Let's Play Tag

I was tagged by Evelyn, one of the bloggers I recently "met" through Scrapping Servant's celebration of National Scrapbook Month. I did this tag In November of 2007, so I'm happy to do it again, and of course, it's different now.



1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.



Seven Random Things About Me:



1. Both my ex-husband's paternal grandmother and my paternal grandmother were twins. We have twins (almost 12 years old now!), and I am the grandmother-by-default to my step-son's twins, 8 months old.



2. My favorite Internet game is Candy Drops at Candystand. It's addicting. If I go there now, I won't finish this post for a while.



3. I saw Shaquille O'Neal, currently of the Phoenix Suns, walking through the Belagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2001. The man is ginormous! My husband and I will be travelling to Phoenix this summer on our way to the Grand Canyon.



4. My first job started the day before my 13th birthday at Rockin R Ranch in Humble, Texas. My sister worked there also. It's an outdoor recreation area for company parties and reunions. It has putt-putt golf, swimming, sports fields, concessions, kiddie rides, and great barbecue. Sounds fun, but not when you work there. I started at the putt-putt area, which is boring. I worked my way up to concessions and lifeguarding. But, at the end of the day, everyone has to pick up trash, and that's not so fun.

--------------------OOPS! I had to take a Candy Drops break here!------------------------

5. I get sleepy when I drive, and I don't like long car trips. 3 or 4 hours MAX. That's my limit! I'd rather take a plane, even though I don't like those much either. It'd be terrible if I had to travel for my job.

6. I am addicted to blogging. Aren't we all?

7. I could be the principal of your child's school someday. Pretty scary, huh? I've had my Master's Degree and Principal Certification since 2001, yet I remain in the classroom with the kids, mostly out of choice.

I'm going to tag some people I have not tagged before, at least not for a while. If you don't feel like playing, that's okay. If you do, let me know so I can go read your answers!
Chrissy
Random Autumness
Jenny
Normal to Natalie
Up the Hill Backwards
Laura
Kay

Sunday Scrappin'

Thank you, Amy, for hosting Sunday Scrappin', a place to share your ta-da's, to-do's, and participate in paper-craft related challenges.

My ta-da's this week:

1. I organized all of my scrapbook supplies! I cleaned off the old computer desk, "stole" some plastic bins from my son's closet (he wasn't using them much), and got out all of my supplies and set them up so I can maybe get something done. I was keeping everything in my rolling tote and my Creative Memories case, but if my supplies aren't out, I won't work on it, and I only recently had this extra table that I can use. That means that I won't have to wait until a scrapbook night at church or my sister's to get something done.

2. I completed the Sunday Scrappin' challenge to use buttons on a layout or paper craft, which also means I completed one page. I could only find two red buttons, but I used them. I hope it counts!

3. This week I visited all of the scrapbookers who signed the Mr. Linky at Scrappin' Servant's celebration of National Scrapbook Month.

4. I window-shopped for the paper organizers that I want, and I found one that is affordable that

might work for now. It is the Scrap-eze Vertical Storage Organizer, and I found it at scrapbook.com in their superstore.

5. I also organized photographs.

My To-Do's This Week:

1. To complete the new challenge at Sunday Scrappin' by using the paper I least like from my collection.

2. To complete at least one page of scrapbooking.

3. To actually make

a decision and buy something to store my paper on my desk so that it is easily accessible.

To visit other Sunday Scrappers, click here!

More Scrapping Servant Bloggers

I've visited them all!

I also did a little online browsing to address my issue of paper storage. A very frugal solution is to get a legal size, plastic container and Penda-flex folders to separate colors and/or patterns. It would look something like this.

What I think I really want are these clear stacking trays. One site had them 10 trays for $60, but I found the same thing at a different site (here's the link) for $49.95. I suppose I should check shipping charges to see which one will really save me money.

And many of you may know of several online stores from which to purchase supplies, but I want to mention Scrapbook Super Center, which seems to have it all for reasonable prices.

I am off to find my Cozumel pictures and plan my next pages! Before I go, these are the creative scrapbookers I have visited and commented on since earlier this week. I think I've hit them all!

ChrissyM at Chrissy’s Creative Spot

Jan at Making Scrapbooks

Charlene at Haute Artist

Shell – Scrapgrlz

Tiffany at A Mom’s Heart

Normal to Natalie

Cindy Gray at Out of the Gray-Portraits of Heart and Soul

Evelyn at Simple Scrappin

Mrs. D at Delightful Designs

Wani at Wani’s World

Baileysgranny at My Life as a Grandma

Katrina at Krafts by Katie

Jenny at The So-Called Me

Hope at 4theMemories

Flip Flop Mom at Just a Flip Flop Mom

Happy Momma ( Frog Princess ) at Happy Home

The final name on Mr. Linky didn't link to a valid blog address :-(

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Gift-Giving Help

Help! I need someone!

No - not the Beatles song. I really need your help.

My 3rd anniversary (remember this is my second marriage) is coming up next week, and for our first and second anniversaries, I was able to find gifts that reflected both the traditional and modern themes (paper & clocks, cotton & china) for anniversary gifts.

The third anniversary gifts are leather (traditional) and crystal (modern). I spent hours searching today and found nothing I wanted! Now, don't get too creative with the leather! We're not into that. I've thought of a wallet, but he doesn't need one. A belt is too impersonal. So are shoes. I've thought of a leather picture frame or a leather kleenex box for his table, and those are maybes, but what can all of you come up with?

I also checked tickets for all of the major performing arts and sports in our area, and there is nothing available any time soon that I think he would be interested in. I could have put some tickets in a leather pouch or something. But the tickets aren't going to work out. And crystal? Maybe a pair of crystal wine glasses will work. Come on, bloggy friends! Help me think of something unique for anniversary gifts made of leather or crystal! Please?

