It’s that time of year again for back to school and this one looks to be off to a rough start in many areas because of the Delta variant of Covid-19. I’m feeling grateful that I don’t have any kids in school this season. My son Alex will probably take an online class or two. My daughter Riley is trying to finish up her last few hours of massage therapist training (which has been quite difficult in this environment), but neither one of them is attending school in person. My heart goes out to parents and kids everywhere who are trying to navigate this difficult time!

My daughter was here for a visit and wanted to see what I had in my desk drawers. She was really excited when she saw my correspondence drawer and she encouraged me to share it here with all of my readers. I put together some story images to illustrate how this system works for me.. I hope you find it useful!

I get asked questions about sizing matters with digital scrapbooking products all the time. I thought it would be best to show you the answers and share a really cool (and free) resource with you! Check out my newest tutorial here.

How about some super fun pink digital and hybrid scrapbooking supplies? I’m really happy with how this collection turned out and I’ve already had a lot of fun creating some darling layouts. Let’s take a look at all of these cute pink goodies.

Our July was an interesting mix of social visits (hooray!), watching our favorite shows, and several medical tests for me. I'm fine, but I seem to be a bit of a mystery to the doctors right now. I've had enlarged lymph nodes in my armpits for 5 months (started before I got the vaccine) and some concerning breast lumps, but everything has turned out normal so far. I've had 3 mammograms, 2 ultrasounds, and 1 biopsy. Then I had several more biopsies during my colonoscopy & endoscopy procedures. Doctor thought everything looked fine so it will be good to find out for sure.

It’s already the end of the month and that means it’s a great time to roundup your memories and document them before too much time passes. One of the greatest tricks we play on ourselves is thinking we will remember. We don't need to write it down, right? Does that even work for the grocery store? Don’t let yourself fall into that trap. Memories are important!

So take a few minutes and let these prompts help you record the things that happened in your life over the past month.

I don’t know about you, but I need a regular dose of laughter to keep me going in life. I love the feeling of a good giggle and I’m grateful to be able to have a sense of humor to help me keep things in perspective. I’m always collecting silly stuff I see online so I thought today would be a great day to share some new favorites.

Have you ever heard of Muffin Tin Monday? It’s just simply putting different foods into muffin tins for a unique presentation. This works especially well for kids and helps introduce them to new foods in a fun way. I made muffin tin meals for my kids when they were really young. I didn't know that they were called that and I certainly never imagined that someday the internet would be filled with photos of such things. I just started a Pinterest board for Muffin Tin snack and meal ideas so be sure to follow it for some inspiration!

For some odd reason, I read a market projection report from Frito Lay this past spring (I sometimes read random stuff online) and they were saying that they expected sales of their snacks to be robust because of the “two summers in one” approach that many would be taking this year. Their thought was that because most people were on lockdown last summer, that they would be more anxious to be out and about this year.

The assumptions are a bit of an overgeneralization of course, but it gave me some food for thought.