Wow, have you seen this cool ornament by Terri at Stampin -up.com? It is on you tube and I saw it last christmas season. I want to make it for my next years greeting cards but I am not sure everyone will know how to open it. I tested a few of them this year and I was surprised how many people didn't know what to do with it. It is kind of like a test puzzle. There you go"its a gift, an ornament, and a greeting card. If anyone hasa a suggestion of what to put in the envelope let me kpow. Leave a comment. Perhaps a funny saying or a witty saying...Here is the link to it. Thanks for stoppin by.
Pop-UpOrnamentStamp-inup@youtube.comPop Up Or for more information go see Tami at
http://stampwithtami.com/blog/2010/12/popup-ornament/
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Great Organizing Giveaway !! | [ real neat ] - real life. real organized. real simple.™
The Great Organizing Giveaway !! | [ real neat ] - real life. real organized. real simple.™
Hello everyone and wishing you a great Thanksgiving Day! I am thankful to have everyone in my life today. Also wishing Josh Bewley a Happy Birthday!
This post is obviously dated for 2010 but I wanted to share this website, for orginizing your downloads and keeping your computer free of overload. If your anything like me and need to download every idea you see online, you can load yourself down with tons of junk. I used to print out everything. That was silly because I would have all this paper laying around and reminding me how I need to do this or that so I could throw the paper away. Then I started saving it to my files on the computer. But that got messy too. In this blog she will help you organize your life from work, to home, to your kids. But the great thing is, she is so subtle in her delivery that it doesn't become a chore, it just becomes part of your life. That's what I like...
I looked on another website for organization skills and the site was so full of info that it overwhelmed me. Here this site was supposed to be about un cluttering your life but her site was so cluttered that I couldn't read it without getting stressed.I had to log out because I was getting a panic attack!!!
But Michelle gives you her little tips one thing at a time. Last night I read something she sent me for signing up and before I knew it I was picking up the living room before I went to bed,putting away dinner mess, washed my face and brushed my teeth, cleaned up my bedroom and didn't even realize I was doing it. I HATE doing this stuff at night. Normally! But it came natural to me after reading her article. She makes you want to do these things, for some reason.
Anyway, Check her out if you need a little inspiration I know I do!
Hello everyone and wishing you a great Thanksgiving Day! I am thankful to have everyone in my life today. Also wishing Josh Bewley a Happy Birthday!
This post is obviously dated for 2010 but I wanted to share this website, for orginizing your downloads and keeping your computer free of overload. If your anything like me and need to download every idea you see online, you can load yourself down with tons of junk. I used to print out everything. That was silly because I would have all this paper laying around and reminding me how I need to do this or that so I could throw the paper away. Then I started saving it to my files on the computer. But that got messy too. In this blog she will help you organize your life from work, to home, to your kids. But the great thing is, she is so subtle in her delivery that it doesn't become a chore, it just becomes part of your life. That's what I like...
I looked on another website for organization skills and the site was so full of info that it overwhelmed me. Here this site was supposed to be about un cluttering your life but her site was so cluttered that I couldn't read it without getting stressed.I had to log out because I was getting a panic attack!!!
But Michelle gives you her little tips one thing at a time. Last night I read something she sent me for signing up and before I knew it I was picking up the living room before I went to bed,putting away dinner mess, washed my face and brushed my teeth, cleaned up my bedroom and didn't even realize I was doing it. I HATE doing this stuff at night. Normally! But it came natural to me after reading her article. She makes you want to do these things, for some reason.
Anyway, Check her out if you need a little inspiration I know I do!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
SIX THINGS NOT TO DO to make your time more productive!
1.Pointless email. I know, I know. You think every email you get is important, but really it’s not. Try cutting back checking your email to twice a day, and never look at email first thing in the morning, before you have a chance to set your direction for the day. Why? Most email really isn’t that important, but crafting thoughtful responses takes up a lot of time, and really doesn’t get much done. This is the junk food of the productivity world, it fills you up without nourishing you. This goes for both personal and work email.
2.Reading your pointless email during a meeting. As if email isn’t bad enough, now you’re reading it during a meeting, when you should be participating?! Total waste of time, yours and theirs. Get involved or get out.
3.Useless meetings If you’re not contributing something or gaining useful insight, then speak up, or get out, or say no next time this person calls one. Chances are you aren’t the only person who thinks that way, so you’ll be seen as a real get-things-done kinda guy or gal.
4. Complaining. So yes, it feels good to blow off some steam and vent about the boss, your finances, your spouse, but in the end, it only reinforces a counterproductive mindset: that they are the problem and you are a victim. So just stop. Instead, try to see things from their perspective, and start looking for a solution, instead of griping.
5.Watching TV. There are some TV shows that actually improve your ability to get things, but for the most part, TV is an anaesthetic; it zones you out and leaves you more tired, not relaxed. So, rather than watch TV, go out and do something useful, put on some music and straighten up your desk, or write a letter or an article (or that book you’ve always dreamed of!), or practice a musical instrument. Think about it from this angle: no one, on their deathbed, wishes they had watched more TV.
