<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:55:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>motherhood</category><category>wreath</category><category>shelf</category><category>distressing</category><category>challenge</category><category>rope</category><category>mason jars</category><category>stensils</category><category>vintage</category><category>starboard skirt tutorial</category><category>christmas</category><category>Thanksgiving</category><category>storage</category><category>antique reinvented</category><category>room design</category><category>chalk board paint</category><category>interiors</category><category>bird cages</category><category>diy bracelet</category><category>chevron</category><category>home-made</category><category>european food</category><category>wing back chair; diy; upholster; damask; yellow</category><category>wall decor</category><category>summer</category><category>upcycle</category><category>fabric</category><category>coffee table</category><category>Halloween</category><category>rustic; bread</category><category>pumpkins</category><category>maple club sandwich</category><category>canning</category><category>sustainable</category><category>slouchy hat</category><category>crochet</category><category>by Bobbie; children</category><category>maxi dress tutorial</category><category>bedroom</category><category>harry potter</category><category>furniture redo</category><category>paint</category><category>organization; organize craft supplies</category><category>recycle</category><category>parenthood</category><category>diy</category><category>stencils</category><category>budget</category><category>diy home decor; vintage ladder</category><category>fearless</category><category>free printables</category><category>politics</category><category>fabric rug</category><category>tutorial</category><category>goals</category><category>giveaway winner</category><category>new shop; crafting; passion</category><category>freezer paper</category><category>fall</category><category>ribbon</category><category>kitchen</category><category>home-made; from scratch; organic</category><category>IKEA hack</category><category>stuffed peppers</category><category>advent</category><category>organic</category><category>kitchen re-do; furniture; vintage; french country</category><category>lanterns</category><category>wreath; book pages</category><category>recipe</category><category>mini pods</category><category>milk jugs</category><category>feature</category><category>food</category><category>headband</category><category>glass jars</category><category>Decorations Storage</category><category>peppermint</category><category>fall; pumkins; diy bracelet</category><category>pumpkin</category><category>yarn</category><category>project fail</category><category>yellow</category><category>centerpiece</category><category>bathroom</category><category>thrift store find</category><category>turquoise</category><category>pillows</category><title>Procraftination Station</title><description></description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>79</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-8085819661413497843</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-05T14:27:40.463-08:00</atom:updated><title>Best Superbowl Cookies - Giants vs. Patriots</title><description>My really good friend, &lt;a href="http://ashley-and-john.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ashley&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;made these for a superbowl party and they look amazing. She is a pastry chef and just makes the most beautiful and yummy desserts ever (and I know that first hand).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209876237/" style="line-height: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="498" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209876237_ZFrpnb6M_c.jpg" width="600" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://ashley-and-john.blogspot.com/2012/02/giants-vs-patriots.html" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;ashley-and-john.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told you they are really great looking!!! Now...I am not sure, but we may be going to the same party, in which case I am&amp;nbsp;embarrassed&amp;nbsp;to bring my dessert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-8085819661413497843?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/02/best-superbowl-cookies-giants-vs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-6503691474353136349</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-03T18:17:48.534-08:00</atom:updated><title>Photo a Day Challenge 2/3–Hands</title><description>&lt;img alt="IMG_2396" border="0" height="484" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SCCYdUGrG9o/Tyt35o3b0lI/AAAAAAAADhY/kKz5dsj6PiM/IMG_2396%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_2396" width="324" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My baby's hands are so precious to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-6503691474353136349?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/02/photo-day-challenge-23hands.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SCCYdUGrG9o/Tyt35o3b0lI/AAAAAAAADhY/kKz5dsj6PiM/s72-c/IMG_2396%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-2284323102867577322</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T21:57:37.260-08:00</atom:updated><title>Photo a Day Challenge 2/2–Words</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2297" border="0" alt="IMG_2297" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-q_ufso0rXWE/Tyt3UDt_N8I/AAAAAAAADhQ/AN8QHCzAs70/IMG_2297%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-2284323102867577322?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/02/photo-day-challenge-22words.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-q_ufso0rXWE/Tyt3UDt_N8I/AAAAAAAADhQ/AN8QHCzAs70/s72-c/IMG_2297%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-8878701110927295172</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T21:56:09.319-08:00</atom:updated><title>Photo a Day Challenge 2/1–Your view today</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2328" border="0" alt="IMG_2328" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LiSVeOZ-Uu4/Tyt2-BSIVAI/AAAAAAAADhI/A1u_h__gM1k/IMG_2328%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;on the train…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-8878701110927295172?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/02/photo-day-challenge-21your-view-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LiSVeOZ-Uu4/Tyt2-BSIVAI/AAAAAAAADhI/A1u_h__gM1k/s72-c/IMG_2328%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-9000965710961497163</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T21:39:02.467-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>challenge</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>furniture redo</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>distressing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Decorations Storage</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>budget</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>diy</category><title>Craigslist dresser makeover</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Remember &lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/craigslist-dresser-find.html"&gt;my awesome craigslist&lt;/a&gt; find I wrote about &lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/craigslist-dresser-find.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;? Well, I was finally able to finish the makeover. I love how it turned out and it has completely transformed our bedroom, providing lots of storage. Here’s the Before.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2416" border="0" alt="IMG_2416" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ql3mcuzrijo/Tyo99BihxvI/AAAAAAAADgg/cAMckx5WLmg/IMG_2416%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It was in pretty good shape, but the&amp;#160; color made it look dated and tired. Some primer, and a few coats of paint later, I have the dresser of my dreams.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_3041-1" border="0" alt="IMG_3041-1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0w2gf1kj6gs/Tyo99dzUHxI/AAAAAAAADgo/cLXjZWYA5XQ/IMG_3041-1%25255B21%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I know there are a lot of things on top of the dresser, but I couldn’t wait to show you until I figured out the best way to use the space. Here are a few more shots.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_3036" border="0" alt="IMG_3036" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XfVOM-Tj-9Q/Tyty9QF7FOI/AAAAAAAADgw/952fzY8Mg8o/IMG_3036%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_3040" border="0" alt="IMG_3040" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-I9t49p9-kXw/Tyty9uJ96oI/AAAAAAAADg4/yjHOAq4Fzbk/IMG_3040%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="370" height="558" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hugs,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Iuliana&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-9000965710961497163?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/02/craigslist-dresser-makeover.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ql3mcuzrijo/Tyo99BihxvI/AAAAAAAADgg/cAMckx5WLmg/s72-c/IMG_2416%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-3664271118239914966</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T21:51:20.340-08:00</atom:updated><title>Photo a day challenge</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cMgEel_zVT0/Tyt1W-W6lnI/AAAAAAAADhA/azLWUCoU19c/s1600/feb2-final2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cMgEel_zVT0/Tyt1W-W6lnI/AAAAAAAADhA/azLWUCoU19c/s400/feb2-final2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Definitelly doing this. If you want to do it, head over to&lt;a href="http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/2012/01/february-photo-day-kicks-off-tomorrow.html"&gt; FatMumSlim&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-3664271118239914966?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/photo-day-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cMgEel_zVT0/Tyt1W-W6lnI/AAAAAAAADhA/azLWUCoU19c/s72-c/feb2-final2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-270828416320924434</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-26T22:37:47.750-08:00</atom:updated><title>5 signs that you are addicted to Pinterest</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FE4YjecT32Q/TyJEvQHtI6I/AAAAAAAADOg/J_c7D7MgRec/s1600/pinterest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FE4YjecT32Q/TyJEvQHtI6I/AAAAAAAADOg/J_c7D7MgRec/s320/pinterest.