Organize your Stuff: Week 12 (round 5): WOYWW 139 & OLW 2012

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Just like a blue moon, today is a rare intersection of my two favorite acronyms WOYWW (What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday) the weekly look at our crafty spaces around the world and what we are making there; and OLW (One Little Word) the word that is our New Year’s Resolution for life, and the homework that we share on the First of Every month about said word.

So, to start, here is our desk at 2 AM (yes, 2 AM…nothing like a little procrastination and a deadline to get Creative Me’s mojo flowing).

This desk is not unlike the many others around the world on display today at Julia’s Stamping Ground, stop on by if you would like a peek!

On the desk is this 9 patch for Ali Edwards’ One Little Word over at Big Picture Scrapbooking.

At the beginning of January, hundreds of us picked a word (or like us, the word picked us) and this is the homework that we had for this month.

Here is a peek at last year’s homework (same propmpt) for Embrace (link here). The POW is impressed at how different these words look on paper, despite being the same homework.

Last year, it took a while to pick a word to represent our upcoming year, but this year, there were no five way peace talk negotiations needed to get all the members of our mind onboard (although PA Me was a little late to the meeting). This year, we chose Journey. It seemed like a natural fit, as Fabulous Spouse left to go on a Journey to Afghanistan for a year, starting the day after Christmas, and we were going to be going on a single parent Journey trying to juggle the household of three VERY active children in his absence… and trust us, it has been one HECK of a journey so far!!! Also *spoiler alert to first time OLW’ers*, come summertime, we have to come up with a playlist for our word, and we love Journey songs!

So, easy as it was to pick a word, it was a little harder to come up with our quote. We were back and forth with Fabulous Spouse over Facebook (as his base does not have phone or skype-ability). This is what we settled on, as we liked several, but did not LOVE one the same way we loved our EMBRACE quote. See you March 1st with our photo homework!

(**Skip to end if you do not want to hear about our family…this is not the personal section you are looking for***)

This week’s summary of family happenings has Fabulous Spouse safely at his end point in Afghanistan. It was not quite the duty station that we expected, as he still has not found a wi fi spot or a working outside phone. Can you hear me now? Um… no?! Anyways, here he is at his 48 hour layover in Kandahar...  This is their version of a 4 star hotel..

In the great wide world of sports, Oldest Child started wrestling, and the little guys are still playing basketball and loving it!... They have even asked for a hoop to be installed in the backyard to practice.

Illusive Middle Child had his cub scout Pinewood derby, and came in fourth in his Den with his “submarine” car that he made and painted all by himself.

Here is the blog list for OLW. Thanks for stopping and visiting!

Margie http://xnomads.typepad.com/
Sharyn http://www.lavieenchic.com/
Jill http://jillconyers.com/
Lynn http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com/
Jenn http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/
Carmen http://www.carmenpaulsorthner.com/
Marilee http://rose-brier.blogspot.com/
Kristina http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.com/
Cindy C http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/
Kelly http://mindingmynest.com/
Cheri http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/
Amanda http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/
Cindy http://seriousplay.typepad.com/
Brooke http://www.everysnapshot.com/
Naomi http://www.poeticaperture.com/
Melissa http://www.smudgetime.com/
Karen http://breathenowsmile.blogspot.com/
Melissa S http://blog.mshanhun.com/
Devon http://www.youhadmeatneurotic.com/
Donna http://holimess.blogspot.com/
Dawn http://sunshineandcreativity.com/
Katrina http://www.katrinasimeck.com/
Sam http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
Monica http://scrapinspired.com/
Kimberlee http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/
Missus W http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/
Kaylea http://www.myscrappylife.com/
Nikki http://www.inkyart.com.au/
Erin http://erinsparkes.typepad.com/optimstic-fascination/
Jo http://www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/
Coley http://coleybelle.blogspot.com/2012/01/focus-word-for-2012.html
Beth http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/
Veronica http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/
Jamie http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/
Monica B http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
Lisa http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog
Rebekah http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/
Jan http://mysimplelittlelife.typepad.com/
Veronica http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/
Cate http://www.lifebehindthepurpledoor.com/
Stephanie http://www.scrapworthylives.com/
Orange Gearle http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/
Tere http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/
Junelle http://yesandamenblog.blogspot.com/
Ruth http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/
Becky http://www.becky-handforth.blogspot.com/

Happy Hopping for OLW and WOYWW!