WARNING: The beginning of the novel...stick with me =)
You know I go through the day (or night) and things go through my mind or like today after picking up the kids, I even write things down and soo often don't make the time to get on here and "blog" about it. Heck for somethings it would just be great to go back to my blog and copy and paste those feelings and words right onto my scrapbook page. You know how some things can be soo fresh on my mind at a certain time! So I'm going to try my darndest (don't you just love that word LOL) to give one huge blog update tonight and hopefully I don't jump around too much =). Have fun with all the links I'm attaching!!!
At work I usually have my google email open which also has my GOOGLE READER (my default homepage is literally my email, all the blogs I read, a clock and some noteworthy news tid-bits! So if you haven't signed up for GOOGLE EMAIL do it now! Well I could say soo many things about google and their email, calendars, google reader etc...but well just trust me JUST DO IT! Plus those that are in groups and/or need multiple people to update the same thing...check out their Document & Spreadsheets. There are tons of fun and helpful things that GOOGLE can help with... Let it be your friend LOL
Now Sara and Melissa here it is.... all the links are above! GO CHECK IT OUT!!!!
For them and everyone else ... here is what your customized home page "could" look like! It is custumized so you add what you want!
Heck you can even customize your blogs into different categories... So go check out the link! You will love it!
NEXT =)
Ali... Am I the only one that wants to be like Ali Edwards? I swear she always has the coolest ideas and I am in awe of her and sooo many others that have these wonderful ideas and they get them finished! LOL I swear I really do have awesome ideas too, but can never seem to get them out of my head! They are stuck there... I don't have time to do them, can't get them started, too tired... well you get the idea!! So speaking of cool ideas, Check out Ali's DAILY SOMETHING. I mean really how creative is that to use envelopes you receive in the mail!!!
Then there is Donna Downey. Have you read the newest Simple Scrapbooks magazine (the September/October 2007 issue)? Donna has a great (small but great) article on School albums. She used the large manila envelopes that she had bound into a scrapbook; she used these for papers and projects, memorbilia from her childrens' school year. Use an envelope for the whole year or one a month.... OMG what a great idea!!! She calls them School Profolios. HERE is a link to a supply list and directions on how to make it! HERE is even pictures of a completed one! So many of my "friends" have little ones starting Preschool!
Here is a photo from the website:
I mean seriously isn't this the coolest idea!!! I am soo doing this! Ethan starts school in a month and I can't wait to save his projects and how easily you can get back into the envelopes to show grandparents and/or to just look at them again as the years pass.
While we are talking about scrapbooks I want you to check out the TASTE TEST challenge! I have really enjoyed all of the challenges that the Sweet Shoppe post (and you can earn points which earn you a discount in the store). Okay back to the TASTE TEST challenge! I really think we should all do this. This all goes back to wishing I could get to my blog more and all the talk about google earlier....I saw the blog post pop up on my google home page (from google reader---see link above) so I quickly read it (it pops open like a pop up window). Seriously one of the few times I have read one of their challenges and KNOWN exactly what I was going to scrap about. Might even be one of those pages w/ out a picture (later you'll see why). LOL now if I could ever finish this WAY TOO LONG blog post and I can get started on my layout!!!
Are you still with me?
Well I guess I've said enough for tonight! More updating on the kids, Leo and fun stuff later! Check out my links and share your TASTE TEST challenge layouts with me!
Well it only took me until the wee hours in the morning, but I finished my layout:
Credit can be see HERE
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