First, let me congratulate Anna Maloy, the lucky winner of our latest giveaway. Anna will be receiving a My Friendship Bracelet Maker Kit. We know she’ll have such fun creating lots of friendship bracelets with this handy tool.
Now I’d like to announce our next giveaway!
Is it just me, or has summer flown by super fast this year? Without me realizing it, it’s almost fall, and around here, fall means crazy time! All the kids are starting school again, and they also have plenty of after-school activities. Little Jo is in gymnastics and my niece is starting soccer this week. All of this means lots of appointments and driving back and forth. Then there’s the upcoming holiday season, which means even more craziness. Thanksgiving has its own set of planning required, and then there’s Christmas shopping to do. It piles up, and fast. I cope with the insanity of the fall (and all year, really) with lists. I love my lists, lists, lists!
Nothing makes lists more fun to deal with than having them on pretty notepads, right? We want you to have pretty notepads, so we’re giving away a notepad making kit.
We were inspired for this giveaway when we spotted a fun set of clear stamps in the store. The “Take Note” Perfectly Clear Stamp Set by Stupendous has simple and quirky designs that make it easy to make any notepad or list so much cuter. Just stick these to an acrylic block and you’re ready to stamp your own lists. And to help you make those lists into a notepad, we are throwing in a bottle of the padding compound that we sell in our Amazon store, along with a brush, some clips and some chipboard.
If you have never made your own notepads before, it’s really easy. We have a make your own notepad tutorial that tells you how, and we’ve got done several other notepad projects, too, like photo notepads and gin rummy score sheets. The key to making your own notepad is a special type of glue called padding compound. Jo and I use it all the time, and it’s one of our favorite items in our craft rooms! You can purchase our padding compound from our Amazon store.
So how do you win this awesome prize?
I’m sure you’ve all got your lists just like I do. And I’ll bet there are a few things on there that you’ve just been dying to mark off. Just leave a comment below and tell us what item you just can’t seem to manage to get off your to-do list.
(By the way, my to-do that won’t go away is reorganizing my recipes into a binder.)
The deadline for entries is Wednesday, September 8, 2010, at 11:59 PM, EST.
RULES: One entry per person (determined by e-mail address). One winner will be chosen at random from all valid entries received by the deadline. Winner will be contacted via e-mail within 48 hours of giveaway end date. Winner must reply within one week with a shipping address or prize will be forfeited. If a winner’s shipping address is outside of the USA, that winner will be responsible for shipping costs.
WINNER: Congratulations to our winner, Bethany! Her comment was: 25. Bethany: I just cannot get my closet organized… I think I’ve done the rest of the closets twice! Bethany, I feel your disorganized closet pain! I can’t seem to keep things from falling on my head when I go into my closet! Thanks to everyone else who entered. We enjoyed having a peek at what is on your to-do lists and were amused that a lot of the tasks are the same as ours. Having stubborn items on that list must be a universal constant! For those of you who didn’t win, please keep an eye on our giveaways page for our next giveaway! |
114 comments so far:
I can never seem to get my craft stuff organized! It’s just jumbled into big bins and I can never find anything.
Start Diet. Maybe when I make a note pad, I’ll just go ahead and print this as item #1 for the entire pad!
The item I can’t seem to get off my “to do” list would be organizing all my seasonal decorations into totes with label and placing them in a “reachable” place in the attic. Guess cleaning out the attic should be on my “to do” list as well. lol Keep up the great work Chica and Jo!
I can’t seem to ever get the house completely clean. There always seems to be a spiderweb or a paint chipped off a wall…or a pile of dog hair…that I missed.
The thing on my to do list that I never get marked off is reducing clutter. I have good intentions but it’s a losing battle. I would love to have this give-a-way. I sort of make my own notepads but they’re just clipped at the top and fall apart. Thanks for the great give-a-way
Repainting my small powder room…it’s been on my list for years!
Getting the twins to be diaper free is a big one on my to do list, working on it slowly, oh so painfully slowly…
the chore at the top of my list is going through our never-ending piles of clothing. i had a garage sale a few weeks ago and got quite a bit done for that, but there is always more. i am trying to get my boys’ room and dresser organized so they can pick out their own outfits, (right now the clothes are clean, but stacked in piles).
