Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. - Liz Carpenter

While I was babysitting today and the kiddo was napping I checked my e-mail on my iPhone. As I checked through random store offers and the occasional correspondence with a family member or friend hit me with a startling force how rare hand written correspondence is anymore. Most of the time when I check my tiny little mail slot all I find are bills and catalogs/magazines. Around major holidays or my birthday there's the occasional card, but often times even those greetings are sent via e-mail!

A while back I was on a HUGE letter writing kick... I'm big on thank you cards and the like as well. I felt that I had no clue how to write a proper letter be it just a hello or a thank you, so I picked up this wonderful book:

[amazon]

I'm hoping to start writing cards and letters again... find a few friends - especially those that live far from me - and trade letters. Anyone here interested? I'm a wonderful pen pal ;o)

There are so many wonderful sellers on etsy who specialize in stationary and cards... one of my all time favorites is this lovely Christmas card:

[citylight on etsy]

Or how about making your own cards like this lovely set here:

[The Scrapbook House]

Or just head over to Stampin' Up! and let your imagination run wild with all the possibilities!

I'm quite excited to send some cards out later this week just to say hello to a few people... and hopefully get to making some of my own creations to send out in the near future as well.

21 Day Organizational Challenge.

I've had a lack of motivation in the blogging and home making departments lately... life's been busy, and I suppose I've just become overwhelmed. I need to get a jump on things again, and I've been inspired by the 21 day challenge over at A bowl full of lemons.

Her list was great, but some of it didn't work for me as it didn't apply to my life and/or my apartment, so I created my own list. I may not follow it in order, but that's okay. The ultimate goal is to get the apartment clean and organized within 21 days and to keep it that way :)

So here's my 21 Day Organizational Challenge List:

1 - kitchen/dining table
2 - refrigerator/freezer
3 - lower kitchen cabinet
4 - cabinet under kitchen sink
5 - cabinet over stove
6- linen closet
7- medicine cabinet/medicine storage
8 - make-up/hair products
9 - big dresser drawers
10- small dresser drawers
11 - bedside table
12 - bedroom closet
13 - under the bed
14- gift wrap box
15 - financial binder
16- bankers box
17 -bookcases
18- donation bags
19- coupons
20-car
21- start at least one organizational diy project

Thanks to some fun blog posts I've stumbled across as well as my pinterest addiction, I have a serious excitement to get this challenge started this week sometime. I may do a few before/after photos, but no promises. I often forget to snap pictures of things like this, and also add to it the embarrassment of some of the areas of insanity at the moment, lol.

As for the blog... keep your eyes peeled for a cooking/recipe post sometime this week. I'm also hoping to get a new look for the blog sometime soon, and hopefully that'll help me become even more "into" blogging here.