OLW Blog Hop!

Welcome to the One Little Word Blog Hop!

As I mentioned in this post I am participating in Ali Edwards One Little Word class through BigPicture Classes.  The idea behind the class is to chose a word (or let a word chose you) that will be significant to you over the course of this year, or maybe a word that you want to focus on and pay attention to or maybe even a word that keeps popping up even though you don't know why.

My word for 2011 is Change because I expect a lot of change to happen in 2011.  As I mentioned in the earlier post, some examples of the change I'm anticipating are:

Change . . . painting, removing wallpaper, replacing light fixtures, etc.

Change . . . move more, eat less. Check out Cathy Zielske's blog to read more.

Change . . . my daughter is graduating from college in May and starting her adult life.

Change . . . now that college is paid for I'll have more change in my pocket!

Change . . . in how I manage and market my Etsy shop.

I have to admit that I haven't started the scrapbooking/creating portion of the class yet.  I have an album and I have selected a paper pack that I'm going to use (The Linen Closet Stack from DCWV) but I haven't actually completed any of the prompts that Ali provided for January . . . and February is here!  It's not that I'm not excited to get started or that I don't have any ideas, but one of my reasons for taking the class is to use the awesome instructions that Ali provides using Photoshop.

I just recently purchased Photoshop Elements, got a bad disk, returned it and now have my new program right here on my desk.  However, I'm so busy with change that I don't have time to load the program!  I want to load it when I have some time to dedicate to it, and that probably won't be until late February.  I'm ok with that though; it's a year long class and I'll be able to catch up once I get started.

Speaking of change, I spent my entire weekend working on removing the wallpaper in my kitchen and getting the kitchen, living room and hallway ready for paint.  I was lucky enough to have some girlfriends come over to help or I would still be working on it!  Here is a before picture showing the wallpaper:

Ugh.  I will not miss it one bit!  The light fixture needs to go too but for now I'm concentrating on painting.

Here are a couple of pictures after the wallpaper was removed:

 The kitchen

The dining area - the wall on the left is the one in the first picture.  I don't usually have a Mickey Mouse tablecloth - that's just a blanket protecting the table.

And here's the living room with all of the furniture moved, waiting for paint:

I really hate living in such a mess but it's shortlived so I know I can manage.  I'm looking forward to having it all done and I will post the "after" photos in a few days.

In the meantime, please HOP on over to Cynthia's blog and hear all about her One Little Word:  http://paperpapereverywhere.blogspot.com/

You can check out all of the blogs by simply HOPPING from one to another.  If you get lost along the way here's a complete list of all of the participants:

http://xnomads.typepad.com/


http://jillconyers.typepad.com/life_as_i_see_it

http://scraplifters.blogspot.com/

http://crafty-creativity.blogspot.com/

http://mirandasscrapsite.blogspot.com/

http://captureandcreate.wordpress.com/

http://katswonderings.blogspot.com/

http://makeyourownescape.blogspot.com/

http://donnabryantdurand.blogspot.com/

http://athomewiththerichardsfamily.blogspot.com/

http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/

http://capturethememories.blogspot.com/

http://seejanebake.blogspot.com/

http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/

http://rel.ly/

http://goshery.blogspot.com/   YOU ARE HERE!

http://paperpapereverywhere.blogspot.com/

http://katlodesigns.com/

http://www.inkyart.com.au/

http://scrappyhare.blogspot.com/

http://http://www.lifeonlilypadlane.blogspot.com/

http://ciqis.blogspot.com/

http://blakleyhomeplace.blogspot.com/

http://beckyandjames.com/

http://reflectivesnapshots.com/

http://moore-fun-in-the-sun.blogspot.com/

http://cookingmylife.blogspot.com/

http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com/

http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/

http://mysimplelittlelife.typepad.com/

http://yesandamenblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.gutsymom.blogspot.com/

http://www.analteredlife.com/

http://terecontodomicorazon.blogspot.com/