Tackle it Tuesday - Scrapbook Table

This past week I worked on making this...

Look like this...

So that I could do this..

and this..

by the time I got my table cleaned off I only had time to do one page plus trim and get the pictures ready for these pages. This will be enough pictures for at least 3 scrapbook pages I think. I hope to scrapbook some more this week.

It is so hard to keep a flat surface clean and clear. I usually keep my photo box under the table but I am thinking of keeping it on the table... I will keep me from putting other things on there. When I am scrapbooking I stick the photo box on my bed anyway....

The photos stacked on the right in the box are ones I still need to do scrapbook pages for.

The envelopes on the left are extra pictures and negatives that have already been scrapbooked. All these pictures, from both sides, have also been scanned into my computer to save the originals. My hubby hopes to someday have a negative scanner and if he gets one he will scan all the negatives, which will make better copies later if we ever need or want them.

Getting all the pictures on the right finished will not bring me up to date. This only takes me until 2004. In 2004 I got a digital camera. The photos from 2004 forward are on my computer and have never been printed. Hopefully by the time I get to those pictures I will have money to start printing the ones on my computer.

The lid to the box got lost or broken long ago. Instead of getting a new box I just throw a folded sheet over the box to keep the dust off the photos.

Now that I have my table cleaned off I can keep up with my goal of scrapbooking at least once every other week.

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Tackle It Tuesday & 365-188 Note Cards

I have been working on getting things done on my summer to-do list.
One of those things is to laminate things I need for school for the coming year.

Above you see the note cards the boys and I will use. The ones that say "A note to my teacher" are for the boys to write down things they need me to know and put in the school log. The other ones I use for notes to the boys in their workboxes. I did a lot because they get misplaced and I like variety, I get bored easily.

Most of the note cards came from abcteach from last year when I had a membership thanks to TOS Homeschool Crew Review. The "A note to my teacher" cards I made myself in my Craft program with the card template. It was really easy.
I laminated them so we can use write on wipe off markers on them. I love using my new laminator.

365-180 and Tackle It Tuesday - Cleaning my Star Wars Collectables

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One of the things on my summer to-do list is to thoroughly clean my bedroom.

Today I tackled the top of my bookcase.
It was in need of dusting and cleaning...

Don't you think??

dusty

dustier

dustiest

All Cleaned up now.

I think I need to dust this self more regularly.

I added this to this week's Tackle at Tackle It Tuesday... check it out.

I will be posting individual pictures of my collection over the next few days for the 365 project.

Tackle it Tuesday and 365-169-170 - Organizing my Computer Desk

Organizing my Computer Desk

My bedroom is a mess. I have been slowly working on one area at at time. Last week it was the computer desk in my bedroom. I had papers all over. Books that I was not reading. Old catalogs that had been replaced by new catalogs. 

 Here are the before pictures

the left side of my desk

 the right side of my desk

 the left side of my desk, underneath the desk

 After I organized it

the left side of the desk

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with the little organizer cans moved,

these are the notebooks and folders that I am currently using.

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the right side of the desk

I moved a bunch of the larger notebooks to the left side

left my Bibles and Bible study books and the books I am currently reading along with the DVD's I am reviewing for the IEW writing course for next school year.

I, also, added a picture of Winterthur that I took in the spring. I printed the picture on my laser printer on regular paper and I printed a few of my favorites so I can change the pictures when I get tired of it.

the left side of my desk, underneath the desk

top shelf only

I threw out a bunch of catalogs from previous years. I moved a lot of papers that need to be filed in my filing cabinet. I have not organized the bottom shelf yet.

The goal for this coming week is to clean off the top shelf of the bookcase in my bedroom and maybe some or all of the other shelves. Watch for pictures in Tackle it Tuesday, next week.