Week in the Life : Tuesday Photos + Words (and a workshop giveaway)
Just a note that Stacy Julian organized a really cool project encouraging everyone to give ourselves the gift of the present moment. This is precisely what we are doing with this week in the life journey. Check out her blog today.
From Tuesday:
Went with the simple list idea again - not as detailed as day one, but still much more than I would ever do without this project.
1. Super happy Simon wake-up this morning. He came into our room around 2am. I stayed for a bit and then went to his bed (which happens to be a bit more comfortable because of a firmer mattress). He joined me at about 5:45am just before the alarm went off at 6am.
2. Breakfast routine same as Monday: bagel + cream cheese for Simon, cereal for Chris, and me, I have to wait a bit for my thyroid medication. I usually eat after Simon leaves for school.
3. Every morning that Simon is cheerful I am so very thankful.
4. Working on a project for Australian Creating Keepsakes.
5. Listening to OPB.
6. Head out to the Farmer’s Market. Pick up spinach, carrots, celery, red onion, raspberries, and flowers. Grab a toasted bagel from Bagel Sphere.
7. Ship package to Australia.
8. Look up some recipes at www.allrecipes.com. Do a bit of meal planning for the week.
9. Text Chris to pick up a couple things at the grocery store.
10. Make German Apple Cake + eat hummus and pita chips for lunch.
11. Clean up kitchen.
12. Move laundry around.
13. Back to work. Internet. Emails.
14. Talk to Mom on the phone. Ask her about how to get the cake out of the bundt pan.
15. Totally bummed that Mothering.com message board has been down today.
16. Simon comes home on the bus.
17. We check out his Communication Notebook. Looks good. He brought home the same library book he brought home almost every trip last year.
18. On comes the Darth Vader costume and Star Wars video.
19. Chris talks on the phone. Mom reads about cloth diapers.
20. I take a little nap.
21. Dinner is tostadas (Chris cooks). Dessert is the German Apple Cake.
22. Simon does his math homework (no complaints tonight) at the table and then puts on his PJ’s.
23. Reading homework on the couch.
24. Family light saber battle.
25. Simon in bed. Read Green Eggs + Ham.
26. Back to work for a bit.
27. Watch Tivo’d John Stewart.
This week I am excited to give away a spot in Kolette Hall's Giving Well (In 2-hours or Less) online workshop at Big Picture Scrapbooking.
Kolette is one of my favorite people and happens to be having a baby right around the same time as me next year. She is a fabulous product designer and instructor who really keeps the emphasis on things being meaningful and coming from the heart.
Here's the basics of Giving Well:
Gift-giving is an art. From the gift tag and wrapping paper to what's inside the package, you are saying something when you give a gift. Back by popular demand, Kolette Hall has designed a fresh round of fabulous, manageable gift ideas for the holiday season and all year long. This class is literally packed with everything you need to give well for the holidays or any special event all year long - and Kolette has designed every idea you will see in this class!
Every other day, you will receive a new idea for "Giving Well (still in 2-hours or less!)." True to form, Kolette has also included her exclusive downloadable artwork to help you create the perfect gifts, holiday cards and gift tags. As those of you who joined us last year for Giving Well know, you will be amazed with what you get in just four weeks of class time.
You asked for it, so we're starting class a month earlier than last year to make sure you have plenty of time to get those projects done for the holidays! Whether you are mass producing one gift idea or choosing to craft a different gift for each person on your list, you'll get tons of ideas for creating personalized gifts in less than two hours. Come join Kolette as she guides you in your new art form: the art of Giving Well.
You can read all the details about this online workshop here. It runs October 9 through November 5th. While you are there you can also check out her year long workshop for 2009: A Life Well Crafted.
To be entered leave a comment below and let us know if you have started planning for the upcoming holiday season yet. Comment section will be closed at 5pm today (Wednesday) and the winner announced shortly after.
A complete list of posts related to the week in the life project can be found here.
What a great class to get motivated and organized. I have started to pick up a few gifts but that is all and I need to be better organized this year, would love to win!
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Hi Ali - oh yes, planning for Christmas - one of my favourite things! I am great at planning early then suddenly it's December and I wonder what happended to my great intentions... This year I aim to really really get everything made! I have actually started too :)
PS Thanks so much for the Week in Life project - I have always wanted to do this and it amazes me how you inspire people all over the world - here I am in NZ working on the same project as you!
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i ordered a kit to make and duplicate for our parents. pictures of our kids for the year. i am excited to start it! cool giveaway too!!!
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Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier each year. The class sounds really interesting. I would like to get some homemade gift ideas.
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We moved at the beginning of this year. It will be our first Christmas in many years that we won't be celebrating with extended family.
