tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37995253483277731102024-03-27T10:45:02.760-07:00ScrappnBee the ScrapbookerMy hostile takeover of the Dining RoomScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-15345478148891386922012-09-25T22:52:00.000-07:002012-09-26T06:45:59.349-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 6): Week 4: PaperCongratulations, All! We have made it to Paper week. Noooooo…. Yes! Actually, as painful as it is, having a firm control of your paper will make the creative process SO much easier… and therefore Creative Me SO MUCH happier. Just work in 5 to 10 minute chunks. Anything more will overwhelm you, and PA Me will take over and lock OCD Me in a closet…and really, we need her to do this.<br />
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There is digi paper and real paper for scrapbooking. This layout uses digi paper (reusable and takes up only a thumb drive of space).<br />
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…but today, it is all about the real paper!<br />
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There are three different things to consider when sorting paper.<br />
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<strong>First, horizontal or vertical storage</strong>. There are different schools of thought on the subject. Most Local Scrapbook Stores (LSS) use horizontal storage to show off all those awesome patterned papers that the Inner Hoarder wants to invite home. Plus side- great visuals. Down side, if you are not doing a lot of turnover, there is dusting and light exposure to consider…and that this storage method uses a lot of real estate. However, if it works for you…awesome!<br />
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At our house, after some negotiation, the POW vetoed Creative Me and the vertical storage in favor of horizontal storage. PA Me gets out of dusting, the Inner Hoarder gets more paper, and OCD Me gets to use the label maker. The label maker makes all the difference!<br />
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<strong>Second, sorting method</strong>. If you get this one correct the first time around, let us know, because OCD Me and Creative Me are constantly tweaking this. For the most part, we are happy with the solid cardstock which is sorted by color. Then we sorted our patterned paper. The paper that we sorted by stripes or spots, we rarely use. Instead, we have evolved into a hybrid of manufacturer vs. activity files. Now all of the sports paper is together, and the Valentine’s Day paper is together…except if Creative Me thinks it is generic enough to live by manufacturer.</div>
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Creative Me sometimes says to herself… “I just want something with that Graphics 45 feel…” or “this just needs something from Simple Stories…” or whatever manufacturer with whom she is currently in love. The cool thing is, that over time, many of the manufacturer colors will coordinate. Sometimes that “Side B” that you never thought you would use from two seasons ago will work perfect as an accent with that one piece from this season that you HAD to have (OK, Inner Hoarder got two pieces each from the whole line…shhhh….)<br />
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<strong>This leads us to number three, Purging</strong>. It is time to distract your Inner Hoarder. This is where the Jedi Mind Tricks, those blackmail pictures from High School, and the disclosure of your secret stash of snacks are all used against you. The Inner Hoarder guards her paper almost as much as her memorabilia. (This is not the memorabilia you are looking for…move along). If you have been scrapbooking for more than 5 years, this applies to you. We admit, the Inner Hoarder still has paper from 1998 that she is sure that we will use…someday. The POW and OCD Me knows that Creative Me never will…but try telling that to the Inner Hoarder. If leggings and bell bottoms can come back into style, so can this paper (no, it will not).<br />
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We challenge you to purge or “donate” 10 pieces of paper…or tell that Inner Hoarder that she can only buy 1 piece for every 3 that you use…purging the 10 pieces will probably be easier. It will hurt. But in the end it will make you happier. (Schools, Girl Scout units, Women’s shelters and Children’s Hospitals are great places to donate).<br />
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As usual, here is the Mr Linky if you want to share your blog or your picture of your paper storage...<br />
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<script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=Scrappnbee&postid=26Sep2012" type="text/javascript"></script>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-50889366569887581552012-09-19T00:00:00.000-07:002012-09-18T23:27:43.473-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 6): Week 2&3: WOYWW 172<br />
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Wednesday is here! Wednesday is here! Time to share What’s on your workdesk (WOYWW)! The lovely Lady Julia has the list at the always awesome <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a>. Come on, We’ll show you ours if you will show us yours…<br />
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Here is our desk today:<br />
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Creative Me is a bit distracted by the upcoming return of our Fabulous Spouse…as is reflected in the card that she created…<br />
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Now it is time to channel inner Mary Poppins and tidy up the Scrap Room…if only it were that Easy! OCD Me wants her handbag!<br />
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(***The POW warns that it is family stuff from here down. Scroll to the end if here just for the desk***)<br />
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Fabulous Spouse is finally back here in the United States! Hopefully, he will be home by the end of the week from the stateside demobilization process. The POW is definitely sure that this is by far more stressful than having him on The Front, but we do not know why…probably has just a little to do with the no plane ticket home yet though. Here is a picture of him with the Seabees in Kuwait.<br />
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Oldest Child got some real playing time this week as his Freshman Football team won 46-0! He has finally decided that the offensive line is fun, because it makes the defensive line look slow and you can mix it up. Also, for now…he has a 4.0! (Woo Hoo!) However, football does come with a price…the dreaded Football Crud. The wet cough and runny nose that no antibiotic can cure…you just need to tough it out.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child was not so lucky. There was no joy in Mudville…He lost his game 20-6. However, he too got a lot of playing time, so he really cannot complain (although he did…all the way home) LOL.<br />
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Girl Friday is repeatedly reminding us that all she wants for her birthday is her Daddy, and when he is home that she will tell him that she loves him, and give him kisses and hugs. She also has a double ear infection, but that did not keep her from cheering at her brother’s game. After all, real girls cheer.<br />
<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-70007514462748074672012-09-16T22:27:00.001-07:002012-09-17T09:56:41.425-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 6): Week 2&3: Brainstorming & CleaningWow, it looks like we survived Week 1 of Round 6 of the Organize your Stuff Challenge at <a href="http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&thread_id=3191775&pg=1">Two Peas in a Bucket</a> pretty well. The POW is so happy that so many of you have decided to take this journey with us! Creative Me is on the equivalent of a sugar high, as she did more creating in the last 8 days, than she has done in the last 6 weeks! So, space audit complete!<br />
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Housekeeping: We are going to try and post a layout and a card every week to keep you motivated, and challenge you to create something…anything… as well. Here is our layout for this week:<br />
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Well, it is time for the first tweak to the patented Zen Master Wookiemouse <a href="http://wookiemouse.blogspot.com/">29 Step Program</a>. In the first 5 Rounds, the POW has noticed a few trends. First, that before Week 1, there are 40-60 people who will post their need to Organize. About half will show up for Week 1…figure out your problem areas, and Week 2…brainstorming. But, when it came time to actually start cleaning, suddenly the thread was dead. Everyone’s Inner Hoarder and PA Me suddenly found hall closets in need of cleaning and errands that needed running.<br />
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By virtue of your making it to Week 2, your inner cleaner (OCD Me in our case) has at least some control at this point. Before our Inner Hoarder and PA Me get too organized themselves and realize that we are going to put them to work, it is time to distract them with thinking up their dream space while The POW and OCD Me start straitening up.<br />
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Say what?! Week 2 is traditionally called Brainstorming week. In the past, that has meant that now we have our list of what works and what doesn’t, we now picture our perfect place and savor it so that we have direction to move forward. Channel your inner Martha Stewart, and plan your scrap space just like you plan the way that you are going to spend that winning Power Ball ticket… oh and take a picture of your space.<br />
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The picture is for you to realize how far you have come…when you are frustrated because you have realized that you have been Jedi mind tricked for 3 of the last 5 weeks and you are not sure that you have made ANY progress, and it might be just easier to give up. Do not give up! Pop in your copy of The Princess Bride (and if you don’t have it, you really need to rent it) and remember that you can be mostly dead all day, and still come back and save the day. Break out that picture and rejoice. At least one pile is missing.<br />
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Now, we told you that we were going to show you the good, the bad, and the UGLY. Here is our UGLY. Now, OCD Me really, really, really wanted to pick up before we shot this, but as we tell our kids… we will never lie to you (intentionally).<br />
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In our defense, PA Me LOVES the TLC show “Hoarders: Buried Alive” and this is her attempt to get a professional to come in and clean it for her. Really though, it is the downward spiral of having Fabulous Spouse activate and leave for Afghanistan the day after Christmas and then having very well trained children “saving” everything for their Dad. Lesson Learned: Do not let your Inner Hoarder in charge of the kids…. OCD Me is not blameless. When we cleaned any other part of the house, what we had no place for came in here… Since the POW was too busy keeping the house going, Creative Me barely had time to slip inside, except to make a card for The Front to send to Fabulous Spouse. Literally, it has been 9 months since we did a layout!<br />
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Week 3 is time to start cleaning. There is two versions of cleaning in the School of Wookiemouse Organization: Start Small/ Spot Clean and Go for Broke/ Clean Sweep. In Round 2 (our first round) we Went for Broke. If you can do that, it really does make the process easier. Your OCD Me will feel like she has conquered our Flat-surface-it is (thank you Barbara for that term!), and your PA Me will be able to ignore the boxes , and the Inner Hoarder will not get too upset because nothing has been purged yet.<br />
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We are Spot cleaning this time around…This is harder, because PA Me and the Inner Hoarder keep reminding OCD Me that there are SO many piles, and so much more to do, that she might as well give up now. Again, do not give up. That is why we are doing this as a group. If nobody else does, we have your back! The only consolation with the clean as you go method is that Creative Me knows where everything is, and with the Clean Sweep method she tends to get more frustrated.<br />
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1.Think of your perfect Scrap Space (ours has a full service bar, a maid, and a nanny on staff)<br />