6.Hanging around negative people, or people who indulge in the above behaviors. You become more and more like the people you spend time with. Think about that. If you hang around with people who gripe and complain, or who work hard and don’t get much done (or don’t work hard and don’t get much done), you will become, and remain, one of them.
So, what do you do if you are not doing these things above? That’s up to you, but you will find that when your time and energy isn’t being sucked up by trivialities you will be able to take on and accomplish the sorts of rewarding and satisfying challenges that you had previously only dreamed
2.Reading your pointless email during a meeting. As if email isn’t bad enough, now you’re reading it during a meeting, when you should be participating?! Total waste of time, yours and theirs. Get involved or get out.
3.Useless meetings If you’re not contributing something or gaining useful insight, then speak up, or get out, or say no next time this person calls one. Chances are you aren’t the only person who thinks that way, so you’ll be seen as a real get-things-done kinda guy or gal.
4. Complaining. So yes, it feels good to blow off some steam and vent about the boss, your finances, your spouse, but in the end, it only reinforces a counterproductive mindset: that they are the problem and you are a victim. So just stop. Instead, try to see things from their perspective, and start looking for a solution, instead of griping.
5.Watching TV. There are some TV shows that actually improve your ability to get things, but for the most part, TV is an anaesthetic; it zones you out and leaves you more tired, not relaxed. So, rather than watch TV, go out and do something useful, put on some music and straighten up your desk, or write a letter or an article (or that book you’ve always dreamed of!), or practice a musical instrument. Think about it from this angle: no one, on their deathbed, wishes they had watched more TV.
6.Hanging around negative people, or people who indulge in the above behaviors. You become more and more like the people you spend time with. Think about that. If you hang around with people who gripe and complain, or who work hard and don’t get much done (or don’t work hard and don’t get much done), you will become, and remain, one of them.
So, what do you do if you are not doing these things above? That’s up to you, but you will find that when your time and energy isn’t being sucked up by trivialities you will be able to take on and accomplish the sorts of rewarding and satisfying challenges that you had previously only dreamed
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Wild sister! Message for Kate
Well hello to everybody and a beautiful happy new year!
While everyone is getting on with there lives and making there new years resolutions sometimes we forget that there are others out there in need. I know it is very hard to think about it when you have finally gotten yourself "UP" and we don't want to bring ourselves on a "Downer" by thinking about the sad stuff in life. But today I wish to give Kate a"Love Bomb".
Who is Kate? Well" Today" I joined a group of artist and others called WILD SISTER! Wild sister is also a magazine, and a bunch of other artist etc. supporting one another.. Funny if you know me personaly because thats what I am considered in my family of 2 brothers and 8 sisters. Yes, I'm the wild one!
But enough about me, I was reading the newsletters on the Wild sister RSS and I found this articleand found this sad story. Love for Kate. The tale of depression. For so many of us its something we may struggle with silently. This is why I wanted to share a bit of my story with Kate. And ask my readers to do the same. Thank you.
Dear Kate, I am sorry to hear about your sorrow today. I like many to can be depressed and suffer from depression. Today, I came to this website on accident. I was searching for my class I have been so excited about. A class called" life book the celebration of you." I am taking this class because I have been so down and ready myself to take my own life. I couldn't afford to take this class.But I used up the last of my credit on my credit cards that are all overdue. But I thought I couldn't afford NOT to take the class. I am so behind in my rent,( 8,000.00) most of my credit cards are cut off, my ex ows me a lot of money and he just wont pay so I end up on the streets? Not fair. Thank god my landlord was an angel, but this month is the end of that. I got a letter from her, and one from the I.R.S. owing 25,000. Kind of a bummer huh? Well we keep trying to struggle. I have a great boyfriend who has stood by me for 7 years. We started dating in Oct.2004, and on Dec. 28th 2004 (his birthday) he took me to the hospital for a biopsy. Fun way to spend a birthday with a girl you hardly know. Yes, I was diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. a.c.c.Rare cancer that is terminal, Burt slow grown. I had surgery, Cut from ear to ear under my neck, Removed 1/3 of my tongue (which makes me talk like a drunk) 28 lymph nodes. And they gave me 3 yrs. to live. I told my b.f. to go on with his life. He is 22 years younger than me. and a good looking , sweet, handsome guy. He stayed. Has gone to every appt. with me. Held my hair back while I got sick from radiation, I could go on How kaiser really screwed me out of my life, and 70,000.but that's another chapter.
