Getting Organized for Boxing day

Hello and welcome! I hope you all had a good Christmas still got today to get through, Boxing day and I have been up early, washing some clothes, tireding and vacuuming and then wrote some of new book I am writing and trying to get finished by the new year and been ot of my Boxing day tradiitonal walk, and so I use my Boxing day to catch up on errands. 

It was my nan on my dads side birthday who is no longer with us, but I always remember, but often forget and so gonna remember today to light a candle for her as she was a great part of my childhood and I miss having a nan. 

Today it is a day that I will be catching up with other family and so taking some time to write a blog to be done before that and I think getting up early is the best way so gonna have a whole free day tomorrow and be doing a lot more then too. 

For food it will be picky bits, opening more presents and chatting whilst watching a film or listen to more Christmas songs. 

As a kid it would be playing a game and we used to travel to Farnham or Farnborough to celebrate Boxing day and now that has changed as the new generation continues to grow in my family. 

I am filming a day in  life and today is the last day of me filming that and check out Youtube channels under:

- Typicallondongal

- Carrieseducationalyoutubechannel

- mystylewayofliving 

So soon my little terror (son) will be here so going to leave this blog here, and so the next time will probably in the new year so have a happy one. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Choosing the right gift set for myself and give as gifts to adults but not children

I am a lover of gift boxes and I have already been looking around to choose some I like and want to buy for myself and others, and they aren't all out in my Boots so may need to search through the one in Epsom or up London, where they have a bigger store, but saw some in Tescos, and going to check Poundland, Wilkos and TK Maxx and I have been searching on Amazon too.

I like a gift set that is filled with Shower cream, a perfume spray, a good body scrub or wash, or face wash and deodarants and body sprays.

When it comes to gift for kids I try to stay away from skincare gift sets. This is because often kids skin can be super sensitive, but would for kids buy a crafting set and make them a set of books, tokens and some silver or gold chocolate coins, and if they like writing, a writing set.

The other thing I love is alcohol gift sets, if you know a person who like Bailey's for example like me, would be great for someone and I wait until December as there will be more. 

This is why I am holding out until next month, as don't want to buy one and see something better, and also it depends if someone is having a health kick, and you could create your own gift set, with healthy treats and if they love skincare can add these too. 

The other great thing you can do is make a pampers set, of nightcream they use, with day cream, a flannel, a towel and body lotion, one that they use. Just talk to the person of items they love, as we often know what to buy going on what they currently are into.

I often will buy a bag for a someone and add little items inside in tissue paper and still great as a gift set.

Anyway as we are still in November we do still have some days and weeks to find the goodies we want for Christmas, and so I am looking forward to getting some little gifts and big too, and have dreams coming true. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Get life together for Autumn and Winter

Hello and welcome! In this blog I am talking about how to get your life together for Autumn and winter. 

I normally if I was in what I call my own home, I would do a seasonal clean up, which involves going through everything and decluttering my clothes, files on my computer and so gonna use the time to go through my google photos because I have exceeded the storage with video and images, so having a clear out. 

I have been packing items from my old home in Epsom to where I am now, and it does feel good going through items, and gonna do more today. 

If I get a chance to film showing you this then I will. I will add it to My Style Way Of Living, youtube channel, if that happens or not.

 

Sometimes I will when sorting through items forget about filming so will try my best to remember.

Today I cleared out my phone and put images and videos I have wanted to keep transfered to my Memory card in my phone and on Saturday should be getting a new phone and go SIM only. 

I would reommend this to you, that you go through files on your devices and go through items to keep and items to delete.

I like to start each season fresh and so if there isn't anything that no longer has a purpose I will get rid of it.

When it comes to clothes I will go through them and go through items that I can wear all year round, but what I can layer up for the colder weather, and when it is raining as that is a lot in the UK, so it is good to prepare for these days and when it get crispy cold. 

This means going through my coats and jackets and make sure I have enough and they are all machine washable and not needing to go to the drycleaners. 