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3.Decide if you are going small or going big (and start to box up if going big)<br />
4.Create something…always remember to keep Creative Me happy…she has the immunity idol and is essential to not getting OCD Me voted off the island!<br />
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Link in for anything Week 2/3 you want to share :)<br />
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<script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=Scrappnbee&postid=17Sep2012" type="text/javascript"></script>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-33419761087375457592012-09-12T01:22:00.002-07:002012-09-12T01:43:03.048-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 6): Week 1: WOYWW #171<a href="http://www.scrappnbee.blogspot.com/2012/09/organize-your-stuff-round-6-week-1-make.html">Week 1 prompt and link here.</a><br />
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Today is Wednesday, which means that we are half way through Week 1 of Organizing our Stuff, and it is also time to show off What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Where wonderful folks from around the world show off the neat, the tidy, the cluttered and the creative… We love them all, and are glad as always to be hostessed by the Fabulous Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a>.<br />
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Here is our desk today:<br />
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It is cluttered as usual, but as we are mid-crafty, Creative Me has not gotten to tidying up yet. …yeah… that’s it…<br />
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This is the card that Creative Me made using the scraps from our Monday layout, and detritus that PA Me missed when it was her turn in the rotation to clean up. Yes, those are photo scraps behind the words! It was inspired, by of all things our DVR'd episode of FaceOff where they had to design makeup for Alice in Wonderland characters infected with Resident Evil Zombie viruses...seriously.<br />
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When we stop to think about our scrap space, OCD Me has decided that she loves the ink and Copic storage (even if Creative Me and the Inner Hoarder would LOVE more). The scrap storage is working pretty well too.<br />
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However, the general clutter, and yes…*sigh* the volume of memorabilia is just TOO MUCH! We are not going to fit another desk in here, so we need to clear off some real estate…stat!... before Creative Me dies a slow death from under use… we’re not dead yet!<br />
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(***The POW’s warning: the rest is family stuff…and lots of American football pictures. Scroll to the end if just here for the desk.***)<br />
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Well, here is another picture of our favorite Patriot, Fabulous Spouse. A day after the September 11th Anniversary, we can tell you that WE will never forget, as we feel officially trifecta-ed with Fabulous Spouse on deployment in his submarine for the original September 11th, a trip to Iraq for the Surge, and now a trip to Afghanistan… and not even any frequent flier miles to show for it! Here is to supporting The Front!<br />
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At the Homefront… we are living the American dream…er, pastime… football! Oldest Child had his first High School Varsity home game…where he played his trombone in the Pep Band.<br />
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Girl Friday and Illusive Middle Child had practice during the first half, but the good thing about a home game is that we just had to get our hand stamped and pick them up from the back fields and walk them in during halftime! <br />
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We even got our pic snapped by the field photographer! (We are in the green shirt to the left of the mom in the #12)<br />
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The next day, the field belonged to the Little Guys, as it was Junior League Football time. Girl Friday cheered for both the 1st/2nd Grade Team, and the 3rd/4th Grade Team (her brother’s team). <br />
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Illusive Middle Child was channeling his Inner All-Star, as he was a Team Captain and started Offense and Defense. The score was 42-6, and he only got a rest when they had to kick-off after the goals and when they finally put in the second string.<br />
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Then, it was Freshman Football time. It is the second game of the season, but it is the first one for which Oldest Child was eligible (he broke his ankle the second day of football camp back in July). With Illusive Middle Child as the ball boy...<br />
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and Oldest Child on the Offensive Line (2 series in the 3rd quarter and 1 in the 4th), they too got a win…14-6!<br />
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So, if you are keeping score…<br />
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Oldest Child:2 games, 4 practices<br />
Illusive Middle Child: 2 games, 3 practices<br />
Girl Friday: 2 games, 3 practices<br />
…oh, and we had Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church (actually, we missed church this week *blush*), and oh yeah…school is in session!<br />
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Happy Hopping!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-16367038070305960282012-09-09T20:12:00.000-07:002012-09-09T20:47:18.574-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 6): Week 1: Make Something/ Space Audit<br />
Welcome! Today starts the 6th round of the ever popular Organize your Stuff Challenge at the Two Peas in a Bucket website. The original challenge was hostessed by the ever venerable <a href="http://wookiemouse.blogspot.com/">Zen Master Wookiemouse</a> in May of 2009 (We’re not worthy!). She was followed by the Always Awesome Crisann for rounds 2-5. Now it is time for us to step up to the plate, open up our own crafty dojo and see if we pass on some of their organization mojo!<br />
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For those who are new to our blog, when we first started organizing, we found out that it was/is a LOT harder than we had planned. That was when I realized that when it came to scrapbooking…and the mess… it was not really I, but we. The different parts of myself were at war over everything, and so rather than dealing with the growing mess, we just agreed to disagree and the mess grew. <br />
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The personalities that we seemed to recognize within ourselves are on the sidebar and are as follows: The POW (Plays with Others Well)… chief negotiator and moderator (the sane part) and ironically hostage to the rest, OCD Me…the reason we are organizing, PA Me (Procrastinator Anonymous)… the reason we have not gotten to organizing yet *squirrel*, the Inner Hoarder…the reason that everyone drops out when we hit memorabilia week and have that paper from 1987, and Creative Me…whose fault this whole crafting thing is in the first place. Theoretically, there is a Budget Me, but we think that she got walled up some years ago a la Tell Tale Heart and we get a niggling thump from time to time that $$ is something that should matter but then we remember why we ditched her in the first place! <br />
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This week we are channeling our Creative Me and OCD Me. We know, we know. These two do not often work together well. Just think of it at a ying and yang zen kind of thing. We want you to Create this week! If you are a scrapbooker, create a layout…card makers, make a card… art journal-ers, journal. Whatever it is that you love to do right now…do it. If it turns out that you cannot finish, that is ok. In the immortal words of Nike: Just Do It!<br />
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While you are creating, have your OCD Me take notes. Really? Yes. We want to find out what works and what does not. …and the three foot pile of un-put away prior projects is a legitimate entry in the does not work category. The thing is, 89.7% might be perfect…tool caddy, lighting, brad storage…etc. List those. We will be looking to you for suggestions on those weeks, and you can slack off and *gasp* work on that memorabilia (that is not the memorabilia you are looking for, move along…)… or not! LOL!<br />
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We are looking for your week spots. If you ignore everything else, you want to tune in to the Does Not Work weeks… and remember- Some of these will not get fixed. That was a really hard thing for OCD Me to handle. When the universe goes tilt…or you get suckered into that Walking Dead Marathon before the start of Season 3 (you know who you are)…or PA Me and the Inner Hoarder Jedi mind trick you into avoiding it because they are just not ready to deal (memorabilia). Just let it go…we are pretty sure that there will be a round 7. :) <br />
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Oh, and one last thing. If you do not have a blog, they are super easy to create, and an easy way to post progress. NOT required, but The POW found that it kept us on track when we posted something every week…even if it was just a picture. It kept that pesky duo of PA Me and the Inner Hoarder from derailing us too much! The POW is going to try and figure out the linked in thing, so you can share every week. So, if it is not here on Monday, check back. Note: there is no Technology Me. Good Luck!<br />
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Create something! Feed your inner Creative Me.<br />
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Document at least your top 3 Works for Me/ Does Not Work areas (or more). Empower your OCD Me.<br />
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Extra Credit-Share what you have created/ are creating (if I can figure out the Mr. Linky thing). Wednesday is a good day to do that as there is a large <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">WOYWW</a> (What’s on your workdesk Wednesday) group that will visit your site and give you the encouragement you may need…<br />
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Here is ours:<br />
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Likes: Paper storage, inks/copics,stamps, tools <br />
Doesn't work: Kits (we have no Idea what is in them), memorabelia piling up (cannot find my fine point scissors), work space too far from embellishments <br />
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<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-86397266007028681902012-09-05T11:29:00.003-07:002012-09-16T18:38:31.369-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW #170Wow! Wednesday! Where have you been? Or rather, where have we been? Summer is whirlwindy (OCD Me notes: not a real word) in the best of times, this year it was a positively “Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore”, Category IV twister! So, sans four Wednesdays or so, we are back with the always Awesome Julia and the What’s on your Workdesk Wednesday folks over at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> (albeit a late post! LOL!)<br />
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Here is our horribly messy desk:<br />
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And here is the card that Creative Me whipped out for Big Picture Class’s free Big Idea Festival’s prompt #1: A Card.<br />
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As a side note, OCD Me has taken the keys to the house back from the POW, and next week will start Round 6 of Organize your Stuff! It will be the good, the bad, and the UGLY! (Yes, the POW was able to talk the TLC crew out of filming the scrap room for their next season of Hoarders… for now…).<br />
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Things are finally winding down for Fabulous Spouse on the Front. Here he is after receiving his “End of Tour Awards” (The medals for not getting blowed up, and doing a good job 18 hours a day working for the Cause). He is farthest to the left. So, within the next four weeks or so, he should be coming home… hence OCD Me taking a renewed interest in the house.<br />
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As for the rest of the tribe, football and cheerleading has been our life. Here is Girl Friday at practice in the red shorts.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child is doing double duty as a Junior League football player, and a Freshman Football Team ball boy. This picture was after the first game…which they lost 12-14. Oldest Child is obviously upset. He did not suit up, as he is not eligible until next week for play due to breaking his ankle at summer football camp.<br />