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Not a day goes by without pinning and if there is a day without it, you acknowledge it in order to convince yourself you are not addicted to Pinterest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Spending 3 hours on Pinterest in one sitting is &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; easy to justify.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. You use Pinterest as your primary search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. You have a board with recipes and use them for your weekly menu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Bookmarking seems so dated to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are you addicted? What other signs of addiction have&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;noticed?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-270828416320924434?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-signs-that-you-are-addicted-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FE4YjecT32Q/TyJEvQHtI6I/AAAAAAAADOg/J_c7D7MgRec/s72-c/pinterest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-5182441354267236691</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-26T21:25:18.887-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>project fail</category><title>Valentine's Day Project Fail</title><description>I saw this cute wreath and tutorial at &lt;a href="http://naptimecrafting.blogspot.com/2010/02/burlap-heart-wreath.html"&gt;Naptime Crafts&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(isn't that an awesome name for a crafty blog?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://naptimecrafting.blogspot.com/2010/02/burlap-heart-wreath.html"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="347" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1xhXhKRPsFs/Tx5ESJKRZwI/AAAAAAAADOE/A5bFZfeIDhw/s400/DSC_8918.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.craftaholicsanonymous.net/2010/01/white-burlap-heart-door-decor-with.html"&gt;another one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209829456/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209829456_BAnIaxeZ_c.jpg" width="532" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.craftaholicsanonymous.net/2010/01/white-burlap-heart-door-decor-with.html" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;craftaholicsanonymous.net&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seemed really simple and cheap to make, which is my kind of project, so I&amp;nbsp;proceeded&amp;nbsp;to making one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here is mine. Big fail. It looked so ridiculous that I really wanted to show you that my&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;projects &lt;strike&gt;often&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;sometimes turn out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ppuOPdd2MlA/TyIwi9L4L6I/AAAAAAAADOQ/l3p-BouBjcI/s1600/IMG_2708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ppuOPdd2MlA/TyIwi9L4L6I/AAAAAAAADOQ/l3p-BouBjcI/s640/IMG_2708.JPG" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No matter what I did, the wire hanger did not look like a heart. I have found that my artistic abilities are very limited and most of the time look done by a second grader. I am not sure if my hands are growing from a different place as other crafters' hands, or it really isn't that simple to shape a wire hanger into a heart. To feel better, I will probably just use the latter justification. Plus, I didn't have burlap and used a strip of canvas, which was also torture to thread unto the wire I didn't bother to add more fabric, because it was gonna be ridiculous anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oh booo....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-5182441354267236691?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-project-fail.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1xhXhKRPsFs/Tx5ESJKRZwI/AAAAAAAADOE/A5bFZfeIDhw/s72-c/DSC_8918.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-1800459183782256521</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-01T22:50:52.903-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>furniture redo</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>diy</category><title>Craigslist Dresser find</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I finally&amp;#160; found the perfect dresser to redo. I saw it on facebook, emailed the owner, and a few hours later I found myself looking for someone with a truck. Luckily we did find someone, and my husband went to get it. We live in an apartment complex with no garage, and seeing as it is the middle of winter, I could not refinish it outside. My good friend Lindsay M. offered her garage for this project, so my hubby took it directly to her house. Then we had a storm, so I didn’t go to her house for a week. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When I saw it in real life, I fell in love even more. But wait…there’s more. I opened one of the drawers and guess what?! It was on wheels!!! I had already given up on looking for one with drawers on wheels, so I wasn’t even thinking this may have them. Want to see it?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_2417" border="0" alt="IMG_2417" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hHhU4ma-4wc/TyoyTPsyszI/AAAAAAAADgQ/gpjoexOZwi8/IMG_2417%25255B106%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Best part? It was only $30. It is all real wood, it is in good condition and it is &lt;em&gt;exactly &lt;/em&gt;what I wanted in the bedroom. Stay tuned for the makeover!               &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-1800459183782256521?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/craigslist-dresser-find.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hHhU4ma-4wc/TyoyTPsyszI/AAAAAAAADgQ/gpjoexOZwi8/s72-c/IMG_2417%25255B106%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-6005835242072253936</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-19T07:59:56.781-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>interiors</category><title>Best interiors { Warning - picture overload}</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Check out these awesome interiors that I had the opportunity to photograph.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Such a happy country/rustic breakfast nook!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6Ph4KzxiiA/TxejgdcVmHI/AAAAAAAADMg/pLzQA9XWV-g/s1600/IMG_2188.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6Ph4KzxiiA/TxejgdcVmHI/AAAAAAAADMg/pLzQA9XWV-g/s640/IMG_2188.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Do you have a vanity like this?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EHluLXDZBJM/Txejg3DNCsI/AAAAAAAADMk/ee7hRZdTbF0/s1600/IMG_2192.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EHluLXDZBJM/Txejg3DNCsI/AAAAAAAADMk/ee7hRZdTbF0/s640/IMG_2192.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Love the view, the walls, the buffets, the chandelier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0xhxdeN-nIo/TxejhKtafUI/AAAAAAAADMo/coe-jNOQ7FA/s1600/IMG_2197.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0xhxdeN-nIo/TxejhKtafUI/AAAAAAAADMo/coe-jNOQ7FA/s640/IMG_2197.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This staircase is amazing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c2hVC-Y9G_o/Txejht_-Y1I/AAAAAAAADMs/NqjL4tBGldc/s1600/IMG_2199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c2hVC-Y9G_o/Txejht_-Y1I/AAAAAAAADMs/NqjL4tBGldc/s640/IMG_2199.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nothing can beat a library like this&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HJpImGnq4Pc/Txejh1TJ6uI/AAAAAAAADMw/przQrU2Xycg/s1600/IMG_2200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HJpImGnq4Pc/Txejh1TJ6uI/AAAAAAAADMw/przQrU2Xycg/s640/IMG_2200.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Fell in love with this space.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25aILHcqE94/TxejiWWHArI/AAAAAAAADM4/gw9zlh849Z4/s1600/IMG_2209.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25aILHcqE94/TxejiWWHArI/AAAAAAAADM4/gw9zlh849Z4/s640/IMG_2209.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bird cage love...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJjZj9EZIug/Txeji_DM3_I/AAAAAAAADM8/FycpxKoPMG8/s1600/IMG_2216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJjZj9EZIug/Txeji_DM3_I/AAAAAAAADM8/FycpxKoPMG8/s640/IMG_2216.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I went to all these spaces. It was pretty amazing. You probably already noticed that these pictures were taken through a window...a small one. These rooms were miniature rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago. It's pretty incredible to see all those details and go back in time through my currently most favorite medium &amp;nbsp;-interior design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This picture has a lot of glare, but I had to post it because of the chair, designed in 1870. Really...Missoni looking chevron print back then? Love it!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2BKP95VJZcI/TxejjNVdRPI/AAAAAAAADNA/gfc2pCQbTSU/s1600/IMG_2234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2BKP95VJZcI/TxejjNVdRPI/AAAAAAAADNA/gfc2pCQbTSU/s640/IMG_2234.JPG" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Just a few more comentless rooms.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qk2yxqqodjQ/TxejjWDyIoI/AAAAAAAADNE/WGSdN9M3fSs/s1600/IMG_2237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qk2yxqqodjQ/TxejjWDyIoI/AAAAAAAADNE/WGSdN9M3fSs/s640/IMG_2237.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubG2fZoaylw/TxejjmpLO7I/AAAAAAAADNI/V1FPfFHyTrg/s1600/IMG_2238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubG2fZoaylw/TxejjmpLO7I/AAAAAAAADNI/V1FPfFHyTrg/s640/IMG_2238.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q8DuVt_W3s/TxejkKeVHnI/AAAAAAAADNM/PdWQKSI9mVE/s1600/IMG_2250.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q8DuVt_W3s/TxejkKeVHnI/AAAAAAAADNM/PdWQKSI9mVE/s640/IMG_2250.JPG" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Is that a scarf, or maybe a sweater...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Dsg4hmGvJk/TxejkeNcVeI/AAAAAAAADNQ/C3BIhCHS5qc/s1600/IMG_2249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Dsg4hmGvJk/TxejkeNcVeI/AAAAAAAADNQ/C3BIhCHS5qc/s640/IMG_2249.