Ok, one more post today.

Don't forget to check out my craft blog: Schlosser Designs for previews of my new stamp line and a fun giveaway!

Check out this book!

I just got finished reading this book and I have to say that it's awesome!!!

The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business


It's women writing about women owned businesses. It's essentially written with the fact that women start up and run businesses for different reasons than men. There's all kinds of great tips and resources and very witty writing on top of it! I borrowed mine from the library, but am liking it so much I'll be buying my own copy now. They have a blog too that I've been reading for a while: The Boss of You. So anyway, check it out!

I got tagged!

Ok, sorry Laura it took me so long to realize it! Here goes!

The Rules are....
1. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end, the player tags 5 others and posts their names. Then goes to their blog and posts them a comment to let them know they've been tagged and asks them to read your blog to find out the details.

What I was doing 10 years ago....learning how to drive...

5 things on my to do list today.....which 5? the high priority 5 or the others?
Put together a window treatment invoice for my current interior design client, sketch the custom piece of furniture for my client that I'm getting built for her for my meeting tomorrow with the custom fabricator, finish product labels for my stamps, email those that responded about help with my other website to sell the stamps, dinner (maybe) Is this my typical to do list when I get home? Yep...it's pretty close.

If I were a billionaire I would.....pay off the house, invest, make MORE stamps :) build/run a non-profit crisis intervention center for children and their parents

3 bad habits.....Taking care of everything except for housekeeping. Making piles (just ask Christian!), crafting ADD (I have a billion projects to do, and not enought time to do them in!)

5 places I've lived.....Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Utah, Michigan, Texas (That's in order from birth to current! Oops, that's 6.)

5 jobs I've had....Floral arranger, taught preschoolers computer lessons (yes they really can start using the computer when they are 3!), early morning custodian at BYU (hey, I got paid well!), secretary for an advisement office, interior designer

Now I've got to tag 5 others....Who wants to be tagged?

Un-Bummer!

Have I mentioned that I hate buying cars? All that haggling over prices, value of trade-in, etc... But it finally paid off! (Mostly thanks to Christian...he's a hard bargainer!) We became the proud new owners of a newish car today. It's a 2005 Honda Accord. We actually walked out on them twice before they called us Saturday afternoon and said that they would go down on the price of the car and actually offer us what our trade-in was worth. So...Happy Anniversary, Christmas, and Birthday to us!! (And christmas and our birthdays are still 6 months away!)

Outside of the car.
Inside of the car.

Bummer

We decided to get a car for our anniversary present so we found a car online that we loved and went to look at it this morning.... We called, to make sure that it hadn't sold. Usually I'd just go, but since the car was at a dealership West OF Fort Worth (notice that it was west of fort worth, not west fort worth) I just thought I'd make sure that it was still available before we drove all the way out there to pick it up. Well....We're, I'm serious, no exaggeration, 4 miles from the dealership and we get the ill-fated call...It sold. Yep. What luck! (we also had a few others to look at but they sold too...) I guess used Camry's are a hot market right now! So, we'll keep looking but I can't tell you how excited I am to:

1. roll down the driver's side window again
2. see number 1, and add "go through the drive thru"
3. not be embarrassed that our car is always smoking burnt oil because of the massive oil leak
3a. not having a huge, and I mean HUGE oil spot on our driveway. (when we get a new car the first thing I'm going to do is go buy the oil cleaner stuff for driveways and get rid of it!)
4. not worry about if the car will shift from neutral and actually go when I want it to. (this just started happening within the last week)
5. not have to open the trunk from the inside of the car every time. (when we bought the car they didn't have the key for the trunk that someone had changed the lock on, and we don't have the fancy key chain button that let's you pop the trunk)

I'm sure that I could come up with more...
So wish us luck that when we actually find a car, it's not sold right out from underneath us...

All for this...

I had to find the Title to our car tonight. (We're going car shopping tomorrow, yippee!!!) We need the title if we're going to trade it in. So I had to dig into the "To File" pile in order to find it. While I was digging in, I decided to sort out everything not needed since it's been 4 years since a good file clean out (YIKES!). The big pile in the upper left is at least 12" tall. The little cardboard box is what is being kept...(and the title). Everything else is off to the shredder!
It does feel better to get that taken care of though...it's been on my "To Do" list for at least a year!