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Finally, here is the token back to school shots. Oldest child was first (predawn, 6:35 school start time).<br />
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Then the little guys were off… (*sigh*… first time that Girl Friday did not want to wear a dress for the first day…rhinestone jeans are in now!)<br />
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Happy WOYWW!<br />
<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-39208108650446667552012-09-01T08:00:00.000-07:002012-09-01T09:29:23.110-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): One Little Word Hop<a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Nihao, Cupcake! Blog" src="http://xnomads.typepad.com/One-on-1-Blog-Button12.jpg" /></a><br />
Well, it is the first of the month again! We cannot believe that the summer months have flown by us, and August 1012 is officially retired! As it is September 1st, it is time for our One Little Word Blog Hop where we Share our Word for the Year (ours is Journey) and the homework from the past month given to us by Ali Edwards at Big Picture Classes. As always, Thank You Margie at <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">Nihao, Cupcake!</a> for hostessing!<br />
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August’s prompt for the month was a picture of ourselves…here is ours:<br />
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The POW and Creative Me concur that this pretty much sums up our August. Our Journey these days is back and forth around town in our little Ford Focus. It is funny, we are putting 300+ miles a week on the car, and yet we never seem to get out of town.<br />
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We told someone that we never have time to sit down, but the reality of it is that we kind of always are…the seat just keeps Moving!<br />
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The POW has been in charge of the house as OCD Me has been drafted to help keep schedules strait, coordinated, and also keeps track of our friends, favors we have left, and ones that we need to burn in order to make sure that everyone gets where they need to go, and nobody is left behind. It is staggering the mental gymnastics that occur.<br />
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This was a sample of our afternoons from last week:<br />
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12PM Oldest Child Physical Therapy (broke ankle back in football camp in July), 1PM Lunch, 2:30 Drop off at Freshman Football, Grocery shop, 4PM start Dinner, 4:30 Dinner, Wonder where Illusive Middle Child is (went camping out of state for 4 days, but is supposed to be home for football practice), realize Illusive Middle Child will not make it, 5:15 go with Girl Friday and Dinner in Tupperware and Trombone to give to Oldest Child back to high school, 5:45 Oldest Child finally done, takes food and instrument to change and get ready for 6:30-8:30 mandatory high school band practice, 6:10 arrive at 6-8pm Cheer Practice and drop off Girl Friday, 6:35 return to High School for Mandatory please join the Band Boosters meeting and band highlights for upcoming year, 7:15 get phone call that Illusive Middle Child has returned…and ask family to hold on to him until 9ish as we are in a meeting, 7:30 excuse ourselves from parent meeting, 7:45 back to Football/ Cheer practice… where they are assigning uniform numbers and Illusive Middle Child is missing (Thank you Team Mom for getting him a number close to the one he wanted as there was no 77 jersey this year), ask Team Mom to take Illusive Child to practice tomorrow, go to Cheer field and retrieve Girl Friday, 8:15 pull out of the parking lot to arrive at 8:30 at Band Practice for Oldest Child. 8:40 Drop Oldest Child and Girl Friday home for showers and leave to retrieve Illusive Middle Child (and camping gear) from friend’s house… and this was the EASIEST day of the week!<br />
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PS-at this point, school had not started yet. That did not get added to the agenda until Thursday.<br />
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This month has been a Journey in the truest most literal sense of the word. It only takes me 20 minutes from home, but it is definitely not dull or slow paced by any means!<br />
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Here is the rest of the OLW Hop Group…you can see their photos and their words as well…<br />
Enjoy your Journey!<br />
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You are at the last stop... <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com</a> from here out, you return to Margie to start over!<br />
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Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">http://xnomads.typepad.com</a><br />
Brighton <a href="http://www.simplebrighton.com/">www.simplebrighton.com</a><br />
Kimberlee <a href="http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/">http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com</a><br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/category/one-little-word/">http://scrapinspired.com/category/one-little-word/</a><br />
Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com</a><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/</a><br />
Kara <a href="http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/">http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com</a><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com</a><br />
Jessica B <a href="http://jlfbarnes.blogspot.com/">http://jlfbarnes.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Veronica <a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/">www.veronicanorris.typepad.com</a><br />
Naomi <a href="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a><br />
Carolina <a href="http://www.micinnamons.blogspot.com/">www.micinnamons.blogspot.com</a><br />
Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/">http://seriousplay.typepad.com</a><br />
Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com</a>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-12158533876248738802012-07-18T00:04:00.001-07:002012-07-18T00:10:08.475-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5):WOYWW 163<br />
It has been another two week gap, but Happy WOYWW! It is another What’s on your Workdesk Wednesday, when we wander the world watching the wonders that others create, or peep at the places where they perform their craftiness. As always, the Fabulous Julia of the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> is our hostess!<br />
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Summer is so busy! …and so is our desk!<br />
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We must confess that there is no new crafts though. Creative Me is getting ready to paint the kitchen and living room, and with The POW focused on football, PA Me has been runing the home show. So… it is just a desk shot today.<br />
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Now new pictures from The Front. Fabulous spouse is busy doing things of which he cannot speak, and actually preparing to come home in a few months! (As the POW often says, it is amazing how time flies while it is standing still!)<br />
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Illusive Middle Child and Girl Friday are still enjoying the sunshine of summer. Illusive Middle Child is wrapping up week four of sailing camp. He is enjoying the challenge of moving up to the bigger, two-man FJ’s that his big brother was sailing earlier in the summer. <br />
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Meanwhile, Girl Friday is at art camp. However, in their free time, there is still lots to explore in the Outer Banks, and here they are snorkeling…and discovering a hermit crab.<br />
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Oldest Child has started the all-consuming High School football season (#54 practice jersey). It is amazing to see how he is listening to the coaches and improving with each session. We are in the football camp phase right now, and he LOVES it!<br />
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However, as of Tuesday, he is also discovering that into every athlete’s life, a little pain must fall. He rolled his ankle, and the next couple days will see how good/ bad it is.<br />
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He also has some new Foreign Exchange brothers (well, for two weeks, at least). We were an emergency, last minute Host Family. We like them a lot, and it gives Oldest Child somebody other than his Xbox friends with which to hang out… when not at sports.<br />
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As for us, we made our annual pilgrimage to the Rails to Ales Festival in Cle Elum, WA. This year it was a Girls Only event (especially as Fabulous Spouse was half a world away). It was amazing to see old friends and faces (Fabulous Spouse- the guy from Sierra Nevada who stays at the B&B says hi!), and to make new memories as well!<br />
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Here is to hoping that we are more crafty next week!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-82859943872344889882012-07-04T00:02:00.000-07:002012-07-04T04:24:43.718-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW161 & Independence Day 236!<br />
Happy WOYWW! …and to those of us in the United States… Happy 4th of July a.k.a. Independence Day! So, you know about the 4th, but what is this WOYWW of which we speak? It is What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday. The day hen crafters (and those of us who like to snoop) hop around the blogosphere to see a world of workspaces and projects! (and make a friend or two along the way). As always, we are hostessed by the Fabulous Lady Julia of the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a>.<br />
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Our desk…again is but our laptop and hard drive and digi bits…<br />
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While the POW is uber happy to still be on holiday, Creative Me cannot wait to get home to her more tactile papers, paints and inks. That is not to say that Creative Me cannot whip up digi magic when the need arises. Here is a layout Creative Me snapped together from an event that happened just yesterday…over in Afghanistan!<br />
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Photoshop Elements and the internet are a wonderful thing! Who’d a thunk that pictures taken 24-hours ago, half a world away could already be scrapbooked! <br />
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(**The POW Warning: family stuff from here down. Scroll to the end if you are here just for the desk**)<br />
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For a treat, we have a picture of Fabulous Spouse’s desk. This was taken on his birthday last week (note that the cupcake has no frosting…stupid mail monkeys lost the frosting-mailed at the same time as the cupcakes-…until 2 days after his birthday). Big changes in the works for Fabulous Spouse on the Front as his boss is headed back to the United States… which means a new Major General. (Ok, Creative Me cannot help but breaking out into the Pirates of Penzance’s “I am the very model of a modern Major General” every time we see Major General, just because it makes milk come out of OCD Me’s nose. You cannot take us anywhere).<br />
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Oldest Child is learning to drive… the riding lawnmower. He actually got most of the grass…ok 75% the first go round. He is settling into teenager-dom in style, preferring to hang out in the house on his Kindle then with his family. Ok, unless food is involved or said Kindle is threatened to accompany us, he will opt out. I guess it does not help that it is between 90-100 degrees F (32.2-37.7 degrees C) here.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child is taking to sailing like…well the son of a Sailor! (and grandson of a Harbor Pilot). He is mastering the one man Opti, and he and Oldest Child took out Grampy’s two man sailboat. He has managed to not capsize yet (we were pretty darned sure that the two man boat was going down several times during her maiden voyage).<br />
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Girl Friday was amazed by the thunder and lightning storm that came through and the 85 mph winds that accompanied it (we do not have thunder storms in Washington). However, the Beach is her favorite (that and trying to convince us that a hermit crab needs to come home with us). We are convinced that half the North Carolina seashells will make their way back home.<br />