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o9SBcOavNVA/TxejksPxj_I/AAAAAAAADNU/5k3uq04CzpY/s1600/IMG_2259.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o9SBcOavNVA/TxejksPxj_I/AAAAAAAADNU/5k3uq04CzpY/s640/IMG_2259.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3hmTBNuDQ3Q/Txejkq_jg3I/AAAAAAAADNY/KtkACBsJ6QY/s1600/IMG_2260.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3hmTBNuDQ3Q/Txejkq_jg3I/AAAAAAAADNY/KtkACBsJ6QY/s640/IMG_2260.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuirTy-3oRQ/TxejlF5ZFuI/AAAAAAAADNg/-gk8tcjOTzM/s1600/IMG_2269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9LSC77FV9c/TxejlRFl6LI/AAAAAAAADNk/kGSifRW6Uac/s1600/IMG_2279.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9LSC77FV9c/TxejlRFl6LI/AAAAAAAADNk/kGSifRW6Uac/s640/IMG_2279.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuirTy-3oRQ/TxejlF5ZFuI/AAAAAAAADNg/-gk8tcjOTzM/s1600/IMG_2269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuirTy-3oRQ/TxejlF5ZFuI/AAAAAAAADNg/-gk8tcjOTzM/s640/IMG_2269.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Love the Art Institute!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-6005835242072253936?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-interiors-warning-picture-overload.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6Ph4KzxiiA/TxejgdcVmHI/AAAAAAAADMg/pLzQA9XWV-g/s72-c/IMG_2188.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-1783959493010360243</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-15T21:30:42.962-08:00</atom:updated><title>Reminder of gratitude</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It's always good to be reminded to be grateful. For me expressing gratitude is a way to gain more insight about my life, it is an exercise of faith, and just an awesome way to feel happy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209771280/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="554" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/179088522651649425_JO3URpvK_c.jpg" width="554" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/73647733/what-you-thanked-god-for-yesterday-tile" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;etsy.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-1783959493010360243?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/reminder-of-gratitude.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-581621322138773718</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-05T19:54:20.550-08:00</atom:updated><title>One frustrated mama...</title><description>This post has nothing and everything to do with crafting and decorating. My husband is graduating in one month and has been looking for jobs. We have wanted to move to CO for awhile now and there may be a job for him there, and we may need to move asap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/42502790202986701/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="500" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/49539664620739681_h4Z1e0lp_c.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Source: &lt;a href="http://rachelswandesign.tumblr.com/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;rachelswandesign.tumblr.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/theshabbynest/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Wendy&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My frustration lies with the unknown. I &lt;strike&gt;am&amp;nbsp;dying&amp;nbsp;to&lt;/strike&gt; want to work on projects and share them with you, but is it worth it if we may be moving soon? For example: I have a dresser I want to refinish, but if we're moving it might get all banged up during the move? Or what if we can't take it with us to begin with, because there will be no space for it. We live in a small apartment and even with the move and new job (really praying that it will happen. It sucks to have NO income), I don't see us upgrading to something bigger anytime soon. It's not like we'd be moving to Texas where you can rent an apartment (or even a house!!! A girl can dream.) for the same price we are here in Chicago, but much nicer and &lt;i&gt;bigger.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what should I do? Should I start packing? Should I &lt;strike&gt;make more holes in the walls&lt;/strike&gt; hang that shelf, I was planning to hang above my desk? Should I reorganize my pantry/linen closet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please advise...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-581621322138773718?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/one-frustrated-mama.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-6097036470419124752</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-01T15:04:35.599-08:00</atom:updated><title>2011 Summary</title><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I started this craft blog in May of this year, and it has proved to be a sun adventure.&amp;nbsp; I never thought that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;let alone&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;of you would like my little projects, but you did.&amp;nbsp; And it motivated me to do more and try new things. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;But here is a look back at my top 5 posts of 2011. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/10/thrift-store-kitchen-hutch-redo.html"&gt;Thrift Store Kitchen Hutch redo - tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDh4Nsl8zpo/TlAmh8zbL-I/AAAAAAAACT4/GLrXwupApnQ/s1600/before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDh4Nsl8zpo/TlAmh8zbL-I/AAAAAAAACT4/GLrXwupApnQ/s400/before.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2n8sl-k6Nds/TlAmlDA7CBI/AAAAAAAACT8/Wo8KbpGwMa8/s1600/DSC08851-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2n8sl-k6Nds/TlAmlDA7CBI/AAAAAAAACT8/Wo8KbpGwMa8/s400/DSC08851-2.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/10/hanging-tissue-paper-flower-laterns.html"&gt;Hanging Tissue Paper Flower Lanterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ersmrU8v8no/ToqR634bgpI/AAAAAAAAC2o/ohKH3JXF7VI/s1600/IMG_9721-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ersmrU8v8no/ToqR634bgpI/AAAAAAAAC2o/ohKH3JXF7VI/s400/IMG_9721-1.JPG" width="381" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/09/stuffed-peppers-recipe.html"&gt;3. Stuffed Peppers recipe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qY0486FeciQ/Tm14Myv1UnI/AAAAAAAACXU/-H1EF9pScFA/s1600/DSC08901.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qY0486FeciQ/Tm14Myv1UnI/AAAAAAAACXU/-H1EF9pScFA/s400/DSC08901.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/10/chevron-fabric-rug.html"&gt;Chevron Fabric Rug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/10/chevron-fabric-rug.html" style="display: block; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PBuJb4MyvoA/TpeqcOD-3lI/AAAAAAAAC3E/oV7GSxRX3Kc/s1600/16812668817.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PBuJb4MyvoA/TpeqcOD-3lI/AAAAAAAAC3E/oV7GSxRX3Kc/s400/16812668817.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/10/chevron-fabric-rug.html" style="display: block; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"&gt;5.&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/09/lil-pumpkins.html"&gt;Lil' pumpkins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_T6iOs3Qma0/TnFBtTxoplI/AAAAAAAACY0/1KT42IWKfmo/s1600/IMG_9685.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_T6iOs3Qma0/TnFBtTxoplI/AAAAAAAACY0/1KT42IWKfmo/s400/IMG_9685.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"&gt;6.&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/11/mini-pods-wreath.html"&gt;Mini Pods Wreath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bKdsNfME97c/TrYE_xJY2rI/AAAAAAAACow/OXKgbZHwg5o/s1600/DSC09162-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bKdsNfME97c/TrYE_xJY2rI/AAAAAAAACow/OXKgbZHwg5o/s400/DSC09162-1.jpg" width="343" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"&gt;7.&lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/11/peppermint-wreath-for-1.html"&gt;Peppermint Wreath - for $1!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--WtPs6odo_w/TsbBjO0NSKI/AAAAAAAAC5M/AbzG9T8zx7U/s1600/DSC09241-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--WtPs6odo_w/TsbBjO0NSKI/AAAAAAAAC5M/AbzG9T8zx7U/s400/DSC09241-1.JPG" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Thank you to all my readers and I do hope to bring you more projects and ideas in this new year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Happy 2012!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-6097036470419124752?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/2011-summary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDh4Nsl8zpo/TlAmh8zbL-I/AAAAAAAACT4/GLrXwupApnQ/s72-c/before.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-3167588113152217365</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-01T13:58:49.343-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>challenge</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>goals</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>budget</category><title>1 Month, $0 Budget challenge</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I have been looking for new ways to set goals and actually accomplish them. I am one of those cheesy people, that likes to make resolutions, and strongly believes a new year is a new page, and new chance for change. My husband believes you can/should make changes now, as opposed to having the 'I'll start on Monday' mentality.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;One of the bloggers I follow, &lt;a href="http://fullofgreatideas.blogspot.com/"&gt;Full of Great Ideas&lt;/a&gt;, extended the &lt;a href="http://fullofgreatideas.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-1-month-0-budget-challenge-v20.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FullOfGreatIdeas+%28Full+of+Great+Ideas%29"&gt;1 month, 0$ challenge&lt;/a&gt; for January 12. I took an the challenge and today is the first day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tV2JLT3cxkk/TtZ98alfWdI/AAAAAAAAB-k/QiE_Me3nCio/s1600/1+month+0+budget+challenge+button.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tV2JLT3cxkk/TtZ98alfWdI/AAAAAAAAB-k/QiE_Me3nCio/s200/1+month+0+budget+challenge+button.jpeg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The idea is that you basically spend $0 on non-essentials. That means, no crafting supplies, no groupons, no eating out, no buying food until everything is gone. Saving money, and using what we have is a great way to start the year in a financially responsible manner.