Andrea's Bits and Scraps and Little Ironies: Black bag plan is working!

Friday, March 30, 2007

Black bag plan is working!

2:22 PM |

If you have been reading my blog, you know that I have been trying to get my kids to pick up after themselves and it is working! Our house is spotless! All because they don't wan't to lose their stuff to my black bag! Here is a freebie:

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Here is what I did with it...these are my dogs making a mess of my sliding glass, hoping to get in the house after a digging party in the yard! Not happening...

All of this stuff is from my Stars Forever kit that was a freebie on my blog for a while.

Here is a layout using my template #40 that was sent to me by Colleen:

Credits: Leah Riordan’s “Funky Floral”, LaWanna Desjardin for the turquoise paper in the circles and tag, Miss Mint’s “Craft Jar” for the flowers, Pillowgirl for the butterfly.

21 comments:

CathyK Designs said...: Thank you for another great template! I love seeing the layouts you do with them also!; 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you...cute doggies!; 3:02 PM
Gail said...: Glad your black bag idea is working - LOL! Great photo of your doggies - they made short work of the glass. And thank you for another fabulous template!; 3:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Glad the bag is working! Love the dog layout! Thankyou for today's template - you do spoil us : D; 3:48 PM
Anonymous said...: LOL on the black bag working! I used to take them and put them up on a shelf and they had an 'expiration date' which meant they could not have them back until then. It was frustrating to them for just a short while as they learned very quickly that if they wanted to play with something and not just look at it, they had better put it up when they were done with it! Thanks for another great template.
Kathy M; 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you so much for the cute template. I love the LO you did with it! And I am so glad to hear the black bag is working!!! Have a great weekend! BettyJoR; 4:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you for the wonderful template.; 4:26 PM
Shell said...: Thanks for the template. So glad your bag works. Love the LO with the doggies.; 4:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks Andrea! Always love your templates! I'm hoping to find time tomorrow to participate in the challenge. Been wanting to, just no time. And hmmmmm, I may just have to get a black bag of my own! Glad it's working for you!!; 4:58 PM
Erin (moviemuse) said...: I love the substitution of the stars for the flowers. Great page! Thanks for another awesome template!; 7:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you. Your layouts are great. :); 1:22 AM
grambie said...: Another fantastic template to scrap with all the lovely stars & curves. The dogs are just another set of children in any household. Glad of the success with your children in keeping their things organized. My great-grand is 13 mths, & I have his box. He has to put everything away before he leaves & he does. So start when they're young & later on you won't have multiple problems. I am so proud of your little darlings helping mommie keep things in order. Again, thanks for the wonderful template & the so cute preview layout. See you tomorrow.; 3:53 AM
grambie said...: So nice to see lovely scraps showing how wonderful your templates are as they showcase your lovely designs. Love the pattern mixture along with all the crazy elements that compose a fun & happy lo to share. Can't stop smiling over the crazy-wild sunglasses in their photo.; 3:57 AM
Anonymous said...: Hi Andrea!

Your Template is so wonderful. I Love it. I can´t wait to use it with my best Photos.

Thank you for sharing.
Have a nice day!

Andrea from Germany; 4:48 AM
nnylfs said...: love it! thank you so much for sharing you beautiful templates!; 10:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Keep it up, Andrea. My parents had a spin on the black bag - in order to 'redeem' something, we kids had to find something left out by out parents. I think they actually 'left' things out on purpose sometimes, but as kids we didn't know that.; 11:30 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm lovely yours LOL!!
Thanks for our; 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...: Nice template. thanks for sharing it.; 12:17 PM
Nicole said...: Love your templates. Thanks for sharing them with us.; 1:49 PM
Joanna said...: Thanks a lot for the pretty template.; 2:16 PM
Dizzy Designs said...: Thanks for sharing your wonderful templates. I wish I had found your site sooner. There's many I see that I missed I would have loved to have. I'll be around!
Dizzy; 5:33 PM