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Finally, seafood! We went to the Crab Claw for the bucket of seafood (crab, mussels, clams, shrimp)…and Girl Friday opted for dinosaur chicken nuggets. We are pretty sure that it is the first time in recent memory that the adults finished dinner before the kids!<br />
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Have a happy 4th of July! Thank you Fabulous Spouse and all the soldiers, sailors, and marines that sacrifice to keep our Freedom! Happy Blog hopping!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-72542917764583344282012-07-01T08:00:00.000-07:002012-07-01T13:50:27.896-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): One Little Word<a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/One-on-1-Blog-Button12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Nihao, Cupcake! Blog" border="0" src="http://xnomads.typepad.com/One-on-1-Blog-Button12.jpg" /></a>Happy Sunday! …and Happy July 1st! Every first of the month, we share our progress with our One Little Word: Journey. What is One Little Word? It is a yearlong process developed by Ali Edwards over at <a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/">Big Picture Classes</a> where we pick a word for the year and try to live it and understand how it speaks to us, sometimes in the most unexpected of manners. Thanks as always to Margie at <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">Nihao Cupcake</a>! For organizing our monthly hop!<br />
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This morning as we write this, we have the most beautiful hazy view of the river at our parents’ house while the kids get ready for church. Right now we are on a Journey of the most literal sort… a trip back home. Creative Me is a little frustrated that PA Me never got around to scanning our 9-patch art homework for this month, we will have to share on August 1st, but it is three time zones and a very long plane flight away right now, so there is nothing we can do but have the POW pat her on the back and tell her to let it go (and shoot mean scowly, if-looks-could-kill faces at PA Me).<br />
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So far, Journey has meant a lot to us. It is a big transition month when you have kids. We are now living with a Second Grader, Fourth Grader, and *gasp* a High School Freshman! It is the start of a Journey that we knew was inevitable, and yet it still seems like a massive Herculean challenge for which we are ill prepared (and yet, the POW reminds us, that if she and OCD Me can manage a summer time cleanout of the boys’ rooms…and THAT is more difficult that Hercules task of cleaning the Augean stables… the High School is definitely doable). <br />
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We have gone on a Journey by air (and the four hour layover in Atlanta), and for now we are at rest. We must say, there is nothing like a Journey back home. He who said that you can never go home again, was wrong. We love coming home. After six months of single parenting while Fabulous Spouse is on the Front in Afghanistan, it is SO nice to not have to be the one to plan the menu, set the pace, and be in charge. We even got to read more than 100 pages of the same book that we have been reading since Fabulous Spouse left…in December (we got a grand total of 6 pages on the plane down, as we were entertaining the troops ). (We are now on page 282).<br />
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It has been fun to watch the kids Journey. Girl Friday was fearless, and first to tackle “The Tube” towed behind Grampy’s boat… then once she was able to do it, the boys were ready to follow suit.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child is five days into sailing camp… about 12 hours of total sailing experience, and yet he and Oldest Child were confident enough to take Grampy’s auction find sailboat for her maiden voyage.<br />
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Sorry no project, but glad to share my word! If you are blog hopping, your next stop is <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">Ruth</a>. Here is the rest of the list if you get lost :) <br />
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Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
Naomi <a href="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/</a><br />
Veronica <a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/">http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/</a><br />
Missus Wookie <a href="http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/">http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com/</a><br />
Nikki <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">http://www.inkyart.com.au/</a><br />
Jill <a href="http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com/</a><br />
Brighton <a href="http://www.simplebrighton.com/">http://www.simplebrighton.com/</a><br />
Tere <a href="http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/">http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Cynthia <a href="http://paperpapereverywhere.blogspot.com/">http://paperpapereverywhere.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Donna <a href="http://holimess.blogspot.com/">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">http://xnomads.typepad.com/</a> <---start of hop!<br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/tag/one-little-word/">http://scrapinspired.com/tag/one-little-word/</a><br />
Jamie <a href="http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/">http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Jenn <a href="http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/">http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/</a>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-61966471258179111172012-06-26T22:06:00.000-07:002012-06-27T10:04:02.860-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW 160<br />
Wow! It is Wednesday again! We know, we know. Wednesday happens the same time every week, and yet it always seems to catch us by surprise! Today is WOYWW (what’s on your work desk Wednesday). It is our chance to share our desk and peek at those (who are way more crafty) around the world. The always Awesome Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> is our hostess with the mostess (and the POW envies her organization to pull this off every week)!<br />
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Here is our desk this week…<br />
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Ooops, that is not a desk, it is a laptop! Well that is because we are at my parents for the 4th of July/ Independence Day holiday with the tribe. Rather than taking a bunch of stuff on the plane, the POW decided that a laptop and our digi files was all we needed.<br />
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Here is the layout so far… it still needs some input from Fabulous Spouse, but we are working our way through the disc of photos we received in the beginning of the month.<br />
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The POW also wants to apologize on behalf of all of us for missing the last two weeks. The kids’ last two weeks of school were insane! So, we have been in hyper overdrive overcommittedness (ODC Me wants to let you know that our spell check does not recognize that as a real word). Real words or not, there has been very little crafty time, bloggy time, or down time.<br />
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Creative Me has been stuck in the car with the rest of us going from point A to point B to point C and then back to A with the rest of us. Therefore, the only craftiness that we have is a digi page that we did in Photoshop for our 31 Days class with Ali Edwards at Big Picture Classes (the focus is the journaling prompts not necessarily the layout), and now this. We have a laptop, will travel!<br />
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The POW and OCD me have been also in discussions. We have come to the realization that round 5 of the Organization Challenge is derailed beyond repair in our lives. So, we are going to regroup, enjoy our vacation at Grammy’s house, and perform an intervention with PA Me and the Inner Hoarder when we return. If that does not work, Creative Me knows where we keep the colored duct tape…. Hmmmm..<br />
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(***The POW warns that there is family stuff from this part out. Scroll to the end if you are just here for the desk***)<br />
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Fabulous Spouse is still working 18 hour days for the General on the Front. As a birthday present, he got to go on a field trip for 36 hours (no pictures from that yet). Our mail monkeys (the same ones that fixed the airplane in Madagascar 2) delivered the box of cupcakes, the box of REI socks, but not the box with the frosting, candles and other snacks. We guess that is the price for living in a war zone! However, he did get a picture of his P90X workout team. (sing with us: one of these things is not like the others...ours is the one in yellow) :)<br />
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Tummies full, we arrived, and the fun began! Family time at the pool when the seas were too rough to take the boat out.</div>
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Mongolian BBQ with real East Coast Wonton Soup (mmmm) a quart got sent home by the Inner Hoarder and she ate it for lunch.</div>
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Finally, it was Monday, and the boys were off for two weeks of sailing camp! We wish them well and very few capsizes. We love them!<br />
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Welcome wonderful Wednesday and all that is WOYWW (What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday) where we wander and watch the countertops, benches, laps, floors or anywhere that crafty happens around the globe. It is hosted, as always, by the wonderfully awesome Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a>.<br />
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For starters, the POW was super excited to find two little goodies in the post today. Our first ATCs from abroad! (Wow, her Majesty’s mail is fast! We are afraid that our lowly mail monkeys are not nearly as efficient).<br />
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Thank you so much <a href="http://twiglet5.blogspot.co.uk/">Jo (Twiglet)</a> and Jill! The POW assures you that while delayed getting to the post office, they are enroute. (PS- We love you mail lady).<br />
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Next, of course is our desk…<br />
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In the wonderful world of crafting, Creative Me has been working on some extra ATC’s for those extra gals who agreed to swap with us last week, so that they could be mailed, a Father’s Day card (forgot to photograph), our 31 Days prompts, and this…</div>
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We have been busy! Which of course means that the craft room has not gotten any cleaner. PA Me keeps telling the POW and OCD Me that we will get to it after school gets out…which is soon.<br />
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(**The POW’s warning: The rest is Family stuff. Scroll to the end if you are here just for the desk!**)<br />
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Fabulous Spouse finally sent us some pictures from his new office on the Front. He is the guy in the middle of the back row that looks like he is hiding, because he should really be in the front row. (PS- Fabulous Spouse is 5’ 10 “ which makes everyone else giants). He is currently working 15+ hour days, so we keep hoping that that whatever sleep he gets is quality sleep! (Silly war, not going on during normal working hours!)<br />
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Oldest Child finished up his Middle School Track career. He also went to his Boy Scout Order of the Arrow Ordeal, and passed. Since it rained this weekend the POW worried about him…sleeping under the stars in nothing but his sleeping bag and a tarp.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child was boy scout camping as well. This was his first “official” campout with the Boy Scouts (he is a Webelos as of Thursday, and those cub scouts ARE allowed to camp with the big boys). He played all sorts of skill games, shot archery, was pulled in the human chariot races, made meals, and got to climb the giant pioneering tower one campsite over. He LOVED it.<br />