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fullofgreatideas.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-1-month-0-budget-challenge-v20.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FullOfGreatIdeas+%28Full+of+Great+Ideas%29"&gt;Stephanie at Full of Great Ideas&lt;/a&gt; explains it better. Head over to her &lt;a href="http://fullofgreatideas.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and see if this is something you would like to do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;I am really excited to give this challenge a try and be conscious about my spending choices, especially since we are kinda poor. Ok, I admit it, we're poor. I wasn't going to post anything personal on this blog, but I guess it's hard to detach myself from this blog. This will be an awesome opportunity to re-evaluate my habits, organize my life, use what I have, be resourceful, creative and most of all have control over my money, as opposed to the other way around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Are you thinking of doing it? Let's try together!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-3167588113152217365?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/1-month-0-budget-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tV2JLT3cxkk/TtZ98alfWdI/AAAAAAAAB-k/QiE_Me3nCio/s72-c/1+month+0+budget+challenge+button.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-2243477037703916328</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-31T08:56:59.734-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Decorations Storage</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>5 clever ways to store your Christmas decorations {Free and Green}</title><description>&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;Do you take down your Christmas decor as soon as the clock hits 12 on New Year's Eve or do you wait? I am one of those people that like to keep my decorations longer. In any case, taking them down can get messy and&amp;nbsp;tedious, tempting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strike style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;me&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px;"&gt; us to just throw things in a bag and forget about it all. However, if you've had the&amp;nbsp;privilege&amp;nbsp;to be the one to detangle string lights, or clean up broken ornaments, you will want to read this post. I have put together a small list of 5 really easy and green ways to organize and store your holiday decor. I've also included non diy ideas that Pinterest helped me find.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gTToZ5U9Kig/Tv6iWArEKbI/AAAAAAAADFo/wXhCgaYs7O4/s1600/free+and+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gTToZ5U9Kig/Tv6iWArEKbI/AAAAAAAADFo/wXhCgaYs7O4/s200/free+and+green.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;1. ORNAMENTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Use cartons for storing small, delicate pieces. Place tissue&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;"&gt;paper saved from gifts to cushion them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/205195326741555026/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/205195326741555026_z1XBAImc_c.jpg" width="370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; line-height: 17px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/8-eco-friendly-tips-for-storing-holiday-decorsuite101com-135845"&gt;re-nest.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/tielsk/" target="_blank"&gt;Tiel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;You can also place them in paper/plastic cups. Cover one layer of cups with cardboard and make another layer. You can even hot the bottom of the cups to the cardboard for more stability. &amp;nbsp;I find this method a bit unrealistic for my limited storage space.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/113856696798939344/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="450" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/113856696798939344_AdgbQq6r_c.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/25-closet-storage-and-office-organizers#slide_12"&gt;marthastewart.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/parkin/" target="_blank"&gt;THP&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Oh and make sure you do it all in slow-mo, as in this picture. It works much better:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XdGRfIMxGIc/Tv6ig6hSZJI/AAAAAAAADF8/KAfgADfLX7g/s1600/low+cost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XdGRfIMxGIc/Tv6ig6hSZJI/AAAAAAAADF8/KAfgADfLX7g/s200/low+cost.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;You can always buy an inexpensive ornament bin or bag.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;I haven't tried one, but I imagine it is quite useful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/275986283384342090/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/275986283384342090_f7DBhnS8_c.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lillianvernon.com/Product/OrnamentStorage"&gt;lillianvernon.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/colorfulone/" target="_blank"&gt;Kaye&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x_n2wfSLIIQ/Tv6i7YmRnYI/AAAAAAAADGI/yev-1WUosqE/s1600/free+and+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x_n2wfSLIIQ/Tv6i7YmRnYI/AAAAAAAADGI/yev-1WUosqE/s200/free+and+green.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;2. STRINGS OF LIGHTS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Wrap around a piece of&amp;nbsp;cardboard. I love this idea,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;because my least favorite part of holiday decorating is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;untangling the lights.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Use the same method for your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;garlands.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/150729918748045714/" style="line-height: 0px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="450" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/150729918748045714_g7JLi9pe_c.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Another tip to avoid&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;knots and snarls is to wrap the strings around old coffee/formula tin cans. Just cut a slit in the plastic lid, and put the receptacle end of the light cord through it. Wrap the string around the can, and store extra bulbs and extension cords inside. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209728019/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="357" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209728019_dUq9K47R_c.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/holidays/christmas/storing-holiday-decorations-10000001133623/page3.html" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;realsimple.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fdQc_bm64Xk/Tv6mGqKh-9I/AAAAAAAADGg/gkUf7cjOmCc/s1600/low+cost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fdQc_bm64Xk/Tv6mGqKh-9I/AAAAAAAADGg/gkUf7cjOmCc/s200/low+cost.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;You can also buy Christmas Lights Storage bags or boxes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;I've seen inexpensive ones on Ebay or Amazon. I pinned&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;these because they include reels you can just wrap your lights around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209728226/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209728226_SYbonRes_c.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://renilim.hubpages.com/hub/Buy-Christmas-Light-Storage-Bag-Box-Online"&gt;renilim.hubpages.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EfpXw8kzW_M/Tv6mnHKxUCI/AAAAAAAADGs/oihP12tG-TY/s1600/free+and+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EfpXw8kzW_M/Tv6mnHKxUCI/AAAAAAAADGs/oihP12tG-TY/s200/free+and+green.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;3. WREATHS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;I usually put wreaths in a big shopping bag and just tie the handles.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The ones from Aldi are perfect, but you can also&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;use just regular trash bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ymhSnR1QgO0/Tv6m3z1aBTI/AAAAAAAADG4/Jf_Y_P3NEL0/s1600/low+cost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ymhSnR1QgO0/Tv6m3z1aBTI/AAAAAAAADG4/Jf_Y_P3NEL0/s200/low+cost.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I've seen these boxes circulating blogland and pinterest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209728000_lrxMhrMt_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="357" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209728000_lrxMhrMt_c.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/organizing/christmas-decoration-storage-00000000050207/page9.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;realsimple.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FavARSq3gjE/Tv6nWZ1tZ0I/AAAAAAAADHE/1FED7S25fD8/s1600/free+and+green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FavARSq3gjE/Tv6nWZ1tZ0I/AAAAAAAADHE/1FED7S25fD8/s200/free+and+green.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. CHRISTMAS TREE&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;If you have a fake tree, just repack in its original box. It's free and works for a few years. Then, duct tape will help the box survive for a few more Christmases.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zz9ZSTArV3w/Tv6nnsxkNpI/AAAAAAAADHQ/tBLWXrm6QN8/s1600/low+cost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="139" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zz9ZSTArV3w/Tv6nnsxkNpI/AAAAAAAADHQ/tBLWXrm6QN8/s200/low+cost.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;When the box cannot be revived, do yourself a favor and buy a christmas tree storage box. We bought a very inexpensive one last year from Aldi, and have wondered why I didn't do it before. Wait...I know...it was FREE to store in its own box. &amp;nbsp;I couldn't find the one we got, but below is just one idea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209727999/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="357" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209727999_CklQr932_c.