Good news and bad news

Good news.. Im ALOT better. Still sniffly sicky yucky icky excrements leaking out my face, but compared to Thursday and Friday ITS ALOOOOTTTTT better. Fever is under 100 whe dadgum whew.
BAD NEWS.. Now Bella has it. :( So trying to keep her hydrated and entertained so she will stay laying down. SHe is pitiful. I feel so bad for her I know how horrible it feels poor baby. Hopefully it will have run its course and left the Jones household and WONT be hitting anyone elses.
Right now I am contemplating a harness, necklace type dealie for my bottle of nyquil with a straw. Why do they make these so hard to get into? when Your sick.. you can't do such difficult things as push down while turning to the whuu??? you grab the bottle and bang it on the counter praying a drop will spew from the top and make it to your sinuses... yeah, lovely thoughts we are having right now. This is some sick joke and I really emphasise the sick part. AS I don't wish this on anyone.

Thank you for all the prayers and get well wishes. Hopefully I will be back to full speed soon. I know IM getting better because IM much more grouchy than usual. You know its bad when you just dont have the energy to argue. BUT this needs to go on away now. RIGHT NOW. see what I meant about the grouchy part? your getting that huh?
I have things due for Iscrap for the new newsletter and tutorials due and pages due and AAAAACK! THIS is why I DON'T PROCRASTINATE as soon as I get a task to do I do it THEN and there. We never know what is lurking around the bend. oH WELL. Tomoorrow is another day, and a new bottle of nyquil. THIS ONE maybe with an easy open lid and collapsable straw.

I will be back

I have been bad sick still am.. praying this isnt the flu. SO just letting you know im not posting right now. if you call I probly wont answer cuz well Im sick... and I dont ahve a voice (lryngitis) Anyway. thats why I ahvent posted and Ill be back when i feel liek sitting here right now aint it. my email box keeps filling up. but I will get to it when I can sit up longer. thanks for your prayers nad love,


me.

RAK WINNER!

I wanted to announce the winner of the RAK on for the Daisy D valentines. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS GOES TOOOOO ::::DRUM ROLL:::: ELIZABETH BAILEY!!! WHHEHEWWWW congratulations!! Be sure to PM Tracy at TTS with your address to receive your prize.

I wanted to thank everyone for their prayers for my Mother in law. SHe is at home and still healing. Her hard headed self tried to go to work Monday (yeah I know I was livid! and very afraid for her and everyone where she worked) SO now we are praying she will stop being so stubborn and do what the dr tells her. Bella loves her nana and so do we. We want her to be here a long time. If she doesn't start taking care of herself.. well. I don't know what we would do if we lost her. I just don't know. So Pray for her still if you would to listen to the dr's.

Here are the valentines I made this weekend for a swap we are doing at scrap-diner.








Also Bella and I did the valentine goody bags for her class.

love and prayers

I made this for my hubby for Valentines day. (he has already seen it) I love these little books they are so cute and fun to make.

Im a little distracted right now. We just got the news that my mother in law was admitted to the hospital. She has the flu and Pnumonia and isn't doing real good. My sister in law just told me she is doing better than she was but she still needs alot of prayers and for the meds to work. So Im gonna cut this short today. SO please say a prayer for her. The flu is hurting a lot of people this year. (my dr's have pretty much banned me from the public since my immune system is suck right now) so wash your hands alot and if someone sneezes run.. run like the wind lol.

Here is a prayer for mA that she gets to feeling better soon. Wish we coudl be there with her but she knows that well they have banned me from going. grrrrrr.

WHO WANTS TO WIN A RAK????

WHO IS READY FOR A VALENTINE GIVE A WAY????



Tracy at Treasures To Scrap is giving away 3 (three) Daisy D valentine kits valued at $7.99 each! Want to get in on this give away? Here is what you do. Make a VALENTINE and post it in the TREASURES TO SCRAP gallery. LINK it back to the TREASURES TO SCRAP BLOG, or to Tracy's Blog Or here on my blog.

IF you do all three then you have 3 chances to win!! ALL entrants names will be put into a hat and drawn from. HOW DOES THAT SOUND? Get your kids involved! and You can enter more than once. Tracy wanted to share the love this valentines day with this give away and asked me what I thought. HEY Im always up for a give away. SO go ahead and get to work on those valentines!! I can't wait to see what you make.

