I spent some time organizing my digiscrap goodies this afternoon in preparation of moving some stuff off to my new portable 1 TB external hard drive. I deleted some stuff, and there are kits I haven't used for some time that I am not ready to get rid of yet that can be moved over. I don't want to bog down my laptop too much, and graphic files end up taking up a lot of space. I would rather move over some older digital photos to the laptop so they will be backed up with my online service. Too bad it is so much easier to organize a computer than a house. That is what I should be working! I really do need to go through and take out some toys that are not being used anymore, and get some papers filed. Once the weather warms up, I need to look at finishing my painting in the living room. I am so close, but never got it finished. I think with the implementing of the chores and having Sunday be the big cleaning day, we are doing better keeping the house in order on a daily basis, but there is still too much junk floating around, as usual. It seems to be a constant battle, and I need to remember how good it feels to get rid of stuff, and how much it stresses me out to have a bunch of clutter in the rooms that we use a lot. It doesn't bother me as much behind closed door. lol

I was able to participate in another speed scrap last night. The Friday night ones seem to work out since they start at 7, before the bedtime rush. You are given 7 instructions to create your page over one hour, and then you have another hour to finish it up. I used a new kit called Funky Wonderland by Geek Chic and Allison Pennington. It has a bunch of cool papers and elements!

Scot had to work today, so I took the kids out to lunch at Panera and then we went to the library. They were all worried that we were going to a different library than the one we got our books from originally, so I explained that we could use any of the county libraries. They were afraid we were stealing from the other library. I said they could have a movie night tonight, so they are excited about that. I optimistically checked out 5 books. We'll see how many times I have to renew!

The designers I work for received some surprising news today, and it looks like most of my CT work will be on hold for a short time. I am sad, but more sad for the designers losing their stores suddenly, without warning! They all seem to have a plan, so hopefully we will all be back to work soon. However, I do have a February guest spot on the CT for Geek Chic Scraps, so I will have plenty of time to work on layouts for her new kits. Her store is opening next week, so I can start posting the layouts then.

I did finish the last layout for the Scrapoff 2010 contest at DSA. Right now I have 16 points, so I'm pretty much in the middle. I am glad not to be at the bottom of the pack, at least, since there are a lot of talented people in the contest. It has been fun to try different things.

Tomorrow is my least favorite day of the week since I will be gone all day at work. It's a pretty good shift to have, but still, I get antsy being away from home for too long. Very sad, I know, but I am a homebody at heart. Plus, I have my exercise class and Owen has a Scout meeting, so we have to try and get his homework done before dinner. I'm not sure what will happen when soccer starts up again. I always hope they will not want to do it since it takes up two evenings and a Saturday. I hate being busy!

I have some layouts I have been working on, but I can't post yet because they haven't been released yet!

I have finished the two-page layout from Declan's birthday last year. It seems strange to say last year when it was only a few months ago! I used a kit called Birthday Boy by Shanmomto4 Designs and templates by Mandagirl.

Well, the good news first is that Scot was approved for vacation, so he will get to go to Florida after all!

I did a new page last night for the new kit that was released today from Pixiemama Designs. It's a P365 Kit available now at Scrapable. I don't really do 365 project pages at this time, but it works well for other layouts, also. I used it for Owen's Field Day.