For You: What The Junk Sheet

Do you know what today is??????????????????? So many question marks!

Today is Galentine's Day! If you are a Parks and Rec fan and, of course, the amazing Leslie Knope then you know all about Galentine's Day!

So, to celebrate this wonderful day of gal pals and awesomeness I created something that I believe a lot of us need!

What The Junk Is My Password sheet is an attempt to keep all of our info. in one place so scatterbrains like me can actually remember our usernames and passwords. Click on the image below, save, and print! Just remember, don't leave this sheet just anywhere!

Happy Galentine's Day!

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Freebie: Your Budget Tracker

If you are like me then your income/budget fluctuates from month to month. That fact alone can make it hard to know what's up for your future. Keeping up with your expenses can also be a drag.

So that's why I designed this budget sheet for the year! It's an outline you can follow that isn't too bad to look at either. 

Fill in the top blanks with the dates and the gray blanks with your $$$$. I even left a good amount of white space at the top for hole punches (if you want to put it in a binder) or doodles/notes.

To download, click the picture below then save to your computer and print!

Enjoy!

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Mini Advice Post: Organization

I'd like to tell you that I have this great post filled with my wonderfully AWESOME organization tips...but that would be a lie. I have tried countless times to have just one set way of keeping my bloggy/DIY/projects ideas in a nice and structured manner. I have color coded, drawn pictures, used sticky notes, and a ton of other things to keep my thoughts less scattered. 

It never works for me. All the Pinterest ideas and bloggers that post about their tips and tricks is just not for me.

And that's okay.

Using multiple notebooks, markers, pens, sticky notes, napkins, etc. is just my style. It works for me and keeps my creativity going. So don't feel pressured to "get more organized" because you might already be THERE just with a few more notebooks and things than other bloggers/writers/artists out there.

So happy blogging/writing/creating! Do what works best for you!

-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Books: Organizing, Reading and Writing!

I have a lot of goals involving books this coming year. You may have seen some of them in our New Year goals post.

Specifically, I want to read more books, continue writing my book and here's a new one: find a way to organize my books.

I currently don't have a bookshelf, but I have TONS of books. I found a creative way to display them around my house in decorative form. Some of them are a little practical, being end tables holding lamps. Seriously, they are everywhere: in the kitchen, in my office, in my room and in my living room. 

I like that I at least have something to do with them other than sit in ugly boxes, but my new house is a tiny, tiny cottage.

I'm going to want to control these a little better. 

Since the house is so small, I'm hoping to just find a simple, small bookshelf at a thrift store—no big fancy plans for this storage, but I do think it's a pretty important goal for the order of our future home. 

Other book goals:

I've been thinking about my "read more books" goal a lot, specifically how non-specific it is. 

I'm not ready to just out and claim a number of books I want to read, but I do know that tangible goals are much easier to obtain. So here's a few ways I want to narrow it down.

1. Read every day. Right now, I start reading a book, plow about half-way to three-quarters of the way through it and then stop for a while. I think subconsciously I just don't want it to end. If I make myself read everyday, maybe I can curb this habit.

2. Read and review books from Story Cartel, this super cool Website I found. It's a place where authors give away copies of their book in exchange for Amazon reviews. I loved everything I read on there last year. You can get free books, too, if you click on that link!

3. Read more classics. This is self-explanatory. I just want to read some of the ones I didn't already read in school. 

Do you have any goals involving books this year?

—Holli Anne

Efficient Desktop Background (Freebie!)

I work almost solely on my computer. ONE computer to be specific. So before I know it, my desktop transforms into my college dorm floor--cluttered & chaotic. I don't know how many times I've told myself that I will not just drag, drop, and forget about the many pictures I find online and I will not just save all of my files to my desktop. 

But then a few days go by and my desktop is crazy cluttered and I become very lazy about organizing it. 

So, today I made myself get my stuff together and design a desktop background that would help keep me a bit more organized. 

I wanted it to be simple because I get distracted pretty easily. I also wanted it to have color but more on the subdued side. For inspiration I pulled up my Pinterest (okay, who am I trying to fool...Pinterest was already up) and the first picture I saw I just fell in love with.

This picture's colors were just what I wanted and meshed well with the handwritten feel I love.

So, I made four color blocks and labeled them as Work, Play, Life, and Random. Because, really, that's what I have going on!

Then I took my crazy desktop and put each file in their respective blocks!

It may not look like a lot but it does help me! If you want to use this background, just click on the picture below and save it to your computer! Then make it your desktop!

Enjoy!

-Chick Tyler (aka Tyler Anne)