NOW she does have a few rules that apply. The Daisy D Valentine set give away is for USA PARTICIPANTS ONLY.. UNLESS you would rather have a gift certificate to her paper store instead of the prize give away (sorry you can understand shipping is a huge factor in this) Unless you would like to pay the shipping yourself.
IF you enter and win and your not in the U.S. Then you have the option of paying the shipping yourself or taking a gift certificate in the same dollar amount to her paper store. Make sense? She has alot of non U.S. Members so wanted to give everyone a chance. SO lets share the love and SEE THOSE VALENTINES!!!

The drawing will be held on Monday February the 11th at 12:00 pm Eastern time. GOOD LUCK and lets see those valentines!!
ALL VALENTINES MUST BE POSTED BEFORE 12:00 PM EASTERN TO QUALIFY WITH LINKS POSTED BACK TO THEM ON ONE OF THE THREE BLOGS.

OMG! IM SPEECHLESS!

I know call guiness! IM SPEECHLESs haha. IM sooo excited! GO look HERE ON Terri Conrad's blog!!! She named me one of her FABULOUS Designers she featured! I am so excited!

I am not sure you can get the grin off my face right now! Terri is the FABULOUS designer of Websters Papers THey have some of the most gorgeous papers. Some you just wanna look at. It was hard cutting these papers Im telling you but man what gorgeous scrapbook pages they make!
Im so excited! THANK YOU SO MUCH TERRI! Did I tell you today how much you ROCK!!
Here are the pages that I made with Terri's designs.
Bella is ready to paint frames so errrr. I gotta run We will show what we create later on. Have a great monday and HAPPY MARDI GRAS!! THank you for looking XOXOXOOX

THe Soup or bowl?

Ya know I just love how literal kids are. You always know where you stand, you always know what they think. They are born as honest as can be. If it is ugly they will say so. If it tastes yuck then well you will hear about it.

So in honor of the super bowl being today, John has cooked some things for us to snack on. Bella wanted us to make a few more things to go with our spread.

John asked well what else do you think we need? She said "I fink hmmmm. some mashed tatas and some soup."
With a very perplexed look on his face he asked her "Why do we need mashed potatoes and soup?"
She looks at him like omgosh are you crazy or what.
she said "Daddy! ughh its the SOUP BOWL aren't we gonna have soup????"

Hope you get your feel today of Soup er bowl Sunday!!

Check it out...

Sorry havn't posted. This shingle break out wasnt as bad as they have been. We caught it early and thank you huge to my Dr.and Nurse Deb, I feel mucho better! Still weak and some nausea, tired tired but NOTHING like before. I was ready to start pulling my teeth on that side of my head. Miserable. SO thank you all for the prayers. IM bouncing back pretty well. Still look goofy (whats new huh) but not so much like an extra in Micheal Jackson's thriller video. (ALthough I do have the dance moves down pat!) hehe

I have kinda put on hold my big thing I have been praying over but I HAVE NOT set aside my plans. Thank you all for the support as well on that even for not knowing. Sorry to be that way but I just want to be sure I do the right thing. My hubby has been on me and talking with me about it and I have consulted a couple of experts so.. we will see. Just gonna put it in the good lords hands.

HEY if you are out and about Pick up a copy of SOMERSET MEMORIES FEB/MARCH issue and thumb on over to page 41, 42 and 43 and see my article. IM SOOOO EXCITED!! THis is my first BIG article. Thank you so much Jana for working with me on this. YOU ROCK SISTA! I have some more things that are gonna be out soon but that is the big one right now.

I have several things in this issue of Ready Set Create as well. I stopped counting at like 19. Totally shocking Im tellin ya!

I have alot of scrapping to catch up on. IT is so easy to get behind. I got 2 boxes in the mail in the past week IM just dying to rip into and play with. So more on that when I get some stuff done. IM just happy to be verticle today for a bit and out of bed. BUT.. I think I have been up long enough now so back I go. Hope you all have a blessed day!!

say aprayer

Not feelin' so hot. so If yousdont see any newposts.. sorry. Not sure if lupus is flaring its ugly head or if its shingles or kidneys or what but.. something is wrong so just say a prayer and Ill be baack soon. xoxoxoxo

Snow what...

