PHOTO BOOK

My family rarely sees each other except at holidays and other special events, so photos and family stories are important to us.  That's why; I am creating scrapbooks with photos of my nieces, nephews and grandchildren.  I am pretty sure they would love the special pages filled with their photos and stories. 

 one of my grandchildren

Handmade scrapbooks are a very wonderful way to document family stories and all the colorful memorabilia that goes with them.  Scrapbooks are priceless records of my family's life. 

 handmade scrapbooking page of him

Now, I have a great idea to use the computer.  And I want to encourage others who want to create scrapbooks to use computer as their toolkit too.  Especially to those who don't have talent with scissors and papers.  Adding computing power to your scrapbooking toolkit enables you to create complex layouts faster and easier, re-size and copy photographs, and take advantage of an amazing collection of fonts to dress up your text.  Computers are so much more forgiving when you're trying to create a great design.  You can crop a photo, and then undo the crop if you don't like it, and try again.  You can move images and text around the page and then move them again if you change your mind- and you don't even have to worry about whether the glue has dried yet.  With just a few clicks, you can start building beautiful pages, or create sections of photo pages.

Digital scrapbook pages can be printed on any kind of photo paper so you won't have to worry about running out of that special handmade paper.  You can also design a photo book just like you design digital scrapbook pages.  A photo book can be so much more than just a photo album.  There are many different ways to create scrapbook pages and photo book on a computer and almost as many programs you can use to do so.  It could save both time and money.

I MISSED MY FRIENDS LIKE I MISSED ICE CREAM

I am back!  I am getting okay after a full rest.  I missed you guys.  I missed plurk, twitter, facebook and my blogs!  I missed my friends.  And I missed ice cream!

Speaking of friends, they are essential for our emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.

my high school friends

Friends listen to our heartaches without blaming us for having problems.  They defend us when we're under attack.  They are happy when we succeed and sad when we fail.  They give us wise counsel to keep us from making foolish choices.  They even risk making us angry for the sake of making us right.  My friends done all and more for me.

my work mates

True friends never need to ask the reasons why, they just know they are needed.  Indeed, true friends are like diamonds- precious and rare.

my kikay kikay and my best friend.  I missed the old times.  I missed their company.

N SERIES

Photographers take hundreds of images without hesitation because they know that the more pictures they have to choose from the better chance they'll get just the best one.Usually, I have taken photos in succession.  You can't control the expression on your model.  At least 3 to five is good for most candid situations.  Unexpectedly, you may even capture something wonderful.  Fortunately, there's digital camera!  With it, you can take countless shots without worrying big expense and can set it in specific features. 

This is not the end of taking and making the photos special.  Please check my other blog for the final touch.

POPSICLE STICKS FOR ROLLED RIBBONS

As of present time, I'm actually done fixing and organizing my stuffs.  But I can't forget how my small place become nearly a place of scratch papers.  Mas marami kasi ang papers na nauwi sa basura keysa natira na mga importante that I still keep.

Like this mixed disorganized ribbons I bought 3 years ago.  Hinayaan ko na lang magkaganito.  Hindi nagalaw dahil I work full-time and part-time sa arts and crafts lang.

Popsicle mainly use as ice pop handler.  Some use it for crafts.  I used it to organize the ribbons.

Ganda nila tingnan no?  Para silang pop candies.

To keep it organized, I put it inside this plastic stuff I bought at Robinson's Place for only 19php.

Nakaka-chillax tingnan ang mga bagay na organized.  I am counting nga kung hanggang kelan ba 'to pero I can assure hindi na maging miserable ang mga gamit ko.  I am working to fix my files in the office next.

TIPS TO ORGANIZE YOUR CLOSET

Before I continue my organized operation, I wanna share something I read online about what Lesley Adams said. According to her, disorganization costs Americans 15 to 20 percent of a family's budget per year.  We can't find what we're looking for, so we buy another.  That's true!  Just like what happened to Mrs. Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo one time that she had hard time to find her phone charger and decided to buy new one but her husband Ryan Agoncillo told her no need to and just don't stop looking for it.  And they found it somewhere inside their house.

There are some tips to declutter and organize your closet that will enable you to find your items faster.

