Monday Madness & Trying Tuesday

Good afternoon everyone! What a weekend! Between a fantastic Girl Scout activity for Britain, Addie & Brooklyn, Sailor's Saturday reading project with Bryce and DJing a youth dance for our church, I didn't have any time to sit down and write a note about my other love which is scrapbooking!

So here I sit on Trying Tuesday afternoon, looking at my not-so-cleaned up living room and thinking of all the dishes I have yet to do, and realizing that I am back at the beginning of my messy stage! My nice clean living room lasted half a month! (If you know me, you should be mightily impressed and if you are just getting to know me then you may just smile and nod and move on!) :)

As a result - I am re-issuing my challenge from my first April post. If you are keeping up on your house - FANTASTIC!!! You deserve an enormous pat on the back and some chocolate! If you are like me and need more reminding to get off your bums (my Girl Scout girls get a kick out of that word! They just giggle and giggle whenever I ask them to plant their bums on their chairs!) and get some cleaning done - then this re-issued challenge is for you! But Hurry!!! Time is almost up!! (this always works for me! I am a HUGE procrastinator!!) There are only 9 days left in April!!!

Here's how it will work:

• I will post the current scrapbooking sketch on my blog, facebook and website.
• You spend 15 minutes cleaning up your least favorite part of the house
• Then scrapbook (digital or papercraft) the layout and e-mail me a picture of it with a comment on what part of your house you cleaned up.
• I will draw a winner from all the entries at the end of the month and that one special person will get three awesome things!!! (a cleaner house, some scrapbooking done and a surprise from me! well....technically everyone gets the first 2 things!!)

Happy Scrapin' and I look forward to seeing all the wonderful layouts that are created! I will post the entries as I receive them.

Now I will get off my bum *snicker snicker* and get something cleaned up in my house! :)

April Layout Challange

What a wonderful Saturday morning it has been thus far! (Of course it is 1:05 am when I am writing this!!) This week I have been thinking a lot about how wonderful a clean house is yet I did not want to spend all the necessary energy required to obtain that sparkly clean house! As I was pondering on this idea of sparkling clean things, I remembered reading something on my friend Kirsty's blog about taking on these messes. (Check it out! She is a fantastic writer!!)

Then I did a great thing! I gathered all the stuff that was in the living room and put it in a laundry basket and told myself that I couldn't scrapbook till this basket was all cleaned up and put away. (GASP!!! I know!!) Amazing enough......I actually did it!!! I have a relatively clean living room to show for it! I think I have found a motivation for me to actually clean! WOO HOO!!

So in the spirit of keeping our houses cleaned and finding time to scrapbook, I have decided to do a scrapbooking challenge once a month.

Here's how it will work:

• I will post the current scrapbooking sketch on my blog, facebook and website.
• You spend 15 minutes cleaning up your least favorite part of the house
• Then scrapbook (digital or papercraft) the layout and e-mail me a picture of it with a comment on what part of your house you cleaned up.
• I will draw a winner from all the entries at the end of the month and that one special person will get three awesome things!!! (a cleaner house, some scrapbooking done and a surprise from me! well....technically everyone gets the first 2 things!!)

So here goes the April's Scrapbook Layout challenge!!

The Sketch and my rendition of it: (click on the image to view a larger version)

Happy Scrapin' and I look forward to seeing all the wonderful layouts that are created! I will post the entries as I receive them.

~Laura