The End of the Weekend, but Not the End of Organisation!

So here we are, for the final post of the weekend. I have one last tip for you, and a request for feedback. But first of all, I want to give you a few links to the weekend's highlights. I won't include all the posts, as there have been 34 in total (including this one!) - if you do ever want to re-visit the others, they are all tagged with an 'organisation celebration' label, which can be found in my right sidebar.

For now I want to point out my favourites, in case you missed any of them:

The Giveaways are now CLOSED! Thanks to everyone who entered. The winners will be announced on Thursday 5^th July!

The Giveaways - hurry these all end tomorrow night, Monday 2nd July, at 11.59pm BST:

• The Grand Giveaway to kick off the weekend includes over £40 worth of stash, including Pink Paislee, Crate Paper, and My Mind's Eye supplies
• The Blog Hop Giveaway inlcudes over £25 worth of supplies from Studio Calico and October Afternoon
• There's a Social Media Giveaway to win a Simple Stories 6x8" Mix and Match album
• A Giveaway of My Old Stash which could be your new treasure!
• Links to all the sponsored giveaways can be seen on my last post here
• My tutorial for a Vintage Book Pen Pot includes a giveaway for supplies to make your own

There's two challenges:

• A challenge to enter a challenge, {NOW CLOSED} which closes tomorrow night, Monday 2nd July, at 11.59pm GMT - you could win a Bazzill Basics Paper Avalon Kit
• And a challenge to take inspiration from this weekend {NOW CLOSED!} in some way, which doesn't close until next Sunday, 8th July, at 11.59pm GMT - you could win an American Crafts Knock Outs Border Punch Starter Kit. You can take inspiration from absolutely anything you've seen here this weekend - from scattering gems on a project, to re-organising your stash, to creating a project based on one of the tutorials. What ever you want!

Here's the tutorials, and a sketch:

•  The Vintage Pen Pot tutorial, as mentioned above
• A Sketch to help you use up thin paper or ribbon scraps
• A Tutorial for Hanging Jewellery Storage
• And my personal favourite, A Tutorial for a Mini File Folders Album
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Finally, here's a link to my favourite organisational tip post:

• Know What You Love - this is my favourite because it's a mantra that can be adopted for a whole way of life and I feel like it's becoming a part of me, and making me feel more balanced!

Phew, and that's just the half of them!

Here's one last organisational tip for you. Okay, it's 2 tips really (the second part is further down):

If organisation fails, just do it really really quickly.

If I hadn't have put this to use, some of these posts would not have appeared this weekend! I was as ready as I thought I'd be, as hubby has been out a lot this week, so I had to spend more time sorting out the kids and housework, and less time blogging. But it all worked out in the end. 

I also put this phrase to use last weekend, for mine and my sister's birthday party. I had wanted to make some bunting for a backdrop, to drape behind a photo booth we set up. I hadn't got this done before we left - we were camping at the party venue all weekend. So I took the material and scissors with me, and cut the fringe bunting up on the grass:

And half an hour after I'd started, it was being put to use:

Hee hee!

The second part of the tip is:

Don't get upset if you don't manage to organise something - it will be okay!

I had other plans for things for the party last weekend, and for this event this weekend. I often have grand plans for things to organise around my house. These things don't always work out - but that's okay. You just do what you can and try to stay relaxed, and life will work out fine!

So there we go. That's all for this weekend! I hope you've really enjoyed it - I have, although I'm quite tired now!

I'd really love it if you can give me some feedback in the comments. 

This is the first weekend blog event I've ever run, and I want to know what you think! Constructive criticism will come in handy. For example: 

• Were there too many post to keep up with? 
• Would you like to see more posts on a particular theme, eg. more tutorials or challenges? 
• Is the deadline for entering too short, or is it better that way, because it means you do it now, rather than thinking you'll come back later and missing the deadline anyway?

Or anything else you can think of!

I'm tentatively thinking of hosting another weekend like this towards the end of November, on a 'Winter' theme. It would include a few Christmas related things, like gifts you could make for people, but it would also just be winter themed projects and recipes etc. What do you think? Would you come back? Would you tell other people about it? 

If you like the idea so much that you'd like to be involved in the next one, for example by sponsoring a giveaway, or being part of the blog hop, then contact me at jennifer grace (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk.

Thanks again so much to everyone who's stopped by this weekend, I hope to see you again at Jennifer's Jumbles!

Goodnight! x

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