Category - Blogging Away

Thanks to everyone who entered my Planner Give-Away, and double thanks to those who promoted the contest on their blogs!  An added benefit of this contest was that I found several blogs that were new to me and I’m looking forward to reading them regularly.

Enough talk.  Just in case you’re wondering, I used List Randomizer to help me choose the winners, and here they are.

Winner of Amy Knapp’s Family Organizer is Sheri.

Winner of the Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner is Carrie.

Congratulations, ladies!

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I’m in a generous mood so I’m going to give something away here on my blog! Two things, actually!

Like many of you, I love a good planner. Over the years I have searched to find the perfect planner which meets my demanding criteria. First, I don’t need a lot of extras which add weight to the planner. I want it to be able to fit into my purse/diaper bag, or at least be easy to tote around. I need room to write down lots of different appointments, but I don’t need every day to be broken down into hourly or half-hourly lines. I need space for a decent size To Do list. Some sort of space for meal planning helpful. A small amount of space for addresses is nice, but not necessary. Cool stickers are a bonus.
Over the last year I’ve been using The Family Organizer by Amy Knapp. The only thing that would make this planner absolutely perfect is the addition of tabs. The included stickers could be cuter, but I can deal with that.

I’ve also discovered the Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner. This one includes a space for a prayer list and has helpful notations like feast days and mass readings. It comes with monthly tabs that you can stick on yourself if you want.

Both planners come with each month over two pages, followed by a two-page spread for each week. The Family Organizer has a To Do list on the left side, with the days of the week on the right with a space for menu planning. This is my hands down favorite layout. I like to keep a running To Do list, rarely assigning a task to a particular day. I like having the menu list along the side so that it stands out. Another plus is that it covers 18 months. This seems to be a growing trend in calendars/planners that are made for families. At first I didn’t like the extra months, but I realized that having calendar in August that extends to the end of the following year was very helpful when looking at schedules for scouts, sports, and various and sundry other activities.

The Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner has the weekly pages over a two page spread, with plenty of writing space in each day’s square. This style is better suited for daily To-Do lists. Menu planning pages are optional and are included at the end of the planner. This planner runs from August to the following July, which corresponds nicely with the school year.

Both planners are available in spiral bound and loose leaf 7 hole punched versions. Both 7 hole punch types fit Franklin Planners. Both spiral bound versions fit into the Black Nylon Cover sold on The Family Organizer site.

If only I could get the layout style of The Family Organizer printed with the Catholic notations of the Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner – then I would truly be in planner heaven!

So in the spirit of getting organized for the upcoming school year, whether you homeschool or not, I am giving away one each of the Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner AND The Family Organizer! This is especially cool because the Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner is now sold out! The small, spiral bound version, that is. I think the other sizes and styles are still available.

Here’s the rules:

1. Leave a comment on this post.

2. You must tell me which planner you want.

3. One entry per person please. If you promote this contest on your own blog and leave me a link in my comments, I’ll give you an extra entry.
4. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited, yada yada yada.

5. There will be 2 prizes given away, one Amy Knapp’s Family Organizer July 2007-December 2008 edition and one Catholic Woman’s Daily Planner (with Menu planning pages) August 2007-July 2008 edition. Both are spiral bound.

6. Deadline for entering is August 22, 2007, 5 pm EDT.

7. The winners will be announced on August 23, 2007.

*Comments now closed. Thanks for participating!*

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You Belong in Fall

Intelligent, introspective, and quite expressive at times… You appreciate the changes in color, climate, and mood that fall brings Whether you’re carving wacky pumpkins or taking long drives, autumn is a favorite time of year for you

What Season Are You?

Exactly what I would have said.  Hat tip to KC!

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The Loveliness of Clearing the Clutter will be hosted here on August 6th. If you’d like to participate, just write a post to your blog about clearing out the clutter. I’d like to receive entries by August 4th. Email the link to your specific post to justlorri at gmail dot com. Make sure you get both r’s in my name. You can also leave a link in the comments of this post. Either way, I’ll email you back to confirm that I got it. If you don’t hear back from me by August 5th, then I probably didn’t get it.

If you don’t have a blog, but you have some before and after pictures that you’d like to contribute, you can email those to me and I’ll include them in the Fair.

Please feel free to spread the word about this Fair – the more the merrier! The only restrictions are that your post is Rated G and that it does relate to the theme. Please email me with any questions.

Also, the Loveliness of the Seashore Fair is up at A Wink and A Smile. Grab yourself some ice tea and go check it out!

And just for the record, here are the remaining summer Loveliness Fairs:

• Summer Gardens August 13 (Ruth will be your hostess)
  
• “Back-to-School” Supplies and Lesson Plans August 20 (Kim will be your hostess)
  
• Summer Vacations August 27 (Cindy will be your hostess)

*Edited to add – All comments on my blog that contain links automatically get held for moderation.  Don’t worry if your comment doesn’t immediately appear, I will see it and approve it!

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And the first award goes to…

My friend Shanti, who regales us with her Adventures in Paradise.  I could go on and on about how cool she is – she’s petite and in the Navy and she so totally ROCKS!  And she’s a knitter, too.  Check out these pictures of just one day on the job with her.

Shanti may now sport this very lovely button on her blog and award it to 5 other Rockin’ Girl Bloggers as she sees fit.

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Well, today is the day.  I wanted to give away a brand new Over the Shoulder Baby Holder, complete with instructional video.  It was supposed to be in the recycled Sonlight box over there.  So I went to get it this morning…not in there.  I have 3 of these slings, all brand new, left over from when I had an internet store, which I had to close when we moved to Korea.  I swear they were in that box.  So now I have no idea where they are and no real hopes of finding them before the end of the week.  I guess that means no bloggy give-away here today.  Maybe when I do find them, I’ll give them away at another time.

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Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer is hosting a carnival of blog contests. How cool is that? I’ll be participating, I’ve even got the prize picked out, now I’ve just got to find it. Last I saw it, it was in a box in some Corner of My Home. Don’t worry, it’s brand new, it’s great and if you can’t use it, it makes a fabulous gift. So make sure you come back here on July 23rd to find out what I’m giving away. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited, blah blah blah. All you’ll have to do is leave a comment -but not yet!- and I’ll put your name in a hat or bowl or the crab cage and let one of my children draw out the winner.

If you have a blog, you can participate, too. You just need something to give away. Click on the dog graphic for more information.

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Well,  at least according to Marie at Striving to Bring Light and Truth to the World Around Me. She has awarded me the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award for inspiring her with all the decluttering I’ve been doing lately! Thanks, Marie. Now I get this cool badge for my sidebar AND I get to award it to five other bloggers.

I think I’m going to be like Sandy and not award them all at once. Instead I’ll be on the lookout for blogs and posts that just so totally rock dude that they need an award. Who knows, maybe it’ll be you?

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The Loveliness of Clearing the Clutter Fair will be hosted right here, by me, in just one month!  Why am I telling you now?  Because I want to make sure that anyone who wants to participate has lots of time to actually clear out their clutter!  You’ve got one month, so take a picture of your clutter and then get to work.  When you’re finished, take another picture and blog about how lovely your new space looks.   Submit your post via email to justlorri at gmail dot com.  Make sure you get both r’s in my name!  If you don’t have a blog and want to submit your pictures, email them to me and I’ll post them here on the day of the Fair.

If you have no clutter in your house, let us all know how you do it!  Have you recently cleared out some clutter? Show us how nice your home looks now.  If you’re like me and are battling the clutter monster, let’s use the next 4 weeks to do make some serious headway.

I’ll be accepting posts from now until August 3rd.  Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again.

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