So what do you do to Get your life together for Autumn and Winter. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

How I make life easier and breaking my tasks and daily and weekly down so it gets done

Hello and welcome! So today it is Sunday but when you read this it will be Monday as I don't post any live blogs on Sundays but post the rest of the week. 

This blog is about How I make life easier and breaking my tasks daily and weekly down so it gets done. 

1. Grab a notebook and get jotting and go through what has been done and what needs to be done. 

2. Then have a view of the week using a calendar or diary to mark important appointments, things that need to be done first and are urgent items for yourself and then example B for things that need to be done next and can be put last on your list 

3. Use notepad on your phone or take a photo of the list you have and of what needs to be done when for the week

4. Put in appointments first with time and prep work, like printing a map of where you need to go or if virtue time you have to log on to do the virtue appointment 

5. Dave items on your phone aswell ast on a computer or laptop and a paper version, that you can carry around. 

It doesn't have to be all done in a day then don't put this, and renember to a view of the month too to hand to also help prep and plan the days and months within the year and any items already schedule for the next year.

So, I hope these tips help and have helped me and many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Things you loved once upon a time/changed your life and decision on love and letting them go

It is very hard at times to let things go, especially when you first loved them and never wanted them out of your life and this can be people, fashion, homes and outdoors loves you had once, but you know when they are coming to the end, as for it is a feeling, and you just know. 

This is where it is good to have a clear out and be at peace with the people and materilistic items, and be happy once they have gone. 

Take time going through stuff as some items are like you know you had them and bring back inspiration, and want to use them again. 

There are items that go beyond their lifeline, like flip flops you remember having and forgot about it.

It is can be a picture you had been looking for and create a vision board by hanging them up and creating a vision board, which I in my blog on Wordpress everyonecanbuildacastle.com write a lot about and I do believe in, "If you can see then you'll use it, out of mind out of site". 

The other thing is have a keepsake bin or box file, so go through items that give you that boost still and want to wear it or see it again and still everytime you see it, it feels like it is still a new discovery. 

Make a list of items you want to keep and want to give away. Create a rack of clothes not worn and still want to. Items you want to save on another rack or in a bin. 

Its okay to have a bits and bobs bin, and I do this by using recycled items. Like a box or a container that was gifted to you. like gift boxes and a caddy like I use on my desk. 

   

These images is my work desk and second picture is of a caddy bought from Poundland where I store some of my jewellery and helps me remember to put some on and have it to hand as I do wear earrings, chokers, necklaces and bracelets a lot of the time. 

I do have a declutter on my jewellery to that no longer serve a purpose and not have them when I won't use the again. 

So be ruthless and take time when looking at times you once loved to say goodbye to them. 

It really helps you move forward instead of the passed all of the time. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

Getting my life together

Often I can get stressed over having stuff to carry around with me aswell as what to keep in my room. I like functional and have everything I need daily and weekly close by so I don't have to go searching for items. 

I do have a functional space to write and hope once moved, I will like a proper home office with a plenty of storage and getting my life even more together than now. 

Its important for me to have everything I need around me, it saves me time and I know where everything is. Currently my desk is also a dressing table where I will put on a Youtube video whilst I do my make up and film my Get ready with me videos, check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDFIqjVKLy7NhtcR6Hy0Tg

Check out my blogpost I did on my site Organzie4thebetter: 

https://organize4thebetter.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-i-organize-my-workspace.html

Being a writer it is important I can listen to music whilst I write as it keeps me from stopping and take my time in the things I write like books and blog. All my books are published on Amazon.com under my name: Carrie Challoner, Carrie Lee Holmes and Carrie Holmes, if you wish to check these out, and I things in arms length and that is how I set myself up and have my life together. 

Its all about the things you need, with the things you want 

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X 

Organization at the weekend and for the rest of the year.

Hello! Another weekend over and I would like to do what I did when in a Mental Health hospital, and reflect on each week. It is good to reflect on life as it can help achieve more the week after and I have really got my life together and then next thing for me, is to have new home. 

