Home Made Chore Chart

My husband suggested that we get a chore chart to keep track of the "adult" chores for the house. Of course this is the greatest idea ever, but you couldn't find one that we really liked in the stores. Everything looked cheap and no really useful.

So we go the great resource available to us - the internet and google - and search for chore charts. Alot of them were great creations, but nothing really cried out to me. I did combine the parts that i liked to create our chore chart.

I didn't take pictures along the way, but i do have the finish product.


In order to create this chore chart you will need the following:

12 x 18 sheet of metal (Lowes - $4.99)
12 x 18 frame (Discounted from Micheals)
1 12 x 12 and 12 x 6 scrapbook paper (to cover the metal)
i-top tool
i-top magnet daddies - medium size
i-top medium die cut
Coordinating paper for i-top magnets
tags
Coordinating ribbons
Coordinating sticker abc's
Spray adhesive

1. Spray the metal with your adhesive and cover with your 12 x12 and 12x6 paper. Be careful when placing the paper down, as the adhesive dries quickly.

2. Punch out your i-top covers. You will make as many magnets as need for your chores in your house, we did 10 total.

3. Use your i-top tool to cover the top of the magnet. Before you attach the bottom, place your tag in between the top and bottom of the daddy, and then attached the two pieces. You will use this tag to write your chores on it.

4. Use ribbon to create a "T" chart. use the stickers to write the names above the "T". One side of the "T" will be for "to do's" and the other "done".

5. Take the glass out of the frame and place the metal inside. it will be very snug so you have to play with it to get it in.

6. Place magnets on board and assign the chores and your done.



Super cute, super easy and it only cost me $20. I used a paper kit from QuickQuotes ($0), Metal was from Lowe's ($5), the Frame was discounted from $45 to $10 plus 40% coupon at Micheal's ($6) and the i-top magnet daddies were $4 and we purchased 2 of them.

FREEBIES!!!

I love FREEBIES!! I love that there are people out there that are so talented and willing to share their work with the less talented people (that's me).

Every other month, The Blog train Blog hosts a blog train - hence the name of the blog. :) This month the theme is Monkey-ing Around. All of the product follows a color swatch for their freebie kit.

Check them out! All items are suppose to be up for a month for free download, but some take them off before the month is up. Catch them while their hot!!

http://blogtrainblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/junes-blog-train-is-here.html

Our First Meeting

Althought the title is not completely accurate, Ryan and I did meet in Arizona at a work event. At every property, we hold a number of events. The one that Ryan was trying to ask me out at was called "Broker's night".


The product that was used for this page is called Shabby Fall page set created by Shabby Princess.

364 days

3 layouts

1 year completed (in Oct. 2005)

Football in May??

So my brother bought our dad tickets to the Tampa Bucs game for Christmas one year - game date Dec 26, 2004 to be exact. Here is the page that I created . No product was used for this layout, just good old pictures.

365 days

2 layouts

1 year down

Getting an Early Start

Ok... so the basketball game is on and I am scrapbooking. So much for showing team spirit.
The first layout is completed. I figured I should go in order so I remember where I am and what I have completed. The first folder I ran across was for December 2004. Not too many pictures in this folder so instant gratification for finishing a month/year feels great!
So the photo for the first layout is of my late Grandmother. The photo was taken well before she started to show her "old" age. All product used are from the Family Reunion kit by Digital Scrapbook Experts - Cindy Little.

**don't forget that I am new at this digital scrapbooking thing. This is the first time I have posted an image on a blog also.

365 days
1 layout
0 years completed (have 2 more images to use to complete 2004)

Day 0 - New Project Details

I have set a goal for this year. I know its not the New Year and there hasn't been a dramatic change in my life... but - I set a new goal!

To get current on all my digital photos in one year. 365 days to scrapbook 6 years of our lifes as a family. I am going to post them here and keep track of my progress.

I am also going to post the website on where I got the supplies that I used, since this will be an all digital project. I love the free product, but its not right to claim it as my own. As long as I know who created the element, I will give them credit.

After figuring it out I have 2 months to complete a Year of photos. If I stay to that assumation, then I have to complete a month in 5 days. I will not group the special events into one page, as I don't want it to look like I did this at the last minute. Every special event should stand alone.

The program that I am going to use for this little project is Photoshop Elements 6.0 on my new Dell laptop computer that my parents graciously purchased for me after my old desktop of 10 years crashed. I keep most of my files on my external hard drive, but this thing has the room to hold zillions of files so I might transfer over some files to start me off.

So the Counting begins tomorrow.

365 days to go
0 layouts completed
0 years down.