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/organizing/christmas-decoration-storage-00000000050207/page4.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"&gt;realsimple.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As for a&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;real tree -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;most cities/towns have Christmas tree recycling. If yours doesn't, I am not sure what you could do. I guess you could chop it down and put it with your yard waste garbage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. LABEL AL YOUR BOXES CLEARLY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;on't use sticky notes. You will not find your boxes the following year without some serious frustration and some sunday school words...not that I have done this before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Happy organizing and Happy New Year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-2243477037703916328?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/5-free-and-green-ideas-how-to-store.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gTToZ5U9Kig/Tv6iWArEKbI/AAAAAAAADFo/wXhCgaYs7O4/s72-c/free+and+green.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-9010709640019562070</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T13:58:27.564-08:00</atom:updated><title>Post Christmas Cleaning</title><description>&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209720347/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="380" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209720347_VNN1HRtk_c.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;"&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.peacefuldivas.com/2010/12/post-it-note-tuesday-after-christmas.html" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;peacefuldivas.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Zip Lock Power -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;I use them for everything when it comes to packing up my&amp;nbsp;Christmas&amp;nbsp;decorations. I keep all my ornaments, and all other home decor pieces in ziplock bags. It helps tremendously when I start decorating again, because it is all neatly packed. Love it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Recycle and Reuse. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;I know that sometimes it is easier to just throw things the way they are straight to the trash, but it really is worth to recycle your boxes and paper. Also, I am all about reusing, so if you have boxes, &amp;nbsp;wrapping paper, bows, and ribbons that are still in good shape, you can keep them and reuse them next year. Fold and store things neatly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Christmas Cards -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;I usually put all the Christmas cards in a big&amp;nbsp;Ziploc&amp;nbsp;bag and display them the following&amp;nbsp;Christmas. When I get a new one from a specific family, I replace the old one. I feel bad throwing them away. I've heard people scanning them and keeping them that way. I haven't tried that and I am not sure I will find the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strike style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;patience to deal with my ridiculously stupid scanner&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;time to do it in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Donate - &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;in the spirit of holiday giving and of having space in your closet, donate some old clothes for every new piece of clothing you got as a gift. Awesome way to&amp;nbsp;suppress any hoarding tendencies, of which I know nothing about, and a great way to help good causes by donating to goodwill or any other thrift store in your area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Replace your old media - &lt;/b&gt;if you got cds, dvds or books you can use websites, such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18px;"&gt;paperbackswap.com, cdswap.com and dvdswap.com, make more space by getting rid of your old ones and getting some more new ones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Happy New Year!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-9010709640019562070?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/post-christmas-cleaning.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-9147464857134922407</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-20T21:57:31.155-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>{Real spirit of Christmas giving} Christmas morning story</title><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;He woke suddenly and completely. It was four o'clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! Fifty years ago, and his father had been dead for thirty years, and yet he waked at four o'clock in the morning. He had trained himself to turn over and go to sleep, but this morning it&lt;br /&gt;was Christmas, he did not try to sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did he feel so awake tonight? He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. He was fifteen years old and still on his father's farm. He loved his father. He had not known it until one day a few days before Christmas, when he had overheard what his father was saying to his mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mary, I hate to call Rob in the mornings. He's growing so fast and he needs his sleep. If you could see how he sleeps when I go in to wake him up! I wish I could manage alone."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, you can't Adam." His mother's voice as brisk, "Besides, he isn't a child anymore. It's time he took his turn."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes," his father said slowly. "But I sure do hate to wake him."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he heard these words, something in him spoke: his father loved him! He had never thought of that before, taking for granted the tie of their blood. Neither his father nor his mother talked about loving their children--they had no time for such things. There was always so much to do on the farm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that he knew his father loved him, there would be no loitering in the mornings and having to be called again. He got up after that, stumbling blindly in his sleep, and pulled on his clothes, his eyes shut, but he got up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then on the night before Christmas, that year when he was fifteen, he lay for a few minutes thinking about the next day. They were poor, and most of the excitement was in the turkey they had raised themselves and mince pies his mother made. His sisters sewed presents and his mother and father always bought something he needed, not only a warm jacket, maybe, but&lt;br /&gt;something more, such as a book. And he saved and bought them each something, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He wished, that Christmas when he was fifteen, he had a better present for his father. As usual he had gone to the ten-cent store and bought a tie. It had seemed nice enough until he lay thinking the night before Christmas. He looked out of his attic window, the stars were bright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Dad," he had once asked when he was a little boy, "What is a stable?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's just a barn," his father had replied, "like ours."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then Jesus had been born in a barn, and to a barn the shepherds had come...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thought struck him like a silver dagger. Why should he not give his father a special gift too, out there in the barn? He could get up early, earlier than four o'clock, and he could creep into the barn and get all the milking done. He'd do it alone, milk and clean up, and then when his fatherwent in to start the milking he'd see it all done. And he would know who had done it. He&lt;br /&gt;laughed to himself as he gazed at the stars. It was what he would do, and he musn't sleep too sound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He must have waked twenty times, scratching a match each time to look at his old watch-midnight, and half past one, and then two o'clock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a quarter to three he got up and put on his clothes. He crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards, and let himself out. The cows looked at him, sleepy and surprised. It was early for them too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He had never milked all alone before, but it seemed almost easy. He kept thinking about his father's surprise. His father would come in and get him, saying that he would get things started while Rob was getting dressed. He'd go to the barn, open the door, and then he'd go get the two big empty milk cans. But they wouldn't be waiting or empty, they'd be standing in the milk-house,&lt;br /&gt;filled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What the--," he could hear his father exclaiming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He smiled and milked steadily, two strong streams rushing into the pail, frothing and fragrant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The task went more easily than he had ever known it to go before. Milking for once was not a chore. It was something else, a gift to his father who loved him. He finished, the two milk cans were full, and he covered them and closed the milk-house door carefully, making sure of the latch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in his room he had only a minute to pull off his clothes in the darkness and jump into bed, for he heard his father up. He put the covers over his head to silence his quick breathing. The door opened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Rob!" His father called. "We have to get up, son, even if it is Christmas."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Aw-right," he said sleepily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The door closed and he lay still, laughing to himself. In just a few minutes his father would know. His dancing heart was ready to jump from his body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minutes were endless--ten, fifteen, he did not know how many--and he heard his father's footsteps again. The door opened and he lay still.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Rob!