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Girl Friday camped as well (at Great Wolf Lodge with the Girl Scouts) and then spent the week prepping for the 1st Grade School Musical. The theme was Old MacDonald, and her class was all pigs. She had a blast, and if we knew how to embed video, we just might have!<br />
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Have a great WOYWW! Off to go hoppinng!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-57948535072448857032012-06-01T08:45:00.000-07:002012-06-03T11:26:01.281-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): One Little Word- May<a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Nihao, Cupcake! Blog" src="http://xnomads.typepad.com/One-on-1-Blog-Button12.jpg" /></a><br />
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Today is June 1st, which meant that it is time for us to share our May Homework or the One Little Word (OLW) Class by Ali Edwards at Big Picture Classes, where we pick a word for the Year, and live it…and document it. Margie at Nihao Cupcake organizes us and has the master list of homework hoppers!<br />
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Our word for this Year is Journey. May’s homework was to create a task list for your word in your life. There are ongoing tasks, and more concrete ones.<br />
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For those who may not know, we chose Journey for our word because Fabulous Spouse left for a year in Afghanistan the day after Christmas. 2012 was definitely going to be a Journey. This month we reflected on that and what we wanted out of this Journey. We definitely did not want it to be a trip to some deserted island of isolation, so what were we doing, or did we need to do to thrive… and make this Journey a great Adventure!</div>
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So, #1: Enjoy the Journey. If you cannot embrace (our word from last year) your situation, you cannot thrive. We are thrivers! (is that a word? OCD Me says no.)</div>
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#2: Engage your friends. Life is an island when your only support person is the cat. (Although, we do love her dearly). The POW cautions that this does not mean that we become that stalker chick friend that causes people to change phone numbers and block calls. Rather, it means that at least once a week we need to get our Creative Me heads out of the scrap room and off the computer, and have lunch or do something with another live person. Live people are good for us. (but not in the creepy zombie eat brains kind of way! LOL!)</div>
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#3: Faith. This one we were kind of doing before January, but the POW wanted to step it up a notch. Right about the time that Fabulous Spouse was deploying, we were invited to be a part of the Long Range Planning Team for our church. This was a big, time intensive project. We almost said no. However, we went to the first meeting, explained our situation, and they asked us to stay and give what we could. 6 Months in, and we have only missed 2 meetings due to conflict with kid schedules. Faith is more than showing up in prayer once a week, and we have learned a lot about our church in the process. We need to work that. (downside, we have been really bad about showing up for that once a week prayer…babysteps… LOL!)</div>
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#4: Have Fun with your Kids! This has been ongoing and hopefully will be. The POW has to remind us sometimes that we are not the only ones affected by this Journey. Our new “normal” impacts the kids as well. When they look back on this experience, we want them to remember it with pride and fondness, not that it was something that they endured.</div>
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#5: (My only specific task) Walk a 5K. Oldest child is training for football…and the football team 10K, the others are active as well. What kind of an example are we if sit on our bottom while we expect them to sweat and play? Writing it down really helped to motivate. May 17th, we did it. 50.42 minutes…and our knees have not forgiven us, but that is OK.</div>
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Here is the Hop List:</div>
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Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/</a> <you are="" here<="" p=""> </div>
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Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Veronica <a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/">http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/</a></div>
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Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com/</a></div>
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Carolina <a href="http://www.micinnamons.blogspot.com/">http://www.micinnamons.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Naomi <a href="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a></div>
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Missus Wookie <a href="http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/">http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Brighton <a href="http://www.simplebrighton.com/">http://www.simplebrighton.com/</a></div>
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Jill <a href="http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com/</a></div>
Cindy <a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/">http://seriousplay.typepad.com/</a><br />
Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/">http://xnomads.typepad.com/</a> <start hop<="" of="" p=""> <br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/tag/one-little-word/">http://scrapinspired.com/tag/one-little-word/</a><br />
Jenn <a href="http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/">http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/</a> <br />
Kimberlee <a href="http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/">http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
Donna <a href="http://holimess.blogspot.com/">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Monica B <a href="http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/">http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kara <a href="http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/">http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Nikki <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">http://www.inkyart.com.au/</a>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-72354993287559214762012-05-30T01:35:00.001-07:002012-05-30T01:35:13.243-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW 156<br />
Happy Bloggiversary WOYWW! Thank you Julia (currently in beautiful Turkey taking care of her parents) for the awesome idea of sharing your desk with the world and then letting us share ours in return!<br />
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Here is our desk with our first ever ATC (2.5 x 3.5 inch card).<br />
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Here is the close up of the card that Creative Me created. (blog candy buddy, contact us at <a href="mailto:scrappnbee@yahoo.com">scrappnbee@yahoo.com</a>)<br />
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It is not very adorned, but it is our first. As a part of this celebration, we are doing a world wide swap, and the POW wanted to keep Creative Me’s work under wraps (shhhh) until it could be sent off, unless our exchange mate wants this one. Trust us, it is awesome! Stop by Julia’s <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> to wish her a happy anniversary, or to see a desk or ATC or two!<br />
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(*The POW’s Warning: the rest is family stuff. Scroll to the end if only here for the desk!*)<br />
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Trying to keep this short this week! Life on the Front continues to go. We see less of Fabulous Spouse, as he is busy adjusting to life on the General’s staff, and going to work before 8AM and getting off by 11PM if he is lucky. We guess that is the price of war. *sigh* (week two and no pictures…*double sigh*) So, Oldest Child took a picture of us typing on Facebook to Fabulous Spouse, our primary communication.<br />
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As for the family, it was Memorial Weekend here in the States. Originally, we had planned on going camping, but the weather bunnies threatened rain and 5000ft snow levels, and while we do not mind camping in the rain, the line is drawn at freezing rain and snow. So, we decided that using the new fire pit and roasting marshmallows would be good enough.<br />
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Girl Friday caught our supper on Saturday while at a Trout Farm birthday party.<br />
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Sunday, Oldest Child went hiking, and the rest of us cleaned, until we got invited to a Mexican and Marshmallows dinner at one of Girl Friday’s friend’s house. Everyone but Oldest Child went (he was content to vegetate with the Xbox and not move after a very steep 8+ miles in 4.5 hours)Spouse is not the only one to forget to document life)<br />
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The rest of the time, we keep finding Illusive Middle Child and Girl Friday holding our new ipod hostage. It was our birthday present last week, but it is their new favorite toy! LOL, at least they are sharing!<br />
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Other than that, it has been pretty quiet. Or we keep forgetting to take pictures! (Guess that FabulousScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-62841266042738836782012-05-23T00:54:00.001-07:002012-05-23T00:54:37.768-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW 155<br />
Well, Wednesday is here again, and that means that that we are one week away from the WOYWW’s bloggiversary! What is WOYWW? It is What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday… when the crafty bloggers from around the globe get together and link up to show their spaces and (if we are lucky) some of the crafts. Head over to Julia's <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> to see the whole list!<br />
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Here is a peek at our desk…<br />
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Creative Me is busy at work on our WOYWW Anniversary ATC…so, no peeking!<br />
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Creative Me has also been busy at work stretching her journaling skills by starting the 31 Days class by Ali Edwards (who also teaches the One Little Word Class) over at <a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/">Big Picture Classes</a>.<br />
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The POW likes this class, because we can feel like we are multi-tasking…being on the computer (as we seem to spend much of our days these days) and digitally scrapbooking our pages for the daily prompts. Creative Me likes the journaling challenge. OCD Me likes the fact that everything looks so neat and crisp, and the Inner Hoarder is just hoping for the chance to go digi scrap shopping.<br />
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(**The POW’s Warning: Family stuff here on out. Skip to the end if you were just here for the desk**)<br />
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Over on the Front, Fabulous Spouse’s Tour Guide Barbie days are over as he has been scooped up to be a member of a General’s staff. He found out on Thursday, and had to pack out by Sunday, and is now in the process of checking in to the American Base and his new (read longer hour with less atta boys) job, and is back to being the new man in the room and on the top bunk. So, I have another layout from the Joint Visitors Bureau instead of pictures...<br />
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This was our birthday week, and so The POW let it be all about us for a change. The little guys took their birthday mom out for dinner at The Ram (mom still had to pay though) and a slice of birthday ice cream pie.<br />
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Oldest Child was out of the house on a backpacking overnighter with the Boy Scouts, but we made up for it by going out for birthday dinner #2 (actually on our birthday) at the local Japanese Steakhouse… a once or twice a year treat for the kids.<br />
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Girl Friday and Illusive Middle Child started summer prep swim lessons. Girl Friday just happens to be the only girl in her class this year, but that does not make her any less girly or pink. <br />
