Things I want to do & LEARN!

So, again, I'm bored here at work and I get to thinking about new things I want to do & LEARN!
So, in "Jenni-fashion" I am going to make a list! YES, can you believe it?
I'm going to make A LIST!!!

1. Learn how to sew again! Not just the proper way how to sew a button back on, but many more things than that.
2. I have some of the "tools" to learn how to decorate cakes! Now, I just need to learn how to use them...... and I would love to watch and learn from someone that knows what they are doing!
3. I want to go to Starved Rock and go hiking.
4. I want to type all my recipes into a word doc. Not just to have them on file, but for the possibility of making something fun with them! *(I had started that before I was married, but haven't kept up with it)*
5. I want to make a cookbook with Ashley again! (YOU UP FOR IT GIRL?) I had so much fun photographing all the food plus designing it. I think it's time for the 2nd Edition! =)
   
6. I want to get better at staying in contact people. I want to get used to talking on the phone and just catching up with people that I haven't talked to in awhile. Because I know that talking on the phone just is not something that I would call a strength of mine.
   
7. I found this ORGANIZER BINDER idea on the Executive Homemaker website of different ideas of how to keep your weekly tasks and future things that you want to do organized into one binder. This really appeals to me! (surprise, surprise!) I want to make one of my own!
8. I would love to take a Interior Decorating Class, a one night deal. Just to know the basics and learn some new things about Home Decor!

I'm sure I could think of more, but i think that's good for now!

Hope everyone is having a great day!

I need my creative side back!

So today at work I was really bored *(surprise, surprise)*. So I was looking at some blogs and decided to switch up our site with a little more fun and more creative page. I DID NOT make it my self.... I actually found it from Simply Fabulous Blogger Templates!

But looking at a bunch of different blogs, I realized that I STINK at what they call "blogging" (or just talking about stuff in hopes that other people will see it and like what you have written!)

But here are some things I learned:

1. I really wish I had the knack for just writing my thoughts about life, about womenly stuff like: saving money, crafts, home decorating, organizing, etc. But for some reason... all i seem to come up with is only stuff that is going on in our lives (yes, i know our site is THE HOEKSTRAS.... but i would love to expand things I write about)...... i just can't come up with stuff to write about is just not easy for me.

2. To find the time... (ok, I know I have plenty of time when i'm at work to do it!) but to do it when I'm at home isn't something that I think of.

3. I absolutely love to see what other people write about... maybe I should just leave it up to them and check out what they are doing, instead of trying to do it myself!

4. I don't know the etiquette of blogging...

5. So many people have so many wonderful ideas.... i'm jealous... i wish they were mine! haha.

6. I need to get in touch with my girlie creative side again! I love that side of me.... but I feel I haven't shown it's true self for a long time! And I need to get that passion for DESIGNing back. I do it every day at work, designs that we can't really have too much fun with, that I think I just shut down with the creative part of designing.... I want that back!

7. I'm not very efficient at using BLOGSPOT..... the whole photo thing really annoys me...

8. I need to get my professional "candid" photography back into the swing of things. I LOVE photography and I just don't seem to take as any photographs as I used to other than when i'm shooting clients for weddings/family photos!

9. Maybe if I start paying attention to the little things in my life, by photographing and/or blogging about them, maybe i will appreciate the little things more than I do now!? Mmm... something to think about....

So, I'm going to try to get my creative juices flowing and start blogging more and coming up with some fun ideas or just share more of any ideas I have with anyone that might read my blog.... (sorry nicholas.... if you're the only one that really reads this.... i think i'm going to loose my audience... so maybe all this rambling will be just for myself! haha).

I guess I will start with these two items that I got an email about from UPPERCASE LIVING! How cool are these? I will say though, that I did see something like this at Target the other day too..... but this is kinda the same thing.... easy to peel on and off.... but the one difference there is with target's and this one is that Uppercase Living's comes with 3 different saying each, so if you don't want it to say "MENU" you can change it to say "TO DO" or "NOTES". I think this is just so cleaver! They can go in the: office, kitchen, walls, cupboards, doors, refrigerators, pantries, windows
I can think of a perfect place for the MENU one.... but turned into a TO DO LIST! (you know how I love TO DO LISTS! ooooo... maybe I can blog about how much I love to do lists and how obsessive I am about them!! haha.....) But i would love to put this in the office above my computer. But is that the best spot for it? Mmmmm......