the midnight scrapper

so what's in your purse...

Found this challenge on Stacy Julian's Blog and thought I would play along...

From the left:

1. My Orla Kiely purse - a special purchase I made when shopping in NYC during my great USA adventure in 2008 (it was my Carrie Bradshaw moment LOL). You will also note the Orla Kiely bag in the background. My dear sister gave me this for Christmas and I was so overwhelmed with her generosity (Orla Kiely is just a little pricey!)

2. The little black purse with the "J" holds my lipstick, lip balm and chap stick (next to it). I know this little chapstick collection is very Napoleon Dynamite of me, but I hate dry lips.

3. Dettol hand sanitizer for those times when my hands feel gross or I can't find a tap. I'm no germ-a-phobe, but sometimes the "ick" factor is too much.

4. Panadol...I hate having a headache and I very rarely do, but I need to know that I can stop one if I need to!

5. A retractable tape measure - you just never know when you have to measure something LOL

6. A chain that holds trolley "coins" for Aldi & Coles supermarkets. This way I can still get a trolley even if I don't have a dollar or two dollar coin on me (my life is one big exciting party isn't it!!!!)

7. The Strawberry...magically turns into a carry bag so I can say no to a plastic one.

8. Mints

9. Work keys - loose these at my peril

10. Phone - basic no frills (I am barely phone literate and I don't text, and I think I just heard a very loud gasp from blog land!!!)

11. Tissues - I will always have a tissue in my bag. Always.

12. My Montblanc pen - of course I own a Montblanc pen that I throw in my purse without a care in the world. Coughmaybeitcamefromhongkongcough. 

13. Chewing gum - the only one I will buy for that fresh breath confidence :)

14. A change bag with $2.00 coins in it - our town has just introduced parking meters (grrrrrrrrrr) all around town so now I have to always make sure I have a $2.00 coin ready for when I park. This does not make me happy one little bit.

Now that was pretty exciting wasn't it? I may change bags but these items are always along for the ride.

it's time to get back into the real [blogging] world...

Yes I know, where have I been? Well you know how these things go; super busy at Christmas then crash and burn in January! When I say I did nothing for the first week of my holidays, I'm not lying (just ask Gary, he will verify that fact).

And then the realisation that I had to go back to work in another week snapped me out of my fog and I became an organisational / cleaning / purging madwoman.

Let me demonstrate...

If you have boys then you will know that anything to do with clothes (buying, washing, hanging up on a coat hanger) has no business in their lives and as their mama, I get  get to that point (yes, the tipping point) when I just can't live with looking in their wardrobe another minute. And that's when we have to have a clean up (can you hear them screaming and moaning??) So this is how it went down, and just so we are all on the same page here - only I feel good about the results. Ha!

During (too much moaning to get a before LOL):

 

Yes, I made them try on every single item they own - if it fits it stays, if not it's out of here!

After:

 
 

Can you hear the angels weeping with joy? OK, maybe it's me! Now how long it will last, well that's anyones guess. My money is on sooner rather than later LOL

Other reasons for my absence include going back to work, trying and often failing to make the transition from PC to mac - it's the same and yet it's different, making even simple tasks frustrating, and the fact that I have been in a scrapping frenzy preparing for a little project that I have coming up real soon over at Write Click Scrapbook.

So yes, officially, I'm back :)