1.  You need to have free time to organize your closet.  Have some clear boxes ready before you start.

2.  Take all items in your closet out.  The boxes are for the items you will give, sell, or trash.

3.  Put items in the 3 boxes (give, sell, trash).

4.  For the items you need to keep, put all according to color and type of clothes.


5.  At last, you are organized

Extra tip:

I put my hankies in vertical order for me to see it right away and pull out.

same with my boxer shorts.

More of fixing small mess up next.

THE PURPOSE

Last month, I nearly burn my room (it's just a figure of speech) looking for a piece of paper.  I almost checked the four corners of the room.  My sister even helped me.  She did kalkal the trash basket.  I even called all the saints and prayed to Him to show me that piece of paper.  (Silly me.)  It's not the priority number to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

God:  "The purpose of prayer is not to get what you want but to become what I want."

Later on, I realized that I put it inside the pandan purse when I fixed my wallet.  After that i made a promise to become an organized person.  (Talagang tinamaan ako ng purpose of prayer na 'yan.)

God:  "Just don't say it.  Do it!"

I don't own a mansion (only in farmtown).  I don't have even yayas.  But I'll show you how the yaya organized his own clutter.  In short, I'll show you how to get organized without hiring a professional organizer.  (Pagbigyan n'yo na ako kasi first time ko 'to.)

But before that, here I show you the clutter.

"Do me, take care of me."

I am living in a small place, I need to learn the discipline of keeping only what is fully needed and be organized.  Back then, How do I get organized?  According to what I've read, I need the right tools first of all.  Then, I need time and commitment.

1.  The tools- I bought some of appropriate storage @ SM Homeworld.

2.  Time and Commitment- I committed my time since Saturday night and done yesterday afternoon.  It's equivalent to just less than a day (Of course, I slept).

According to what I've read again, there are actually three ways of obtaining space:

1.  You can increase the amount of storage space.

2.  Use the space you have more efficiently.

3.  Reduce the amount of things you store.

Only numbers 2 & 3 are applicable to me since I only have small space of existence as I've said earlier.  I hate it.  I don't have the number 1  requirement.  So the next step I followed was myself.  Kidding!

Now, I was ready to begin the clean up effort.  The first thing I did was to clear everything in the area.  I spread everything out on the floor. 

I personally have only two basic things I can do with any given item.  The throw it and the keep it.  And I have only two categories:  The work materials and the passion items.

The clean up process can take a lot of time.  The bigger the mess, the more effort will be involved.  To make it short, I was dead tired but the reward at the end is worth it.  At the end of the day, here's the after scene.

My sister was happy for what I've done.  So she volunteered to organize the throw it section.

before

after



At last, I have an organized area and clear of clutter.  Reward! Reward!



More organized things to show up next.

MY LIFE'S JOURNEY AND HIGHLIGHTS

2002-2004-  The years were the highlights of my Internet addiction.  One time I was online 48 straight hours and I gained some virtual friends.

2005-It's my dating year.  Great excitement.  I had my first serious relationship and I deleted all my online accounts.  Unfortunately, the relationship I thought will be forever ended before the new year.

2006-  It was the year of much challenges.  I lived with a special person.  I became matured and I learned so many things in life.  It was the year that gave me smiles though there were negative things happened but it was over-powered by good memories.

2007-  I discovered blogging and still love doing it until now.

2008-  It takes two to tango.  However, I found my dancing partner busy dancing with other people in the dance floor.  I can buy earthy things but I can't buy someone to stay with me.  So I let that special person enjoyed the new company and even the bad past acquaintances.  You can help people to be better but no assurance that they follow what you think is good for them.  I found myself dancing with the wind.  Yet, I don't want to let the wind enter my brain.  So, I focused myself in blogging.  Mrs. T. encouraged and helped me to monetize my blog.  I just earned 2,000 bucks that year.

2009-  I was able to balance my time for my family and personal friends.  I had great moments with them.  I visited beautiful places nearby.  Indeed, I had memorable events last year!

This year 2010, I take time to fix and organize my life.  I love doing my passion and try to make things great!

IT'S AUGUST

August is here!  Days run so fast!  I am feeling okay now.  But as usual I am still busy working, organizing and doing crafts.  I really wanted to update regularly but unfortunately, I can't do what I say.  At least I accomplished something and that is organizing my things.

For future topic, I wanna share some conversation I had for the past few weeks and the conversation I've overheard.  At the same time I will continue doing and sharing some craft projects on my other blog.  See you on your own blog.