Yesterday I worked with the Heidi Grace line of papers that had snow designs on them. I couldn't stop touching these papers. They are all flocked with felt on them (say that fast 3 times lol) and they just feel so good to the touch. HOW perfect it was to use this photo of my Neice dog, Indy.
I used the flocked papers and I cut out the snowflakes. I added some jewels to jazz things up. I cut the title out with the cricut and used the doodlebug sugar to jazz them up a bit.
THe journaling says: OK, SO it snowed. I see it. Its all over the place. It is even on my nose. I get it. This doesn't happen very often here. You human people wanna go play in it. WEIRDO'S. We have come out here and seen this "SNOW" so can we PLEASEEE go back inside where it is warm now?????
INDY and the snow of 08.

NOTE she is sitting on TOP of the picnic table so her feet wont touch the snow rofl. Can't say I blame her.


I still am organizing and working today. Still getting my thoughts together and figuring out what we are going to do. It is coming down to the fact I am going to have to figure out how to juggle and do online designing and bring in the money. I can focus on the money aspect which is the publishing and the behind the scenes work that I love, OR leave it in someone elses hands to if I get paid or not. Whichever way it goes I know God will lead me in the direction I need to go. He is making it PRETTY OBVIOUS what I need to do. I hate not having guarantees and we know stress = shingles. Which in turn... cost more money. More money for meds, more dr appts, and not being able to do the studys where my lupus treatments and tests are taken care of. SO.. with that said I still have to keep praying and just do what I gotta do. BUCKLE DOWN and FOCUS. Which is hard for me. I am easily distracted. Part of adhd/ocd I dunno but I do have a hard time with it. It could even be medication related. BUt what do you do.. You have to take the meds. So anyway. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the prayers and thoughts and sweet emails and phone calls from my family and friends. Thank you for supporting me and trying to help me figure all this out so things can settle down. MUCHO LOVE TO YOU! I know one thing. I will be so happy when Flu season is over and I can get out in the world without having to do a MONK hand wash routine. I know.. its part of my life and I have to deal with it but I miss interaction with humans other than my kid and hubby. THank GOD for the internet.

YUP Still organizing, but I need your help

Still on my organizing frenzy. That is how I think. It is also how I make decisions. I have alot on my mind today, as I have for the last week. I have an UNBELIEVABLE opportunity that has fallen into my lap One that can remedy alot of things for our family. One that I can't make assumptions or THINK I know what I am getting into. I like things clear and concise. I want to know what Im doing. I like schedules. I hate change. I like routine. YES IM BORING. Yall know that already, yall read my blog ROFL.
This is a real deal. Not a play around decision. Yeah its big.
SO Im asking you right now. You, that are reading my blog. TO help me. HOW you ask. I want you to say a prayer, I want you to light a candle, I want you to do whatever it is you do. BUT I want you to pray I do the right thing. THis is not a small thing Im thinking on. This is a future decision. NOT JUST MY future. Its not a I get to be on a design team or I get to have my layout published decision. I am not a scrap somebody, I don't care about that or have a desire for it.. I only want to make enough money, to pay the difference in what my hubby is making to what they changed on our insurance. That has been my goal since we found out it was changing. That is my desire, my goal and my objective. So, THIS is a LIFE ALTERING Decision that is pretty big. I hate to dissapoint people. I don't want to let down anyone, that is why I have such a hard time with decisions. I want to do the best thing for everyone. SO that is where I am today. Praying, thinking, organizing, got my head on straight yesterday now I got to make sure it is facing the right direction. SO please, say a prayer... This is a decision that will effect everyone. Thank you to my family and my friends for helping me with this as well. I love you guys more than you know and YES I DO KNOW you will always be there for me. Thank you to my hubby, I love you and yes Im listening to you. YES you know I will do the right thing.

Getting my life back

I have been on an organizing frenzy to say the least. Im getting all my stuff organized and separated. Getting my calendars organized and set and getting my head on straight. I have so many things that need to be done. BUT I spend my time spinning wheels sometimes. So I am going back to my list making. THAT is how I can get things done and remembered. After forgetting a VERY IMPORTANT THING and almost effecting allot. I refuse to let this happen again. SO ORGANIZED I WILL BE. Im separating out all my things and getting things in order. EVERYONE STAND CLEAR.. she's goin' in rofl.

Here are some things I have made for the challenge blast and other projects. I have been scrapping up a storm getting things accomplished. I have projects due all over the place. SO bear with me as I check things off my list.

I made this card with product from Scrap-Diner design team.
The coluzzle embossing template from my own product and inks etc.

