Kitchen Magnet Calendar.

Kitchen Magnet Calendar.

Who doesn't like to start out the week with a good fulfilling project?

I think most of us with young children or grandchildren in the home would like to have a way to organize better. Because lets face it, when we are more organized their is more harmony in the home right?!

Over the past few months even into the last year I have been searching for a solution to my lack of organization in my kitchen.

My first real big problem was cooking! I wasn't organized, and because of that I didn't want to cook!

I needed something to help me stay organized and help bring the drive back into cooking. After all, I really do enjoy cooking. :)

I looked and looked and looked. Couldn't find anything I liked.

Finally, in conversation with my sister, she and I brainstormed about ideas. Between the two of us I was able to put together my perfect solution!!

A Calendar magnet I can attach to my fridge!! A complete month by month menu planner!

Part of the idea was inspired by Pinterest. But as always I put my Kathleen spin on it to make it mine.
The one I saw was framed. It was cute, but I didn't have enough wall space for one the size I would need.

This size is 12x16! It's a complete flat magnet on the back. It was printed with it! I also had it laminated of course so I could write on it with a dry erase marker.

The entire project only cost about $10.00! The best part is, I can use it not only this year but for many years to come because it's dry erase!! I fill in the month and the numbers.

If you would like to know how I made this, you can learn more HERE. I created this using Heritage Collector's Calendar module. It's affordable, and it's easy to use.


Here is my gift to you!
Who doesn't love a freebie now and then. This is an 8.5x1l Kitchen Menu you can print on card stock right from home! You can have it laminated or put behind a frame. Many options here. I even added a little shopping list for you! I LOVE having one on mine. I use it all the time.

Just click on the below calendar, click on save as, then save in a folder where you will remember where you can find it! :)

I hope you enjoy this little freebie! Drop me a note. I love to hear from you!!

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Thanks again for stopping by today or night. :)

 

Come back real soon!

 

-Kathleen

 

 



Monday freebie! Free online photo sharing class! Back to School fun.

Back to school fun!

Happy Monday!

Like many of you, I have children in school. That means it is back to school time!

This past week has been fun, exciting, and a little sad.

My son went to his first day of first grade last Thursday. For him, it was almost like Christmas he was so excited.

For me, I was a little nervous.

 I decided I wanted to make this an extra special experience for him and me.

I love pinterest and the inspiration I find there. The idea's I used came from Pinterest. But, of course I put my spin on it and changed it up a bit.

The night before school started we had a little visit from the "Back to School Fairy"! She brought many fun things to help my son on this new school adventure!

She left a little package on the front door for my son. When he discovered it, he ran around the house yelling "mom, mom, I found a present for me"!

I gathered my family together in the kitchen and had my son show us what was left for him.

On the package was a note left from the fairy! (made using Heritage Collector)

As daddy read the letter, I had my phone out recording  him reading this to our son. I added this narrative  to the digital scrapbook page I made for Jackson about this experience. So, not only will he have the digital scrapbook page to look at, when he looks at it on the computer he will hear his daddy's voice as he looks at the page!

The morning school started I once again decided to make it fun for Jackson. I made him a breakfast ice cream cone. I knew he would have fun with that!

I was right! His eyes just lit up when he saw his special "Back to School" breakfast! It definitely helped with our morning.

Once again, I had my phone out recording Jackson's voice talking about going to school, his fun breakfast, and getting ready to go! I will import that audio to his digital scrapbook page. (I just finished it last week. When I have it converted to video, I will share it with you here!)

FREE online photo sharing class.

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Learn How to Get Others Interested and Involved
Adding a Little Sugar to Family History
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Use a Family Cloud
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Monday FREEBIE!

What an adorable kit Krista shared with us! I LOVE the clown!!

Download from Krista's blog here.

Check out more of Krista's kits here.

Thanks for visiting me today! Check back next week. I will have more fun things to share!





Personalized Kitchen Menu. Photo Blocks

Happy Tuesday!

