Bloglovin, Pinterest & HomeTalk Hop!

Welcome to Bloglovin and blog hopping Thursday once again!  We are so happy to be joining together to bring you the  Bloglovin Blog Hop to help grow our blogs.   It's always a great idea to have many ways for friends to follow your blog.  Each week we rotate one other social media to follow.  This week we are adding your Blog and Pinterest along with Bloglovin!   As a bonus this week we are leaving the Hometalk link up!   Friends can hop on over to visit your blog.    A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last week.  We hope you made some new friends! 

Please follow each hostess, and leave us a comment so we can return the follow!   Please follow your hostesses and visit other at least 3 or 4 other links!  

We would love to feature a co-host each week, so please send one of us an email if you would like to be a co-host.  We would love for you to join us!

Please link up your bloglovin' follow link.  To find your URL, just click on your follow by bloglovin' button.  Copy and past the URL link.  That's all there is to it!  

Thank you so much for joining us!  We hope you make many new friends and followers each week.  

Not mandatory, but we would love for you to share our blog hop button.    That's a great way for us to all gain new friends. 

                                      Hostesses:

                                                          

Becky @ Your Modern Family                            Doreen @  HouseHoneys  

                                                                       

                                          

 Kathe @ Kathe with an E                                      Kathy @ Life on Lakeshore Drive     

                                               

Suzan @ Simply Vintageous                                    Tammy @ One More Time Events   

Please Welcome My Guest - Bronwyn

My friend Bronwyn (love that name!) from I. May Be 

has offered to help with a guest post while we are moving this month.  

Please give Bronwyn a warm Kathe With An E welcome!

Greetings all Kathe followers! My name is Bronwyn from I, MayB.  I post a lot about my life, my dog, my hubby, and the strange trouble I seem to find myself in on a regular basis. I am an avid knitter, crocheter, reader, DIYer (is that a word?) and storyteller.  Thanks to Kathe for allowing me to guest post while she is busy moving!

There are many signs to show that summer is coming to an end and fall is quickly approaching.  Turning leaves, a certain crispness to the air, nights that cool down just enough to allow for sweaters, and sunlight creeping away earlier and earlier.  However, for me, the thing that truly means fall is coming is the presence of school supplies.

Quintessential Canadian notebooks.
I always wanted one in each colour.

You might think it odd that a woman who is long past school age and has no children would have such a love of school supplies as I do.  Each fall, regardless of what is going on in my life, I wander the aisles of stores taking the sights and smells of the coming school year.  I love watching the bustle of parents gathering items their children will need for the coming year and I am transported back to the time when that was my mom shepherding my siblings and me.

Each year, despite my best intentions, I am wooed by the newness of school supplies.  They represent a fresh start, a chance to learn, and the beginning of something exciting.  I am enthralled by the pens, enraptured by the journals, and in love with the smell of new lined paper.  I fully admit I have a problem!

Freshly sharpened pencil crayons. I don't even need these!
I'm a grown woman for goodness sake!

When my husband told me he was going to be taking a couple of professional courses this fall, I was delighted. Yes, learning and improving oneself is very important, but I was going to go school supply shopping!   I came home loaded with goodies. None of which I am willing to share.  He might have to go back on his own next time.

What is your favourite memory or thought about school supplies? Do you love them as much as I do?

You're Gonna Love It - Week 69

Welcome to the 69th week of You're Gonna Love It fun and frivolity!

I'm going to once again keep it short and sweet as we have so much to do this week.

Yes! We have the closings for both houses on Thursday morning and then, we begin the move out/ in on Sunday morning!  I'll try and post pictures on my Facebook page of the process so keep an eye there.

Since I'm not sure if I will have time or internet, plus the Labor Day holiday,

there will be NO party next week.  We will do Anything Goes the week of the 9th so that you can post up all of your creations. ANNND...I am keeping this party open midnight Monday September 2. 

Last week's most viewed post came from my sweet friend Mrs. Tucker from

Oh, Mrs. Tucker

Mrs. Tucker asked a fun question regarding our love of mason jars.  If you missed it, go now and check it out! Be sure to grab an I've Been Featured button found here.

