December Goals

With December fast approaching it's time to shift my goals from my previous blogging goals to scrapping goals. Don't worry though I still plan on blogging frequently and offering freebies like I have over the last month. As I mentioned before I have joined Shimelle's Journal your Christmas and I would like to do a digital scrapbook page for each day during this holiday season. The goals above are to accomplish this LARGE task. Plus I just want to be able to recapture some of the magic of the holidays. The last 4 years have been really tough for me so instead of just allowing the holidays to run me over, I want to slow down and take steps to celebrate me, my family and everything that Christmas means to us.

Here's to a fun and festive Holiday Season.

Credits: Bella Bella Overlays by Carina Gardner, PP for the card Holiday Magic2 Papers by Carina Gardner, Flourish under photo Urban Chic Boutique Overlays by Jen Alysson, Ornament-Ornament Stickers by Jen Alysson (To be released this Tues.)

Mid Class Check in

It has now been about a week and a bit since I started Shimelles' Blogging for Scrappers Class and I thought that it would be a good time to do a little check in to make sure I'm on track for completing all my goals. So far so good. In some cases I've even done more than what I had planned. For the remainder of the class though I would like to spend a bit more time connecting and supporting my fellow blogging classmates.

Credits: Card- Spot Color Journal Stamps by Jen Alysson @2peasinabucket.com

Start with the End in Mind

That's what my children have been learning at their school. The principle has set one of their goals as increasing the emotional-socio growth of the students and they are using Sean Covey's book Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens to give everyone a common language.

It seemed fitting for this post to mention these habits because for one I just think they are totally cool and one of the habits happens to be, begin with the end in mind. I am at the beginning: the beginning of my blogging journey and (drum roll please) the beginning of a new class called Blogging for Scrapbookers by Shimelle Laine. One of our first tasks is to set some goals for what we will accomplish for the next 3 weeks.

Here are my goals for the next 3 weeks.

• Set up/create a blog.
• Develop and add to that blog a bit everyday so that in 3 weeks I have an interesting, pertinent and visually stimulating blog.
• Blog 3-4 times a week.
• Share some awesome free digital scrapbooking goodies. 1 per week.
• Share at least one LO per week.
• Interact and participate with the class and their blogs everyday.

This goal starts November 3 2009 and will be completed Nov 22, 2009.