Scrapbooking

So since my knee surgery was cancelled on Thursday, I didn't have any plans for the weekend. (I thought I would be in the hospital) Anyway I scrapped and scrapped and finished up all the layouts sitting around the room waiting for journaling and titles and stuff. Here are a few of them. By the way the surgery will probably be rescheduled for later in April. BUMMER!

The Finished Closet

I actually got this done quite a while ago, but I haven't gotten the photos posted. The master bedroom closet didn't get a complete makeover, but it did get reorganized and cleaned out. It's happier so I'm happier and now we can find stuff. I even found a few Christmas gifts that never were given out and a baby outfit I bought for my nephew that was size 0-3 months and he is now almost two. It won't be fitting him or my other nephew, so I am going to give it to my neighbor, who just had a little boy. Any way here are the photos of the master bedroom closet.

I took advice from Peter Walsh and bought wooden hangers. I also hung all the clothes up with the hangers backwards. Peters tip: if after 6 months the hangers are still backwards then you haven't worn it and you can get rid of it.

I also put like things together and like colors together. I never would have guessed I had so much blue clothing.

My hangers are white and my husbands are light wood. As you can see by the photos I need to purchase a few more wooden hangers, so some of the clothes are still on white plastic hangers.

There really isn't any other place in the house for the cedar chest or the old rocking chair and cradle or the rocking horse, so they are staying in the back corner of the closet. I like that I can find stuff now.

scrapbook layouts

Here are a few layouts I was able to finish this week.

Birthday card swap

Here is the cards I am doing for the birthday card swap I am in. I haven't exactly embraced the idea of digital stamps, because to me a digital stamp is a clip art picture. I found these little guys in on a site I use for daycare for coloring pages. My kids love them. I used stickles for the glittery parts. The alien is now named Mork. And the dragon, who is a girl dragon is named Mindy. Why?, because I thought the names fit. After you color about ten of them all the same, they take on life and personality.

The laundry room's Friend

Rooms share walls and the laundry room shares a wall with his friend the master bedroom closet. Now the closet could hear the laundry room laugh and smile and could tell the laundry room was happy.

"Why are you so happy?" the closet asked.

"Because I'm clean," was the laundry room's reply." I love my jobs and I do them happily, every thing is clean and organized. There is a space for everything and everything is in it's space. The dust is gone and I can breath deeply of clean refreshing air." The laundry room did a little giggle and the closet was sad.

"How I wish I could be like you." the closet said sadly. "I am so cluttered and dusty and it is so dark in here. I can't begin to stretch, because the space is so crowded and cramped." Every day the owners add more junk in here for me to hold. Most of it doesn't even belong in a bedroom closet. It makes me tired just thinking about it."

"Maybe the owners will clean you up also and you can be happy like me." said the laundry room.

"I hope, I hope, I hope," dreamed the closet.

The Story of a Laundry Room

This is the story of a laundry room.


Once upon a time there was a sad little laundry room that was very dirty...








And very cluttered and not organized at all and very crowded. The laundry room was sad.


It had dreams of being a big beautiful laundry room, just like the one in the magazines.
Well one day the owners made the laundry room's dream come true. It took a lot of hard work and the washer and dryer were removed from the room along with every thing else.

The laundry room had been afraid of fire, because of all the flamable lint. After a professional came and unclogged the dryer vent, and all the old lint and dirt was removed the laundry room took a big deep breath. It was so much easier to inhale deeply and the clean air was so refreshing. This made the room happier and safer.

The laundry room was then painted, but not the color it wanted. The room was scared and felt angry with the new color. Oh how he wished he had some sun glasses, because the color was sooo bright...

The owner didn't like the color either and felt sorry for the laundry room, and so new paint was purchased and as the laundry room changed colors again it took on a peaceful happy feeling and it began to smile.



Well the laundry room was looking better and feeling better and the owner added shelves. Nice, white, sturdy shelves to hold and organize things. They added baskets and labels and before long the little laundry room's dream came true and it looked just like the rooms in the magazines. The laundry room was HAPPY and it SMILED and was EXCITED to do it's job.

Tip: Leave an open Scentsy on your dryer and it will make the room smell wonderful, but not to over powering.

The wire shelf gave the laundry room a place to keep everyday cleaners and soaps, so they owner had more room in the kitchen pantry for food. The broom rack kept everything off the floor and in it's place.
The baskets were labeled for things like the lost and found and cleaners. This made the laundry room feel important to have labels.
The End.

help i'm broken

I happened to walk to closely by the sofa...I caught my knee on the corner and it pulled my kneecap out of place. dr. term is dislocated patella. the paramedics came and put it back in place. that is when i realized my arm also hurt from the fall... so off to the ER i went. the knee should be fine in a few days and with some physical therapy, the arm is a fractured radius. it will take a few weeks to heal. until then i can't do much, including typing. it has taken me 20 minutes to type this one handed. until later...

I got a little behind

I still have been scrapping and cleaning, but I haven't been blogging. This is harder than I thought to post everyday. I have also been doing pretty good on the whole eating better and exercise thing.

Well here are the last few days scrapbooking pages. It is coming along nicely. I can't wait to be all caught up on layouts, that were half done. I don't have photos of the kids room which is what we have been cleaning and organizing. Have a great weekend, I hope to scrapbook most of the weekend, so check back on Monday for new layouts.

Dang I missed Sunday

I missed Sunday because I was so tired I fell asleep to fast. I didn't scrapbook a layout on Sunday, but I did 3 on Saturday so I'm still good. I cleaned up my treadmill and got it dusted off and ready to use. The shelf above the treadmill was full of car stuff and boring to look at. So I made it pretty.

Doesn't it look nice?

And here is my layout for the day.

I also got Emma's desk into her room. We didn't have to buy one, because Heidi was ready to get rid of the one in her room. Here is how it turned out.

She really like having a place to color, play school and do homework. The carousel is from pampered chef, I found it at a 2nd hand store for $1 and used it to hold all the markers and crayons.

Today's Layouts

Yes that is plural I got more than one done today, but i didn't do any cleaning. the journaling is little notes for each of my family members in the envelope.

The march layout is pretty simple and fun to put together. Only making the lion and the lamb were hard.

Here is the April layout. I had fun doing calendar pages today, and hopefully I will get more done tomorrow.