September 27, 2008

This weeks Pay it Forward goes to

Lisa Ann Bonfiglio
Author-Illustrator-Business Owner
Dynamic Art House
http://dynamicarthouse.com/

Her smile is contagious and illuminating, but not as much as her spirit of giving. Lisa is a true inspiration in all that she does. From her paintings, writings, talents as a jeweler, to her personal commitment of giving of herself.

Through her own self expression, she challenges us to look further within ourselves and give when we truly do not feel there is anything left to possibly share.
The cover of her book, "Illumination Divine Inspiration from my heart to your heart" ISBN 978-1-4259-7200-4, reminds you of her personal angelic spirit and leaves you with the desire to move forward and pass it on.

End of First Week

This is a picture of the first thing of the August Mission. Finish the boy's room. Do you know how disorganized things get when you are in the middle of a remodel project?

Almost everything is in the garage that does not belong in this room. Yes, I am putting it neatly into it's space.

The garage is going to take a month in itself to organize.

What a relief it was to get this room back to where it is now. This week end I will be placing the dressers back into the room. But that is part of next week's challenge.

Blinds still need to go up and the drawers need to under the bed. Still a HUGE accomplishment

I spent 5 hours on my office Monday. I was up until 1:00 a.m. working on this project. 4 years of paper, and any where I could put the kids things while their room was under construction went into my office. I am proud to say that at least I have started my binders and project envelopes. Thanks Marcia for the idea. Here is the problem. While working on the office, I have misplaced my Organizing e-course files. No kidding. I decided not to stress over it and just finish what I was working on. The big reveal for the finished rooms will be posted near the end of the month.

Guess what I found? Yes, I found my folders! Nothing like stressing out. Thank goodness I decided to work on something else.

Guess where they were? I took them to my reading area. This is week 6 for Organizing e-course so I have scheduled time in to work on that.

This has been a family effort. Just like our business, everyone gets to participate.
Even Sammi has gotten involved! She loves my office chair.

Closets have started to be cleaned out. Way too many clothes, you know how that works, you buy a dress on sale thinking you are going to wear it and never do so it just hangs there. Needless to say, I am working on getting things listed on ebay. Will let everyone know when they are they.

Our ebay store belongs to the kids, so you know they are excited to have more things to post in their store. It teaches them good business skills and how to earn and save money.

This dress is beautiful. I never wore it and I am ashamed to say, the tags are still on it.

Week 2

This is what will be accomplished at the end of week 2. Gosh it is going to be great to get my dining room back.

This has been a fun week. Thanks for the challenge!

Touching lives one minute, one day, one flame at a time.....

Ria

We Finally Made It

Finally, we have managed to get through another goal for this year! That was setting up our blog.



We are adding taper candles to our web site so we will be busy adding our new pictures once testing is completed.



We are starting to choose holiday scents for this year. Our customer's favorite holiday fragrances for 2007 were:


1. Wassail

our own custom fragrance

2. Galveston Sunrise

3. Brandy Carmelized Pear



Christmas will be here before we know it so we are putting together ideas for this years sample gift box.