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Illusive Middle Child had his last cub scout meeting as a Bear Scout. To celebrate, we made smores (roasted marshmallows in a graham cracker sandwich with chocolate. A week from Thursday he becomes a Weblo Scout (aka- junior Boy Scout). The Patrol that they chose…Atomic Squirrels (the patch glows in the dark).<br />
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SO that is our week. Off to check out the desks! Leave me a message and I will do my darndest get back to you!<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-41837130831455447552012-05-16T01:45:00.001-07:002012-05-16T01:45:44.244-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW 154<br />
Welcome Wednesday! How are you doing? Well, it has been another busy week, and that means that time has flown by us yet again. It is now time to show you What is on our Workdesk. The Fabulous Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> hostesses us as always. Come over to her place and peek at all the desks, messes, and fabulous craftiness that the world has to offer.<br />
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Here is our desk this week…<br />
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OCD Me and the POW are on the verge of staging an intervention and cleaning up the Chernobyl-esque disaster that is our craft room. However, since the POW is also in charge of making sure that the kids make it everywhere that they need to go, get fed, occasionally bathed, and that the Cat does not disown us, it is still at the bottom of the infamous To-Do list.<br />
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However, one of these days, we will not have anything better to do…in which case PA Me and the Inner Hoarder had better take notice. It will get cleaned! (really) (no really. You can stop snarking coffee out your nose. It is not that funny…ok, maybe a little).<br />
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Here is our card for this week. <br />
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We started out fabulously serious, but then Creative Me added the googly eyes, and it made us smile. Tim Holtz is probably shaking his head in shame… but we still like it. (Has the POW mentioned that we are just a tad sleep deprived right now?)<br />
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This week on the Front, Fabulous Spouse has been busy escorting VIPs and trying not to let the humidity get to him. He managed to send off this picture of himself meeting Nancy Pelosi (former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and current Minority Leader). We were just impressed that he actually got it on film. Sometimes, you just need to be in the right place at the right time!<br />
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Most of our energy this week went into preparing for Girl Friday’s Girl Scout Troop’s fundraiser… a Mommy Daughter Tea. Each girl was responsible for decorating a table and supplying the place settings. We turned to Goodwill to get our place settings and most of the rest of the decorations. This is what we ended up with…a high end bumblebee theme…<br />
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…All the guests voted on best table decorations, and she came in 1st place! Since Girl Friday set the table and arranged the flowers in the middle, we definitely call this her win (even if Creative Me and the Inner Hoarder did the actual shopping). We just had to throw this picture in, because it reminds me of Alice at the tea party when in Wonderland!<br />
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While we were tea partying, my brother and his wife were bringing a little someone into the world. So, they qualified for Mother’s Day (American Observance) just under the wire.<br />
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Illusive Middle Child (token Morning Person in our family) got up at 5AM, heated the oven, and made us cinnamon rolls. Did we mention 5AM. He made all of us breakfast in bed (which upset the other two children as they did not see the point in getting up at 6AM…even for cinnamon rolls). <br />
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Earlier in the week, Illusive Middle Child took 2nd place in his age group for the Hershey’s Track Meet and qualified as a State Finalist. We are very proud of him. Especially since he did not join the track team this year, but went out for the meet because his gym teacher asked him too.<br />
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Oldest Child is still throwing shot put for his Track Team. We had our first meeting for High School Football last night, and he is super excited…except that summer practice may keep him from attending the Troop 50 mile hike.<br />
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Now off to peek at some desks! Thanks for visiting!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-74261133736799144632012-05-09T01:39:00.002-07:002012-05-09T02:16:04.470-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): WOYWW…back from hiatus<br />
Well it is that time of the week again…Wednesday. And although we have been missing in action the last two weeks (blame PA Me and the failure of the cloning process), all the other crafty folk around the globe have been showing off their work spaces and the cool goodies that they have been creating. The always awesome Mistress Julia of the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> runs the WOYWW. Pop on over to see other places or join in!<br />
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Here is our desk today…<br />
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We are definitely in need of some spring cleaning in here, but as it is Spring, and we have three kids… that means that we are never home, and usually ping ponging between three separate places and wondering when the teleportation app will come out or when the cat will finally stop being a slacker and actually go out for her driver’s license.<br />
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Creative Me threw together this card for Mother’s Day. Happy Mother's Day (celebrated this Sunday here in the US)! Since several have asked, the pointy thing holding up the card is a floral frog. We got ours in the gardening center of our Fred Meyers grocery store (a Kroger company), but I am sure they are available everywhere by power of the internet.<br />
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***The POW warns the rest is family stuff. Scroll to the end if you are just here for the desk***<br />
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For any who may have worried, all truly is quiet on the Front. Our hiatus was truly PA Me’s inability to find time to post (totally lame excuse, we know). Since we last posted, Fabulous Spouse has met lots of cool people, like the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a Navy SEAL Admiral (which was more impressive to Illusive Middle Child aka the future SEAL) …without a camera…and celebrated a few holidays, like May the 4th aka Star Wars Day, and Cinco de Mayo (but no pictures again, as this time he was behind the camera).<br />
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However, Creative Me did put together this digital layout from April, when he got to have lunch with a Medal of Honor Recipient from the Vietnam War.<br />
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As for the rest of the tribe, Oldest Child is finishing his last quarter before going to High School. Our baby is growing up! *sigh* He is currently shot putting for Track & Field… after a brief brush with the 100 meter dash. Boy Scout hiking season is also in full swing, and he actually lead the one last weekend…a mere 8 miles and 2300 foot gain (approx. 460 meters). To think, two years ago, he was bringing up the rear!<br />
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Illusive Middle Child has finished soccer season. So now we have just Cub Scouts on the official docket, but he is usually patrolling the neighborhood with his nerf gun (remember, future SEAL). As a matter of fact, we had to get his hair cut because he felt it had gotten too long.<br />
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Girl Friday has been a real helper. She is on dish duty most of the time. This is both good news and bad news. Good news- dishes getting done, bad news- the water bill has doubled, as she is running the dishwasher whenever at least three or more hapless dishes meander into the sink. Recently, she went to the Girl Scout Alice in Wonderland dance (in her version of an Alice Dress). She also was the star helper at Girl Scout spring encampment this past weekend… reportedly being the first to get ready and picked up.<br />
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So while the Pod People may have come in the middle of the night and replaced them with the Stepford versions of really good, helper children, I am not about to trade them back. Not for anything!<br />
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Off to hop and visit your blogs! Thanks for popping by!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-37437253241751550722012-05-01T09:06:00.003-07:002012-05-01T09:07:44.834-07:00Organize your Stuff (round 5): One Little Word Blog Hop<a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Nihao, Cupcake! Blog" src="http://xnomads.typepad.com/One-on-1-Blog-Button12.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" /> </a><br />
Sorry that we have been away. The POW has been overwhelmed with family duties, and had to rally all of us just to keep up with who’s on first and what’s on second! However, it is now the first of the month…Happy May Day! On the first of every month, a bunch of us who have chosen a word to follow or embrace for the year (ours is Journey) as a part of Ali Edwards’ One Little Word project at <a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/">Big Pictures Classes</a> post our homework results from the previous month.<br />
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The always awesome Margie at <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word">Nihao Cupcake</a> organizes us every month, so contact her to get on the list if you want to share too!<br />
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This Month, Ali asked us to write a letter to ourselves that we can revisit next year. It is interesting to see how spot on, or off that we are, in the message that we leave our future selves. <br />
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As you can see, Creative me put a little tab on my right now you are… page. That is because Creative Me could not resist jazzing up the page…and the POW has some of the message (the more personal stuff) on the back.<br />
The one thing that we are realizing is that JOURNEY is truly an appropriate word for this year. We continue to be thankful for the super amazing kids, the Fabulous Spouse and the strength that our Faith provides. The POW had truly forgotten how different every deployment can be. It is hard to remember sometimes that while the path remains basically the same, that so much of the Journey cannot be measured strictly by time and distance. What happens inside our heads makes all the difference. …and we somehow misplaced the Clone who was supposed to help with making sure that we all got where we needed to go and the house got cleaned. Hmmmm. Well, we are all here, mostly… and, yes, the cat does somehow manage to get fed twice a day. So, at this point in the Journey, it is a win/ win all around! …now if the Cat could learn how to drive…<br />
If you are hopping, you probably came from Nikki at <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">Inky Art</a>...<br />
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Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/</a> <--you are here :)<br />
Rebekah <a href="http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/">http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Tere <a href="http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/">http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kimberlee <a href="http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/">http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Brighton <a href="http://www.dearbrighton.com/">http://www.dearbrighton.com/</a><br />
Kristina <a href="http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.ca/">http://hrinspirationfromthe403.blogspot.ca/</a><br />
Missus Wookie <a href="http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/">http://mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word">http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word</a> <--Start of Hop<br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/">http://scrapinspired.com/</a><br />