I am using up some of my stash of older product as well.
This is from Chatterbox a line called love shack. I hand cut the cover for the mini book from a template I made from scanning and upsizing a matchbook.

THis page I did for Scrap-Diner's Challenge blast. This is the multi photo challenge.

This I made with Moxxie product from my stash.

This is another one I made from product from scrap-diner for the challenge blast. Well most the product.


This is a card I made for a friend. With some stash product.

I have had another thing picked up for publication also so I tickled about that. My ultimate goal is to bring the difference in in what hubby makes to what we need since the insurance change and so far... its working. I am realising that alot of times things are not always as they seem. A big star no.. I have no desire. I just need to do what I can do with my health issues from my house. God has given me something I can do. Scrap. IF I WERE HIM I would be insulted if it were not used to the best of my ability. So IM getting off here so I can finish getting organized so I can do just that. Take care of my family and achieve that.

Webster's Pages

I received these AWESOME products From Terri Conrad, She is a Designer for Webster's Pages. I just have to say this paper is gorgeous. I used almost 2 whole packages of bling on this page to accent with. One pack had pearls (so pretty) and then some teeeeniny bling on the end of the sprays that are sticking out of the flowers. I added dimension and inked it all up, I cut my own scalloped paper since I hoarde my scalloped cardstock so bad.. I use it as a template to cut my own.
I had a fabulous time playing with these papers and there are some more projects I will post when I am finished with.
Check out Websters Pages website and also Terri's blog. SHe is the sweetest person.
Thank you again for the opportunity to use your designs.

Have you MET ME????

HELLO. Im Guido. PRONOUNCED GWEEEEEEEEE DOUGH. Or as the oldest man who visits sometimes that the little blonde haired child calls papa calls me.. dorito or as the blonde haired child called me.. dough dough. Whichever way you pronounce it.. I RUN things around here. See that cute little blonde haired child in the blog header? she really Belongs to me. I just let the him and her of the house borrow her. But, mine she is. I am the one that checks on her constantly by peeking in the window. I make sure she is getting enough sleep by barking loudly outside the window. When they reply HUSH "SHE" is asleep. I know I have done my job.
I am her protector. I won't let her past me no matter how hard she tries. I go back and forth in front of her when she tries to walk.
I lick her face when she walks outside to show my love and peek in the window when she giggles, or cries, or screams, or yells, or makes anything that resembles a sound. I will bark and paw the window till she tells me DOUGH DOUGH IMMM OKAY! THen I have done my job.
I just wanted to let you know who runs the show around here just in case you get confused. HE and SHE think they do but its REALLLY ... HER AND ME.

Nana To the Rescue?

A conversation over heard yesterday...

Bella: "Daddy, will you fix me some Hot chockolit'?"
John: "In a minute Bella ... are you going to drink it?"
Bella: "Yes, will you make me some?"
John: "In a minute I am working here."
Bella: "DADDY! I WANT some hot chockolit!!"
John: "Bella your not gonna drink it.. you will just waste it I have made it before."
Bella: :SIGH: "DADDY! IM callin' my nana. IM gonna tell her on you!"
JOhn: ::snickers:: "You do that..."
Bella: (dials on her barbie Telephone) "NANA, Diz is Bella, DADDY IS BEIN MEAN! HE WONT FIX ME SOME HOT CHOCKOLIT!! COME BEAT HIS BUTT."
John: ::laughs::
Bella: "Daddy I called Nana and she is coming to beat your butt cuz you are being mean." ::gloats::
John: "MMMHMM I know who is about to get in trouble.." ::gets up to go into kitchen::
Bella: ::Panicked:: "HER REALLY DIDNT SAY THAT DADDY! SEE!! SEE!! LOOK DA BARBIE PHONE DOESNT EVEN HAVE BATTERRRRRRYSSSS!"
(as opposed to how good it would contact nana IF IT DID HAVE BATTERIES)

Hope your weekend is going great!
Today we have another rockin challenge up at www.scrap-diner.com for the Challenge Blast. Be sure and check it out!

Snow in Bama? OH......