Thursday Thirteen #27

Edition 27 - 13 Things on my To-do List
Not Necessarily in This Order

1. Clean out my jewelry armoire.
2. Find photos of my trip to Cozumel three years ago so I can scrapbook them.
3. Decide on the type of organizer I want for my scrapbook paper.

4. Scan photos for a project for my students at school.
5. Laundry (which is an ongoing chore).
6. Clean out my closet.
7. Clean out my kids’ closets (or rather, help them do this).
8. Gather all the donations for Purple Heart.
9. Order a jumbo-sized toy net for my daughter to get the stuffed animals off the floor of her cracker-box sized room.

10. Move our old TV stand to my son’s room to better organize his TV and game accessories.
11. Read, read, read, read!!! I never have as much time to read as I want.
12. Find a good flea killer for the dog.
13. Watch my son play baseball.

Visit more Thursday Thirteen participants! Sign my Mr. Linky if you'd like.

Have You Scrapped Today?

My usual answer is no, I don't have enough time, and during the school year, since I teach, making time is difficult. But I LOVE scrapbooking!




I've had so much fun blog-hopping during Scrapping Servant's 15 day celebration of National Scrapbook Month. I've been so inspired by the creative ladies I've visited that I can't wait to make my next page, but there were a few things I had to do first:

• If you saw my Tackle-it-Tuesday, you know that I got my scrapping desk cleaned off and all my supplies next to it. I still need some shelves to keep my paper readily available and organized, but this was progress!
  
• I went through my partially completed scrapbooks to remind myself what I need to scrap next and made a to-do list to get me there.

• I organized some pictures and have them set up in a basket on my desk.

This is HUGE for me. I didn't expect to get to any of this until summer (I teach), but thanks to the "party," I MADE time. Here are some links to some super ladies that I have enjoyed visiting during the party, and if you're not on the list yet, I promise I will get to you by this weekend. I want to visit everyone!





Amy at Tiny Blessings
Christina at Photo Mama Creations
Elaine at The Miss Elaine-ous of Life (who is also in my blogroll)
Kristine at KCM Scrap-n-stuff
Crazy Daisy at Forever Daisies
All Things Cherished
JoyScraps
Lisa at The Scrap Princess
Who Has Time to Scrapbook
Bunny at It's a Bunny Life
Krista at Welcome to Married Life
Izzy at Passion Scrapper
Lauren at A Wandering Heart
Michelle at Our Full House

Heads or Tails

This fun meme is hosted by Skittles. Check it out at Heads or Tails.

This week's theme/prompt is:

HEADS *OR* TAILS - Peace *OR* Piece

I'm choosing Heads because peace is what I need now. I found a poem I want to share with you. It was written by Samantha Cooney.

Peace

Give me peace so I won't cry anymore,

Peace so my soul can rest and have something left to fight for.

Give me peace so my heart can love,

Peace so I can can believe that there is good above.

Give me peace so I can rest tonight,

Peace so I can sleep, not searching for his image within the night.

Give me peace so I can go on,

Peace so I can be at peace within the dreams that I long.

I also want to share a picture of pure peace with you.

You can visit other HoTties by clicking on the Heads or Tails link above.

Tackle it Tuesday

I've been busy with some tackles!

First, I took a pile of what appeared to be junk - receipts, accounting forms, etc. from my son's football team, and I got them organized into folders by type of paperwork and got it narrowed down to this.

Second, I finally have a cleaned off workspace to do scrapbooking. One picture shows just the edge of the table where the computer used to be and a bunch of "junk" (for lack of a better word).

It's now clean and ready to use. I want to add some additional organizational tools, but it's a good start! Everything is handy now!

Visit Tackle it Tuesday at Five Minutes for Mom.

Give Me Five Monday

Becca over at Becca's Buzz hosts a meme called Give Me Five Monday. The purpose is to share fun information about a chosen topic in a short list. Click the link to visit other "Fivers."

Today, she says, "Give Me Five movies you'd choose to have along if you were stranded on a desert island (that happened to have electricity, a tv and dvd player)."

I'm not the kind of person who likes to watch movies more than once, usually. I guess I get bored easily, or maybe I have a short attention span. Or both! tee hee! And Hollywood doesn't make too many GREAT movies, either. There are a FEW that I can watch over and over, in no particular order.

1. The Sixth Sense (1999)starring Bruce Willis (who isn't my favorite actor, but go figure) and Haley Joel Osment. I know what's going to happen, but I'm still surprised when it does, and I like when I notice something that I didn't notice the first time I watched it (or maybe I noticed it, but I've forgotten). Psychological thrillers are my favorite genre for movies or books.

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) starring Morgan Freeman (who I wrote about not too long ago, and I love) and Tim Robbins (who I'm not crazy about). I don't know what it is about this movie, but I think it's fabulous. Believe it or not, it's based on a Stephen King short story - and I'm not too crazy about him, either.

3. Over the Hedge (2006) starring the voices of Bruce Willis (again?), Garry Shandling, Steve Carrell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Avril Lavigne, Nick Nolte, and lots of other funny people! My favorite part is when Hammy pretends to be a rabid squirrel. I cracked up so much! I'm sure I embarrassed my kids, but oh well!

4. Madagascar (2005) starring the voices of David Schwimmer (I used to love "Friends."), Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jayda Pinkett Smith, and funniest of all, Cedric the Entertainer. My family and I are always quoting funny parts from this movie, and it doesn't get old.

5. The Sound of Music (1965 - the best year - the year I was born) starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. I'm a sucker for a good musical. I can probably sing all of the songs, though you might not want to hear me. I just love this story, and it won five Oscars! The Hills are Alive (and not because they have eyes).