Jamie <a href="http://www.jmpgirl.blogspot.com/">http://www.jmpgirl.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/</a><br />
Jenn <a href="http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/">http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Jill <a href="http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com/</a><br />
Veronica <a href="http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/">http://www.veronicanorris.typepad.com/</a><br />
Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Monica B <a href="http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/">http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kaylea <a href="http://www.myscrappylife.com/">http://www.myscrappylife.com/</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/">http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/</a><br />
Donna <a href="http://holimess.blogspot.com/">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com/</a><br />
Carolina <a href="http://www.micinnamons-en.blogspot.com/">http://www.micinnamons-en.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/">http://seriousplay.typepad.com/</a><br />
Naomi <a href="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a><br />
Nikki <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">http://www.inkyart.com.au/</a><br />
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<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-82788837228790567262012-04-18T00:35:00.001-07:002012-04-18T00:35:36.904-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 22 (round 5):WOYWW 150Well, last Wednesday, we were on Spring Break and left home shortly after posting. So, now it is Wednesday again and while PA Me and OCD Me fight over whether to do laundry or dishes the POW decided to sneak on over to the computer and get up our What’s on your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW) picture. Travel over to Julia’s <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> to see all the other fabulous Crafty Places, Spaces, and projects…and to make a friend or two! <br />
Here is our messy crafty space…<br />
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Creative Me really needs to pick up after herself more! Here is her card for this week…<br />
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This is a pretty cool card for <a href="http://tuesdaytrio.blogspot.com/">Tuesday Trio’s Sketch 115: Frames</a>. Recently, Creative Me had heard that using the Fabulous Mr. Tim Holtz’s tapes with his crackle paints had fabulous results… and the results were awesome until Creative Me stood the card up and the crackle started popping off! Timmy Fans of WOYWW, do you know the trick?<br />
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Anyway, Creative Me is pouting now, and PA Me has decided that she needs some quiet space, so Dies this weekend.<br />
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*POW warning: Family stuff from here on out. Scroll to the end if just here for the desk ;) *<br />
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This was an interesting week at the Front. Fabulous Spouse’s base was amongst those targeted by the Taliban. The good news, nobody hurt, everyone survived the late boxed dinners that were delivered to their work spaces, and the Office Dodgeball team actually won a game. The bad news, Fabulous Spouse’s visitors were rerouted, and no new pictures for this week…except my newest flowers sent from the Front. (PS-Girl Friday is seriously convinced that they are for her).<br />
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As for the family, this week was Spring Break…a holiday from school. The Scary Orb in the Sky a.k.a. The Sun came out and we had fabulously warm days that popped into the 60s! We also took a trek down to see the rescue wolves at Wolf Haven (on the only rainy day of course!)…<br />
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…as the educational component to our three day stay at the Great Wolf Lodge.<br />
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Never heard of it? It is a water park …<br />
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That is also Harry Potter-esque world called Magi Quest that has you running up and down five flights of stairs and waiving your wands...<br />
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...to complete quests.<br />
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Then we got home just in time to send Oldest Child off to go camping with the Boy Scouts, and take Illusive Middle Child to a soccer game (which they finally won!). Now we are back to school and homework and the regular run around! Have a great week!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-59910536696546439022012-04-11T09:39:00.001-07:002012-04-11T09:39:59.517-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 21 (round 5):WOYWW 149 Pens& PencilsHey Wednesday! Good to see you again! We have been overwhelmingly busy preparing for the holidays this weekend. For our Jewish friends… Happy Passover! … for our Christian friends… Happy Easter! For those up here in the Pacific Northwest…Happy Spring/ Spring Break! We have sun, and thanks to the illusive orb in the sky, we have warm, dryish 60 degree (15.6 C) weather! Which also means that when it comes to What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW) , we have very little to show. For those not in the know, WOYWW is where creative folks all over the globe share their spaces, their craftiness, and maybe a little about their lives. Click on the awesome Julia’s <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> to see the 150+ lot of them! <br />
Here is our desk today…<br />
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For us, it is Week 21 (and the POW does admit that somehow PA Me has commandeered these last few weeks and we are not exactly sure how so sorry for no organizing pics. ooops). It is the week of Pens and Pencils. Since we have gotten a number of inquiries about our Copic holder, the POW has decided they count in this category (although OCD Me disagrees).<br />
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It is quite simple really. We just took our Crystal Light containers and recycled them with rubber bands once we consumed the drink mix packets inside. They are the perfect size for Copic markers, and the top still fits. You could probably hot glue them, but this way I can take one canister or all of them.<br />
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Creative Me used this cute little chick for the <a href="http://tuesdaytrio.blogspot.com/">Tuesday Trio</a> Sketch 114: No text. She used the Copics too LOL!<br />
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(*The POW PSA: Family stuff from here on out. Scroll to the end if just here for the desk*)<br />
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Today’s picture from the Front is Fabulous Spouse and office mates with their mini Easter Baskets (which arrived two days after the box that we sent afterwards….the POW was very stressed that it was going to be a Who-ville Easter!). However, it did get there in time, and everyone was happy to have some jelly beans, Cadbury eggs and chocolate bunnies!<br />
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As for us, it was a bunch of running around as usual, with the addition of Easter egg dying…<br />
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...in preparation for the big day...<br />
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We had morning church service...<br />
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snacked on our baskets...<br />
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hunted eggs (Oldest Child finally decided he was too old to hunt)<br />
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Then we headed to the Space Needle for Brunch<br />
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Girl Friday snapped a picture of us with Illusive Middle Child...<br />
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and here is Oldest Child eating Fabulous Spouse's favorite meal...Alaska Salmon!<br />
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Hope you had a great weekend! Happy Hopping!<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-6594069780486308992012-04-04T09:23:00.001-07:002012-04-04T14:58:34.007-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 20 (round 5):WOYWW 148WoW! What a Wednesday! This is one of those days that has been slow in coming…and yet, it is amazing how fast it has come! Today is What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW) a day when wonderful workers of whimsy share their crafty places and the goodies that they have created! Take a peek over at the Fabulous Julia’s <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> for the international list of awesomeness… <br />
The POW admits that with Easter on the horizon, and the activities that adds to the schedule she has taken PA Me’s approach…and will get to it later. *sigh* Here is our desk today…<br />
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With a very special card…<br />
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Today is a big milestone! Today is Day 100! It has been 100 days since Fabulous Spouse boarded a plane left home for the Front. Creative Me reigned herself in a bit, to keep the extras off. It is a simple card, but that is because Fabulous Spouse likes the simple things!<br />
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This week’s picture from the Front is from a Black Hawk helicopter. Fabulous Spouse got the privilege of escorting a group off base. He got to go up in the helicopter, and even visit an Afghan castle! He also got to eat lunch with a Medal of Honor recipient (Our highest military honor for valor) two days ago. So, needless to say, it has been busy over there!<br />
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Oldest Child has hit a lull. Wrestling is over except for the banquet (tomorrow), so the only picture that we have of him this week is the family group shot with the stuffed camels. It is amazing, the shirt that Fabulous Spouse sent him is an XL...and it fits!<br />
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Illusive Middle Child is playing soccer (or football for the non-Americans). It was just above freezing and raining sideways for his game, so Illusive Middle Child was dressed up as a ball burgler to keep warm! However, he still likes it...and we had sun for practice the other day.<br />
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Finally, Girl Friday (and Illusive Middle Child) had Science and Math Day. She got to see a disected salmon, play math games, cheat at chess and a bunch of other fun things!<br />
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It may be April 1st, but this is no April Fool’s joke! We are here today to share our March One Little Word (OLW) Homework . What is OLW? It is the class at <a href="http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/">Big Picture Classes</a> where we have all picked a word to represent our year (our one little word). The always awesome Ali Edwards gives us a monthly prompt to capture that word. It is also a blog Hop, so you might have reached us from <a href="http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/">Orange Gearle</a>.<br />
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Our word for 2012 is JOURNEY. This week, the homework was to do something concrete with our word. So, my magnificent mother-in-law flew out and watched the tribe, while I took three days of ME time at CKC Portland…a whole state (and what felt like an entire world) away!<br />
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This month I will actually take a JOURNEY. Not in any sort of metaphorical or spiritual way, but a get the heck out of dodge, on the road again, for real JOURNEY! My batteries need a recharge, and I am going SOLO!</div>
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OCD Me has reminded us to keep it short, but is was an AMAZING journey! We always are amazed at the wonderful people that we meet when our heart is open for any kind of a Journey!<br />
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Some of the previous posts about our trip are <a href="http://www.scrappnbee.blogspot.com/2012/03/organize-your-stuff-week-17-round-5-ckc.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.scrappnbee.blogspot.com/2012/03/organize-your-stuff-week-18-round-5.html">here</a>.<br />
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Below is the rest of the blog hop list. <a href="http://www.jenritchie.com/">Jen</a> is next if you are hopping. Thank you Margie as always for hosting!<br />
