30 Days of Lists - Day Five

Today's list is just the kind of list I like to make. Not only is it good for helping me with my goals, it also helps me to get everything down and remember what needs to be done. So, on to today's list:

Things I would like to do/accomplish by the end of the month:

• create 4 scrapbook pages
• renew house insurance
• finish reading "Married to the Mouse"
• spring clean the whole house
• sort the kitchen drawers
• start my crm blog
• sort through blog photos

The easy bit was writing the list - the hard part will be making sure I accomplish each one. I'll let you know how I get on.

Liz

30 Days of lists - Day Four

Today's list was a little more difficult because I'm trying to use these lists as a way of. talking about myself a bit more and my average day seems to revolve around Grace a lot at the moment and anything that involves myself is about work. I had a go though and although it's not very exciting, it does give an insight into my life as it is right now.

On an average day I....

Get up when Grace  wakes me up around 6am
Battle with Grace to get her dressed in the morning
Get a kiss and a "huggle" from Grace before she goes off to the childminder's
Leave the house a little be too late so I have to rush for my train to work
Read a few pages of my book on the train journey to work
Walk up to work from the train station with my colleague Helen
Check my personal email at work about once an hour
Have a banana and an apple for my mid-morning snack
Have soup for my lunch (usually Heinz mulligatawny)
Leave work at dead-on 5pm so that I don't miss my evening train at 5.25
Collect the car from the station car park where James has left it so that I can go and pick Grace up
Watch In the Night Garden with Grace after we've eaten dinner
Wash the pots - that's my job whereas James cooks the dinner
Read three books to Grace while she drinks her milk
Watch some TV or do some scrapbooking in the evening
Go to bed at 10pm

Liz

30 Days of Lists - Day Three

I can't believe I'm on track with this. It's been really easy to stay on top of this so far, even though this weekend has been an incredibly busy one. But then I'm only three days in so there's still time for this to change.

Today's list is "This......., I am going to ........"

• This week I am going to make a start on the tea shop page I've been trying to start for over a week
• This week I am going to finish the book I'm reading - The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• This week I am going to finish writing up last year's diary for my project 52
• This month I am going to the Birmingham NEC scrapbook fair and buy some more washi tape - if any stands have some
• This month I am going to get up to date with all the programmes I've recorded on the Sky Planner
• This year I will finish reading all my outstanding books and I will reward myself by having a Kindle for Christmas

No photo today because, as I said, it's been a really busy weekend and where I was hoping to make a start on the first item on my list, I just haven't had time!

Can't wait for tomorrow's list in the 30 Days of Lists challenge.

Liz

(P.S. I realised I haven't been signing off my blogs and that feels a bit rude so from now on I will!)

30 Days of Lists - Day Two

I'm really enjoying this 30 Days of Lists challenge. Weeks go by sometimes and I never get any scrapbooking done so this taking part in this makes me feel like I'm doing something and I can do it while I'm on the  go.

Today's list is "I am...."

I am....a volunteer with the NCT

I am....a baker of cakes and puddings (when I get the time)

I am....a scrapbooker

I am....a mum to my beautiful daughter Grace

I am....an organised and methodical person

I am....an eater of sushi

I am....an avid reader

I am....a reluctant public speaker

I am....a fan of The Killers

I am....a proud person

I am....a member of the WI

I am....funny (I hope)

I am....a little critical of myself

I am....not a decisive person

I am....a wife

I am....older than I look

I am....not as smart as I wish

I am....a watcher of The Good Wife, Mr Selfridge and Call the Midwife at the moment (well that's what the Sky planner is full of)

I am....a hater of people who don't hold the door for others

(The photo above was taken at my cousin's 50th birthday party last night.)

30 days of Lists - day one

The 1st March has finally arrived and my first prompt has come through in the 30 Days of Lists challenge.

So here goes.

Day one - I'm a lister because....

1. I like to be organised 
2. Being organised stops me from getting overwhelmed
3. I like the satisfaction of crossing something off
4. I have a rubbish memory
5. It helps to compartmentalise my life
6. I have too much to think about

I'm going to write them up in my new notebook at some point but at the moment I'm just using Evernote.

Let's see if I can manage to blog them as I go along as well!

Scrapbook Day - 23rd February 2013

Had a great day yesterday - a whole day of scrapbooking with my sister-in-law and her sister. We all worked on a layout that was scraplifted from this original page which can be found on a blog called This Kalil Life:

The idea was to think of a number of random things about yourself. The number being your age. I got the better end of the deal with this layout as I was the youngest of the three of us so I only had to think of 31 random facts about myself. But actually once I got into it I enjoyed making the list and had lots of things to put on it.

This is my attempt and while it's not the best page I've created, it's quite nice to have a layout about myself for a change:

And this is my list of 31 random facts:

Thanks to Kimberley from This Kalil Life for the inspiration, and thanks to Tracey for hosting the scrapbooking day. Here we are busy at work:

30 Days of Lists Challenge

I realise it's been a year since my last blog post but I haven't managed to do a great deal of scrapbooking in that year so there's not been much to write about. I didn't get any further with Project 12 that I was attempting with my sister-in-law but never mind. Onwards and upwards they say. At some point I may go back and do a page for each month of last year as I still have photos and journaling (ooh, I'll come back to that because I haven't been totally useless this past year and I did attempt my own version of Project Life) but for now it's time to move on.

So, I love writing lists. I have lists at work, lists on my Blackberry, lists on the fridge, lists for scrapbooking and lists in other random notebooks lying around. When I saw the 30 Days of Lists Challenge I knew this would be something I could get my teeth into.

So I'm waiting in anticipation for 1st March when the first email will come through and I can begin the challenge. I've even bought myself a new notebook from Etsy to celebrate.