Giveaway and Report Time

Anyone who is anyone knows that a successful blog has Giveaways.  And since I have been blogging now for over three weeks I feel successful so hence a giveaway.  I have known that I wanted to do a giveaway for awhile now so I have been searching for the right one.  At first I thought I would giveaway the containers I used for the jewelry drawer organizing, but I realized that everyone has different needs and my solution might not transfer well to meet your needs.  Then I thought I would make another wrapping paper station and give that away.  I have to tell you that as much as I love you I wasn't ready to do that again.  The whole idea here is to give you ideas and encouragement  to help you think outside the box and to come up with solutions that work for you not for me to push my solutions onto you.  So as I was shopping for (you guessed it) organizational items I came across this.

"Halloween" by Matthew Mead is a fun book with ideas that will help you organize your Halloween parties. To enter into a drawing for this book you just need to tell me what you organized this week or your favorite Halloween tradition.

Now it is time to report on how things are going with my past projects.  I am going to be totally honest here.  I even went on a surprise visit so there was no time to fix or clean up anything before.  That's right, if you had totally stopped by unexpected and come into my house and opened these drawers and cupboards this is what you would find.

Junk Drawer

I now have more scissors than before. I guess knowing where they go makes a difference.  I added electrical tape and my husband ran off with my box of tacks but other than that not much has changed in two weeks.  I am pleased.

Kitchen Drawer

I never found any containers that I liked better than what I already had so I just left them but getting rid of all the things I didn't really need has helped a lot.  My husband thanked me one day out of the blue for getting rid of the old cooking tools.

Wrapping Paper Station

Last night I had to wrap four presents for my grandson's birthday.  What joy.  I had them wrapped in no time and they were some of the cutest wrapping jobs I have done in a long time.  I didn't realize how hard my old system was.  I hate to admit it but sometimes I would just leave the gift in the bag I bought it in because it was too hard to wrap.  You may notice that I have two more rolls of paper.  I bought the grey poke-a-dot at TJMaxx to go with the grey tulle left over from Brittany's wedding and I made sure the paper I found at All a Dollar for baby Josh's birthday matched the beige tulle.  Knowing what ribbon I had to work with made a difference in the paper I chose.  I truly felt organized.  And it was fun to wrap the presents.  So here you caught me.  In my rush to wrap and go to the party I didn't put the white curly ribbon away.  I told you this was unedited.  It is an easy fix but shows were I need to improve.  PUT THINGS AWAY RIGHT AFTER YOU USE THEM!  Lesson learned.

I was going to show you my Jewelry Drawer as well but my husband is still asleep and I don't want to wake him.  No he isn't lazy it is just 5:00 am.  Some people do sleep normal hours.  But the drawer is just the same.  I do need to report that I am wearing jewelry that I had forgotten that I even had.  And it is so easy to find what I want that I want to burst with joy each time I go to get my ear-rings.

Good luck on the giveaway!  I can't wait to hear from you.
PS  The drawing for the book will be Monday September 16th at 12:00 pm so don't procrastinate you entry.