Recintly we have been trying to catch up and Jason got laid of on his birthday! Of course I can't tell my landlord, She will be so upset! And its hard not to. She lives 6 houses down.. Now, this guys luck is really not so good to say the least! When he was 9 months old his mom died. When he was 3 his step mom left him on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Vine. His uncle picked him up and when he was 17 his uncle shot himself in the head. And we think we have problems??? So anyway Kate, The only reason I don't take my life is because I am so worried it will be worse in the next life. And I try and remember those days that I just loved life and thanked God. Also the days that I was grateful I didnt take my life because something greater happened. Like meeting Jason, or a great art class or ? I really try not to. And nobody really knows this about me. How I really suffer inside. They just say things like" Wow you look so great! You would never know you have cancer!" or "can you believe how you have outlived what the Drs. timeline gave you?" and I think (Yea, whats up with that! when am I going to be out of here!) its to hard to live. I think that all the time. Its so hard not to Kate, I know. Hearing my problems don't make you feel any better I know. Big deal right? Well I am telling you to please wait for one more day. (listen to me,I dont want one more day because I just see myself on the streets,I know,but I go on.) and if I can do it please try to do it. I will have a contest with you, if you do it,I will. Live one more day,Kate. O.K.? This is going to be my first life class moto ! Wow Kate,see what you did for me? You gave me an idea for my painting today,(if I don't get distracted anymore)haha. And my painting is going to be called Live one more day, for Kate! Thank you Kate,Love and hugs, Sheshe(Victoria)
P.S.I failed to mention I havent been able to eat for 7 years. Since my surgery! Yet I still need to cook. It is soooo hard. Even to smell the food. Makes me so sad not to be able to eat it.
1) Leave a message on this form and they will be compiled and mailed to Kate.
While everyone is getting on with there lives and making there new years resolutions sometimes we forget that there are others out there in need. I know it is very hard to think about it when you have finally gotten yourself "UP" and we don't want to bring ourselves on a "Downer" by thinking about the sad stuff in life. But today I wish to give Kate a"Love Bomb".
Who is Kate? Well" Today" I joined a group of artist and others called WILD SISTER! Wild sister is also a magazine, and a bunch of other artist etc. supporting one another.. Funny if you know me personaly because thats what I am considered in my family of 2 brothers and 8 sisters. Yes, I'm the wild one!
But enough about me, I was reading the newsletters on the Wild sister RSS and I found this articleand found this sad story. Love for Kate. The tale of depression. For so many of us its something we may struggle with silently. This is why I wanted to share a bit of my story with Kate. And ask my readers to do the same. Thank you.
Dear Kate, I am sorry to hear about your sorrow today. I like many to can be depressed and suffer from depression. Today, I came to this website on accident. I was searching for my class I have been so excited about. A class called" life book the celebration of you." I am taking this class because I have been so down and ready myself to take my own life. I couldn't afford to take this class.But I used up the last of my credit on my credit cards that are all overdue. But I thought I couldn't afford NOT to take the class. I am so behind in my rent,( 8,000.00) most of my credit cards are cut off, my ex ows me a lot of money and he just wont pay so I end up on the streets? Not fair. Thank god my landlord was an angel, but this month is the end of that. I got a letter from her, and one from the I.R.S. owing 25,000. Kind of a bummer huh? Well we keep trying to struggle. I have a great boyfriend who has stood by me for 7 years. We started dating in Oct.2004, and on Dec. 28th 2004 (his birthday) he took me to the hospital for a biopsy. Fun way to spend a birthday with a girl you hardly know. Yes, I was diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. a.c.c.Rare cancer that is terminal, Burt slow grown. I had surgery, Cut from ear to ear under my neck, Removed 1/3 of my tongue (which makes me talk like a drunk) 28 lymph nodes. And they gave me 3 yrs. to live. I told my b.f. to go on with his life. He is 22 years younger than me. and a good looking , sweet, handsome guy. He stayed. Has gone to every appt. with me. Held my hair back while I got sick from radiation, I could go on How kaiser really screwed me out of my life, and 70,000.but that's another chapter.
Recintly we have been trying to catch up and Jason got laid of on his birthday! Of course I can't tell my landlord, She will be so upset! And its hard not to. She lives 6 houses down.. Now, this guys luck is really not so good to say the least! When he was 9 months old his mom died. When he was 3 his step mom left him on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Vine. His uncle picked him up and when he was 17 his uncle shot himself in the head. And we think we have problems??? So anyway Kate, The only reason I don't take my life is because I am so worried it will be worse in the next life. And I try and remember those days that I just loved life and thanked God. Also the days that I was grateful I didnt take my life because something greater happened. Like meeting Jason, or a great art class or ? I really try not to. And nobody really knows this about me. How I really suffer inside. They just say things like" Wow you look so great! You would never know you have cancer!" or "can you believe how you have outlived what the Drs. timeline gave you?" and I think (Yea, whats up with that! when am I going to be out of here!) its to hard to live. I think that all the time. Its so hard not to Kate, I know. Hearing my problems don't make you feel any better I know. Big deal right? Well I am telling you to please wait for one more day. (listen to me,I dont want one more day because I just see myself on the streets,I know,but I go on.) and if I can do it please try to do it. I will have a contest with you, if you do it,I will. Live one more day,Kate. O.K.? This is going to be my first life class moto ! Wow Kate,see what you did for me? You gave me an idea for my painting today,(if I don't get distracted anymore)haha. And my painting is going to be called Live one more day, for Kate! Thank you Kate,Love and hugs, Sheshe(Victoria)
P.S.I failed to mention I havent been able to eat for 7 years. Since my surgery! Yet I still need to cook. It is soooo hard. Even to smell the food. Makes me so sad not to be able to eat it.
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