Just A Quick Look

I'm not sure that you could call this a post today, maybe teaser is a better description.  But here are a few pictures of cakes I have made in the last year or so.  Some of these I will be posting tutorials on, if you have any specific questions feel free to shoot me a comment and I will get back to you.  Hope you enjoy!

Okay, so one is a cookie cake, but what can I say my nephew doesn't like cake!
 

Happy New Year! And here is to Resolutions

So today is New Year's Day.  That means it is the day for resolutions to be made.  I have to admit that I have made a few this year, but the one to get my greatest attention is definetly to make this the year I focus on this blog.  Last year I had the best intentions, heck I have a phone full of pictures for post.  Unfortunately, they just never seemed to make it from my head and my phone onto the page.  This year that will change!  Goodness me it isn't like I don't already have tons of ideas to enter so I am pledging to "get 'r done!"  

Now, what am I sharing with you today?  I want to share one of my other resolutions, and that is to work on de-cluttering my home.  This month that includes a challenge from Clean Mama and the Country Chic Cottage here .  I love the idea of a new (quick) challenge each day to jump start this process.  Today, was "3 bags."  I gave each member of my family a bag and said to go to your room and bring a bag back of something that you can get rid of.  For my oldest son that was going through his old school books that were still cluttering his book case, he managed to get rid of a half milk carton of books and half a bag of trash.  My youngest son went into his closet and pulled out a bag of clothes he no longer wears or doesn't fit anymore.  This one has grown so much in the last year or so I would bet I could find some more but hey a mom has to be grateful for the bag being full!

And for the piece de resistance......my husband and I each with a bag in hand tackled our bedroom bookshelves!  I don't know about the rest of you but for us open shelving has an ugly habit of becoming a catch all.  Especially, for my dear husband, but I won't tell him hehehe!  

I must admit though I had a whole lot of books up there for homeschooling that our boys had outgrown a long long time ago.  Of course, there was all the wonderful novels that I thought some day they would read and enjoy soooo much!  Well that never happened and I'm not holding onto them any longer.  I wish I could say that my boys are avid readers, but that would be a lie.  They are both very good readers and if they really get into a book they will read it happily, but with our busy school schedule I know that I won't have a chance to push extra books, so away they go.  

Yes, it made me a little sad because I love books, but now seeing all that empty space on my shelves makes me very very happy! And the best part is we ended up with two bags of books and a bag of things that we trashed.  Hooray for us!

In the end we ended up with four and a half bags to go and half a milk carton.  It really didn't take the boys even a whole 30 minutes the challenge set out.  Hubby and I probably were pushing 45 in the end, but who cares it is done and we didn't mind the little extra time to get it completed. 

Here is the fruit of our labors:

The clothes will get donated, the trash will go out to the can in the morning and the books will go into the mountain I have in my old classroom for the book sale I still have to find this spring.  Ugh, another resolution :)!

So if you want to join us in this process just click on over to join the challenge!  I would love it if you comment and let them know that I sent you!