MELTED SNOW... I GET IT.. YOu mean THE KIND of snow that is also known as RAIN????
BElla wants SNOW very badly. EVERY morning she looks at me and says.. "is it snow?" I say "Nope baby its sand" Im awaiting the day she looks at the sky and exclaims "its sanding mommy its sanding!!" I try to explain to her
we don't live in a "SNOW FRIENDLY" climate. That we live in a "SAND FRIENDLY" climate. You know the one... that is close to the Gulf of Mexico?
Being 4 she hasn't learned that quite yet but we are working on it. YES we do get the occasional flake and I DO MEAN other than your weekend wander at walmart people watching kinda flake.. falling here in Mobile, Alabama but IT AINT REAL OFTEN. Matter of fact in the 3 and 1/2 years we have lived here, it snowed 1(ONE) uno yes singular TIME! Luck would have it we went home to Mississppi and it didn't snow there.. just here. WHY? cuz that is how our luck ussually works. Its ok she was too little to really understand snow yet anyway.

I know really we are not prepared for it to snow. I mean think about it. We have a following of old people here that flock as far down south as you can get without actually leaving America, to get warm. So just think ... all those people.. plus everyone here that is not used to the cold, attempting to drive in the snow. DID YOUR BRAIN JUST EXPLODE? yeah you get it then. It brings back memories of driving in central Mississippi in the snow. Its about the same. Not used to snow much there either. I remember my mom sending my brother to the trading post.. what yall don't have a little store called Tommy's Trading Post there? Ok well hang tight.. well you have to go around this GARGANTUOUS S curve then hang a sharp left kinda back down a little hill while turning left and there is a HUGEEEE drop off ditch... RIGHT THERE. THE one that when my brother turned the wheels for us to go to said "Trading Post" we were staring at thinking "THIS IS IT Lizbeth We comin to join ya!" Well being 8 years old the first thing that came to mind was Oh crapp freak out but instead of that coming out my mouth I said " WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeee" The look of shock and disbelief on my brothers face was well worth it. Of course the fingerprints I left in the oh crapp bar on the door you hang on to when my mother was driving.. are probly still there.

Having all that said.. I guess Im kinda glad its not snowing in Mobile. It's raining. Its cold and that magical glimpse of OH IT might just SNOW is in BElla's eyes today. Even though I have told her that the weather man said ITS NOT gonna snow its just gonna rain. But when your 4 you still believe in the possibilities of the maybe.. MAYBE it will snow, MAYBE mommy will let me sleep in THEIR BED TONIGHT.. MAYBE I can have skittles for Breakfast.
so... Maybe just MAYBE... It will snow in Mobile.

NO matter if it is raining, or Snowing.. or as Bella says SUNNING.. You can still come by www.scrap-diner.com today and check out our day 2 of the CHALLENGE BLAST. Yesterday was GREAT FUN and today there will be another AWESOME CHALLENGE PUT UP. SO come play with us and win some fabulous prizes and have a BLAST! Here is the page I did for yesterdays Challenge. You can see the tutorial and the challenge details right ....> HERE<~~~
and MAYBE ... JUST MAYBE..... well ... You already know hehe.

SCRAP - DINER CHALLENGE BLAST

TODAY starts the first day of the CHALLENGE BLAST at Scrap-Diner. GOnna be alot of fun and some GREAT challenges. We have been working major hard to come up with some fun ideas and prizes.

IT IS COOOOOLD here this morning. My joints feel like IM about 80. I could be an advisor for the weather center. It never fails I get sooooooo tired Swollen joints and just fell crappy when it does this. BUT FUN THING... THE MARDI GRAS PARADES ARE STARTING UP!!!
GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN! Last year we had sooo much fun going to the parades even though it was mighty cold. The parades are a blast! Bella got really good at saying "THROW ME SOMETHIN MISTER!" so good infact when we went to the Christmas parade she yelled it there too hahahahahahaha!!!! WAS SOOO FUNNY! SHe had so much fun though. I have a huge bag of recyclable beads and things for this year. Writing note to self to get those in.

The kids will be out of school down here to enjoy some of the festivities but that is later. Today they get out half day for Teacher work day.

They are talking there MAYBE SNOW FLURRIES up near Birmingham and back Home near Jackson Mississippi. Bella wants it to snow soooo bad. I keep telling her we just don't live in a snow prone area. NOT making her happy right now hahaha!

John got my phone yesterday so Im back in business. Its charging now as we speak.

Dont forget to come check out the challenge blast. Lot's of fun challenges and prizes.

