Save the date! I’m hosting a twitter chat with Hometalk and 3 other awesome blog girls on Tuesday, May 14th at 3p CST all about pretty organizing ideas. Our twitter chat experts are: My real life friend and Snap conference roomie, Becky from Organizing Made Fun, Anna from Ask Anna, and Heidi from Honey BearLane. These ladies are organizing pros!

Follow C.R.A.F.T. // Hometalk // Organizing Made Fun // Honey Bear Lane // Ask Anna on Twitter

To get our brains prepared for the big chat, I put together a board on Hometalk filled with pretty organizing ideas! See links to all of the ideas on Hometalk:

And here are some of my pretty organizing ideas on C.R.A.F.T.:

• Necklace organizer
• Greeting card book
• Kitchen storage on a door
• Craft storage
• Jewelry organizer

RSVP below for a chance to WIN stencils from Cutting Edge Stencils!
LINK TITLE:  (example: @thecraftblog)
EMAIL: Put your email in the “email” field
URL: Put your Twitter URL in the “URL” field (example: https://twitter.com/thecraftblog)

Oh and one more funny thing:

I was recently showing my mom Hometalk on her iPad. I was showing her my profile, the comments on the post about her coffee table, and the outdoor craft projects board I put together. I was telling her how she would love it and it’s a great place for home project inspiration. And then this happened:

Mom: I’ve used this site before!

Me: You have?!

Mom: Yea, it showed me how to clean the dryer vent.

Me: Are you sure?!

Mom: Yea, the dryer wasn’t working right. I posted a question, and someone suggested I clean the dryer vent. And it fixed the dryer! (Here’s the how to clean a dryer vent post!)

Me: You posted a question, all by yourself….  on Hometalk? Not buyin’ it…

Mom: Well, I googled my question and someone has already asked the question, and Hometalk popped up on google, so I clicked it. I recognize the post and that site.

Let’s get this straight  my mom uses Hometalk to answer questions about her appliance drama, BUT she had no idea you can use it to find projects, DIY ideas, and room makeovers?! How could this be? Good thing I’m here to show her the ways of the intra webs!

So, what the heck is Hometalk? It’s the home and garden knowledge hub where you can…

I signed Mom up for an account at Hometalk and showed her around. Signing up is really easy, just click here, and you can login with facebook, twitter, or just enter your email. See:

Then, follow C.R.A.F.T. and my mom and start asking questions, making boards, posting projects and getting involved with the Hometalk community! Leave me a comment below letting me know you followed me, and I will be sure my mom and I follow you back!

Phew, that was a lot of info, here’s a little bulleted summary:

• Twitter chat about pretty organizing ideas is happening May 14th at 3p CST! #hometalk
• RSVP above to Twitter chat for a chance to win prizes
• Check out tons of pretty organizing ideas here.
• Sign up for Hometalk!
• Follow me and mom.
• Leave me a comment with a link to your Hometalk profile and we’ll follow you back!

Who wants a NeatReciepts for free? Got your attention! Perfect, read on my friend…
We gave away a NeatDesk on C.R.A.F.T. a few months ago (see more here). Jacky (a super awesome South Florida blogger) won it, and you can see her review here! I decided it would be fun to do another giveaway before the holidays! NeatReceipts is a mobile scanner and digital filing system. It makes organizing paper a breeze. Both machines use the same software, but the NeatReceipts is lighter and more portable. Check out how clear a receipt scans. NeatReceipts autofills all the information from the receipt to the program. It’s greatness. (The Dollar Tree receipt is part of my Socks for Sandy shipment!)

Here’s all the handy things you can do with a NeatReceipt:

• Paper become digital in a matter of seconds. It’s fast!
• You can create expense reports!
• You can export all of your paper data to Excel^®, Quicken^®, or TurboTax^®. Makes the tax thing way easier.
• Everything scanned becomes key word searchable. Search “Dollar Tree” and they all pop up!
• The NeatDesk autofills all of info from the receipt to the program so you don’t have to do anything.
• It’s lightweight and super easy to bring anywhere.
• It works perfectly on a Mac or PC
• You can documents, receipts, or business cards!

You can buy a NeatReceipts on Amazon for $149 or you can win one for FREE on C.R.A.F.T. today! Here’s how to enter:

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*I received a free NeatReceipt for this post. As always, all opinions are 100% mine.

We moved from a two-bedroom to a one-bedroom place back in February 2012 (more on that here). The second bedroom now lives in pieces in a nook in the living room, under the bed and a (scary) hallway closet (more on that here). I spend a lot of hours in this little living room nook blogging it up, and it’s about time I spruced up the stacks of papers and post-it accumulation madness. I got rid of the receipt clutter with the help of this nifty contraption (more on that here). I’ve mentioned it before, but just in case you’re new here…I have 2 jobs: I’m a full time blogger and have a part time (mostly work-at-home) job as a social media marketer at EDENS. Thus why the file folders are labeled “C.R.A.F.T.” and “EDENS”

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