I am ready to fly and do packing videos and new home decor, sitting on a balcony or garden, having a cup of tea and perhaps some breakfast.

The weekends for me are the times when I can be different for two days. I like to eat often different foods and where different clothes and just be with myself. I next week gonna visit different areas of London and perhaps go to the Covent Garden market again. I would like to visit Primark and begin to get ready for my busiest time of year, from Septemer throught to December and be in my fourth quarter of the year, and be doing some outdoor work experience, as I do aswell as write blogs, book and videos, work more in Mental Health and my aim is to be a teacher assistant or a Support worker in mental health.

I want to be singing and dancing again, as I wish I never gave this up, but did and I love dancing and being on stage so is on my goals list that I set and goals are what keeps me going. 

Some may say they are unreachable but what I have learned so far being 42 is that no they aren't. Madonna was in her 30's when she became a pop star and has had a successful career since then and has always been an artist of some great music. So to be organized and have good times is by always evolving and doing new things all of the time. 

I want to have more books written and have a bestseller, no matter how long it may take or how many books I get to have that, I will keeping aiming for it, and it has taken me a lot to have blogs that people like but I am reaching a good audience of people and that gives me joy and love of what I do now. 

Some may see it has it never paying out, but yes it can and it is always organize as you go and never giving up.

So use weekends like they are your chance to do something new and different to the rest of the week and also your year. 

Check out my blog called, Everyonecanbuiildacastle.com 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

 

Organizing Relaxation Days/How I chill at the weekends

So I am currently filming a Day in a life video which is going to be whole weekend including Friday gone and I love having days where I slow down and take my time. 

I think it is so good to have that rest time and its about not doing so many things at once but a task at a time and the weekends as soon as it begins I will catch up on some TV, like today I watched part of the Womens Final at Wimbledon and days where like today I went to Costas to read my book and write some notes rather being stuck in a room, and so glad that Lockdown is slowly being removed. 

Tomorrow I am gonna pop out and take it even easier and if the weather is good read my book in the park and go for my walk and visit a few shops open, I may even make to Sainsbury's to pick up my favourite Kenco Iced Lattes and they are lovely, and want to film another shop with me, see my video of the H&M https://youtu.be/fgBc3b2_K6U but this time either Sainsbury's or TK Maxx and have a healthy meal and fancy having a Chicken Salad. 

I love food that is like a hug in a bowl and a day where I am casual and may read my book in bed tomorrow and see if can finish the book. 

For me I don't put on make up usually on Sunday and just be for the day.

I love watching a documentary which I have mentioned before and do some Admin and work on books for the rest of the time. Relaxtion is so important for your wellbeing and we all need that recharge ready for a new week to begin.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X 

How to be at the top of your game/use what you have/Save wherever possible

To be a writer you have to be organized, but when I plan I don't set things I set it in stone, in case of other things that can crop up.

So how to be at the top of your game,

1. Getting ahead off myself. I have schedule a lot of videos, as I now have two youtube channels that I mainly work on and so batch filming is a great way to stay on top. 

2. Have a schedule that you can change and use Google Calendar to help block your time to help stay on track. It is completely free so take advantage of this and you can carry it around and access it whenever you want and need to. 

3. Ignore the critic in your mind telling you "No not today".Never allow it to take over the positive voice that encourages you and listen to that voice to shut down the inner critic in your mind. 

4 Apply for the dream job and don't just apply once try several times to grab an employers attention. This helps them to see how keen you are.

5. Have no spending weeks, where you just buy what you need and not splurge. I am getting the hold of my finances and not going to avoid my financial situation anymore and use what I have to pay bills and save buy having weeks where I don't buy and try and use up what I have got before buying anything else. 

So I hope these tips help you and if you like to visit my youtube channel then can do so by visiting this link: here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDFIqjVKLy7NhtcR6Hy0Tg

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X

A Video sharing 5 tips on Practical Ways to manage your life

Hello! Here is a video giving 5 Practical Tips on managing your life. I had a day of disasters, yet made me clean and tidy, it made me slow down as to do work at a pace that I don't realise I am rushing. 