THURSDAY

OK sorry I didnt post yesterday having AOL issues and and also working my tail off getting ready for:

We are doing a challenge a day with tutorials and samples!! (so Im having to make the pages do step by step tutorials and photos to go with) so Yes I have been VERY BUSY!
JOHN just sent me and EMAIL with a PHONE IN IT HE CAN GET A SCREAMIN DEAL ON WHEEWWWHEWWWWW! I know most of you know my phone won't hold a charge and sometimes it works most times it dont.. MAKES ME CRAZY!! THE OLD ONE I HAD was dropped 9 thousand times till it died. This one is Johns old one and it was fine but then the little connector thing to charge it is not working right. AND the power wont stay on.
SO hopefully by MONDAY.. that will be remedied! BElla LOVES my phone. She gets it and pretends she is talking on it and will put it in her purse or her shopping cart... I don't know how many times I have had to ask my pals online to CALL ME SO I CAN FIND MY PHONE!!! well that doesn't work anymore... I need to when I can get the power working good get all my numbers off of it and print them off, sad huh I dont know the numbers I just know that I hit J and it calls JOHN. I know bad huh!

SO ANYWAY.. sorry if yall called. I have it on now. but ... IT is not holding a charge :(
Bella is all excited today is DONUT day at school. Tomorrow they are out half a day and then out of school on Monday. So she is pumped! I am going to be scrapping my heart out! I have all my challenges done but I really wanted to do a few more samples for it... we will see. I have one more tutorial to write and IM DONE!!!

I have some submissions to get finished up that I got call backs for so that is good. Don't get too excited mama I get called now but they dont come out till like JUNE. I have some sooner than that but I did the work for them like last year haha. That is one of the hard things with this scrapbook stuff. It is hard to get excited and then wait for 6 months BUT THAT IS OK it is worth it. The good lord has been good to us and helping us make up for the additional medical stuff that this LOVELY INSURANCE that we have (DO NOT GET ME STARTED AGAIN) since Johns company changed and so did the LOVELY insurance ::insert major eyeroll:: THe worse part is the medication I have to take. ITS SOOOOO EXPENSIVE. THAT IS why we stay in. I cant get out much. He said ONE bout of the flu can wipe me out. So we are being germ freaks and washing the hands like monk and I stay in. I have picked Bella up a few times from school but I stay in my car, I do not get out around the kids. AND YES LIKE MONK. I have wipes in my car and wash bellas hands when she gets in. hahaha I KNOW crazy crazy but you do what you have to do so you stay out of the hospital! I have after Friday 4 more weeks!!!! Till the worst is over and I can get out more. (ok so maybe that is a warning hahaha)

I miss my friends really bad BUT I HAVE GOTTEN ALOT OF SCRAPPING DONE!!! (to keep sane!!!)
(if you can call me sane. oh shut up Windale)

COME ON To THE CHALLENGE BLAST WE are doing a fun challenge every day and a Technique so to speak. IT is really going to be fun and we can't wait for you to come play.
WE have a ton of cool prizes to get out and fun things to do. SO come on and have a great time with us, get some pages finished and win some great prizes to boot!

OH JAN: THIS IS JUST FOR YOU!

wheewwhewww for UHU!

I received a sample in the mail not to long ago, of some UHU products to play with. One of the samples was a UHU GLUE STICK. Im not a big glue stick user but I though what the hey I will try it. LET ME TELL YOU, I was very impressed. SO IMPRESSED, I USED IT to make THIS PROJECT. The only place I DID NOT USE IT was on the inside pockets where I needed some liquid glue. BUT, IT EVEN HELD THE RIBBON! I was totally amazed at the power of this glue stick! Check out the UHU PROJECT BLOG they do some sample give aways as well and you can get some great project ideas. Id like to thank them for letting me play with their products and yes I will be using them :)

My Shopping Organizer


This is a handy little organizer you can keep in your purse or you storage compartment of your car. You can keep your grocery or shopping lists, coupons, sale papers, and even receipts in it. It is very simple to make and makes a great gift to give friends or family members.

You will need:
12 x 12 sheet of cardstock
matching patterned paper (you can use scraps)
coordinating ribbon
a good holding glue
(I used UHU glue stick) on everything but the pockets.
Letter stickers or chipboard
Ink or chalks
Cardstock scraps (or another sheet that will match your patterned paper)
3 pens or pencils
Bling or other embellishments


Step 1.
Fold your cardstock 1/3 over (you can use a bone folder to help make the crease really well)


Step 2.
Fold OVER right to left 1/3 (just a little bit OVER 1/3 )

Step 3.
Fold from LEFT TO RIGHT the remainder piece over the piece you just folded (will look like this)


it will be a little bit short from covering it all. THAT IS OK. YOU will see in a bit what we are gonna do with it 

Step 4
Unfold it


Step 5.
Use your adhesive glue on the creases JUST on the creases. Then on the outer right edge
Then on the outer left edge ONLY.