My Little Ironies

I just had to tell my daughter that there was little probability that she could do eighty chores in two hours and 10 minutes to earn a giant lot of pet shops on Ebay that she wants to earn before the auction closes. That's at two chores per dollar. :)
We are helping my father sell an old vehicle and what do we find in the glove box...an unused 12 guage shotgun shell...that's my Dad!!
How does a three year old end up at church with no underwear on, especially when you dressed him and you know he had underwear on at one point during the morning?
The root of all toilet clogging evil is apparently a ball point pen and it's nearly impossible to dislodge one of those from the inside of a toilet.
You know you have to do some serious laundry when you actually consider wearing your 11 year old daughter's Hannah Montana shirt.
My 6 year old daughter got a comb stuck in her hair and we had to cut the comb into little bits to get it out of her hair.
My kids keep breaking the toilet seats! I guess I need a bulk package of those too!
Chocolate chips are not a food group.
My toilet seat says "Hailee" on it!
If there's work to be done, all of the kids need to use the bathroom or get a drink.
All two-year-olds think the baby swing is for them!
When you have 6 kids, carpet is your enemy!
You know you have a large family when your grocery receipt is 4 feet long.
The toilet is clogged and my husband found a plastic easter egg in the pipe.
My daughter just asked me if she can put chocolate sprinkles on here melted cheese sandwich (really???)
I burned up another hard drive on my PC! Can I buy a bulk package of those too?
Well actually, my sand pile is full of socks and silverware!
My sand pile is full of socks!
The key to my treadmill is missing again...can I just purchase a bulk package of them???
I fixed my daughter's glasses with JB Weld!
I have a pile of sand on my leather couch.
My daughter lost her glasses in the snow on the way home from school in January. Someone found them in March and turned them into the school office! Amazingly enough, the school remembered we lost them in January. Wow!
Just when I think he knows better, my 10 year old son plugs the bathroom sink and the emergency drain in the sink basin to soak his grow creature, turns on the water, and forgets about it until we notice water flooding out from under the bathroom door! And yes, he locked the door so no one would bother the grow creature!!
It's time for another worn out pair of the hubby's pants to disappear! Aren't kids suppose to be the only ones who are attached to clothing?
My 4 year old says she needs "peace and quite"!!!!!
My Husband says there's a perfectly good reason for the leatherman being in my dish drainer.
I have a leatherman (fancy pocket knife) in my dish drainer. I don't know why.
My kids are storing a tumble weed in my garage for the winter!
My 10 year old son informed me that people have only discovered about half of the world's caves (thank you BBC and planet earth!)
My baby's car seat is full of finely crushed graham crackers (?? Little babies don't eat graham crackers)!
My husband's shoes are filled with Mr. Potato Head parts!
My two year old thinks the new baby swing is for him! He can even climb in by himself and work all the controls. Boy, does he have a rude awakening coming!!
I have a giant mud hole in my back yard.
My vacuum is fully of plastic easter grass.
My kids are too full to finish their dinner, but they have plenty of room left for cake!
I have a giant laundry basket full of socks, and we can't find a single match!
Miscellaneous items found while cleaning out my kids' toy box include a flashlight, rocks (no suprise), a sea shell (we don't live by the sea), a drill bit, a stapler, and some tree bark!
My daughter's medical bills added up to about $18,000, but we got a free sippy cup and a ball signed by the Utah JAZZ Dancers!
I put safety locks on the tops of my outside doors to keep my three year old from escaping and she figured out how to open them with a broom in approximately five minutes.
I bought the EXPENSIVE vacuum this time only to find that my 3-year-old took it apart with a screwdriver!
I haven't showered for 3 days, but my house is clean!
I have 38 winter gloves of various sizes in my coat closet and none of them match.
We're out of peanut butter because my husband used the rest to catch a mouse in our garage!
Yes, my son won 1st place in the science fair at school, but he didn't turn in half of his assignments this term?
No matter how many toys my toddler got for Christmas, I still find him in the middle of my kitchen floor sitting in my crock pot!

Black bag plan is working!

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