What about Bob you ask?  Let me tell you.  Bob’s Your Uncle (a brand) makes a Multi Task Journal that is a great way to keep your life in one place.  OK maybe not your life but a lot of information you need in one place.

It is a spiral bound notebook that is 8″ x 11″.  There are five different sections of this great notebook, that are color coded to easily find what you are looking for.  The colors surround each page like a border, which makes it really chic looking.

The first section[orange] is a to-do/checklist.  The second section [red] is a quick calendar that has one week per page.  It has enough room to fit 2-3 appointments per day.  The third [fuschia]has 12 pages for keeping track of yearly events like birthdays and anniversaries.  The fourth section [green] is graph paper.  The fifth section [brown] is sketch paper which is basically a blank sheet.

I decided when the Multi Task Journal arrived that I would use it to keep my to-do list in the first section.  Each page can hold one month’s worth of to-dos which is really nice.  The rest of the book quickly became my blog notebook.  I use the calendar to keep track a week in advance of what I intend to post.  It is wonderful to be able to plan ahead for my writing.  I used the graph paper to actually do a bubble chart for a recent trip to New York.  I had so much going on I needed to get it all out of my head.  I hadn’t done a bubble chart since grade school, but you know what it was awesome.  The sketch pad I actually use to write a list of writing ideas I come up with.  It’s nice when I have an idea to pull the Multi Task Journal out and just write it down.

In the end I’m really enjoying the Multi Task Journal and feel like it would really help someone who really need everything in one place.  Now you can get this wonderful item in Fashionably Organized Finds.

Baer Home Design is doing a week of getting organized posts.  Oh how I love this.  Tackling that Pile of Paperwork, Bills and Just Plain Stuff written by Lisa could not have come a better time for me.  If you look at yesterday’s post about the room I need to organize the most you’ll understand why I love this post.  These tips have gotten me thinking about actually tackling something I’ve ignored for WAY too long.  I hope you get some great tips from it too.

What kid wants a regular old binder pouch for their pens and pencils when the could have Binder Pouch like the one in Sew, Mama Sew?  Anna from Noodlehead did a tutorial for Sew Mama Sew that is easy to follow and gets your child ready to organized all of those little items needed for everyday at school in a unique and chic way.

Fresh Crush has a DIY Purse Organizer! that is after my own heart.  I am forever looking for new ways to organize my purse, and quite frankly this tutorial is absolutely genius.  I am not only impressed by this design, but I’m now adding it to my never ending list of things to make that I don’t have time to get to.  I’m really excited about this one you should definitely check it out.

“I lost a tooth.  I lost somewhere.  I left it in my poket.  It disappererd.  I tried finding.”

J lost another tooth on Wed and I told him over and over again, not to take it out of his pocket.  Because my son is a kid who listens really well to what I say he played with it and lost it in my car.  He knew that he could write the tooth fairy a note as his first tooth was one he swallowed and he had written her a note before.

He wanted private time to write his note.  I decided not to read it until after he went to bed and I the tooth fairy could read it then.  I just couldn’t believe what I found.  I showed it to R and we just shook our heads marveling.

On a side note: J lost another tooth today (Thursday) and swallowed it.  He forgot to write a note, but we the tooth fairy decided to leave him something anyway**

Do you remember when you really believed in the tooth fairy?

**This morning J woke up crying.  He said he left a note for the tooth fairy and she didn’t take it, or leave him money.  I The tooth fairy didn’t see the note at all.  I The tooth fairy must feel so bad.  I The tooth fairy did leave him money though, and he eventually found it.  I promised him that the tooth fairy would come to get the note tonight.  Can you guess what the new note said?…….

“I lost it”  If he only knew how many notes like that I’d like to leave daily, but not in reference to my teeth.

For the next month I will be joining SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce) in 31 Days To Build a Better Blog (#31DBBB) in conjunction with ProBlogger Each day is a new task to post to help me focus and make this a better blog. I love the idea of improving all of the time, so this task is right up my alley.

Day 5: E-mail a Blog Reader

Question 1: How do you reply to comments on your blog?  Do you utilize your comments section, send personal emails, or use another method?

I love my comment section.  I respond to almost all of my comments on my blog and go to the blog of the person commenting to thank them for coming to my site, while also commenting on their site.  I have never e-mailed a new reader, but it sounds like a great way to build a readership.

Question 2: How have you benefitted from making personal connections with your readers?

I have made some great relationships by going and commenting on other people’s blogs.  I would love to get more comments on my site especially during 31DBBB with advice.  It really helps to hear other people’s success stories.

For the next month I will be joining SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce) in 31 Days To Build a Better Blog (#31DBBB) in conjunction with ProBlogger Each day is a new task to post to help me focus and make this a better blog. I love the idea of improving all of the time, so this task is right up my alley.

Day 4: Analyze a Top Blog in Your Niche

Question 1: Which of the areas discussed in today’s task are you most interested in studying about your niche, and why? (These are content, reader engagement, design monetization, traffic & SEO)

I have been keeping many of the blogs in my niche in my RSS feed to study them further.  I am especially curious about those that are quite successful.  I look at their comments to see what people are saying which helps to find out how the readers are engaging with the blog author.  A lot of times I see the same people commenting, which means that author as a following.  This increases their traffic, which is another thing I study other blogs for.  Readers are also more likely to follow you on Twitter and retweet you about your newest post on your blog.  My next focus will be studying them for how their SEO is doing.

Question 2: What’s one thing you could do to improve your blog after studying the top blogs in your niche?