I have a to-do list on my phone that doesn’t seem to get any shorter. I’ve had “scrub the toilets” on there for months..oops! I think I just revealed what a terrible housekeeper I am!
I have a piece of furniture that I started a couple of years ago that is on the top of my list to finish. It keeps getting pushed down the list as more important things surface.
Mending. It is the last thing I do.. even when I’m sewing. I’d rather make something new than mend.
Clean house!! Now that my daughters are off in college, maybe I can find the time to do a thorough cleaning, unless something better comes up!
Hanging pictures.
My car is way overdue for an oil change, scheduling the appointment is on my list but not done yet.
Clean my Studio! Always on my list, but I am always working in it. I would love to learn how to make my own Notepads, please enter me!!
Thanks, Nancy
This looks like fun! Craft-wise I have a cross stitch project that I started that I can’t seem to get finished and for housework I can never seem to cross off dusting. That just seems to be a perpetual job. Thanks for the chance to win!
The top of my to do list is to clean my fridge. I am a big procrastinator when it comes to that. I would much rather work on my craft projects! Thanks for your website!
Finding a way to organize and store my loose photos. Something that is neat and searchable when I want to know where and when to find one. Thanks, love your newsletters!
from Canada
Ooh, my to-do list just grows and grows and grows! Then I realise that I’m committed to other, more important (ie stamping and crafting) things which have a deadline and which I just can’t leave, so the to-do list is ignored – AGAIN!! Top of my list at the moment is to clean the cooker, do some housework for a change and then to clean my craft room before I start a Full time course – but will I do it???? Lovely to read what other people are failing to do – makes me feel a tad more normal, lol.
I can’t seem to get organized at all. I have outgrown clothes and toys that need to be gone through and I really want to get my craft stuff in some type of order instead of always wondered where I put something.
caulking around the bathtub and toilet. i need to really rip out the old and put new down. and the kiddos would love to help…wait. maybe that is why it cannot get done. not at all my lack of enthusiasm!
Getting ALL the laundry done….I swear it gets down there and has babies cuz there is no way in the world my husband and I make that much laundry. It seams by looking at the piles that we change clothes every 5 minutes. It was much worse when the 2 kids were home. I live for the day when I’m caught up.
I can never seem to get all of the shoes into the shoe holder! There always seem to be an extra pair sitting under the desk or in the entry hall or on the stairs!
I can never keep the basement clean. Now that the kids are back in school I’ll be able to donate some of their old toys, you know, the ones they haven’t played with in years but still want to keep.
I just cannot get my closet organized… I think I’ve done the rest of the closets twice!
I’ve always wanted to make fun/funny little menu pads. As a former party planner, I still entertain quite a bit, and love my menu planner I created online, but want to create one that I can hang in my kitchen. It will showcase the meals I plan to make for the party along with ingredients needed and little fun/quirky boxes that I can check off for whether the meal is worth preparing again and a comment section for ways to improve next time.
I can never get my photos organized and into albums. But there are so many more things that I never seem to get done – need more energy. Thanks! I love making notepads.
Yardwork seems to always be on my list in one form or another. If I get something done, something else comes up. This summer has been especially bad because it’s been too hot to get much of anything done outside!
I would love the notepad kit! I save up Page-A-Day calendar sheets and take them into my printing store to have them made into notepads. I’d like to make my own. The one thing that I can’t seem to get off my list is clearing off my desk. Thanks!
I never even get around to writing down my to-do list anymore! On my mental list is painting and decorating my son’s room. Maybe once the weather cools?
I have got to get scrapping again or the pictures will take over. I love it once I’ve begun, but the thought of pulling that stuff out makes me cringe.
As a teacher, I often have a few extra copies of handouts, and if they are only 1-sided, I stack them up, take them home when the stack gets huge, and then I just end up walking around them (or tripping over them). I seriously need to turn the stacks of paper into recycled note pads. They’d make excellent little Christmas presents for my homeroom students, too! It’s a true coincidence that the project I can’t seem to get to is pad making, so I’d love to win the kit to help me accomplish my goal!
