Okay  it is official!  I can now tell the world!  I will tell my 5 friends in the blog world!   I AM A grandma!!!  I will get to hold my grandbaby sometime around March 24!!!! They did not have plans to make me a grandma, but I am so excited! Our Curly Top will have a baby!

Here I sit again, wondering why I do not make time to post everyday.  Sometimes, I think about moving all of my news and photos over here. Then, I remember this is where I go to be more personal. A friend said, this is less private than you think. She is right! I am shocked at how many people view my blog and I do not even know who they are.

I have been thinking about cleaning out my upstairs photo closet.  I am reminded of the clean sweep method where ALL IS REMOVED. Then, you redesign and layout the plan. Then you move things that you want to keep back in. I think I am too afraid of all the junk that I would think is worth keeping.

 For example, I have about 70 pairs of overalls that I have used in the past and will continue to.  Here is an example of what I use them for.

 

 

Since I am thinking of centering my focus to children's photography, I should keep the smaller overalls and let go of the others. Then I remember this one.

We had so much fun!  I love overalls. Still maybe it is time to thin down the collection.

This week, I have tried to stay focused on just maintaining.  I have not really accomplished much in the declutter area.  This week, I have built a new trail on the property called Jessica's trail.  It is about 150-200 ft long. I completed about 100 ft so far. The baby birds have hatched and I try to take a picture every day of their progress.

Today, I went to the neighborhood field and picked some flowers. I called them mystery flowers, because I do not know what they are.  I sorted, bundled, and hung them to dry.  They will be added to wedding bouquets that I can offer to brides depending on how they dry.

I now have three bouquet ideas to offer to brides that want to get married on our property.

There will be more details on the "wedding" property soon, I hope!

CARDS to encourage the world

Today's Goal is to go from a complete full drawer ( 12 inches x 15 inches x 10 inches deep) of odd and various cards down to this little organized portable file.  I do not need 200 birthday cards, 50 graduation cards, and 100 wedding cards. And I for sure do not need 500 BLANK cards that I will never mail nor give to anyone.  Believe it or not the cards pictured here are organized into divided categories.  Now to narrow my cards to a manageable blessing that can be used to bless everyone.

Yes, it is the floor. No, I do not know how long it has been since I have seen this area of my office. Almost looks like wasted space.  

So, I am working on decluttering. I find these boxes that I just taped up in April. WHAT  WHAT is in these boxes.  I know they are taped up for a reason. I have been walking pass them for two weeks, thinking I will get to them. Well, an hour ago was that time. As I am removing the tape, I remember. I had put fresh rose buds form my daughters yard in them in hopes that they would dry and be so so so pretty.  I opened to check and was surprised to find,

I had decided to do one box of Dogwood flowers.  My first attempt.  I am quite proud. I have a whole box. LOVE.  

The other box is of the rose buds and I LOVE them too.

I am so excited to work with them, but I digress.  I retaped them, stuck them back on the shelf, and continue with my declutter.

It's a big day for me.  I have been working, once again, on my office. Declutter is what I say but Reclutter is what I find myself doing!!!  
Well, today I came to a big suitcase of old pictures that I took and tried to resale to all the softball T ball teams. I opened the suitcase and cleaned it all out, placing hundreds of baseball pictures in the trash.  I reminded myself the whole time that If noone thought they were good enough to buy, WHY AM I STORING THEM??????  A good thought to help me trash them.   But
Then my heart jumped for excitement when I realised I HAD THROWN AWAY PICTURES>    YES  me the great picture saver person  HAD THROWN AWAY pictures  and Good pictures at that!!!!!
Then I had to just come blog about it.  SO rejoice with me, my dear few friends who even follow me over here.
I want to hug each one of you.  All 4 of you!