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January 30: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday National Popcorn Day Escape Day 1933: Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg. 1948: Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse. 1957: The United Nations (UN) General Assembly calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policies. Vanessa Redgrave, actor (1937) Gene Hackman, actor (1930) Boris Spassky, chess player (1937) January 31: Jackie Robinson (1919), the first black man to play in major league baseball. Recipient of the Prinngarn medal in 1956. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Backwards Day Inspire Your Heart with Art Day What a GREAT Day to schedule a stamp camp/workshop, etc. A day devoted to experiencing art in your life. “Food sustains you as a human; art inspires you to be divine.” Go to an art museum, browse through an art nook at the library, enroll in an art class or commission an artist. Every child is an artist. The ...

Week 5 Stickers, diecuts, and rub-ons are some of the hardest things to organize because the different sizes and shapes pose many challenges. Rub-ons present their own challenges because if they aren't stored properly, they stick to each other, damaging precious supplies. SORT : time to be ruthless. Consider if you are really going to use these items. If you bought a whole sheet of die cut just to use one or two tags, why are you hanging on to the whole sheet? Those stickers you bought in 1999 were adorable then, but definitely not your style now, are they? So, sort into piles: TRASH, SELL, DONATE, TO KEEP PURGE: Throw out the TRASH pile. Bag up, and assign a price and your initials to the SELL pile and put them directly into the garage sale box. Make immediate arrangements to rid yourself of the DONATE items. ASSIGN : The KEEP items need to be divided into categories that make sense to you: by colour, by manufacturer, theme, size, or type. CONTAINERIZE : Here is an article ...

Week 5 Stickers, diecuts, and rub-ons are some of the hardest things to organize because the different sizes and shapes pose many challenges. Rub-ons present their own challenges because if they aren't stored properly, they stick to each other, damaging precious supplies. SORT : time to be ruthless. Consider if you are really going to use these items. If you bought a whole sheet of die cut just to use one or two tags, why are you hanging on to the whole sheet? Those stickers you bought in 1999 were adorable then, but definitely not your style now, are they? So, sort into piles: TRASH, SELL, DONATE, TO KEEP PURGE: Throw out the TRASH pile. Bag up, and assign a price and your initials to the SELL pile and put them directly into the garage sale box. Make immediate arrangements to rid yourself of the DONATE items. ASSIGN : The KEEP items need to be divided into categories that make sense to you: by colour, by manufacturer, theme, size, or type. CONTAINERIZE : Here is an articl...

Bee #1 3" x 4" $2.00 BUY May not be exactly as shown because each piecing is individually made.

Bedbug with Teddy 4" x 6" $2.50 BUY May not be exactly as shown because each piecing is individually made.

Bedbug Pointing 3" x 4" $2.00 BUY May not be exactly as shown because each piecing is individually made.

January 23: Measure Your Feet Day History tells us that many units of measure were derived from the physical property of a king or some notable. For example the English unit of length, known as “the foot” was derived from the actual length of a king’s foot. Celebrate Measure Your Feet Day by taking photographs of your family’s feet. For a great focal point photograph, have your family sit on the floor with their legs outstretched with their feet up against or touching a wall. Line up the feet in order from longest to shortest and snap the picture. On the scrapbook page, label each set of feet and record the size in inches. Since you know this day is coming, treat yourself to a pedicure the day before. National Handwriting Day The lost art of handwriting is one of the few ways we can uniquely express ourselves. Handwriting adds intimacy to a scrapbook page as you share journaling facts with those who will enjoy your albums for years to come. Some scrapbookers are self-conscious ...

It's Week 4 of the Get Organized Challenge . . . Tools & Adhesives Gather together all of your tools and adhesives into the Big Box, and let's start S.P.A.C.E.ing them! Sort : one by one, put each item into piles: FAVOURITES, TRASH, TO SELL, STORE, DONATE.  Purge : For the SELL pile: bag up and assign a price and your initials to tools/adhesives that you don't love/use anymore and put them in your garage sale box. Throw out the TRASH pile. Arrange pick-up or drop-off of the DONATE pile. Assign : Store your most used items in a basket or box or other system right on your desk, within easy reach. Divide the STORE items into categories that make sense to you: cutting tools, pens, punches, templates, etc.  Containerize : This is the time to tidy up your tools. Tools need regular maintenance to keep them efficiently working. As you put your tools away in whatever container (drawers, shelves, boxes, baskets - always ensuring the container is clearly labelled) give them...

