I've Been Featured on Woman's Day Magazine!!!

It's here!!! It's here, it's Finally here!!

 

Friends, and Family, the February Issue of Woman's Day has finally been published!! This is sooo exciting, the whole experience was surreal, and magnificent. I will blog more about the whole behind the scenes, and experience later this week. I am so grateful to Woman's Day team for making one of my biggest dreams a reality. But I will elebarote more about that later this week. Mean while, I hope all you new readers, and visitors come and are here to stay. Look for my little man Nolan and I in pages 50 and 54.
 

 

 

 

 

We took like a million pictures of me with this gorgeous magazine. I feel so honored that my girl Paula is the opening act of the best magazine ever!!

 

 

My super giddy face!

 

 

 

Stay tuned friends and come back, I will be hosting my very first Giveaway, what a great way to start the New Year, than with a first time Giveaway!!

xoxo

 

 

 

 

 

Organization on the Go! + Inside My Purse

Graduations are filled with so much happiness, and glory. This event was created to make people feel proud, grateful, and honored for their everlasting success and achievements. I graduated from jetBlue University yesterday, it feels so good. I am so happy to be "blue". With that being said, I think it's time to get back to our regular schedule, projects, and blogging. It has been so crazy, and busy for our family. I am so glad to finally be back spending more time with my family.

 

A quick shout out to all of my new Followers!!! I love and appreciate every single one of you. Thank you for following!

Today, I would like to share inside my bag! It's just one of those posts that are short, but cute. In fact, I have seen many bloggers show off their bags, I enjoy taking a peek at my favoriter people's lives, it's so fun to see a little bit of how they live, and what they like. So, for those of you who want a little peek inside my personal life, haha here is my bag.

 

 

 B&BW Sanitizer is a must, I use it everywhere I go.

My super cute pen from poppin.

Clear plumper for everyday use.

My cool wallet (a gift from the bestie)

My car keys, of course!

And cannot forget the phono!

 

 

Wonder what that little blue divider is doing in my purse?

Let me show you a quick and easy system I use to organize my purse on the go.

I got this super cute divider at the $1 section at Target.

 It's the perfect travel size!

 

 

 I used to always go crazy looking for receipts, not knowing where I placed them, what if I threw them away? My purse became a portable trash bag, having to clean it out once a month, and sometimes never, and the mess caused so much stress. To avoid the wasted time, and energy, I came up with my portable time saver on the go.

 

 

 

 

 

The way I organize all of my receipts is, I like to classify all of my receipts by how I am going to use them. For example, I have a compartment for all of my returns, so I don't have to go crazy looking around the house for those receipts I need to return things. Then purchases, this way I can do the math after shopping, to see how much money I have spent. And reimbursements, sometimes I am able to buy things for people, landlords, friends, or work related, and I can seperate those receipts so I can use them for reimbursements.

 

 

Well now you know a little bit about My Life on the Go!

 

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a super Awesome Weekend!

 

xoxo

 

  

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Linen Closet Love + Show me your Closets!

Well Hello There, it's Wednesday, thanks for coming back today. As I mentioned on my last post, plus the sneak peek at New Beginnings, this year I will be focusing on organizing, plus other fun stuff. Over the past week, I had the opportunity to work on my tiny linen closet, which I am super excited to finally show you, and I can finally breath. Remember we moved last month, in December, it was a hard move, us being all sick, with the cold weather, luckily it was only upstairs, as many of you know, I used to live in a basement of a house, than the upstairs neighbors moved and we got to move upstairs, we love it!! Unfortunately, I started training on my new job a week after we moved in, therefore, I had no time to clean, organize, and decorate, luckily my training is coming at an end, and this mean new beginnings, for more organizing and decorating. This is my favorite part of the New Year, all the holidays are over, and we get to go back to our daily routines, and clean, organize, make things looks pretty, this is my favorite part. 

Since I didn't get a chance to organize my house right after the move, I did however managed to work on my little linen closet, the which I am super stoked about, because in our basement we didn't have any extra closets, such as linen or coat closets. We have both now!! Yay!! Nothing makes me happier than storage space. So, without much further a do, here is my little linen closet. (I apologize about the bad quality pics)

 

 

 My Favorite Color (Aqua) Essentials

 

 

 

 

 Some from TJ Maxx, others from $1 store! Yipee!

 

 

 

 

There you have it! My Linen Closet Love! Show me your Linen Closets, I want more Eye Candy, there's nothing more inspirational than seeing lots of ideas and pictures of fun organization. Please post your pictures or links, I want to see. I also want to feature my reader's closets, don't hesitate to e-mail me.

 

xoxo

 

 

Sneak Peek at New Beginnings

Well Happy New Year! Sorry I haven't updated forever! This training has kept me super busy and exhausted, so glad this coming week is the last week, and I will be graduating! Yay! I am so proud of myself, honestly, it has been a tough training, we have to test three times, and we must pass all three times in order to keep the job, well, so far I have passed 2 of 3 tests, our last test is this Wednesday, wish me luck! I am super excited.

 Well, just a quick little update for the new year, we finally got the time to pick out our curtains, they're so cute, and we got them on sale! Here's a sneak peak, don't worry we still have many projects pending that I am still working on, and some that just need photographing, I can't wait to show off! Thanks for being patient with me.