The item I cannot get off my list, is move the moving boxes out of the last room. I have been moving for a month and I am exhausted. I would really like to mark this off my to do list, this and hang all the pictures etc that we are going to keep. Have a great week.
So cute! Cleaning my basement has been on my to-do list for some time now!
I just can’t seem to get my 20′ x 10′ storage unit cleared out. I every so often open the door, & maybe take a few items out, but have so much to get rid of. Maybe, someday…..
I have some neverending crochet projekt, I’ crocheting an huge afghan and after 2 Jears I’m note the halfway throug. I’m hoping just someday it will be finished.
I can never seem to get rid of our old junk. That has been on our to do list for quite some time.
My to-do lists generally include a long list of items, but an unwritten goal is to always GO TO BED EARLY. However, I am never able to do this. Every night, I’m up until about midnight because there’s always something that needs to be done before the next day!
Finish a craft project – any project. I start, get distracted, start something new, and rarely finish!
I seem to always have a couple of things on my list that never go away: ironing, vacuuming the dog hair and straightening up my stacks of yarn & knitting supplies.
FOOD SHOPPING!!!! Just when I go food shopping it seems like I miss something and have to immediately start making another list. That really burns me.
I have always wanted to get the padding compound too. This would be perfect, as most of your giveaways are!!!!
Thanks, Mary
Finish a huge needlepoint project I started over 7 years ago. I keep getting distracted with other painting and crafting projects.
My poor attic is a nightmare. I swore I was going to organize for an hour every day until it was neat but I haven’t done a thing yet.
You said ‘item’ not items, so I will submit one. However, I ,like most, have dozens of projects that require completion and therefore could submit multiple projects.
My oldest son passed away quite unexpectedly a couple of years ago. For months after he passed, I received pictures of him from three of his closest friends of their good times together. I was so pleased when I received them, because I saw him (my son) at all kinds of fun events I didn’t know about. He lived out of state from me. When cleaning out his home, my son had lots of pictures he had taken at various events with some of these same friends. My plan was to separate and make three photo books for each one of his friends with pictures they were in. Nothing fancy or not even ‘real’ scrapbook. As yet, I have not completed the task. I’ve started, but have so many pics I become overwhelmed with the task. H E L P.
Get the kids arts and crafts organized !!!
I have for the past 7 months been trying to get one room in my house cleaned up and converted into a media/living room/craft room… but to no avail…
There are boxes everywhere, from when we moved-in in FEBRUARY!!!
I open the door to the room start to work on it, then get so discouraged that I just quit, leave the room and close the door again.
I need shelving, and all sorts of organizers for that room but one big problem stops me…
M-O-N-E-Y
Someday it will be done, when the kids have moved out and I’m ready to move on…
*SIGH* Someday…
The item I can’t get off my to-do list is cleaning the playroom! Every time I start to make a dent, the kids mess it all up again!
the bathroom as it’s always getting dirty
I can only choose one?!! I have lists of lists of things I can’t seem to get done. From cleaning out the closet under the stairs to clearing out the “project” closet. Totally unfair that you only let me choose one!!
Sending off the outgrown clothes. I started by separating them by size, but the darn kid keeps outgrowing things and I never get it finished and out of my hallway!
That’s easy…the item I never get off my list is getting started doing anything.
I’d love to do this.
I can’t seem to get around to organizing all of my craft supplies!
Besides getting the laundry done… I can’t seem to get my daughters 1st year scrapbook done – or even started for that matter!
Cleaning my oven.
Getting rid of clutter. It grows and multiplies when I’m not looking.
I make lists. Lists of everything. And they’re all over the place. I’d like to make lists in cute little pads like you show that will become THE LIST, the ONE that I’ll always know the location of.
Clear off my desk…always on the list, never gets truly finished!
Oh boy! the one item that I can get off my list believe it or not is exercise lol
thanks for the awesome giveaway, can’t way to win it and try it lol
hmmm… that would be crafting something new
My daughters are 23, 20, and 15, and I have yet to put their baby photos in albums! Yes, it’s true, all the photos are in envelopes and boxes and completely un-organized. When I start to sit down to work on them, I become immersed in LOOKING at them instead of organizing them! Hmmm, what if I made a PAD of each girl’s photos . . .
My “to do” is cleaning the pine sap off my car.
