I Love to Smash!!!

I Love to Smash!!!!

I am so addicted to K & Company's Smash books.  At first I wasn't so sure it was going to be a product that I really utilized, but I had to see what they were all about.  So I bought my first one-the red one...and I was hooked!!!

 I had a HUGE folder full of items I just didn't know what quite to do with...maybe scrap them, but there were so many.  I knew for sure though I didn't want to get rid of them.  So I opened up my red Smash book and started putting stuff in.  By the time I was done, I couldn't get the book closed any more!!!

I had to go buy a band for it, so everything would stay in!!!

 Then I HAD to have more!!!  I went out and got a black one & an orange.  They all have different themes for different colors!!!

I used the orange one to make a book about me. Things I like, things I don't, homeschooling, foster care, being a mom, all the stuff that was just me.  I haven't quite finished it yet.  I wait til something in my life triggers a new page, but it is so much fun.  I have pics of my friends growing up in there, wedding pics, silly pics, funny things that happened that I don't want to forget.  

 For the black one I made it into a book of inspiration.  I had stacks of craft magazines that I didn't want to get rid of because they had ideas in them I wanted to try, or new products I wanted to check out. 

So, I went thru them all and cut out the ideas I wanted and Smashed them into one cute book!!!  I am a very organized Smasher.  Some people like to layer the things on each other which is perfectly fun & normal.  I find myself putting them in an organized fashion.  I guess that is just my OCD kicking in!!!  LOL  I also put in pics of some of my favorite layouts I did.  Like the one above that I made of a poem my son did.

This is one of Halloween ideas!

 Goals that I want to accomplish for 2012-I think I am behind on getting this list done!!!

 Some name tags from a Foster Care night out we did where we volunteered.

A card and a note from a friend.

 This is the inside of one of the new larger Smash books.  I can't wait to dive in and get Smashing in it!!!

Plus they sell all kinds of neat things to go inside.  Markers with glue sticks in the tops, bands to keep them all together, divider tabs, tape to decorate, little note pads with questions in them to add interesting facts to your Smash books.  They also sell stickers, pockets, tabs, paper clips.  So much awesome fun!!!

I love these books!!  I also love to give them away to my friends as gifts.  It is a quick, fun way to get all of the file folders organized and kept safe and displayed in a fun way!!!