My plan is to recycle all those pics I receive from nieces and nephews every year; I want to make a photo college for each of our sibling's family, of their children over the years. My kids don't get to see their cousins very often, so using Lisa B's folders KOTM, I am using the folders to make my kids a "family tree"; each family gets a folder with pics over the years as well, some with all of us together, so when my kids are missing their cousins they will have something to look at. I am making some about grandparents and great grandparents as well.
Hope this makes sense, lol.
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I have requested lists from my 4 kids who are all away at college. Hoping to have them by Friday so I can get started!
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Except for designing my in-laws christmas card and planning a trip home in early December, I have done nothing to get ready for the holidays. For some reason, this year - everything seems so very far away.
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Love your pics! :) the dahlia's are gorgeous!
I have started picking out my Christmas cards already... I have my halloween cards made and will write them up this weekend to send out early next week.
:) I LOVE preparing for the holidays!
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wow that would be an awesome class, especially with a tight budget this year! I have starting planning Thanksgiving, since it will be our first in our new house. I have to start thinking about it now or I will get too stressed out!
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I made a Christmas planner...nothing is written/filed/done in it yet ;)
I was thinking that I made it pretty easy to change the date on it to "2009" so that may be my excuse for not using it...have you ever seen this website?
http://organizedchristmas.com/
It's pretty cool...you can print planner pages and make a notebook (or mini book;) for the planning season.
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EEEK! Is it October first! That means halloween, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before, well, I'm ready. WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? Unfortunately, I haven't done one thing to get ready for the holidays. Any ideas would be wonderful!
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I've made my first card and decoration of the season but it was on impulse, only the beginings of planning happening here. : )
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Ohhh! I've been drooling over this class, but wondering if I should take it since I'm signed up for another on-line class. And that's about as far as I've thought about gifts for the upcoming holidays!!!
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I have started preparing for the holidays by making some presents early, i.e. albums, quilts. etc.
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just started talking about who'd doing the holiday dinners - it's my turn to do Thanksgiving!! i can't wait!
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Hi Ali--Would love to win-would love to get some Christmas ideas brewing around in my brain!
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I have already started, at least making gifts for my sons aide and teachers (would love some other ideas) I also just found your calendar template and decided to do those for the grandma's (they love that stuff). Love the idea of an online class to jump start me even further. I LOVE the HOLIDAYS even if they are busy!!!
Annette
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Ha ha - you are a comidean. Plan for christmas yet???
Well, let's see. Bought a house in July. Check. Replace furnance several weeks after move in. Check. Figuring out that houses cost a lot and we can't spend like we could when we rented. Check. Christmas - no dinero. Check.
Need ideas? That's where Give Well comes in.
Help!
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Just yesterday I brought out my Christmas planning book- a running record of card lists and gifts given for 8 years. I have usually started to purchase gifts by now, but am looking to make this year much simpler and enjoyable than last year- to really focus on our core family and making the month of december really special. I love Kolette and her message, have taken one of her classes on BPS before, but just cannot afford/justify sepnding the $$$ this time around. :-)
PS how did you get that picture of you driving? Totally cool! I just finished the "30 days Hath September" with SJ and while it was challenging to complete every day, I made it! I journalled more about our every day life than ever boefore, which I think will make it so special for the future. I am going to do one week books like you are doing on a periodic basis, too.... much easier to tackle! :-)
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Good afternoon!
My first time posting here! It seems like I never stop thinking about the Holiday season since I make and/or buy gifts all year long. This year I am especially interested in making meaningful things that my friends and family will appreciate, so Kolette's class appeals to me. In fact, I am considering signing up for it as well as the year long one, A Life Well Crafted, with her and Jason. I met them both at CE and they were super!
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I've starting THINKING about it...this year I want to really put thought into the gifts I give. I want to make as many as I can. Too often in the past I've found myself at the mall the week before Christmas, just buying whatever. That's not what it's all about.
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Good afternoon!
My first time posting here! It seems like I never stop thinking about the Holiday season since I make and/or buy gifts all year long. This year I am especially interested in making meaningful things that my friends and family will appreciate, so Kolette's class appeals to me. In fact, I am considering signing up for it as well as the year long one, A Life Well Crafted, with her and Jason. I met them both at CE and they were super!
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I had a place in Kollet's class "choose joy" - and it really gave me a different perspective on everyday life!
I lost my baby in April in the 16th week of pregnancy and had a hard time to "choose joy" again in my everyday life. But her thoughts are still in my mind and I would love to take another of her classes.
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Hi Ali... my plans for the holidays......adjusting to life with a new baby in our family again, and trying to keep our regular holiday traditions.Thanks for the chance to win a giveaway! Erin :)
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oooo i so need this class in my life. i love love to make things for others. i think giving home made is the coolest, and i love receiving home made things. i just always start too late or can't come up with the perfect thing in time. i would love to win this giveaway!
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