3.19 just because my house is clean challenge

I don't have that problem! Mine is mostly the clothes that got wet in the washer hose disaster. LONG unhappy story but they were my clothes that had gone missing. I do have a tidy (in his own way) DH who forgets where he puts things.

 

Do you hire out?

 

I almost said that! I need an organizer though first.

 

Have it, read intro. Need to take a day and read it. Mostly I need something to put it in. At this phase and then organizing the rest. Can you tell I'm overwhelmed with it all right now.

 

Can you start smaller? I mean like... one drawer at a time. sometimes that's what I have to do. The tiny "wins" help me feel accomplished, and get started.

Today, I trashed all my scrapbooking paper scraps/pieces I've held on to since my first scrapbooking project in high school! (I haven't used them yet, so I decided it's time! )

 

Well... I bought that book over a year ago. I still haven't cracked the cover. Now I'm not sure where it even is.

 

Oh totally get it now! I am in!!!! I start working tomorrow on that sub-teaching position for 7 weeks!

 

You see I start small and can't get my head out of the big picture and get overwhelmed... and it ends bad!

Marilyn, maybe that's why my house is a mess I ALWAYS have time for a book. LOL!!!!

 

Actually I was starting smaller. Had cleaned up my room and it was looking good. Getting things all tidy. Then one night my DH starts bringing up clothes that had gotten wet when the washer hose broke. Turns out it was clothes he either didn't bring up and also clothes that I had taken on my trip and he had unpacked my suitcase (against my wishes) threw them in a laundry basket and taken downstairs. So I know have clothes all over my living room. So I didn't mean to tackle this. I know it sounds weird I didn't miss them (I had just thought they were safely tucked away). The others I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't find them anywhere. Such is life and it was a crazy year.

 

last week I pulled out a big box of my clothes for giveaway. and kids' clothes. and filed 4 boxes of junk in the office, either for file/keep, or shred (hubby dropped 16lbs of "to shred" stuff off at Office Max!). today I did the paper trash of scrap paper. I will be purging a lot of craft stuff I don't use, too... and my old cricut is going up for sale :O

 

I am finally back with a page... Say Yes to AJ:

 

Took off from work today, got to play. Amazing what you can do with awful selfies when you turn them into stamps.

 

That's cool. I don't know how to do that. Don't tell Anne though.

 

Carilyne, there are lots of videos and tutorials on the web. What program do you use? I use Photoshop CS5.

Essentially you pull your photo/element/etc. onto a white background & rasterize it, go to IMAGE, ADJUSTMENTS, then THRESHOLD. Your image will then be B&W. Play with the threshold slider until you see the contrast you'd like. Then SELECT your image (the black), go to EDIT, DEFINE BRUSH PRESET. You do have to be a bit concerned that your image isn't over 2500, because at least my version has some limitations & the DEFINE BRUSH PRESET doesn't appear... Then you would save your brush thru EDIT, PRESET MANAGER. Like I said, lots of tutorials that would be much better than me attempting, but it really is pretty easy. I'd suggest you play with a number of them all at the same time to get the hang of it.

 

Thank you. I use Paintshop, but often can figure it out from photoshop directions, or I'll find a tutorial. Just something new to me. Your layout turned out really cool.