I haven't really written a really decent blog post in quite a while. For that, I apologize!

Being a wife and mommy has kept me soooo busy!

Personalized Kitchen Menu

Over the past several months cooking in the kitchen has been a real challenge for me! When five o'clock rolls around, I start to scramble. Then the question comes to mind, what should I cook?

As the stress level starts to build, I find myself reaching for anything "simple". Something that I can have cooked in about 30 minutes or less.

The problem with this is, I used to LOVE to cook! I found joy and satisfaction in cooking!

As my life has gotten busier, the kids demands have grown, cooking has been put dead last on the to tum pole!

A few days ago, I decided to try and bring back that spark in cooking again.

The first step to achieving this was to, be prepared!

By being prepared, you have the items you need, you already know what you are going to cook ahead of time, allows you more time to cook! Eating healthier is now more of a priority.

The best solution I could come up with was a month long MENU! It doesn't take long to fill out either!

Once you have your menu planned, you can then fill out your shopping list week by week or by the month!

I created my cute little menu in Heritage Collector. I thought by having my children's cute little faces next to the menu, it would brighten my experience!

I created this using Heritage Collector's Calendar module. I erased the numbers and added a few pictures.
This is a 10x8 size. I use a dry erase marker to fill out and use again and again!  Took about an hour to make.

Photo Blocks

I enjoy decorating. I love to fill my house with things of value and memory. I'm very sentimental!

I came up with this cute idea because I also like to decorate using very little money.

I re sized my pictures in Heritage Collector Storybook, printed them out, then modge podged them to the painted wood blocks. To add a finished look, I added a painted wooden finial to the top!

Super Easy! Super cheap!!

Heritage Collector has made my crafting needs so much easier, fun and much less expensive!

To find out more about Heritage Collector, click here.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you come back really soon.

Monday Freebie! Nuts about plaques!

Designs by Krista has joined another blog train this month.

This is her contribution!

Aren't the colors in this mini kit just beautiful?! I love it!

Download the kit here.

Visit Krista's shop here.

I'm nuts about plaques!

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to dress up my daughters room. But, I wanted to give it a personal touch to her.

I designed this cute little 6x8 plaque in Heritage Collector Storybook. The kit of graphics used was "Whimsy" Designs by Krista. Took about an hour to make.

This cute little plaque was also made using Heritage Collector Storybook. The kit for this one is "Groovey Girl" Designs by Krista.

Heritage Collector Storybook has made my crafting so much eaiser! Not to mention much less expensive than the traditional way.

If you want to use a program that will help you with your digi scrapping, and crafting needs you really need to try out Storybook!

It's easy, It's affordable, and you don't have to take a college course on how to use it!

The cost is only $19.95 and we teach you how to use it through FREE online classes!!

Download your copy of Storybook here.



Family Reunion Flyers, invitations and more ideas for your upcoming event! Fun Digital scrapbook pages.

Family Reunions are a special time for families. We understand the importance of your event and would love to help you create something to share with your family that will be cherished for many years!

Heritage Collector has a module (already included in the suite version if you own it) that allows you to create what we like to call a "gift cd".

How this works is you import or scan your photos into Heritage Collector, click on the CD icon, then select the photo collection you would like to share. Then burn it to a cd! Your done. It really is that simple.

Just think how excited your family will be that you can share some precious family photos that they may not already have in their possession!

Now, you have something priceless to share at your next family reunion or get together.

Heritage Collector is in the process of creating a "Family Reunion Quick Page Collection". This will allow you to have the ability to personalize your invitations, flyer's and even a CD cover to go with it!

Here is a little teaser for you!

Family Reunion Invitations, Flyers and CD covers!

This is an 8.5 x 11 Flyer you can print right from home! All you do is add your text and pictures. Takes seconds with our quick pages.

This is a 5 x 5 CD cover to match the above flyer. Once again, can be printed right from home.

7 x 5 Family Reunion Invitation

5 x 5 Cd cover

This is what the quick pages will look like after you download them.

