Day 6...

Crispy crusted red snapper

Day 5...

Carolyn joined us for a Chicken Piccata dinner

"I'm a little teapot"

Ahhhhh...

Day 4...

Tuesday night Bible study

Day 3...

Driving Joel to school

Joel & Miss Bonni

Waking up at 7pm - love the sleep lines on the forehead!

Day 2 Pictures

Here are a couple of the pictures I took on the 2nd day of my "week in the life" project.

Having fun taking pictures in the mirror after cleaning them!

A Week in the Life...

I have been in a serious creative rut for a while now - but my sister Christina told me about this project she did called "A Week In The Life". This very creative Oregonian came up with the idea and teaches classes and she has the whole project on her Blog. http://aliedwards.typepad.com/_a_/a-week-in-the-life.html The idea is that you capture your life at a point in time. So you take pictures of everything, and you keep things too (like receipts, pictures your kids bring home, fortune cookie fortunes, etc). Then at the end of the week (or sometime in the future), you scrapbook it all. SO, I thought maybe this would help with my rut and I started it yesterday. So far I LOVE IT!! Here are a couple of pictures from today:

I don't know if I will be able to keep up with posting picutres here every day, but I thought I would let you know what I am doing...and maybe you would want to do it, too!!

What IS that thing? (Take 2)

It's a ribbon bag, of course! Greg may think that "it's not much to look at..." (and if I'm honest, he's probably right), but it is so functional I am hoping that its functionality will outweigh its slightly crazy appearance. I now have all my ribbon in one, portable place, so wherever I may be, I WILL have what I need (and not have to buy more to add to this crazy collection!).

So you can buy a less-crazy looking version of one of these for about $20 online, but I decided to go the free route. I used one of those bags that pillow cases come in (and had already been holding some of my ribbon) and punched holes all over it. It did take me about an hour to do just that part, but again, it's free.

I then got out all my ribbon (prevoiusly threatening to burst out of a good-sized drawer) and organized it. I had a lot of short pieces in little tiny plastic bags and a lot of spools, too. I didn't unspool anything over 2 yards, otherwise it would have gotten too full. But I did take about a yard or two of each color of ribbon - because you never know when you might need a yard of peach satin ribbon! (Just kidding, I threw that one away!)


Then, starting at the bottom, I threaded the ends of the ribbon through the little holes. I did try to do them in color order, but it isn't perfect...and I'm ok with that. My other great hope with this project is that it doesn't turn into one big rats nest in there as soon as I start pulling pieces out to use. :)

Another Christmas Project

Joel and I made these ornaments for people this year. Actually, I helped him with the first 2 and then he made the other 9 by himself! It was a really great project for him and people seemed to really love them!

Calendars!

A couple of years ago my sister and I started making calendars for each other every year for Christmas. I found these magnetic frames at Creative Memories and then we just make a 12x12 page for each month that slides in behind the frame (it's on my refrigerator, just in case you wondered...).

This is the January page that Christina made for me. The next two are ones that she made as well.

Sometimes we put pictures on them...I love this one of our little "J's" (Joel and Jordan are only 10 weeks apart and they are best buddies!)

And here are a couple of the ones that I made for her...I am still working on getting the whole year finished. :)

Here's a sneak peek of one that Christina hasn't seen yet!