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, Dad--"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His father was laughing, a queer sobbing sort of laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thought you'd fool me, did you?" His father was standing by his bed, feeling for him, pulling away the cover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's for Christmas, Dad!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He found his father and clutched him in a great hug. He felt his father's arms go around him. It was dark and they could not see each other's faces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Son, I thank you. Nobody ever did a nicer thing--"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Oh, Dad, I want you to know--I do want to be good!" The words broke from him of their own will. He did not know what to say. His heart was bursting with love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He got up and pulled on his clothes again and they went down to the Christmas tree. Oh what a Christmas, and how his heart had nearly burst again with shyness and pride as his father told his mother and made the younger children listen about how he, Rob, had got up all by himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The best Christmas gift I ever had, and I'll remember it, son every year on Christmas morning, so long as I live."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had both remembered it, and now that his father was dead, he remembered it alone: that blessed Christmas dawn when, alone with the cows in the barn, he had made his first gift of true love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Christmas he wanted to write a card to his wife and tell her how much he loved her, it had been a long time since he had really told her, although he loved her in a very special way, much more than he ever had when they were young. He had been fortunate that she had loved him. Ah, that was the true joy of life, the ability to love. Love was still alive in him, it still was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It occurred to him suddenly that it was alive because long ago it had been born in him when he knew his father loved him. That was it: Love alone could awaken love. And he could give the gift again and again. This morning, this blessed Christmas morning, he would give it to his beloved wife. He I could write it down in a letter for her to read and keep forever. He went to&amp;nbsp;his desk and began his love letter to his wife: My dearest love...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &amp;nbsp;Pearl S. Buck&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-9147464857134922407?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/real-spirit-of-christmas-giving.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-2295642841774662852</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-14T22:04:00.218-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>My Holiday Decor - handmade and free</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We live in a small apartment, so even just having a Christmas tree sometimes seems like a lot for out small living room. That's why going light on decor seemed like a good and free idea. Most things I made myself and just enjoyed having reminders for the reason we celebrate Christmas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No mantle? No problem? I just hung a horizontal frame above the TV, attached a piece of ribbon and displayed my card. I used a push pin for the &lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/11/peppermint-wreath-for-1.html"&gt;peppermint wreath&lt;/a&gt; and double sided tape for the letters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R0ipUoynlOE/TxJkCuQak7I/AAAAAAAADLs/9bvvsrBRE50/s1600/decor-2082.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="316" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R0ipUoynlOE/TxJkCuQak7I/AAAAAAAADLs/9bvvsrBRE50/s640/decor-2082.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nCMKYeT1EmQ/TxJkGaaau8I/AAAAAAAADL0/owgFGhNszIs/s1600/decor-2086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nCMKYeT1EmQ/TxJkGaaau8I/AAAAAAAADL0/owgFGhNszIs/s640/decor-2086.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I framed my polka dotted wrapping paper and stuck a printable in the middle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1pDz1SAMg_E/TxJkMo4Y4fI/AAAAAAAADL8/AYMgkuxzPVc/s1600/decor-2089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1pDz1SAMg_E/TxJkMo4Y4fI/AAAAAAAADL8/AYMgkuxzPVc/s640/decor-2089.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Since I was on the peppermint ball, I decided to make a peppermint ball and then just placed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;it on a large candle holder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1CreA5gh_HI/TxJkTUBbI7I/AAAAAAAADME/0rknvx6JxI4/s1600/decor-2091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1CreA5gh_HI/TxJkTUBbI7I/AAAAAAAADME/0rknvx6JxI4/s640/decor-2091.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here's my hutch in the kitchen all dolled up for the holidays&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GNVYDbfQFjM/TxJkYBdtsnI/AAAAAAAADMM/2IZewnw__PM/s1600/decor-2099.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GNVYDbfQFjM/TxJkYBdtsnI/AAAAAAAADMM/2IZewnw__PM/s640/decor-2099.jpg" width="388" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This hutch is not only home to a lot of kitchen stuff, but also to my sewing machine. Tis the life in a small apartment with no storage space. I &lt;i&gt;am &lt;/i&gt;grateful for what we have and most of all for birth of Jesus Christ and the light it brings into our lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eJs5qTOvKp8/TxJkeHOMldI/AAAAAAAADMU/R268DdGjRNs/s1600/decor-2101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eJs5qTOvKp8/TxJkeHOMldI/AAAAAAAADMU/R268DdGjRNs/s640/decor-2101.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-2295642841774662852?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-holiday-decor-handmade-and-free.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R0ipUoynlOE/TxJkCuQak7I/AAAAAAAADLs/9bvvsrBRE50/s72-c/decor-2082.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-6048843292300745474</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-20T08:59:05.984-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>giveaway winner</category><title>{Giveaway Winner} - Multistrand Vintage Lace Flower Necklace</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hello my dear followers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So remember how I hosted &lt;a href="http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/500-fans-on-facebook-giveaway.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; giveaway? Thank you to everyone that entered. I was hoping for more entries, hence the delayed announcement of the winner. Now I know you guys read my blog and I feel like I know who I am posting for, which is a HUGE help for me. But enough with that. So, remember what you guys&amp;nbsp;entered&amp;nbsp;to win?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s1600/17717598805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s640/17717598805.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The winner was chosen using Random.org&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mTtCfa0l_nM/TvC94qPYe7I/AAAAAAAADDU/MLOvfRMnkc4/s1600/multistrand+necklace+giveaway+winner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mTtCfa0l_nM/TvC94qPYe7I/AAAAAAAADDU/MLOvfRMnkc4/s1600/multistrand+necklace+giveaway+winner.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Congratulations to Ashley, who said:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JrMOIF2nKDo/TvC94e_QCXI/AAAAAAAADDM/CyXcOVn5D5g/s1600/ashley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JrMOIF2nKDo/TvC94e_QCXI/AAAAAAAADDM/CyXcOVn5D5g/s1600/ashley.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I will email you for details!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For the rest, I am offering you guys a 25% off coupon code for anything in my shop:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;PROCRAFTINATION25&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hope you all have an amazing week and holidays,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-6048843292300745474?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/giveaway-winner-multistrand-vintage.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s72-c/17717598805.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-291378480384559526</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-20T09:39:24.398-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>free printables</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>{Round-up} - Freaking out + free printables</title><description>&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"&gt;Have you finished wrapping all the presents yet? &amp;nbsp;I've wrapped a few, and still waiting on some to arrive in the mail. I am bordering on being completely freaked out they won't arrive in time . &amp;nbsp;Hey, at least I have awesome printables &amp;nbsp;made by awesome people around the blogosphere. &amp;nbsp;Oh...and the good part....they're all free!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209707474/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="466" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209707474_YC84hyfh_c.jpg" width="554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Source: &lt;a href="http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-subway-art-banner.html" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;eighteen25.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209695082/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="388" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209695082_W2KC6m90_c.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Source: &lt;a href="http://www.balancinghome.com/p/printables.html" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;balancinghome.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209681058/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="557" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209681058_becS3z2m_c.jpg" width="554" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Source: &lt;a href="http://mommybydaycrafterbynight.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-visiting-teaching-printable.html?showComment=1323322671478#c3717722813099300453" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;mommybydaycrafterbynight.