This is my control center. I have been wanting to make one for ages and NSD gave me the perfect excuse to spend the day (or two) scrapping.

Like I needed an excuse.

I used my Bind it All, a clipboard, lots of baby pink o'wires, ribbon, some pink string and little crystal heart beads.

Here it is hanging on my kitchen door. Where no one can miss it.

Here is what I have included.

A calender and clip board. I make the calender at the end of the previous month. On it there are all the birthdays for the month. Plus the munchkins weekly activities and anything that I might be doing. There are also our important phone numbers and a quote for each month.

I can place the bills due for the month behind that month and then file them when they are paid.

A shopping or to do list. That's the one I made the clip for yesterday. Then underneath there is a place for me to clip our weekly memory verse. The verse is laminated and will have a hole punched through it so it can be put on a o-ring at the end of the week (or when we have memorised it).

Then I may just hang them off the key ring holder.

Wooppeee! A place to hang my pretty key rings that my munchkins like to buy me.  Not being allowed to drive here I don't have anything but a house key – and that is not often used. So they usually sit in a drawer.

Over on the left is a responsibilities or chores chart. Each child has a weekly task to take care of. I will list them each week.

No excuse for forgetting.

Below that is a post it note station. A place to take phone messages – and leave them. Makes it easy to check and also not get lost or forgotten.

The beautiful kit that I have used through out this whole project is Cherry Delight by The Digi Chick's. Gorgeous! You can get it in the DST magazine till the 5th of May or in the shop over at The Digi Chick after that.

I took a bunch of photo's so I'll be back in a couple of days with a full tutorial of how I made my control center.

As soon as I get all the photo's edited I will put some more up here.

I don't need an excuse to cook but if there is a really good reason I love to break out the pans and cook up a storm. DD, whose birthday is right before Christmas, is having a 'Tea Party" to celebrate with a few friends….a little early. What better excuse than to get into the kitchen and 'practice' the pretty cupcakes, and other tea menu items she has requested.

After all I need to make sure they work and we can get the ingredients.

Right? 

So today we made Italian Meringue Buttercream and Powder Puffs. I say we, as my youngest daughter, who loves to bake with Mummy, helped me out.

It was our first attempt at the IMB and it worked perfectly. This stuff should be called 'death by buttercream'. It is so light, fluffy and – well you could just eat it out of the bowl. Who needs cake? I will be back with more on that tomorrow.

Then later today we made the Powder Puffs. Delicious soft little morsels of air filled with fresh whipped cream. These are something I have made in the past but not for many years. As a low carb eater I tend to avoid anything remotely like what we made today….but it is for a good cause. The children don't ever remember having them before.

So here for your drooling pleasure I present to you Powder Puffs.

Needless to say they did not last very long. Wonderful with a hot cup of tea.

Here too for you to drool over is a layout sharing one of our Christmas Traditions.

Baking!

It is made with a wonderful new kit by LaWanna Desjardin of Desjardin Digital Designs.

Now – wouldn't you like to come visit with me? We could have some tea and cake, perhaps scrap a little?

Scrap N Snack. Now there is the perfect combination of hybrid! 

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