Fresh starts! That's what this new year can signify for you and for me and for anyone who wants to get a grip on their surroundings and their home. Clear out that old wrapping paper from the holidays. Decide to donate an item for each item you received this Christmas! Then actually walk around the house and DO IT! Get motivated with a few articles from these terrific organization blogs. They are some of my favorites! 365 days of Organization http://365-days-of-organization.blogspot.com/ Creative Organizing http://creativeorganizing.typepad.com/ Blisstree http://blisstree.com/live/?utm_source=blisstree&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=b5hubs_migration Organized Home http://organizedhome.com/ Get Organized http://getorganizedtips.blogspot.com/ Life Organizers http://www.lifeorganizers.com/ Organizer Queen http://organisingtips.blogspot.com/ Organiized Families http://organizedfamilies.com/ Simplify 101 http://www.simplify101.com/index.php Organized Mom http://www.organizedmom....

Hey friends! Let's get 246 photos of people we do not know personally onto 56 pages in roughly 35 hours over 13 days. Let's use the client's miscellaneous accent and paper supply box and several dozen brads and several dozen pop dots. Toss in about 10-12 tape runners and some simple, classic designs. Oh yes and please label these family events and make captions for 90% of the photos. It's all written on the backs of the photos so just transpose that info to computer or write it out by hand for the journaling. What you say? No way? Well I am here to say that by using the speed scrapping page kitting techniques we share on Scrapperschallenge, I am DONE! Hurray-- and I did not have any help. Yes indeed, I did it myself! I will be handing off this childhood-to-adult gift album to the client in the next few days. It was a fun project. This family sure went to some amazing spots in the USA over the years which resulted in some AMAZING photos of our natural wonders. The young...

One of my favorite contributors to our ScrapperChallenge group on Yahoogroups is Fran. She has been with us a while now and always pitches right in to post ideas, sketches and helpful information. For the holiday season, Fran volunteered to add a gift idea each day for 25 days to the group. Here is a summary of the fabulous ideas she has gathered so far! Fran and I both hope it inspires you to use your stash and get creative in the gifts you give. Handmade is truly a gift of the heart. And let's give a big shout out to Fran for sharing these with us!! :) Please also be sure to thank the original artists at their websites for sharing the ideas and tutorials too! Dec 25th, Thanks card http://simplicitybylateblossom.blogspot.com/2010/12/cas98-apron-thanks.html Dec 24th Personalized Coasters by Fran http://littlepaperstudio.blogspot.com/2010/12/create-from-heart-coasters.html Dec 23 CD Case Calender (Oh Fran was tricky and snuck one in on me with this one--it's by me!) :) http://m...

EACH PAGE PROTECTOR IN THE PHOTO ABOVE HOLDS A TWO-PAGE LAYOUT. 128 is the magic number! I created 128 12x2 pages at our four day retreat last weekend! Sorry it has taken me a few days to post this update. Been just so darn busy at work. And that is a good thing! We had a tie for the winners with the guess of 125!! My crop total of 12x12 pages done is 128! The closest guess was made by two members, both at 125. And the winners are: Sherry and ebright_fleming@..... Blogger Sherry said... I'm going to guess 125 pages. There's no way I'd ever get that many done, but I've seen how productive you can be, so I'm guessing it's going to be a really high number. Have fun, and I'll look forward to hearing how many pages you do! sherry.kishitani@........ 1:43pm ---------------------------------- ebright_fleming@..... said... I will guess 125, which I feel could be a low estimate, which is crazy, because I haven't even done that many pages for the whole year, ...

It's time for another contest! I am sooo excited! I got up at 6am today and I NEVER do that! I am a late night owl --not an early bird!! I must be excited, eh? So excited that I want to give something away again! I am headed out to go scrapping this weekend from today about 11 am to sunday about 4pm. Yep, that's right! I will be leaving the hubster home and scrappin' for FOUR whole days on my own 12x12 family page projects. Not cards, not gifts--just pages! I don't have to work at the retreat which is a plus for productivity. I have been organizing myself and my supplies all week! How many pages do you think I will get done? You know how I am always prompting you to get busy! Well, now I am putting my advice to work on myself! As always, I have lots and lots of page kits packed up and ready to go. I won't tell how many because that might give you an aproximate hint of what I think is even possible! Give us a guess here and the most accurate guess will win a priz...

Along with our new look, we have a NEW "SHABBY BLUES" CONTEST! In honor of my new blue floral scheme here on the MY ALL blog, I am creating a small prize package from my stash for one lucky winner! I am making it up of blues and whites and florals and shabby chic goodness! Leave a comment --with your contact email--below and you could be our random Shabby Blues WINNER! I will choose a random winner on Thursday evening, Nov 4th. You could win! :)

I finally decided to try to update the blog look myself and came across a great FREE shabby chic blog site with backgrounds and so on usable for Blogger! Hurray! It is called ShabbyBlogs.com http://www.shabbyblogs.com/ and if you click on the buttons on their header there it takes you to the choices for some lovely buttons and backgrounds--beautiful work gals! It just took me a few minutes to do the background and a few more mintutes to personalize the header in Paint and Picasa. (Photoshop not needed!) Whatcha think?