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Amanda <a href="http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/">http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com/</a> <---YOU ARE HERE***</div>
Jen <a href="http://www.jenritchie.com/">http://www.jenritchie.com/</a> <---NEXT***<br />
Melissa S <a href="http://blog.mshanhun.com/">http://blog.mshanhun.com/</a><br />
Kaylea <a href="http://www.myscrappylife.com/">http://www.myscrappylife.com/</a><br />
Missus Wookie <a href="http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.co.uk/">http://www.mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://seriousplay.typepad.com/">http://seriousplay.typepad.com/</a><br />
Beth <a href="http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/">http://www.thesingularlyordinary.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
Tere <a href="http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/">http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kelly <a href="http://mindingmynest.com/">http://mindingmynest.com/</a><br />
Heidi <a href="http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/">http://mommy.heidimdavis.com/</a><br />
Margie <a href="http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word">http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/one-little-word</a> *Start of HOP<br />
Monica <a href="http://scrapinspired.com/">http://scrapinspired.com/</a> <br />
Jill <a href="http://jillconyers.com/">http://jillconyers.com/</a><br />
Jenn <a href="http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/">http://www.studiojenn.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Kara <a href="http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/">http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Cheri <a href="http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/">http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Catherine <a href="http://myview-catherine.blogspot.com/">http://myview-catherine.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Nikki <a href="http://www.inkyart.com.au/">http://www.inkyart.com.au/</a><br />
Cindy <a href="http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/">http://www.cynthiacrysdale.com/</a><br />
Lisa <a href="http://backtoallen.com/category/one-little-word/">http://backtoallen.com/category/one-little-word/</a><br />
Donna <a href="http://holimess.blogspot.com/">http://holimess.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Coley <a href="http://www.coleybelle.blogspot.com/">http://www.coleybelle.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Naomi <a href="http://poeticaperture.com/">http://poeticaperture.com/</a><br />
Stephanie <a href="http://playinghouseinmaryland.blogspot.com/">http://playinghouseinmaryland.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Ruth <a href="http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/">http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Eydie <a href="http://www.whatwecreate.net/">http://www.whatwecreate.net/</a><br />
Janet <a href="http://lifeinsideascrapbookroom.blogspot.com/">http://lifeinsideascrapbookroom.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Orange Gearle <a href="http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/">http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<br />ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-85277577557016209772012-03-28T07:53:00.000-07:002012-03-28T08:02:04.415-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 19 (round 5): WOYWW 147<br />
Well Wednesday, you have got us again! Where did you come from? …and how did you do it so quietly? We swear that Wednesdays sneaks faster and quieter than any Monday could hope to…Why? Because today is WOYWW (What’s on your Workdesk Wednesday)! It is time to peek and drool over the desks and creations of fabulous folks all around the globe! The always super, spectacular, and fabulous Julia of the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> hosts this lot, so see the folks that make WOYWW so hot!<br />
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*spoiler alert Fabulous Spouse* This is what the finished basket should look like. (yes, those are camoflage easter eggs for the jelly beans!)<br />
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Also, Creative Me did some more traditional paper crafting, and came up with this card for <a href="http://tuesdaytrio.blogspot.com/">Tuesday Trio Sketch#112 Brads</a> or eyelets (PS- in total violation of the no sales pitch, please visit <a href="http://tuesdaytrio.blogspot.com/">Tuesday Trio</a>, as it is possibly closing down if they do not get more sketch players).<br />
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*The POW’s warning: the rest is family. Skip to the end if you are just peeking at the desks*)<br />
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From the Front, Fabulous Spouse has provided his photo of the week…volleyball in T-shirts out of doors (remember that there was snow inches deep like less than a week ago!)…Men! He swears that it was warm and the sun was out, but the POW is sure that it was still too chilly for her.<br />
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Oldest child had a rather eventful week. He had his first pin EVER in wrestling (which was the only one of the three matches that we missed…as we were taking Illusive Middle Child to soccer). Then Oldest Child had a small solo on trombone for Jazz Band at the Middle School Spring Concert. Then he was elected by his Boy Scout Troop to join Order of the Arrow (a Boy Scout Honor Society of sorts) just last night!<br />
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Illusive Middle Child has been in soccer land. It was mucky for our Saturday game (where yet again he is the ball thrower- inner). He is having some frustration that he keeps accidentally touching the ball with his hands and getting yelled at by his teammates)… and yet the coaches ssem to like him so….hmmm. We did however get to see the scary and bright yellow orb in the sky for practice this week. It is gone now, but It was here, we SWEAR!<br />
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Girl Friday has been enjoying her sports free time by hanging with her mom and helping with the tidying and cooking and crafting (we have a bunch of Cricut paper doll cut outs now). Also, this week, our Council celebrated the Girl Scout’s 100th birthday…with a 100th Birthday Bash. Girl Friday joined the Uniform Fashion Show with our old Cadettes/ Senior vest. She also had her end of season basketball party at a bouncy house place.<br />
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…just a little crazy here…LOL! Well we are off to peek at your places! Thanks for visiting!ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-45238308804495720452012-03-21T00:02:00.000-07:002012-03-20T23:36:46.217-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 19 (round 5): WOYWW 146<br />
Whether the weather be hot, or whether the weather be not, Happy Wednesday! It is that time again when we take time out of our day to snap that picture of our happy craft place in all its glory…sometimes neat…oft times not (we raise our hand at that one!). This fabulous peek-fest has been coordinated by our lovely Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a>. Come pop on over to her place to see over a hundred fabulous places and crafty spaces.<br />
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Here is our disaster area…<br />
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Federal funds are tied up in committee, but hazmat suits have been issued and TLDs must be donned at all times. PA Me does not really seem fazed by this. She figures that it will sort itself out when Creative Me needs more space. …besides OCD Me is busy doing laundry, dishes, and keeping the kids' schedules straight!<br />
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ink: Momento & Copic, twine: Queen & Co., punch: Fiskars</td></tr>
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Creative Me does not mind the mess. It speaks to her Mojo Muse (this definitely does not make OCD Me happy). So, this is the card that Creative Me was able to craft for her Design Team Entry for this week’s Tuesday Trio,<a href="http://tuesdaytrio.blogspot.com/"> Sketch 111: Something torn</a>. Creative Me just loves this Avocado Arts stamp set…and living in the Pacific Northwest… AKA: Starbucks land, we can foresee this being used often! <br />
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Well, this week, the world was green, and not in a let’s hold hands and recycle kind of way. It was St. Patrick’s Day. Therefore, everything, including the Front itself was Irish…if just for a day. Word from the Front was that those in Her Majesty’s Royal Army were issued shamrocks. <br />
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The rest of the lads and lasses had to find another way to represent and show a little wearing o’ the green.<br />
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We hope that you enjoyed yours as much as we enjoyed ours!</div>ScrappnBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137640818887958997noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799525348327773110.post-47300076399211953652012-03-14T00:49:00.000-07:002012-03-14T00:49:30.615-07:00Organize your Stuff Week 18 (round 5): WOYWW 145 & tools<br />
Welcome Wednesday! It seems like you come quicker and quicker these days! If it is Wednesday, then it must be WOYWW time…AKA…What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday. It is the time that we share our creative spaces in all their messy glory (ok there are a few not so messy ones too) as well as what they are crafting. The always Fabulous Julia at the <a href="http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com/">Stamping Ground</a> has the links to over 100 desks throughout the world for us to sneak a peek.<br />
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Here is our desk (in the Mariott Courtyard Hotel) from this weekend at the Creating Keepsakes Convention (CKC Portland). It was a wonderful weekend with fabulous new friends and lots to learn!<br />
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Most of our learning was done on our new favorite tool- Photoshop Elements. Here OCD Me and Creative Me took copious notes and WOW! …after six hours of classes over the weekend, this is the last of the three one page layouts that we created…<br />
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Now, all of the credit goes to Patty Debowski (of <a href="http://thedigitalscrapbookteacher.com/">http://thedigitalscrapbookteacher.com/</a>). She took us from zero to hero (the POW is eternally thankful for Patty’s patience with all of OCD Me’s questions). Total infomercial: We recommend her to anyone wanting to learn about Photoshop elements! …and she was totally fabulous about it too. (Even posing for a photo!)<br />
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*Warning: The POW is letting you know that the rest of this post is family stuff. Scroll to the comments if not interested*<br />
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Well, as for news from the Front, Fabulous Spouse is “off the grid” this week on an off base field trip. However, he did send this “Stop” sign posted along the way. It is quite humorous in the English translation. We do not really care where he is, as long as he is safe, and brings home souvenirs!<br />
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Oldest Child might as well be of the grid, but he had two more wrestling matches. He lost the one while we were in Portland and then had a forfeit yesterday (making him 2-3 as of now). He has also discovered Xbox live…and his friends who are also on it… *sigh* The POW feels that the upside is that it is one more thing that we can take away when the grades slip….<br />
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Illusive Middle Child started soccer…in the freezing rain! ...and has his first game this weekend. We also wrapped up the basketball season at Round Table Pizza with the obligatory awards (and a pull aside by the coach that if we needed a good coach for next year to let him know because our boy has POTENTIAL!)…that makes a mom feel good…except that means more basketball games LOL!<br />
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Girl Friday missed her last basketball game this week. She did have one more Girl Scout Cookie sale down town…in the cold with her Girl Scout BFF…<br />
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Did we mention that we got Voodoo Donuts from Portland? Awesome!<br />
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