Step 6.

Fod it back over and try to press the outer right and left REALLY good. Then the creases try to leave a bit of a pocket. When it will hold some. Place your pencils or pens in the pockets so it will have some space there for you to put your lists and coupons etc.
LET THAT DRY.

Step 7

Flip it over onto the back when the glue is dry. Adhere your ribbon onto the BACK. On the left 2/3rds of the paper. DO NOT glue it all the way across. THAT piece will fold IN and then it wont tie correctly.



Step 8

Flip it back over to the pocket side facing up.
Measure the fronts of your pockets and cut your patterned paper you selected
Accordingly. Ink your edges all the way around the patterned paper.


Step 9.

Cut a coordinating pice of cardstock in a stip approximated 2 x 12.
Use your stickers or chipboard letters (whatever you selected to use for your
Letters)
You can trim around it after you have adhered them on the cardstock. and cut
Them into labels.
Ink the edges.
I took a zig writer and outlined my stickers so you can see the letters better.



Step 10.

Fold the LEFT side to the middle
Then the right side OVER that .
Tie your ribbon so it will hold.
Measure the front (right side you just folded over)
Cut your patterned paper accordingly and ink the edges.
Adhere to the front.

Step 11

Cut some remainder scrap cardstock smaller than the patterned paper.
Ink your edges.
Add the title of your organizer (you don’t have to use the same title I did )
Add embellishments to decorate the remaining space.
And your done.
NOW an additional thing you can do. The left piece that you folded
In and the cover folded over that.
You may make an additional pocket on that if you would like, or adhere a note pad
To it for jotting down notes,

Monday monday...

How can you not smile when looking at these photos? I took these this morning of Miss Bella-bug. I was telling her jokes and making faces. LOVE that smile and how her nose crinkles when she laughs. I just have to smile when I look at these.






I posted the MY LIFE challenge at www.scrap-diner.com today. The theme for January is Cool Change. SO I chose the topic "The last 10 years then and now" show how far you have come over the last 10 years. The Journaling is as follows: 10 Years ago we were a couple. A couple of kids
embarking upon a new adventure. We wanted to
be married but I had not long been diagnosed with
Lupus and was having a lot of health issues. We
Had canceled our wedding 2 times because of my
Health and I desperatly wanted to WALK down the
Isle. Through therapy and Intense steroids WE DID
IT! We bought a house, in Goshen Springs Mississippi.
We had 2 doggy children Chester and Baby aka “stinker”
We lived a few miles away from both of our familys.
Life was good. We had a lot of trials but came through
Them not only as Husband and wife, but best friends.
(1998)





So much has happened in the
Last 10 years. Not only did
Our marriage grow in love,
but in size as well. We so
Desperatly wanted children
But my health was against us.
FINALLY when I hit a remission
In 2002, The dr said Now or Never,
with little optimism we would have
A child. Boy did we prove them
Wrong. We had a difficult pregnancy
and delivery but we have a
Very vibrant, beautiful daughter.
John took a Job in Mobile, Alabama.
Out of remission, it took a year to
move us there with him there.
It was hard, but we made it.
We can not have any more children
but we feel We are now a family.
Just what we always wanted we now
Have. I can’t wait to see what the
Next 10 bring. (2008)






I also have a very special prayer request. My friend Tracy, I know you have heard me mention her son in law Trevor, the one that finally made the transplant list. Well he is having trouble today and they asked us to put out a call for prayers. He is having seizures and was in some trouble. He is in icu at the hospital. As for now they have stabelized him somewhat but he is not out of the woods yet. Please pray this family has the strength to endure the journey they are on. All of them. Especially Trevor.

Also they are still searching for the other 2 bsbies that were thrown from the Dauphin Island bridge. They had recovered 2 as of yesterday but still searching for the other 2. (4 total) Please pray for the family of these 4 babies, especially the mother. The tragedy was brought on by the father, for unknown reasons, he is in jail. look at my previous post for more details if you would like them.


That is all for me today. Getting more work done and John is BACK in POPLARVILLE.... hope he gets to be home at a decent time today.