Have Fun, Stress Less When Vacationing with the Kids ~Post 3, 9 Final Tips

If you would like to follow along, there are two posts to this series. Have Fun Stress Less when vacationing with the kids Post 1, and Have Fun Stress Less when vacationing with the kids Post 2.

 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Pier August 2012 Vacation

1. When at your hotel keep clothes in suitcases. Why?? because it lessens what you have to do when you go to leave.
2. Use various Apps to get to know your area. Urban Spoon, Foodspotting, Yelp all are great for getting to know restaurants and what is good where you’ll be vacationing. Shopkick for deals, Raining Hot coupons and your local pharmacies for Apps to getting great deals when far from home.
3. Use coupons or online discount codes/ such as retailmenot.com and ebates.com for hotel/driving/shopping etc.
4. Grab a postcard for the family back home and send your greetings to them. Or do as we do, bring back some Salt Water Taffy. When we go to the shore we usually get Dolles on the boardwalk.
5. Collect Souvenirs of the trip. Examples could be ticket stubs, wrist bands, photos, seashells, sharks teeth, sand, postcards.
6. Make a project from those Souvenirs. Get a recycled jar and fill it with the items you collected and you’ll have a great memory to commemorate your spectacular fun filled vacation.
7. Before you book hotel find out what is available at the hotel for kids to do, Lazy River, Pool, Hot Tub, Games etc.
8. When you are finally vacationing, buy things as needed when your there. In case you forgot some things, don’t fret. It’s not like your going to a remote Island or anything, or are you?? Well then tweet those pics…
9. Before you leave the house make sure you clean it. Make all beds, take care of trash, run the dishwasher for the last time and empty fridge of things that will go bad. Use Glade Plugins to make your rooms stay fresh. When we came back home. I walked in my home and everything was done. Smelled fresh and not stale or dank. It was nice to know that I just needed to do the laundry and put the rest of the stuff away. But because I was so efficient from the start that took me an hour to do. Life’s Good!!

All in all realize that with a little preparation ahead of time, you can save yourself mounds of time and trouble from getting overwhelmed, to actually having fun and enjoying your vacation. Now school is back in full swing, so it’s “Back to Life, Back to Reality”, the song is playing in my head right now. Back to a brand new schedule for the year. Leave a some Comment Love, Yeah!! ~Christina

Pinterest Pins~How to See All of your Pins or Boards at One Time

How Neat is this. I use this Zoom thing all of the time and I think that its my best kept secret, except for “Pinterest” itself. Since I use Photoshop Elements 9 all of the time, I am constantly using the Ctrl key plus + or – keys to Zoom in or out, makes life so much easier. So I decided, for all of you Pinners out there who would love to skip the scroll to top button, that I’d make a little Tutorial on: How to see all of your Pins or Boards at one time. So let’s get started:

 

I know that if you have too many pins that they will be microscopic, but if your like me with just over a thousand pins you’ll still be able to tell what your pins look like. Well there you have it. Remember you can use Ctrl plus + or _ on your window even if you are on another website like google, go ahead and try it out. Have fun and make sure that you link up to my Creative Tizzy Pinterest Boards Page as I would love to follow you and have you follow back. XOXO Christina

Day 29 CHALLENGE Change is good and blog gadgets!

If you have visited my blog lately you have noticed some changes. PINK...sorry pepto has nothing on me. Lol, I love change and get bored quickly. So I decided to work on my blog header since the other logo was huge and not centered. Blogger design can sometimes be challenging, especially with posting pictures, there is a learning curve. As with my old header it just wouldn't budge to the right. Now onto smaller and better. Thankfully now I have a pretty header that shows off some of my projects and pictures from my posts. I have alot of pictures from my posting CHALLENGES this month and was able to smack them together to make a collage. I love it and the new colors too! Hope you like it now too. I also have added some gadgets on the side like facebook and twitter [need to schedule these in to make sure I make the time to post to them properly]…I also have my poll for you to vote on and my communities I have in blogfrog. Please visit me when you get a chance to. I also need facebook followers 25 at least for it to have a landing page if you could hit the like button to the right and visit me there. Give me a wave and sign on my wall. Thanks in advance and I'll follow you back as well. Well that's it till tomorrow, but you know what tomorrow is, my last day for my posting Challenge. Can't wait to tell you the results of my experiment, meaning how I rose to a challenge just to prove it to myself that I could...ok no more tune in tomorrow!!!!!