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jVsDkYe4sQs/Tt8Cn1maTFI/AAAAAAAAF28/EJkJhCUKXFY/s1600/printable+-+tags+-+eat+drink+chic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jVsDkYe4sQs/Tt8Cn1maTFI/AAAAAAAAF28/EJkJhCUKXFY/s640/printable+-+tags+-+eat+drink+chic.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="280" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;whimsical tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cfm/holiday-freebie-typographic-gift-tags" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;eat drink chic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/---jzZcfSw-Q/Tt8ATouE_JI/AAAAAAAAF2s/Ws9g1HtCCoc/s1600/printable+-+xmas+gift+tags+-+the+inspired+room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/---jzZcfSw-Q/Tt8ATouE_JI/AAAAAAAAF2s/Ws9g1HtCCoc/s640/printable+-+xmas+gift+tags+-+the+inspired+room.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;peace on earth tags&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;(more tags available) via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theinspiredroom.net/2011/11/30/fun-christmas-gift-tags-free-printable/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;the inspired room&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: created by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://kyleenoelle.blogspot.com/p/printables.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;kylee noelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gkk_cChlpdQ/Tt8Bs1DbthI/AAAAAAAAF20/mubX8NmmTWM/s1600/printable+-+simply+modern+mom+-+by+creature+comforts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="457" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gkk_cChlpdQ/Tt8Bs1DbthI/AAAAAAAAF20/mubX8NmmTWM/s640/printable+-+simply+modern+mom+-+by+creature+comforts.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;paper bow&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2010/12/wrap-it-up-from-creature-of-comfort/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;simply modern mom&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: created by ez from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/home/2010/12/16/come-on-over-a-printable-freebie.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;creature comforts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zOzt9bnyt8Y/Tt8LZcygXjI/AAAAAAAAF3k/i-ocXROr5_0/s1600/printable+-+neon+tags+-+hey+look.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zOzt9bnyt8Y/Tt8LZcygXjI/AAAAAAAAF3k/i-ocXROr5_0/s400/printable+-+neon+tags+-+hey+look.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="357" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;neon tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blog.heylook.fi/2011/11/freebies-printable-gift-tags.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;hey look&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: as seen on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cakeeventsblog.com/2011/11/modern-holiday-neon-neutrals.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;cake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4p-GBDezv7A/Tt78ITWI5ZI/AAAAAAAAF2k/mRfDsBocn7I/s1600/printable+-+brooklyn+limestone+-+naughty+or+nice+tags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4p-GBDezv7A/Tt78ITWI5ZI/AAAAAAAAF2k/mRfDsBocn7I/s640/printable+-+brooklyn+limestone+-+naughty+or+nice+tags.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;naughty or nice gift tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.brooklynlimestone.com/2011/11/naughty-or-nice-christmas-gift-tag.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;brooklyn limestone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3lLrjeIvzas/Tt8GzjbBbhI/AAAAAAAAF3U/BBabgOSx1kI/s1600/printable+-+joy+and+bow+tags+-+heysusy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3lLrjeIvzas/Tt8GzjbBbhI/AAAAAAAAF3U/BBabgOSx1kI/s640/printable+-+joy+and+bow+tags+-+heysusy.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="336" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;joy and bow tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://susanconnordesign.typepad.com/heysusy/2009/12/from-me-to-you-free-printable-holiday-gift-cards-.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;heysusy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(scroll down for the download links)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wlFPtAtYL3U/Tt74kUUDbEI/AAAAAAAAF2U/LWEClJSL8oY/s1600/printable+-+winter+birds+-+rebeccascaprichos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="491" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wlFPtAtYL3U/Tt74kUUDbEI/AAAAAAAAF2U/LWEClJSL8oY/s640/printable+-+winter+birds+-+rebeccascaprichos.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;12 winter bird tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&lt;a href="http://rebeccascaprichos.blogspot.com/2010/12/winter-birds.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;rebecca's misc.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: as seen on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://makingitlovely.com/2011/12/05/winter-birds-free-printables/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;making it lovely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTOANnvXscQ/Tt-Sj3cwAPI/AAAAAAAAF3s/d7hjpfyiE-w/s1600/printable+-+giftbaggreeting+-+30+handmade+days.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTOANnvXscQ/Tt-Sj3cwAPI/AAAAAAAAF3s/d7hjpfyiE-w/s640/printable+-+giftbaggreeting+-+30+handmade+days.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="528" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;gift bag greetings&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;via&lt;a href="http://thirtyhandmadedays.com/2011/12/gift_bags/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;nbsp;30 handmade days&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: as seen on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bedifferentactnormal.com/2011/12/free-christmas-printables-printable.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;be different, act normal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DZiAQerBIqE/Tt8IEZtAT-I/AAAAAAAAF3c/wqVDSfY8YfM/s1600/printable+-+no+peeking+tag+-+simply+modern+mom+-+paper+crave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="459" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DZiAQerBIqE/Tt8IEZtAT-I/AAAAAAAAF3c/wqVDSfY8YfM/s640/printable+-+no+peeking+tag+-+simply+modern+mom+-+paper+crave.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;no peeking tags&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2010/12/tag-youre-it-from-paper-crave/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;simply modern mom&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: created by kristen from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://papercrave.com/free-printable-no-peeking-holiday-gift-tags/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;paper crave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AW5ESfSzSPs/Tt76_lGxjnI/AAAAAAAAF2c/bUP-ZaFJVcA/s1600/printable+-+house+of+fifty+-+Bottle2Vert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AW5ESfSzSPs/Tt76_lGxjnI/AAAAAAAAF2c/bUP-ZaFJVcA/s400/printable+-+house+of+fifty+-+Bottle2Vert.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;chevron wine tag&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://issuu.com/houseoffifty/docs/magazine_holiday?mode=window&amp;amp;backgroundColor=#222222" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;house of fifty (page 86)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;:: created by pamela sherry of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/pixelimpress" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;pixelimpress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rtZxmSXjW58/Tt8Eo0gLvII/AAAAAAAAF3E/6YKv05cV1X4/s1600/printable+-+gift+tag+-+domestifluff.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rtZxmSXjW58/Tt8Eo0gLvII/AAAAAAAAF3E/6YKv05cV1X4/s640/printable+-+gift+tag+-+domestifluff.gif" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0976563) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="386" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;aqua and red gift tags&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.domestifluff.com/2010/12/free-printable-holiday-gift-tags/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;domestifluff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"&gt;Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-291378480384559526?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/round-up-freaking-out-free-printables.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jVsDkYe4sQs/Tt8Cn1maTFI/AAAAAAAAF28/EJkJhCUKXFY/s72-c/printable+-+tags+-+eat+drink+chic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-3465122355525711939</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-11T19:06:51.195-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>recycle</category><title>I-Spy "junk tree"</title><description>&lt;div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Did you know you can use the junk from your junk drawer to make a beautiful holiday decor piece? No?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Check out this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://craftyladylindsay.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-spy-tree-aka-junk-tree.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;I-Spy "junk tree"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made by&amp;nbsp;Lindsay @ DIARY OF A CRAFTY LADY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181410691209691036/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/181410691209691036_mNvg07fg_c.jpg" width="451" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://craftyladylindsay.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-spy-tree-aka-junk-tree.html" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;craftyladylindsay.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Iuliana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Talk about recycling!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-3465122355525711939?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-spy-junk-tree.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s72-c/signature.