Having so much fun reading what you’re all grateful for! Thanks for sharing…
And I’m having fun with my little gratitude project, too.
Here’s yesterday’s photo…
It’s a mombo IKEA bag (one of those really big blue ones) loaded full of little white pots and the IKEA 2009 catalog. I’m grateful not just for the big, bag full o’ pots, but also for my friend Janine who purchased the pots (and wrapped all 30 of them!) on her recent trip to IKEA. Now that’s the sign of a true friend. The photo I wish I had gotten was of Janine lugging this bag from her car to mine…that’s when I realized I might have gone a tad-bit overboard on the pots. (More on the pots later…I have ideas for days on how to use these little cuties to organize stuff. And thank you to Karyl, too, for her help in the pot-wrapping frenzy.)
Here’s Thursday’s photo:
Grateful that: the weekly cleaning and grocery shopping are done. Homework is done and planners are ready to sign. And the receipt in the background is there because I saved $19 on groceries that night (and the total was under $100 before the $19 savings) and this, my friends, makes me happy.Oh and the wine…I was getting ready to go relax with Jay. Ahh…the perfect end to a productive evening.
OK…now to answer a question I had about using the two brag books. Here are a couple more photos:
This shows where the tape is. See how invisible it is? You can’t even see it. But, what you can see is that I just stacked the two books on top of each other (after removing the front of one and the back of the other. Then, with the two books sandwiched together, I just taped along the spine.
Here is one more photo. Once the books are taped together, I ran ribbon from the inside around the outside, to cover the (already invisible) tape. 🙂
Let me know if there are any other questions…and thanks for inspiring me with your gratitude comments for Freebie Friday. I’ve gotten (as my Dad would say) chilly bumps reading them. 🙂 Now that’s good stuff.
Have a happy Saturday. We’re going to cut down our tree today…and there’s a bit of snow on the ground. I’m grateful already.
I read your entry about gratitude journaling and decided I had to do it. I’m blogging a blessing a day, which I guess is basically the same thing. Several of my friends have read my blog and love the idea so they are doing it too. It’s a snowball effect!!! Thanks for such a great idea. Merry Christmas and may your gratitude journal be full!
Aby, the look on your face and your hysterical laughter when you saw the giant IKEA bag full of pots was its own reward! Glad you’re enjoying them.
Where do you get your cute baskets? I LOVE the one in the lefthand picture of your heading.