The Madness Continues

You seriously didn't think that my reorganization would stop at my last post now, did you? Hehe :) If you know me, you know that when I start reorganizing, I keep going & going & going.....just like the Energizer bunny. Last week, I had a 50% off Michael's coupon that was just burning a hole in my purse & I decided to finally break down & buy the Making Memories Embellishment Center. Well, that lead to having to rearrange more things on my walls. I originally planned to just hang it up on the wall where my tilt bins were since I've been thinking about getting rid of them, but then I thought.....no.....not there. Over here ---> So I had to move one of my paint racks along with my stamp pad holder & I put it where that was. The bigger glass jars are from Walmart & the smaller ones are from Ikea.
I then moved my sewing machine to the top of the file cabinet & put my stamp pad holder on top of my stamp holder (both of which I purchased on ebay).
Then when I moved the paint rack down to the other end of the row of paint racks, I decided to turn it into a Stickles rack :) But now I'll be in trouble if they make more colors as it's already filled as I own every color that they currently make, except for the bigger ones.....I only have 4 of those!
Sarah asked me what brand of 3-ring albums I'm using. I wanted to keep them mostly black, so I'm going with 8 of the Making Memories 5th Avenue 12X12 3-ring albums (they match my altered items in my room so good!) & I also just ordered 7 more American Crafts albums from Ritz Camera. Yeah, I know that Hobby Lobby has them on sale this week & I was going to take a drive up there to get some, but after I figured out the costs of buying them at Hobby Lobby versus buying them through Ritz Camera's website, it worked out to be almost exactly the same with the cost of gas being as outrageous as it is right now! Plus they're offering free shipping with a $100 order right now & the albums are on sale on the website (not as low as Hobby Lobby's sale, though).

Here are the tags that I made to go on my albums:
Here's how I have them displayed (so far) on my Expedit:
Close-up of a few of the albums:

Even closer :) :

I used Stacy Julian's idea of using binder clips, ribbons & metal rimmed tags (although I covered my tags all the way so you can't see much of the metal part).

Tonight, Jim & I finally did it.....we joined a gym! It's something we've been talking about doing for months & well, the gym down the road from us had a special running this past weekend, so we decided to just do it! We went in tonight to get our membership cards & we'll be starting to work out tomorrow. I'm so excited! Yep, you read that right.....I'm excited about working out! :)

As we were leaving the gym, we came out to find a flat tire on my car :( Jim started to change it, but come to find out, the lug wrench that came with the car doesn't fit my lug nuts! How crazy is that?!? So I called AAA (thank goodness for having them!) & the lady that I talked to told me that I was the 3rd person that she had today that said that their lug wrench didn't fit! What the heck??? We only had to wait about half an hour for the guy to show up to change our tire, but it ruined part of our other plans for the night. However, I did manage to make it to Michaels (since I needed some ribbons for my tags) & also picked up these really cool stamps (as shown above).

Now tomorrow, I have to drive up to the dealership to have them 'investigate' the tire to see if they will replace it or just fix it. We found a screw in the tire (I have no clue where I picked that up at!), but just from driving on the tire a little bit, it started to ruin the sidewall, so I'm hoping that they will just replace it. Thank goodness I bought the tire protection plan when I bought the car!

Anyway, that about wraps up most of my week. I'm going to have Jim take some before pictures of me before I start working out & get back to working on my weight-loss album that I put off doing. Wish me luck!

Have a great weekend!

Benita