Insert your pictures in the middle and add your text like you saw in the first photo. You could have these done in about 5-10 minutes! This is the Family Reunion Flyer. 8.5 x 11

This is the 5 x 5 cd cover you saw in the top photo. Just add a photo, text, then print!

This quick page collection will be available soon! Keep checking back!

We will be having a free online class to show you how to do work with our quick pages! Check back with us really soon.

Fun Digital Scrapbook pages!

This page was created in Heritage Collector Storybook. I used an adorable kit of graphics from Designs by Krista. "Hey Mister".
I only spent a little over an hour to make this 12 x 12 page. 

Once again, this page only took a little over an hour to make!
These past few days have been fun and stress relieving! Digital scrapbooking and Family History are the key to my sanity!!

Saturday freebie! Customize your own greeting cards with pictures!

Summer is almost here. This means the season for family reunions is almost upon us.
Heritage Collector can  not only help you organize your photos and multi media, you can share your photos by creating a gift cd right into heritage Collector! No more messing around with all those extra programs to try and create a photo collection onto a cd. Find out more information about Creating a gift CD here!

If you haven't had a chance to check us out yet, Download our FREE Standard Version Here!

Our standard version has no limits and is not a free trial. It's just plain great software with no strings attached. It will help you organize your photos! That's a great place to start!

Photo Card ideas for Birthday's, Valentine's Day, Mothers and Fathers Day and much more...

We have some exciting news to share! We just released our photo Card quick pages!

You can create a beautiful photo card in three easy steps. First select your card, chose your photo of choice then add text! It's that simple and your cards can be used without limit! This kit comes with 18 different card pages to choose from!

Purchase your photo card quick pages here!

The quick pages will only work if you have heritage Collector suite or Heritage Collector Storybook.

Tuesday Freebie. 40th Surprise Birthday party!

I hope your week has been a great one so far! I always struggle a bit at the beginning of a new week. The transition from the weekend to a brand new week is always a bit challenging for my family.  Today we are off to a good start though! :)

Surprise party for my 40 old hubby!

When my husband turned the age of 40 a few weeks ago he was NOT happy about it. He was actually a bit depressed!
I decided that I wanted to lift his spirits a bit by throwing him a surprise party! You have to know my husband. He does not like being the center of attention at all! So, I decided to keep it to just close friends and family.

I scheduled a room at our near by church. After all, my husband has a rather large family and couldn't fit everyone in my home.

Having the party at the church ended up being a wonderful idea! We ended up having about 30 guests.

Since my husband was already having a difficult time with his new age I wanted to make the party light and happy.

Being the sentimental person that I am, I made all of the decorations. This made it very personal and inexpensive too!
I made a 12 x12 birthday card for the guests to sign so I could file away with all of the rest of my scrapbook pages.

My favorite part about the party was reading the funny and nice things our friends and family had to say about my husband. (As the guest arrived, I had them write on a piece of paper something about my husband. And it could be ANYTHING!) It was really fun and touching.

I made everything digitally and with Heritage Collector Storybook and Designs by Krista's "Revive" kit.

The invitation

Fun photo Pin Wheel center pieces

These center pieces were very easy to make and VERY inexpensive!

I just used a mason jar. Filled it with three different kind of beans,

and tied a raffia bow around the top. The placed the photo pin wheel

and another smaller solid pin wheel . This cost about $8.00 to make

6 center pieces!

Close  up of photo pin wheel

I created a 12 x12 page on photo paper and had the guests

sign as they came in.

Photo Birthday banner.

Another close up of part of the center pieces.

The party seemed to be a huge success! My husband was completely surprised and had a great time! Even though he was put on the spot, he had a wonderful time talking with family and friends.

Tuesday Freebie!

Designs by Krista is participating in another blog train full of adorable freebies.

Download from Krista's blog here.

Check out more of Krista's great deals here!

Thanks for stopping by today! Come back again really soon! -Kathleen