Cleaning out my kitchen cabinets.
It seems like I always write down to organize all my craft paper but it never gets done.
Organizing my pantry is what never comes off my to do list.
ahhh so many things! i’ve been really busy lately! but one thing i can’t get off my to-do/buy list is BUY an instax mini
One item I can’t seem to cross off my list is to clean out my closet of old clothes and shoes. I’m giving myself a goal of doing it before the holiday season comes, which is already right around the corner!
I can not get my craft supplies in order,
they seen to have a mind of their own.
I can never get around to organizing my yarn!!
I’d love to get my desk organized!
I can’t seem to get around to cleaning up my desk area and re-painting my desk!
I can’t ever seem to complete getting my photographs organized.
Cleaning my kitchen floor is forever on my to-do list. omydarlingblog(at)gmail(dot)com
My forever on my to do-list is cleaning up my craft space in my bedroom! I have clothes mixed in with my craft stuff and vice versa. Not any fun putting on a shirt and realizing that it is full of glitter that is totally the wrong color for the shirt! lol
Catching up on laundry once and for all – it’s an impossibility
laundry… it’s a never ending story…
Laundry is a never ending to-do on my list! Seems like even when I am diligent to fold every load when I wash it, there’s a pile somewhere that gets missed
I’m never done with homework or reading of any kind it seems. The homework part is the worst though!
I have lists of things to make for Christmas! It’s about time to start!!
I have been planning to make a wedding scrapbook since my husband and I got married… 3 years ago…
I cant seem to get things finished when I start them. I will start a craft then, I just walk away and forget about it.
So. . . I guess my list just reads ” FINISH PROJECTS!” Hahaha
Ashley
sympathetic_kitty@yahoo.com
I never ever seem to get the remaining trim painting that I need to do in my living room done!
I can’t get the “organize new craft stash” off my list as I always get start a new project as soon as I touch the stash. Yikes!
It’s always laundry and it keeps creeping up again.
bgcchs(at)yahoo(dot)com
I started painting my living room almost a year ago and I still have not gotten it done!
I can’t seem to go through all the papers on my desk. They just keep piling up.
jas8929 at gmail dot com
What a cool website! So glad I found it. Looking forward to making lots of neat stuff, and you can never have too many lists!!! hahaha!!
Love this prize!!
I can’t ever seem to organize any of my jewelry.
I always have homework to do. Also, I have to drink more water.
the one thing i can never seem to get around to doing is organizing my sewing room. i have fabric everywhere and i cant ever seem to find the notions i want when i want them.
I never get around to soaking in a hot tub with bubbles.
One of the things I never find time to do is read my magazines.
I never get around to exercising. The pounds are piling up!
I just can’t seem to get motivated to clean the fridge out, thankfully it isn’t dirty but could do with a full wipe down!
My first item will be “make to-do list”.
I always want to organize my closet and red rid of old stuff – but it’s so hard to part for me
I can’t seem to get my basement organized. I try and try but I just can’t get it together. suelee1998 @ gmail.com
My son earns boy scout merit badges that I can never get around to sewing on!
Thanks for the contest!
i can’t seem to delete “organize my craftroom” from my to do list.
I can’t ever manage to get my sewing room organized, I guess I just have too much stuff for my space. lol
Replacing the leaky old kitchen faucet
I never seem to find the time to power wash the outside of my house. I dread doing it and it’s been on my list the whole summer.
I am never able to organize my office. Making notebooks would help me.
Just can’t seem to get the clutter organized. I’m sure making a list might help!!!
Can’t ever seem to find time to read the newspaper of watch the news!
I can’t ever seem to play card games with my daughter. Making lists might help me have more free time to play with her.
I can’t seem to get the laundry completely done for my very large family.
I keep forgetting to workout or go to the gym!
Thank you to everyone who entered! This contest is now closed!
My first project would be scarves and gloves for the kids – they always seem to loose them but it they are unique and funky, they are harder to loose.
My first airbrush project will be to monogram pillows!
My first project would probably be embellishing t-shirts, because it’s kind of tedious with a brush… BUT I think I would have nearly endless projects to do with this kit. I
i have a few t-shirts that i’ve been wanting to do something with this is perfect!