It's Good to be a Queen

2010-03-04T11:07:00.000-08:00

here is a bit more on the 12 months of christmas!

2010-01-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

here is a fast note on wrapping! I used to say watch for sales on paper after christmas and you can totally go that way my issue is I hate most paper - yes I have become a paper snob! I can't stand wrapping with that cheap paper that rips when you are trying to wrap and lets face it I am a crafty girl who makes a large amount of gifts so how do you give a beautiful hand made whatever wrapped like you let the preschool class have at it!! so here is my advice to you, buy good paper some of the schools sell paper that rocks and some of the department stores do also if you don't want to spend the money or you want to add some to your collection every year and need to fill in here is a littttttlllllleee secret- school supply stores sell the "butcher paper" that the teachers use on the walls and boards!! its sells buy the yard for not to much comes in lots of plain colors and is a nice thickness you can use it plain, one year all my gifts were wrapped in shinny black paper with huge red bows, or you can get out your stamps and stamp your own paper!! happy wrapping!!

a note about trash!

2010-01-04T23:10:00.001-08:00

the slide show is all from my trash to treasure games I loved doing it all and now I am looking at things in a different way! if you have any great ideas or projects you have done I would love to see them! if you have any questions about what those started out as ask away!! my fav part of this was having the girls I crop with guess what I had used!!

12 months of christmas

2010-01-01T20:30:00.000-08:00

the 12 month of Christmas is just a fun easy way to take a few min's each month and plan for the holiday so that when December comes we can spend more time with family enjoying the season and less time running around trying to pull everything together at the last min!
One thing I would like to suggest is that you buy a gift card or two every month this can be a ten dollar starbuck card or a 50 dollar card to a store like target or department store of your choice, this will do a few things it will give you a fast gift in the event you forgot someone a starbucks card or a card to a local restaurant make a nice holiday outing for you or you and a child or friend and whats better then not having to worry about money since you "planned" for it! this way you are also spreading out the money and you can try to have a cash holiday! I buy target cards through the year then when I go Christmas shopping I use those, it helps me pay for the holiday all year long and if I have any left I pop them in my sons stocking or hide them away for a treat to myself later! every month along with the challenges I will try to add little bits of info on how I plan for the holidays to make them easier on myself and let it be a holiday about family not rushing around having to much stress and to little sleep, I started doing this the year my 5th grader told me he didn't remember a Christmas I was not sick for! it worked I have not been sick for a Christmas since then and my 5th grader is now 19!! soooooooo here is your first challenge a few little things you can do to get ready and stay organized!

this months challenge has a few steps all are easy!!

1. find a box with a top make sure it has its own spot in your house not in the way but not so out of the way you have to work to get to it! mark that box Christmas 2010 now anything you buy make have list for the holiday goes in that box decorate it if you want that's your organization station make it your own and do not loose it!

2. I learned this one from my mother years ago - get yourself an address book that's just for Christmas cards this way you can add new addresses through the year and you can write on the book you can post the years you sent them a card the years you got cards from someone note if one comes back and you need to find a new address or if someone passes you can mark the year! in your new book write all the names of people you want to send cards to now add the addresses there is a good chance some are missing an address and now you have 11 months to find them your not going nuts on dec 20 looking for it! this book is very handy as you get information through the year add it!! you will be amazed how many times you will change/update/refer to this book over the next 11 months!

3. make a list of people you buy gifts for we know some will change and you can guess on some stuff like noting coworkers 5 - this will give you an idea of what you need who you are shopping for who you are crafting for etc this list will change however the bulk of it will remain the same!

4. go look at paper to make your Christmas cards! if you shop well you can find it on sale this time of the year and only you and I will know if its this or last years paper and really I don't care it could be from 1990 for all I care I just get happy to get cards! find one you like and buy it have a design in mind and get as much as you need for all your cards!

that's it for Jan all so very easy!! I want to know when you do it and I want to see what you do! I am going to get my box all decorated and in its own spot and then I will post it so you can all see what I did! oh and your paper and your address book and your gift list store them in the box - when you buy gift cards put them in there to!!! that way everything is in one spot!! (see susan you won't loose it this way!)