 

 

I am super excited for this New Year. This is actually one of my favorite times of the Year, getting ready for new begginings, and not to mention, spring cleaning and organization. I love it! This year there will be lots of room for progress, and organization projects that I will be posting, along with lots of tips and ideas on how to minimize clutter, and mess in your own home. Stay tuned.

 

xoxo

 

 

The Most Delicious of 2012

Another year over, and a new one will begin shortly! Can you believe it? It's been such a great year for us, full of surpirses, and blessings. We are so grateful, for everything that has come our way, and I am especially grateful for my amazing 32 new followers I gained this year.

It was late March of this year 2012, that I posted my first post, blogging came natural to me, I enjoy it so much, and I love sharing things with people I don't even know, inspiration is what first lead me to the blogging world. I had previously visited many blogs out there, which are amazing! Those women inspired me to share my love and passion for design, organization, and friendshiping. I am so grateful for this past year, 2012 has been so good to me.

How about a recap on the best of 2012?

 



DIY: Magnet Board for $4

 



Beautifu Your Drawers for $1



DIY: TrayLicious


 

 We were featured on

 

 



Nolan's Yummy Closet


 

DIY: Faux Nail Head Trimmed Cork Board

 

A Very Whimsical 1st. Birthday Party Ideas

 

Tool Time Organization

 

And who can forget the Legendary Armoire Desk Makeover? Why Legendary? you ask? I have amazing news, my Armoire will be featured in the February Issue of Woman's Day Magazine, don't miss this issue, it's a must see! I can't wait for the publication to come out! How exciting! Mean while, here's a quick Before and After

DIY: Armoire Desk

 

Craft Room Makeover

 

Nightstand Makeover

Inside My Drawers

 

Nolan's Room Reveal

 

 

And of Course! Making  A Delicious Christmas Episodes

 

 

Phew! It has been such a great year, thank you so much for sharing it with me. I hope you all have a wonderful New Year, come back, this coming year will be filled with so many fun, and fresh ideas. Don't miss February's Issue of Woman's Day Magazine, we are being featured :)

 

Happy New Year!

 

xoxo

 



{Making Christmas} Part 6: Last Minute Homemade Gift

Well, it's that time of year, when we look out the window and see beautiful white streets, and white  roof tops, white trees, and snowflakes galore. I love it when Christmas Eve is filled with so much Christmas cheer and people's homes full of cars, the Christmas trees with presents under the tree, and most of all, all of the nativities in people's homes, and in Temple Square (if you live in Utah you know what I mean). Christmas is a time to reflect, upon the last year, and how time manages to fly past us without us noticing. Our children grow so fast, and we don't even realize it until someone else points it out, my he sure has grown! A time to forgive, and realize our Maker who is greater than us all, forgives men, so who are we to not forgive also.

This Christmas I hope you are all blessed with the Spirit of Christmas, and remember the true meaning of this special day. Our dear Savior was born, and the sheperds ran to tell the people, while the crippled lamb layed next to the baby to keep him warm. The three wise men came to see their King, Oh what a marvelous night that might have been, if only I had been there to witness it. What a humble place he was born in, it really makes me feel very blessed to know our Heavenly Father loves us so much, that he sent his only begotten son, to die for us, but first, to be born and live among us, to teach us, and love us. I am so grateful this Christmas for that wonderful baby, Mary carried in her womb. I hope we all remember that Christmas is not about the Presents, but his Presence.

This brings me to my last minute gifts, just finished making some yummy home made Banana Bread, for the recipe <click here> I love making things and giving them to friends, neighbors, and of course, family!

I love the smell of Banana Bread in the morning.

 

And presents under the Tree...

 

 

I look out the window and what do I see? Popcorn popping on the apple tree...

 

 

 

I love Christmas Cards!

 

 

Wow, it has been such a crazy busy week, but somehow I managed to get lots done.

 

 

I wish you all very Merry Christmas, I am greateful for you all, my followers, thank you for your support, and for your visits, thank you for insipiring me to keep blogging.

 

xoxo

The Hanson's

 

 

 

{Making Christmas} Part 5: The Mantel

 

 

My goodness, has it been a super busy week? or what? I love my new job, everyday it gets easier, and more enjoyable. I love learning new things, and serving others.

 

Well, I finally got to photographing our Christmas Mantel this year, it's very simple, but very colorful, I really do love it. I picked up some local shrubs from my backyard, ther's nothing more rewarding than using your own natural resources. The colors match our tree this year, I love this color combo so much. I think I might use it a little too much. That's alright, it never goes out of style.

 

Oh and I also found a tree topper, just a simple blue bow will do!

 

 

 

For my Mantel, I decided to make it fun, sweet, and delicious! As you may have remembered my Delicious Wreath DIY project, I also went ahead and used left over candy from the wreath, and picked up some sweet candy canes. Along with white and blue ornaments I had. Love it!!!

 

I haven't put up our stockings yet, 2 reasons, first my toddler will pull them and possibly break things. And two, I didn't get a chance to make our stockings this year, so the ones from last year will have to do, they're not bad, but not the colors I was hoping for.

Mint Candy

 

Candy Canes

 

Making Christmas is oh so fun! I love this time of the year so much, and today out of all days, it is one of the loveliest and sunniest days I have seen so far this winter. Yay!! Stay tuned, for tomorrow I will blog about my last minute homemade gifts, and gift wrapping ideas! TaTa for now!

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xoxo