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January 23, 2012

One Line a Day...

One of my PROJECTS for the year is to continue keeping my journal that i started after reading this book:

It has a completely different take on the daily "gratitude" list and it truly changed my life and way of thinking last year. Plus it has been great documentation of the stuff...good and bad... that has gone on since I was diagnosed with barrett's Esophagus, and Scott was left out of work due to this injury. BUT I wanted a different "look" at life and this "One Line A Day" book, I think is going to work!

The idea is each page has a day on it...for example January 23. And then it has FIVE spaces

You add the year 2012 in the top space and write your little tiny bit about the day into it and then move on to the next page. What I soooooo like about this, is as I go to use it next year on January 23 I will be able to read what I was doing a year ago...or what the weather was like etc.

I think my DAD would have loved this as a weather record to be able to look back on. For me it will just be the everyday mundane things that happen. I think this is a reachable PROJECT and a helpful one in so many ways. There is alot going on in our lives right now, and I think it is important to keep a record of it.

Have a great Monday!

Dancingly, Denise

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January 09, 2012

This and That

I have been trying to keep a positive focus these last few days, ah heck...these last few months! We are into the 5th month of Scott being out of work and still no worker's comp agreement and no treatment for his injuries. It's a long story and I will share it on here soon, but for today I wanted to share some PROJECTS (my word for the year)

I have been wanting to make a set of twin baby hats for awhile now and so finally I just sat down and did it! Meet Thing 1 and Thing 2:

I put them up on my facebook page :All Dressed Up

and my etsy page www.alldressedupcouture.etsy.com

and promptly got TWO orders within 24 hours! Now I have to get busy!

Another PROJECT that has been really bugging me... Cleaning out the freezer and fridge! To some that wouldn't be a project, but for me...UGH! I did it the other day and it feels so good! Afterwards I went and grocery shopped to fill in the spaces that we had from cleaning out. THAT was thanks to some gift card we recieved.

The last project was one that I did today...I keep a book of insiration pictures for my business..alot of people use PININTEREST nd do it right on line (I do use PinInterest for non business ideas). I print our ideas that I see, cut them up and put them in this binder. I have been piling up ideas and it was time to cut them up and put them in the binder! I did that this morning and just completed it a few mintues ago.

Happy Monday.

Dancingly, Denise

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January 06, 2012

Projects...

In keeping with my word for the new year PROJECTs...I did two projects in the last couple of days that I feel great about. One was simply taking down and packing up all the Christmas decorations. If you read past year blog entries you will see that sometimes this doesn't occur until...oh...say FEBRUARY or MARCH! SO I am very happy that everything is packed away.

The other thing I did was to go through my books and put a couple of bags of books together to take to the bookstore for used book credit. I have been wanting to do this for about a year and finally did it the other morning...I have some more books to take in but this was a great start!

We have had a rough start to our New Year...one thing I can't share as it isn't completely mine to share, but it has caused pain withing our little house. The other thing is we had to rush our poor little 13 year old Snuggles to the vets yesterday as he was bleeding profusely from his right nostril and his left ear.

The good news is he is okay...here is what I just wrote on Facebook:

" I just went and got our little Snugs. As far as they can tell the bleeding in the ear is due to the vestibular problems he has and is probably connected to the seizures...etc. He could have a tumor...but it would take thousands of dollars of testing. NOW THE BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE???? It appears as though our little guy has been snorting organic plant matter...yup you read that right...his nos...tril was stuffed with what appears to be grass, grass seed, and other plant matter...UHM grass of the LEGAL kind btw:) They aren't sure how much or what he has up there (nostrils are so tiny to see into) BUT we will just watch for continued bleeding... Can you believe it? Snorting grass... His little brother sniffed his but and then went on about his business like he hadn't been traumatized by the disapearance of him..."

So our little family is right for today:)

I am goping to go work on a couple of Super Hero Cape orders. Please visit my other blog to see what new items I have been making!

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Dancingly, Denise

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January 04, 2012

Top BOOKs of 2011

I love to read...I LOVE books...Uhm...I work in a BOOKSTORE:) I thought I would share some of my favorites that I read in 2011.

Books that made me laugh...

I LOVE Janet Evonavich...her Stephaine Plum novels are honestly Laugh out Loud books. I got to read TWO Plum novels and one new novels series in 2011:

Books that made me think:

TWO books that changed my life and how I look at things:

Books that I enjoyed for the heck of it:

Don't let this list fool you I read a ton more...some were pretty good...some I started and didn't finish for one reason or another...and some were just okay.