January 16: National Nothing Day Religious Freedom Day Good Teen Day 1964: Carol Channing debuts in Hello Dolly, the Broadway show based on Thorton Wilder's play The Matchmaker. The Broadway play earned a Tony as Best Musical of the Year. 1547: Ivan the Terrible is crowned tsar of Russia. 1804: French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ascends to a height of 7,016 m (23,018 ft) in a hydrogen balloon, a record that lasted 50 years. Marilyn Horne, opera singer (1934) A.J. Foyt, automobile racer (1935) 1939: Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster published his first Superman comic strip. Shuster and writer jerry Siegal created the character in 1933 and sold Superman to Action Comics for $130.00. Niccolò Piccinni, composer (1728) Ethel Merman, actress (1909) 1970: The government announced plans to convert from the Imperial to the Metric system of measurement. A special commission was appointed to oversee the introduction of metric, or the International System of Units. ...

Week 3: Organize your photos . . . Week 3 So, your paper is beautifully organized, your scraps carefully stashed or purged, and your desk is gleaming!  Doesn't it make you feel creative?  Don't you want to get cropping?  Well, you CAN'T scrapbook without PHOTOS! Our third challenge is to organize our photos.  Here is an excellent article to get you thinking about how to organize those precious photos before we  S.P.A.C.E.  them: https://www.scrapbook.com/articles/organizing-and-storing-your-photos-and-negatives . SORT: Gather together all of your photos, and sort them into categories that make sense: TRASH (it's okay to throw out photos with bad colour, expression, composition.  Why keep them?  You're not going to scrapbook them) TO SCRAPBOOK (the shots you know you are going to use) TO STORE (photos that need to be kept, but aren't necessarily going to be going into your scrapbooks) TO GIVE AWAY (doubles that you want to send to friends and ...

Week 3: Organize your photos . . . Week 3 So, your paper is beautifully organized, your scraps carefully stashed or purged, and your desk is gleaming!  Doesn't it make you feel creative?  Don't you want to get cropping?  Well, you CAN'T scrapbook without PHOTOS! Our third challenge is to organize our photos.  Here is an excellent article to get you thinking about how to organize those precious photos before we  S.P.A.C.E.  them: https://www.scrapbook.com/articles/organizing-and-storing-your-photos-and-negatives . SORT: Gather together all of your photos, and sort them into categories that make sense: TRASH (it's okay to throw out photos with bad colour, expression, composition.  Why keep them?  You're not going to scrapbook them) TO SCRAPBOOK (the shots you know you are going to use) TO STORE (photos that need to be kept, but aren't necessarily going to be going into your scrapbooks) TO GIVE AWAY (doubles that you wa...

How did you make out with last week's challenge? Did you find your work table? I managed to get all of my tables cleared and scrubbed. I've posted photos in our Facebook group but you are also welcome to post links to your challenge photos as a comment here. We have started a Facebook group as a place for us to share photos, accomplishments, encouragement, tips and tricks as we work through the 2017 Craft Space Organization Challenge. Here is this week's challenge: Your challenge this week is to S.P.A.C.E. your paper - - and I mean ALL of your paper: cardstock, patterned paper, specialty papers, and all those SCRAPS! SORT: Bring all of your paper to one area. Sort it all into piles: KEEP, SELL, DONATE, TRASH PURGE: bag up, and assign a price to paper bundles that you want to SELL at a garage sale or online, and put the bags in the garage sale box. Throw out the TRASH pile. Bag up the DONATE pile and immediately make arrangements for drop-off/pick-up or put in your vehicl...

How did you make out with last week's challenge? Did you find your work table? I managed to get all of my tables cleared and scrubbed. I've posted photos in our Facebook group but you are also welcome to post links to your challenge photos as a comment here. We have started a Facebook group as a place for us to share photos, accomplishments, encouragement, tips and tricks as we work through the 2017 Craft Space Organization Challenge. Here is this week's challenge: Your challenge this week is to S.P.A.C.E. your paper - - and I mean ALL of your paper: cardstock, patterned paper, specialty papers, and all those SCRAPS! SORT: Bring all of your paper to one area. Sort it all into piles: KEEP, SELL, DONATE, TRASH PURGE: bag up, and assign a price to paper bundles that you want to SELL at a garage sale or online, and put the bags in the garage sale box. Throw out the TRASH pile. Bag up the DONATE pile and immediately make arrangements for drop-off/pick-up or put in your vehi...

January 8: Show & Tell Day at Work Feast of Saint Gudula      The Feast of Saint Gudula, patron saint of Brussels, celebrates with great solemnity the anniversary of the seventh-century saint who is always portrayed in the company of an angel who is lighting her lantern. 1889: American inventor Herman Hollerith patents his electric counting machine. 1948: William Lyon Mackenzie King set a Canadian and Commonwealth record as the longest serving Prime Minister with 7,825 days in office. 1976: It was announced that Canada, the US, the Soviet Union, Sweden, Finland, and Czechoslovakia had agreed to take part in an invitational hockey tournament in September, known as the Canada Cup. Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (1935)      Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, Teddy Bear, All Shook Up, Blue Suede Shoes. Elvis’ songs make great page titles. David Bowie, British singer and songwriter (1947) William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), English...