Now a days, lots of families live apart. I live in Canada and my mom lives in Iran. It is very difficult to send a gift there, so I came up with an idea. A digi scrap that I can e-mail and if she likes can print it there.

I just talked to her and she loved her gift, she said she couldn’t get a better gift.

Here is a copy of what I did, ready for you to download, add your pictures to, and e-mail it. I believe you should have Photoshop to be able to do that. If you managed to do it without Photoshop, let me know. I’m new in this. here is how it looks, you can click on the image and save it your computer.

Happy Mother’s day to all of you lovely mothers. Have a great day tomorrow and always.

Until Later,

I can’t believe March is ending tomorrow.  It was so busy these past days that I didn’t notice the time passing.

It was a great start of the year. We were busy visiting family and friends, and having them visiting us. This year the kids were older and more into doing these things.

Happy Norooz, Happy Spring to everyone Persian or not, wish you all a wonderful spring and year.

Until later,

Well I don’t know what day of this project it is, all I know is that I only have another 18 days to finish all the things I wanted to do to get my life more organized and efficient, and do my spring cleaning at the same time.

Up to now I have organized the master bedroom (mentioned on previous post) the kids bedrooms are all organized and cleaned from top to bottom. I have changed the decoration of my son’s room, changed the place of his bed to make his room more accessible and organized.

Now the kids know what belongs where, every toy has a place! Which was not like that before; they had some toys that didn’t belong to a specific spot and ended up anywhere. So far so good, I was consistent on asking them to clean up their room before bed (putting everything back in it’s place), well they didn’t like it but did it anyway after a lot of going back and forths. I just have to keep in mind not to miss a day on enforcing this, otherwise I will lose the battle and things will go back the way it was.

Bathroom cabinets and few of the kitchen cabinets are organized as well. Looks like I’m almost there, but there are lots to do and I hope I’ll make it in time. Specially that I’m thinking of baking some traditional cookies like Nokhodchi (chickpea cookie) and Noonberenji (rice cookie) for Nowruz. These will take a good chunk of time to do.

Next stop is the rest of kitchen cabinets, fridge, and the TV stand in family room. Then vacuuming, mopping and washing the windows. Just that, nothing more, or is it! I don’t know I’ll get to it when I get there, just thinking of all of these makes me tired. I had a long day, doing my chores and keeping the children busy and entertained.          Off to bed, thank goodness for nights.

Until later,

I’ve been thinking about this post since Christmas (almost), right after I saw Julie and Julia. (Have to say I loved the movie, it was funny, interesting and inspiring.) What did I think about? Since I saw the movie, I thought I could challenge myself to start a project and write about it. I said challenge because first it’s not easy to write about an ongoing project while you are messing it up, two is that quitting won’t be easy. When you say you’re doing something publicly, you have to deliver it. I’m good at finishing most of my projects, but I quitted before on projects that it was too much for me; mostly in knitting and sewing.

The project

You already guessed it, my project is organization, I’m planning to reorganize our house, rearrange everything in a way that suits our today life better. I’m always after new tips and ideas in organization. The most problem with my organization is that it is easy to get organized but very difficult to stay organized. We have 41 days to Nowruz. (First day of spring Iranian new year) and for that we are supposed to do spring-cleaning. My challenge is to get the whole house cleaned, organized and rearranged by Nowruz.

I need all the help I can get, and the sweetest thing was that just before writing this article I was checking my RSS feed and saw an interesting article on organization in tipjunkie.com. It is very interesting with great tips in homemaking check it out. I sure use it a lot.

I’m starting from my room ( for a change), tell you all about it tomorrow. If you like you can start the project with me I would love to have some company, we can share the tips we come up with.

Until later

Happy new year everyone.

This year started with a wonderful news, my brother proposed to his girlfriend on new year’s eve in Paris. How romantic is that?

I’ve also been busy all fall studying and learning as much as possible, and now I’m working on two blog designs at the same time (both mine). I’m very excited about this new adventure and I hope to be able to continue it in near future as my business rather than hobby.

Here is my new year resolution:

• To continue what I started and be able to enjoy it as much as now
• To post more articles that last year
• To find a way to actually make money with my blog
• To loose weight Na that’s not exciting
• ….

Now that I think of it it’s a long list so to summarize it:

• I’m planning to do exciting things and try to live healthy and happy and stress-less as best as I can or my kids let me.

What are your new year resolution?

Until later,