Blog Celebration!

If you have been reading my blog for a while you may know that I like to make symmetrical designs, I try to plan designs to make the best use of the paper and to find creative ways to use the offcuts, I want to be organized (but it is sometimes a losing battle!) and my favorite numbers are three and seven.

Last night when I was working on a blog post I looked at the counter and it was....



That seemed like a lucky number to me! So I started to figure out what I could give as a prize for a blog celebration. I have been working on getting my house sorted out. We have lived here for a bit over eight years now - the longest we have lived anywhere since we were married -and one of my many projects includes getting our family photos completely organized and scanning the older ones so I can work with them digitally.

My husband just built shelves for me in the guest room closet and this will be my "photo and video organization station." I have a folding table that fits perfectly in the closet and this will be my work area as I finally get this project completed. (I'll post photos once I have it a bit further along - I am still setting things up).

I am also a Creative Memories consultant and use many of their great tools to help me organize. I plan to store the photos that are not used for scrapbooks in my large Power Sort boxes to keep them safe from dust and light and easily accessible. I have four of the large boxes full already (they each hold 2400 photos!) and many photos still to file.

The regular Power Sort boxes are plain black but, for a while there was a special Memory Keepers Club prize of a Mini Power Sort box in brown with a cute pink design and three lidded compartments. I happen to have a few of these left on my shelf and I have discovered that they are perfect for holding more than just photos (about 600 - up to 5 x 7 size). The compartments are also great for Cuttlebug folders and will even hold Cricut keyboard overlays and handbooks (as you can see in the photo below).



So, I'd like to help a few of you get organized too! I have three (3) of these boxes to give away by a random drawing. This morning the blog counter said



funny how those 3s and 4s add up to 7 - or am I just a bit too obsessed with patterns?

If you want to get organized - in a pretty pink and brown way - leave a comment on this post. You just click on the "comments" at the very bottom of the post and leave your name (real or message board) - if you don't have a Google account, you can check "anonymous" to leave your comment - but please be sure to give a name in the comment so I can identify the winners.

Some readers have mentioned that they have trouble leaving a comment on the blog - even with the anonymous posting option - so I will also start a thread on the Cricut Message Board and LINK it here - if you can't post a comment on the blog you can reply on that thread to be included in the drawing.

Last time I did a blog celebration you needed to make a card using one of my designs - there is no card to complete to be included this time since everyone is super busy with their holiday projects. Just leave a comment or respond on the message board thread if the comment function won't work for you.

Thanks for visiting my blog and keep watching for details about my new teaching blog where I will be doing online lessons and more specialized projects.