Refining Possibilities: Making the Best Use of Your Time
Thank you for kind words yesterday, it is heartwarming to hear your concern and encouragement. I wanted to talk more about what I mean by refining aspirations . Refining your goals doesn’t mean making them less or lowering your standards or expectations.
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Refining Possibilities: Making the Best Use of Your Time
Handmade Gifts Design ,Forget Me Not#00031 You are on the “Forget Me Not ” template page on the ” Pages From The Heart Handmade gifts website “.What you are looking at here is just the flat graphic template /layout from which each individually handcrafted gift starts its journey to becoming just one in Pages from the
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Handmade Gifts Design ,Forget Me Not
For many of us, getting organized is the fun part. We love buying materials for new craft projects. We love school supplies
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Sometimes Getting Organized is a Big Fat Waste of Time
(Photo of my popup paper dollhouse ) Recently I received an email from a reader with a question: “I was wondering what your daily routine looks like?” When I read that, my first thought was, “Yes, I wish I knew that too.” Small children can divert and change the best-laid plans. If I were to write my routine on poster board with a permanent marker, I’d have to tear it up as soon as I finished, because it would need to be different.
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My Real-Life, Practical Daily Routine
Sometimes when you live in a plain beige apartment, you have to add your own architectural interest. We didn’t a have fireplace, and we thought a mantel would make our apartment more cozy. What we had before was an entertainment center, but we were ready to move on.
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Building a Stacked Wood Fireplace Mantel
Photo by Adam Scheuermann I’ve been spending a few days reflecting on last month’s No Spending Challenge and thinking about how to carry some of those new habits forward. (Because why would I save money all month and then toss it at the end?) This was our third year to try this family challenge, and each year was definitely easier than the one before. The first year we learned the hard way that even something as small as $15 on dinner out made it difficult to meet a $40 weekly food budget.
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The Takeaway: What I Learned from Our No Spend Month
Photo by lepiaf.geo “Before leaving the house, a lady should stop, look in the mirror, and remove one piece of jewellery.” -Coco Chanel Before you get started today, before you start the rush, take one chore off of your To Do list. Cross it off without even trying to do it. Make today’s goals attainable, so that you can find some breathing space as you work through the day
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Before You Leave the House Today…
Smile…..I type it in e-mails, on Twitter, even keep it on my screen saver as a constant reminder to do it~ TO SMILE! I would like to share a few of my favorite sales & customers that make what I do what I LOVE. All my sales are special but every now and then there are a few that touch my heart and stick with me…..these stories that accompany these sales are the Reason I love to craft/create and then share it with all of you.
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Pumpkins, Hippos & SMILES!
My New site Southern Handmade Gifts is full of great handmade treasures and has been a complete process spanning over many years. I will not bore you with all my details of how it came for idea born out of the need to do something and feel useful to being an operating e-commerce site exclusively of handmade treasures made by ME. I am sure I could write a book or several e-books full of tips/advice/& hey DON”T DO THIS hints but I will save that for retirement…lol
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