Get Organized for the Holidays + giveaway!
October 27, 2009 | Filed Under Workshops | 129 Comments
Updated to add: This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #84 Carla!
Friends, it’s that time of the year again. That time of the year when we promise ourselves that this is the year we are finally going to get organized for the holidays. Well how would you like a little helping hand keeping that promise to yourself once and for all this year?
My friend Aby Garvey of Simplify 101 is once again offering her very popular 5-lesson/10-week online workshop Get Organized for the Holidays and this year I’m excited to announce that I’m going to be a part of it, yay! Aby has asked me to to contribute by offering a bonus handout to participants on Holiday Meal Planning Made Easy. I truly believe the holidays are about spending quality time with family and friends and not about spending hours in the kitchen missing out on all the fun. It’s definitely possible with some advance planning and during the workshop I’m going to show you how.
This fantastic holiday workshop is set to begin next week and there are many more highlights and benefits to signing up. Some of those include:
- Figuring out what’s most important to you and your family to have a joyful holiday season.
- Creating a holiday planner and filling it up with printable forms and worksheets that will organize all aspects of your holiday preparations.
- Creating a customized holiday plan so you can get it all done. You’ll be organized, prioritized and energized!
- Learning practical, doable strategies for simplifying the key areas of your holiday preparations…from cooking, baking and entertaining, to shopping, wrapping and sending out holiday cards.
Sharing gift ideas, recipes, holiday traditions, tips and more in the private workshop forum.
- Learning a simple process for getting your holiday gifts put away and your home put back together.
- Learning how to store your holiday décor efficiently and effectively.
- Getting tips and ideas for making next year’s holiday season even better than this year, and exchange ideas with your classmates.
- Sharing photos of your holiday decorations and storage solutions in the online photo gallery.
- Creating a simple and fun project to organize your holiday cards so you can enjoy them next year.
Today I am giving away ONE spot in this upcoming workshop. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post answering the following question:
Which one of the above workshop highlights interests you the most?
Last day to enter is Saturday, October 31st at 12:00 pm PST.
Happy holiday organizing everyone!
Avery and the DIY Organizational Campaign
October 22, 2009 | Filed Under Household | 10 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I let you know about the Avery DIY Organizational Campaign that allows you to take a quiz to find out your organization personality and enter a sweepstakes for a chance to win a $5,000 Dream Organization Makeover from Organizational Expert, Jodie Watson.
I just wanted to remind you that this is the last day to enter the sweepstakes as it ends October 23, 2009 at 11:59 pm ET. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to get your home organized!
I also had the pleasure of trying out a few Avery products that were graciously sent to me as a thank you. I had no idea that there was a whole new line of removable, re-positionable products and I must say they are perfect for a girl like me who has commitment issues 
I’m an organizer but no where in my house will you find labels that are impossible to remove. Oh you know the ones I’m talking about. The ones you have to pick at and scrape off and just be totally annoyed by. That doesn’t work for me because I’m always changing out my totes and baskets. I’m constantly shuffling them around (it’s the addict in me what can I say!) trying new arrangements and systems. For that reason I simply can’t use anything on my containers that is permanent. I couldn’t deface one of my precious beauties like that, nope just can’t do it! I love the Removable Label Pads because they are sticky over the entire back surface with a small non-stick perforated section that allows you to re-position the label if you need to before tearing that section off.
The other product I absolutely love and had never seen before are the Pocket Tabs. These nifty little storage pockets can be added, by way of a sticky backing, to any binder or surface where you could use a pocket for storing such stuff as notes, photos, business cards or receipts. They won’t damage documents and the best part is they remove easily and are totally re-positionable. So very handy indeed!
They even have a File Folder Label Pad so you don’t have to commit to how your folders are labeled. Use these removable ones and change your mind over and over and over again.
Thanks Avery for introducing me to these great products!
Now don’t forget to go on over and enter the sweepstakes (US only). I would be absolutely thrilled if one of my very own blog readers won such a cool prize!!
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