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-5814969485233733698</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-13T17:24:16.208-08:00</atom:updated><title>500 Fans on Facebook {GIVEAWAY}</title><description>I am so excited that I have 500 fans on my facebook page. I was trying to figure out why I was excited about that. I mean...I am not a collector of fans, I am not a celebrity (ok..I kind of am...here on my blog)...so why? Probably because it makes me feel like others out there appreciate my work, which is an awesome thing in my book. Thank you all for your support and for buying handmade!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, to thank all my facebook fans and blog followers, I have a GIVEAWAY for you guys. This perfect is perfect to spruce up any outfit, especially now for the holidays. Give it as a Christmas or keep for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s1600/17717598805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s640/17717598805.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To enter, you must follow this blog and leave a comment to this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional entries:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Follow me on &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/IulianaBlakely" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and leave a comment here. (one entry)&lt;br /&gt;- Follow me on &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/youleeana/" target="_blank"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt; and&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;leave a comment here. (one entry)&lt;br /&gt;- If you are not a fan on facebook, Like me &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Lee-Ana-Boutique/119965431402999?sk=app_4949752878" target="_blank"&gt;on my page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;leave a comment here. (one entry)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giveaway ends on&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Monday, December 11th*. 2011 at 11:59 p.m. CST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The winner will be chosen using Random.org and will be announced on Tuesday the 12th of December. Guaranteed shipping before Christmas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* I am extending the giveaway till the end of the week because of very few entries. If you win, you will still get the necklace before Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-5814969485233733698?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/500-fans-on-facebook-giveaway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f4czGsPgBKs/TuLCm5RNUGI/AAAAAAAADCA/jqmvCQXZRQk/s72-c/17717598805.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-1077902697780320485</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-09T17:01:29.174-08:00</atom:updated><title>Blog Makeover</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You may have noticed that my blog looks different. I finally got a blog custom design and I am so happy with it. Seriously, this blog designer is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://733design.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="seven thirty three - - - custom blog design" border="0" j6="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7s-1HPR2i90/TrqiXXjFzGI/AAAAAAAAyMI/tHDnzNtUXTM/s1600/733design_button.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://733design.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Kim&lt;/a&gt; is one talented lady. I highly recommend &lt;a href="http://733design.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Seven Thirty Three&lt;/a&gt; for your blog design needs.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;What do you think? Like my new design?&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center style="text-align: left;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/center&gt;&lt;img alt="Iuliana" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QS20F-hmXjQ/TuFzQ_kdMiI/AAAAAAAADAo/68RkUhh3rnQ/s1600/signature.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-1077902697780320485?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-makeover.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7s-1HPR2i90/TrqiXXjFzGI/AAAAAAAAyMI/tHDnzNtUXTM/s72-c/733design_button.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-6929015943099738374</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-03T19:33:52.443-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>advent</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>Christmas Countdown blocks</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The other day we had a craft night at the church and we made these awesome Christmas countdown blocks. I know the girl in charge bought the blocks and the vinyl from somewhere, but I don't remember where from and &amp;nbsp;so I am sorry I am not giving proper credit here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4559ffDVQ9k/Ttro5_jCLYI/AAAAAAAAC9s/zqrd2iAUGK4/s1600/IMG_0399.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4559ffDVQ9k/Ttro5_jCLYI/AAAAAAAAC9s/zqrd2iAUGK4/s640/IMG_0399.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What you'll need:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;2 wood cubes measuring 3.5 inches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;1 wood block measuring 7.5 inches long, 3.5 inches deep and 1 inch tall (like I said...I am not sure where my friend bought these from, but if you have the right wood cutting tools, you can make your own blocks )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Mod Podge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;Scrapbook paper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;Sponge brush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;Paint&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Vinyl letters that read "Countdown" (you can also just print some out and cut the letters and numbers with an exacto knife)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Vinyl numbers - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Vinyl Numbers - 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;1. The blocks were sanded and then the edges painted. You can paint the whole surface of the blocks, but we just did the edges. Let the paint dry before proceeding to the next step.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ARbtSFCjvTo/Ttrc41J5iBI/AAAAAAAAC88/8gEqi26GKQE/s1600/IMG_0254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="411" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ARbtSFCjvTo/Ttrc41J5iBI/AAAAAAAAC88/8gEqi26GKQE/s640/IMG_0254.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;2. Cut out scrap-book paper just a little bit smaller then the surface you want to cover. So, for the cubes just cut out 12 pieces of Christmas scrapbook paper measuring 3 inches. Mod Podge them unto your surfaces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UkUdWqb6OUE/TtrfNSKTXXI/AAAAAAAAC9E/ovNo2VOLldI/s1600/IMG_0260.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="424" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UkUdWqb6OUE/TtrfNSKTXXI/AAAAAAAAC9E/ovNo2VOLldI/s640/IMG_0260.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;3. Mod Podge dries relatively fast to the touch. Apply the vinyl (or just mod podge some that you print out yourself) letters and numbers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h-DszOEwOss/TtrlgmGFI5I/AAAAAAAAC9U/3yS-3PAEiY4/s1600/IMG_0268.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h-DszOEwOss/TtrlgmGFI5I/AAAAAAAAC9U/3yS-3PAEiY4/s640/IMG_0268.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s1ZN9G7kdHg/Ttrljx_U5XI/AAAAAAAAC9c/EwAWnWgULDA/s1600/IMG_0269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s1ZN9G7kdHg/Ttrljx_U5XI/AAAAAAAAC9c/EwAWnWgULDA/s640/IMG_0269.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;4. Apply&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;a generous layer of Mod Podge on top. The more, the shinier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KOgDCwG-3AI/TtrnLDfTe7I/AAAAAAAAC9k/QUFexMH97NU/s1600/IMG_0280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KOgDCwG-3AI/TtrnLDfTe7I/AAAAAAAAC9k/QUFexMH97NU/s640/IMG_0280.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and Voila!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4559ffDVQ9k/Ttro5_jCLYI/AAAAAAAAC9s/zqrd2iAUGK4/s1600/IMG_0399.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4559ffDVQ9k/Ttro5_jCLYI/AAAAAAAAC9s/zqrd2iAUGK4/s640/IMG_0399.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-6929015943099738374?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-countdown-blocks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4559ffDVQ9k/Ttro5_jCLYI/AAAAAAAAC9s/zqrd2iAUGK4/s72-c/IMG_0399.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473617018828830517.post-2404724488496870386</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-08T19:04:45.389-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>advent</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>christmas</category><title>Magnetic Advent Calendar</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Now that Christmas Preparation are in full force, we'll soon start the countdown and what better way to do it, than with a cute advent calendar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DIY_Advent_Calendar_7-500x752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DIY_Advent_Calendar_7-500x752.jpg" width="424" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twigandthistle.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Twig &amp;amp; Thistle&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;made this gorgeous calendar. It's cute, it's useful, and it's MAGNETIC.makes it easy to make this fabulous advent calendar!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/2010/11/magnetic-holiday-advent-calendar-diy/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Magnetic Advent Calendar Tutorial and Template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DIY_Advent_Calendar_9-500x753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://www.twigandthistle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DIY_Advent_Calendar_9-500x753.jpg" width="424" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Isn't this oh so cute?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hugs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/473617018828830517-2404724488496870386?l=procraftinationstation.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://procraftinationstation.blogspot.com/2011/11/magnetic-advent-calendar.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Iuliana)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>