I promise promise to blog more and mattress doesn't know it but he promises to update my pictures more ofter!

2009-10-31T14:50:00.001-07:00

I know I know I suck!

2009-08-15T23:38:00.000-07:00

I know I have not posted in forever and the pictures need changing and lets face it I am a bit of a bloggers nightmare! but summer has been super crazy busy! we just celebrated my sons 19th birthday (how did that happen!!??) and he spent 2 weeks traveling in Scotland and England with my sister they walked all of Hadrian's wall and had a BLAST I hope to get some pictures up soon but I am just learning how to do all that and I need the kids to come down from camp so they can help me! I can hardly believe they have been in camp for 9 weeks already! this summer has been crazyyyyy!
Anyway I have been DIEING to post about a bunch of challenges going on at Live Imagine Create!! I am a mod on this board so of course I stalk it! we are doing a month long group of challenges - no kidding there are 20 so there is tons to pick from you can do as many or as few as you want, there are some raks involved and a guest design member position!!! so please please please come out and play!! my goal is to do them all since I never get all of anything done! I would love to have you join in or if you are over your head in things to do just drop by see what is going on and cheer on my crazy effort to do all of the challenges! I am half way done on the 15th so I think that's good!! the link is http://www.liveimaginecreate.proboards.com/index.cgi#photos
or you can click on the icon on the side of the blog!! have an amazing week! I will be on to report on the shop hop I am doing with my scrappy friend Susan she and I are having a blast we have been to 17 of 39 stores!

ohhhhhhh blog candy happening at Sherrys!

2009-06-19T00:06:00.000-07:00

this is a link for my friend Sherry she is super talented!! I love to drop by and she what she is up to and what new product she is working with that we can't get (she is down under) you should mark her blog and keep an eye on it she has some amazing ideas I love her work, but right now she also has some really groovy blog candy happening! go check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=108516152585&h=O0ouF&u=fWBi5&ref=nf

I almost forgot!

2009-06-17T23:34:00.000-07:00

I want to post and say a big congrats to the winner of the "Pretty in Pink" Challenge Tanja Meiners!! send me your info girl and I will get your royal prize out!
I also want to thank everyone who entered! I loved all the layouts just like I love seeing all your work! I hope to have it posted on the blog in the next day! thanks thanks thanks for playing and lets do it again!

Can you have to many scrappy supplies?

2009-06-17T20:58:00.001-07:00

No really can you? I mean most of the time I would say not a chance never enough but right now I am cleaning and cleaning and cleaning and I just can't seem to find an end to all the supplies! when its all orginized I will try to post some pictures but right now I wouldn't want to show anyone! its crazy! and yet how do I part with them I am sure deep in my heart I will someday need that one piece of paper I bought in the early 90's, I bought it so I must need it!! then there are the new ones that come out and are total "have to have" supplies! ever heard of dew drops? I love them I have them in like EVERY color and I use them but how many can you use before they are in the pile with that paper from the 90's? so tell me whats your shopping habit and how many supplies do you have hanging around waiting for that perfect layout?? oh and how do you part with then when its time o just pass them on??

Welcome to Its Good to be a Queen!!

2009-06-04T00:14:00.000-07:00

Are you having fun on the blog hop? I hope your trip around the design teams blogs has been "totally groovy"! I know we have all had a great time getting this set up for everyone I hope you have had time to visit all the site and you can take part in all the challenges! I know there are some great prizes out there and if you check back here later I will be posting a picture of the prize I will be sending out to one lucky winner but in the meantime how about a totally 80's challenge! as I am sure you can tell my fav color is and always has been PINK! so what better way to celibrate the 80's then to honor that classic 80's flick "Pretty in Pink" for your challenge I want you to make a layout in monocromatic pink, also since Andie sewed all her own clothes I would like to see some sewing on the page! and of course just to add a little something to the mix please use this "Pretty in Pink" poster as your pagemap!! totally awsome! email your entries to qbicflsr@yahoo.com I will pick a winner and I will be making a radical slide show to show off all the entries!! can't wait to see what you come up with! now hop on over to Jill's and see what a groovy challenge she has for you at: http://allthingsprincess.blogspot.com/

2009-05-27T02:14:00.001-07:00