort or a basket and place glues, tapes, pen cup, scissors, rulers, hammer and so on in one basket or caddy. It will keep tool clutter to a minimum. I see you have some great shallow shelving now--like spice racks for your jars of flowers and so on. I would store the other jars of flowers under that rack if they will fit and take out the photos or pictures you have under there. Maybe those extra flower and glue bottles can go in a shel...

Sometimes in the middle of summer I just feel like sitting. Heck I do it in the winter also...But it always puzzles me in the summer when this mode strikes me. There is so, SO much to do. Stuff that I don't care for--sure--but also so many FUN things too. My to do list has lots on it in all kinds of areas. Some would be very fun, some not...so why do I just feel like reading a novel? Why do I feel a bit rebellious about the laundry basket in front of me? Why do I blog instead of getting up to garden? Why do I look for more creative ideas online than actually DOING the projects I have ready to work on in my studio? I love to organize. Why am I not doing it right now? Big sigh. Am I trying to 'rest' up after all the turmoil of our community losing Bryan? Am I concerned about how to help the others? Why do I go out to lunch instead of making a simple sandwich at home? Why am I tired? Am I trying to psych myself up for August and all the college hoopla? Am I tired of putting on...

Bryan Timm (rest in peace) and Jenny Valentines 2007 Off topic a bit because we just got back from the visitation of my daughters ex-boyfriend. He passed away in a car accident this week. I hope none of you ever have to go through what this family is feeling. http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a=299232&z%5C=2 What can possibly be a "good idea" out of all this sadness? If you ever have to have a visitation for a loved one, do what Bryan's family did. Go and buy two large cuddly stuffed teddy bears that you like that are exactly identical. Bryan's parents each held one all through greeting --and hugging and crying-- with all of us for 4 long hours. They periodically traded the bears and of course cried over each one about the same over time. The line was hundreds and hundreds ofBryan's teenage friends as well as other community members and friends. Each person got to hug one bear or the other another as we hugged and cried and ...