Now, Let's Party!

Feel free to link up anything you have created.

Recipes, decor, crafts, written or photographed.

Anything you are so proud of

you just gotta share it with others.

I will reserve the option of deleting

any post that I do not feel fits the

theme of my blog. 

Please limit your link ups to

just 2 or 3. 

I love to spotlight

some of my favorites on my

Facebook page and pin them to my 
You're Gonna Love It Tuesday board on Pinterest so,

be sure to follow me there too!

As always, you don't have to
be a follower
in order to link up.
 I want you to follow
Kathe With An E
because you want to.
Not because it is required.

Follow my blog with Bloglovin 
Or sign up to receive my updates by email.

 I would also love it if you would link back

in some way so that others come and party with us.
Either grab the party button
or add my blog link
to your post or on your
  blog party page.
But again, it's not required.  

I ask that you please 

DO NOT link up

giveaways, Etsy shops or anything for sale.

Save those for the first Tuesday of each month

when,

Anything Goes!

(Week after next!)
Please remember, this is a party

so, after you link up,

mingle around 
and visit some of the other party guests.

*By linking up your post, you are giving Kathe With An E permission to use your pictures as a feature on this blog and other social media outlets.

Be sure to stop by and visit these other great linky parties this week!

 

Please Welcome My Guest - Susan

My awesome buddy,  Susan  from Organized 31, has offered to help with a guest post while we are moving this month.  
Please give Susan a warm Kathe With An E welcome! 

Hi, I'm Susan from Organized 31.   As a part of a military family, I have 20+ moves under my belt and am happy to help Kathe out just a bit during her move.  It doesn't matter how many times you've moved, 
it's still tough while you're in the middle of it.  
Kathe, we're all sending you good wishes for your move.

I love to repurpose items for organizing and storage.  Maybe it's because of all the moving, but I hate to spend good money on an item that won't work in my next house.  When I find a way to repurpose an item, I'm saving money, saving the landfill and having fun being creative.

I'm blessed to have wonderful friends.  Wonderful friends who have started sorting through their trash just to pass it along to me.  Seriously, I love that my friends are now looking at their recycling  for items that I can repurpose (I love it, but it still amuses me).  I met my friend, J., for lunch a while ago and she passed this tin on to me.

  I remembered J. telling me that when she was young, because her name is unusual, she could never find personalized items in the store.  Bing.  I knew just had to personalize this tin for her.  But you could easily add any name or label you wanted.

I hopped onto PicMonkey and quickly created the personalized image I wanted.  If you haven't used PicMonkey, it's a free online photo editor that's super easy to use (really).  I printed the image out on cream card stock to coordinate with the colors that would show on the edge of the lid and grabbed my supplies.

(You may notice where my child tried to help me and sliced the top of my image. Shrug.  It adds character and a story.  And it seems wasteful to use up more paper and printer ink printing out another image to use in a repurposing project!)

This type of can is my favorite for repurposing because it has this lip where the lid meets the can.

That lip makes it super easy to know just where to line up the paper when you decoupage it onto the can.

 I carefully added Mod Podge to just the back of the paper (to keep the matte look of the paper), lined the paper up with the lip of the can and wrapped rubber bands around the can to hold the paper in place while it dried.  Using rubber bands is a great trick to make sure that the paper adheres well to the curved surface of the can.

To finish the lid off  I added some ribbon I inherited from my mom when she was cleaning out her sewing supplies (I knew it would come in handy some day).  And finally I added paper to the top so J. can label the contents if she wants.

The entire project took about 20 minutes plus drying time.  Since I used a repurposed can and craft supplies I already had, it cost nothing but some pleasant time spent crafting a surprise for a friend.

I don't know about you, but while I love looking at those elaborate projects that take other people days to do (and would take me weeks), I prefer the quick and easy projects I can squeeze into my day between all my other responsibilities.  I guess I have a short attention span (or a busy life).

I can't wait to return this little treasure to J. the next time we have lunch together. 

You might like to see some of my other repurposed projects from trash my friends have given me.