Gift of Gratitude

I always think of you as being so very balanced and sensible, such an excellent woman.
I love that quote because I like to think of myself as balanced and sensible.  If you haven’t read the book it comes from, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, then I encourage you to pick it up.  It’s quaint, not [...]

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Holiday Frame Download Day + Winner

Halloween is approaching so of course we need a spooky download or two.  Here’s one that would look great on a card, a party invite or scrapbook page but I’ll show you what I did with it:

For a large, dramatic “gallery style” effect, choose a frame that is larger than 8 x 10 (mine is [...]

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Boot Camp Giveaway

Jim has figured out that I am blogging about boot camp and said that he was going to check it out this weekend so I thought that in honor of him and all boot camps out there that we should do a giveaway.  Yea!
All you have to do is give Jim a shout out here [...]

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Giveaway Winners + A Little Gratitude

Wow!  What a great response we’ve received regarding the fabulous ideas for taking meals to people.  Thank you, thank you for posting!  If you have any more ideas then please continue to post so that we all have a place to go for our info.  I have learned TONS and don’t feel so much like [...]

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Download Day – A Little Something

What a weekend!  Such fabulous meal ideas!  You’ve gotten me excited enough to even print some recipes out – and I am not a recipe collector, to say the least.  So many of these are manageable and easy – and the ones that seem a little tricky are so intriguing that I have to try [...]

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Giveaway – Easy Meal Prep

I received this comment from Carmel after I posted about how to send a meal to someone in need (click here for the previous post – the comments have lots of good thoughts as well).
I would really like to know peoples ideas for a good meal to send to others. I often get stuck for [...]

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Meal Delivery 101

Our neighborhood ROCKS! Seriously. After we had little Coleman, we received many meals from friends and neighbors (which is like a dream come true for me). We have also had lots of meals brought in over the years while Jason has been in the hospital, etc. So you might say that [...]

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Last Minute Gift with a Personal Touch

Looking for a quick gift that is totally personal?  I did this for a few of the women in my neighborhood that I do some work with and the response was unanimously “Oooohhh!”  That means “thumbs up” in case you weren’t sure.
Here’s what I did.
1.  Create a playlist of your favorite songs – could be [...]

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Like Ila

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We’ve been in celebration mode in our family for the last couple of weeks.  Jason’s sister Kendra got married this last weekend, I have been working on the countdown project for my mom’s birthday (you’ll get the whole project idea and [...]

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Season for Change

I always get excited at the beginning of a new Big Picture Scrapbooking workshop and my “Giving Well 2008″ class is the one that I really can’t wait for.  It is so fast-paced with projects every other day and ideas flying around the message board and gallery.  The energy is high and I just love [...]

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