I’m still a bit new in trying to become a successful blogger, but I’m finding that the more you interact with other bloggers the more likely they are to interact with you.  Right now my focus is finding thoughtful blogs and leave comments there often.  I feel this will bring more traffic.  I’m at the beginning stages of SEO, so I feel like that is a huge portion of what I need to learn.

For the next month I will be joining SITS (The Secret Is In The Sauce) in 31 Days To Build a Better Blog () in conjunction with ProBlogger Each day is a new task to post to help me focus and make this a better blog. I love the idea of improving all of the time, so this task is right up my alley.

Day 3: Promote a Blog Post

Question 1: Where do you promote blog posts other then Twitter and Facebook?

I’m really learning all of the intricacies right now and never really knew until this question that there were certain “ways” to do that.  I’ve been doing a ton of link backs to certain posts I’ve found intriguing.  I do a DIY Wednesday that links to other posts of projects around the web I think are particularly fun.

Here’s today’s post:Wednesday DIY Organization

Question 2: What sites/forums have worked best in driving traffic to your site?

Google Connect has been 1 place I’ve been getting traffic.  Google searches have also been a good source of traffic.  Momspark has also generated more traffic now that I’ve reallys started posting there.

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I have wanted to go to the BlogHer conference since I saw posts about BlogHer ’09.  Of course this year has been financially challenging to put it lightly.  I didn’t buy a ticket and was just devastated when they were sold out.  Then a friend of mine got a sponsorship and offered me her ticket.  R and I discussed it and the ticket to BlogHer wasn’t the problem, the ticket to New York was.  My wonderful father gave me every last frequent flyer mile he had to pay for my entire plane ticket (see my post for the Energizer Giveaway).  Although I want so desperately to stay at the Hilton I knew that it wasn’t financially possible.  My mother’s closest dearest oldest friend lives in Manhattan and has always had her home open to my family.  I contacted her and of course she said I could stay with her.

I’m going, I’m going, I’m going.  The excitement has been building for the last 5 weeks since I found out I was actually going.  Now it is 16 days until I leave, not that I was counting.  I have been planning everything down to the wire.  I mean every outfit, every item I need to take with me to the conference.

I have been RSVPing to private parties, and just having a blast figuring it all out.  Sometimes planning can be just as much fun as the trip.

Not only is this a conference for bloggers for me, but it’s a real chance to take my passion to the next level.  It feels nice to think of a weekend with lots of intelligent women.

The next few weeks I plan to post about my preparations for BlogHer ’10.  I hope you guys will indulge me.  I can’t wait to meet some long time blogging friends and hang out with the ones I already know and most importantly meet new bloggers.

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What does a GNO do for you?  Way back in college and for a few years after college I would go out with my girlfriends on a regular basis.  I took it for granted.  I admit that whole heartedly. 

Who knew then how hard it would be to get out of the house having had children?  The arrangements that need to made is like a super secret mission that requires Navy Seals to strategize and put into place.

Every woman needs “me” time though.  My GNO is the best me time I can think of.  I feel in so many ways I get to be the me I was before kids.  Sure they influence the new me, but hermit crab me is coming out to play.

Friday night I was lucky enough to go out with some great local bloggers.  It was such a great time that when I looked at my watch assuming it was 7:30 PM I was shocked to see it was 9:30 PM.  Where had the time gone?  We laughed we compared mommy notes, we talked about the upcoming BlogHer conference in New York.  We just gabbed.  Yes, there was alcohol and great food too.  My side hurt so bad when I left from all of the laughing.  Best moment though was when we all told stories about what our children have said about our private parts.  I don’t want to get x-rated, but there was a lot of talk about children’s perceptions of the penis and vagina (yes I said those words so please get over it).

Before I go out, I go into antisocial Candice who doesn’t want to go, and only wants to be at home holed up with my computer.  I even come up with excuses to use so that I have not only convinced myself I don’t need to go, but can also work for the people I have to tell I’m bailing.  Some would call that a flake, I call it antisocial.

After I’m there for 10 minutes I forget everything else and have a good time.  It’s weird that every single time I don’t want to go before hand, but have a magnificent time after I’m there.  Like I said I have huge antisocial tendencies.

If you are a mom take it from me a GNO is food for you soul.  It rejuvinates you in ways you cannot imagine.  It’s a way of organizing your psyche. 

If you have a rattan laundry basket that just feels blah, Angry Julie Monday has just the answer for you in her post Painting a Rattan Laundry Hamper.  Laundry hampers might be the most important part of the bedroom.  I know you’ll say the bed, but without the hamper where would you put all of your dirty clothes?  I know you could throw them on the floor, but that just disgusting.  Angry Julie’s wonderful and easy to follow tutorial allows anyone to turn their rattan laundry basket into a matching piece of decor for any room.

If you are a wine enthusiast such as myself, you often wonder what to do with all of the cool wine corks you pull out from the bottles.  Usually I throw them away.  I know many people who collect them.  For all of you who collect those corks Lisa at Baer Home Design has A Cool Way To Use All Of Those Wine Corks.  I loved her idea of using it as a backsplash. It can be used as a bulletin board and look fantastic.

I hope you enjoy these 2 projects, and let me know if you try them.  I’d love to see your finished project.

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Welcome to my old friends and new readers!  This is the new look of Fashionably Organized.  Consider this FO 2.0.  I hope there won’t have to be a 2.1, but as you know you are never really finished.

Grab a cup of coffee come sit down and look around, maybe even read a post you’ve never read before.

My biggest gratitude for my blog goes to Mark of Site of the Times.  You would be looking at a blank site with some words misplaced in the wrong direction if it weren’t for his hard work.  Before him I didn’t even get what a widget was.  Now I’m writing simple little codes.  Not only that but let me tell you that I’m quite demanding and he put up with all of it and didn’t complain once.

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