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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Thursday
May172007

Happy.

DateThursday, May 17, 2007 at 01:28PM

Just a quick little post with some pictures of things in my office that make me happy today.

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First is my monthly calendar page. I made a bunch of these up using scraps...keep the current month on my fun clipboard and jot down thoughts during the month then add it to my little 8x8 album at the end of the month along with a page with a collage of pics from the month...quick and easy.

Second is my new stash of printer ink. Just bought a bunch from a friend who had some to get rid of...yay! Always needing more printer ink.

Third is one of my KI tins with little clear stamps stored inside. This one happens to have a bunch of the fun little stamp sets you can find at Michael's lately. Love this! (If anyone knows where I can find some more KI tins, let me know...get the feeling I'll be buying more clear stamps since I seem to be addicted. Love that with the clear ones I can see where I'm stamping...it's totally brought stamping back to life for me! I've even dusted off my wood mounted ones lately!)

Fourth is just some stuff on my desk that I can't wait to play with some more...no idea where I got that green felt thing, but isn't it cool?  

So...what's making you happy today? 

AuthorAmanda | Comment5 Comments |

Reader Comments (5)

wow..i want some of those stamps they look cool!!!
love that pic of micah too, so sweet....
things that make me happy today....thats a toughie just been at work but coming home to my family always brings a smile.:)

May 17, 2007 | Unregistered Commentersarah

Yea!! So excited to see you've joined the blogging world.

May 18, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterKelly Miller

your desk stuff is making me happy!

May 18, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterslammie

Oh the joys of printer ink! That's a lot of ink!

May 19, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterTiffany

Amanda...love your blog. Just found this through the CK Message Board.

I also love your calendar of the month idea. What a quick way to have an album at the end of the year and you only have to put in a little time a month to do it.

Is there a way for you to show an example of the opposing page that shows a collage of the pictures taken for the month? Might be too late to get started on it this year, but I'm planning to do a head start next year.

Thank You!

BTW, love your layouts on CK Magazines.

May 25, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterEvan's Mommy

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