So check it out below:

It is all about getting bits done without getting bogged down. It helps make sure you take breaks and get the things you know you got to do but not neccessarily like and the things you want to do.

With my line of work it is about getting the needs at the top with the wants but don't have to be on that day.

So more blogs like this to come, and if you would like to read more of this content then check out my site: https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie L.M X

Clean with me video 3/Recycling/Rubbish and cleaning areas of my room

Hello and welcome to a new Clean with me blog with video, in this video I clear away rubbish, and use my glass of water and micro fibre cloth the clean my bedside table and board covering over the bedroom fireplace. 

If there anything that I can recycle and feel I have a need for it, I keep and use it straight away, anything I don't need I put in the recycle box made, and I do like to use coffee jars and any container type of item to reuse. 

I do want to get some inter flora and a lighter to light my scented candles but it will need to be put on a dish to use them, and I am so looking forward to moving as i want to treat myself to some highend scented candles and homewares, to add to my new home that I will be living in soon. 

I like to use my weekends to clean and tidy to vary my weekends compared to the days in the week. 

So, #happyweekendlivingand more to come tomorrow, but post will be scheduled for the week ahead. 

Many thanks for reading and watching my video,

Carrie L.M X

Clean with me/video 2 from Mondays/Hack and clearing out a draw

Hello and I wish you a happy Wednesday. Here is a new video I did yesterday as part of my clean with me video that I posted on Monday and in this video I show a good cleaning hack and cleaning near my bed and a draw.

Bascially if you have an undrunked glass of water, use it to clean with. So you don't waste the water and your not going backwards or forwards to the bathroom or kitchen to get the cloth wet to clean. 

I basically cleared out the draw within 5 seconds and it is a simple as that. No cuts or bruises, just simple not hard task and now I have a good bed board cleaned and a draw cleared out. 

Many thanks for reading and watching the video above, 

Carrie L.m X

Sunday Clean with me Video/Organizing to pack/Sunday life

Here is a new Clean with me video, that I filmed today Sunday and this is going to be two parts, but this is the one today which I was going to do through the course of the week but decided to do one today and film another tomorrow.

When it comes to tidying and packint things up, it is the course of what will make life easier and how I can save myself time when it all gets taken to a new home without it taking a whole day.

Many thaniks, 

Carrie L.M X

Get Organized am I organized/getting things done

So since I began blog writing I WENT THROUGH SOME OF MY OLD BLOG SITES THAT I CREATED BUT NEVER USED  so I am now and looking at the title if this blog that you will get the wrong impression of me, "I am super organised". You wanna know the truth, I am not. I just in my own way GET IT DONE! Yet I look at my notebook I work from everyday, that I still have items that have not be ticked, but since I began I don't stress over because I DO SOON GET IT DONE!

I try not to give myself so much, but as soon as I see ticks as I go back and through my notebook, I will eventually have more ticks. 

I would say FIND YOUR SYSTEM THAT IS NOT HIGH MAINTENENCE as honestly it becomes a chore, rocket science I'll put it off. 

With me it is one method mobile and notebook. These are the tools that work for me. I have one notebook, but I do look back at my other notebooks for ideas in there that I have used, that i can use. 

When you create work that is yours and so it is used by your readers but not copied, so they make out it was there, always keep your notebook full of notes so you can prove it is yours, and try not to do too many lists, but do more brainstorming. 

I find when I brainstorm ideas, they are the ideas I tend to use. 

When it comes to jobs, I never used this word as for me, it is like the two words "To do" as for me this stands for chore and therefore if I SEE IT THAT WAY I PUT IT OFF! So I set goals rather than items to do, and it serves a purpose and a positive outcome.

So find what works for you, but don't give yourself too much, and if you do still see things not done, secretly tell yourself you will, as often it is the mind telling you, that you aren't ready to do that task yet.

Many thanks for reading the first blog on this site, 

Carrie L.M X