Christmas Gifts 2 con't.

Here are two examples of the dessert sections. I found these great puffy metallic stickers and some wonderful gems and they all looked so good together.

All the papers used in this project come from Bazzil, Hobby Lobby, My Mind's Eye, Me and My Big Ideas, and Die Cuts with a View. The embellishements I had in my stash for the most part.

Christmas Gifts 2

This gift is for my sister-in-law, Sandy. She has wanted a family recipe album of her own since she saw the first wedding recipe album I scrapped a few years ago. This time I decided instead of several 6x6 albums, I'd try a 4x6 2-up photo album. It worked well to get all 200 or so recipes in. It won't close, but neither would the 6x6 albums. It's a top of shelf type book. The cover had a photo slot, so I used it to put in the title. Each section has a section label and themes. Main Dishes I used flowers and brads to decorate. Side dishes uses chipboard and buttons and Desserts (divided into mini-sections: Cakes and Breads, Pies and Cobblers, Cookies and Candy, Drinks and Treats and Fun Stuff) all use flourishes and bling. I'll add a couple of scans of a dessert catagory in the next post, they wouldn't fit in this one.

Christmas Gifts Number 1

I'm working on some gifts for Christmas. The first is a set of handmade cards. The bird cards use stamps from Stampin' Up and say "Hello There" The flower uses a Cuttlebug embossing folder and Stampin' Up stamp "You've got a friend in me" and the bouquet uses another Cuttlebug folder and a Stampin' Up stamp that says, "A special note of thanks" I added ribbon to these after running them through my Xyron X. It's hard to tell in the scans, but the flower is on two shades of blue. The rest use various scraps I had. All the ink is Versa Magic multi-surface chalk ink. I have at least one more project to finish. I'll post samples of it when I complete it.

Update!

Life in our house has been busy the last few weeks (hence, no new posts.) Band has pretty much kept us hopping. Kat is a drum major and Archie is a section leader. Between Band Boosters, getting things ready for trips and going to games and contests, I haven't had much time to update. But today, our band competed in the Regional Contest in Brady and received Division 1 ratings. Now they'll advance to Area. It's in Grosbeck (near Waco) next Saturday. We're so proud of them! Here's a couple of pics from the trip. Now I need to scrap them for my turn at the Scrap Whispers challenge.





Drum majors and band directors with trophy.

Kat playing gong. Archie is the trombone above and to the left.

Kat has a flute solo.

Archie is the tallest and last trombone on the left line.

Band takes the field. Kat as drum major on left.

Teaching is Hazardous

Now follow me here. It's the second day of school. I've had a child screaming her head off all morning. She manages to get out of the PE building onto the playground with her brother and is fine. Mean teacher (me) comes to get her and makes her go inside with our class. Up the steep staircase. She's going along complacently, still screaming, but moving. Her brother calls her name from the playground. Midway up the stairs she turns and starts moving back down. I take a step backwards to block her. Backwards--on a steep stair case. My foot hits air. I quickly shift my weight forward to the other foot. Another child is standing still on the stairs in front of me. I shift sideways and back to aviod stepping on him. Again, my foot meets air. There is no saving me now. I'm going down. Sideways and down. I see the railing below me and have time to think, "Well, that was stupid! Oh this is going to really hurt!"

I was right. I have badly bruised ribs, my left arm has deep bruises from underarm to elbow and I have some torn cartilage in my chest. But nothing's broken.

So I returned to school the next day and have gritted my teeth and am making it through most of my normal activites.

The bright side...

The little girl hasn't tried to run away from me since then.

My classroom

My daughter was with me at Meet the Teacher and took a couple of shots of part of my classroom. As you can see, even with all the storage, my big stuff has to stack on top of the lockers. Here's the magnets that I made with my Cricut as well. I cut the butterflies from DCWV Nana's Kids pack papers and then added the info on each, laminated them and stuck a magnet on the back. Then the parents could take them and put them on their fridges at home. Most parents seemed to love the idea.

Back to school

I've spent the last week with my daughter (and occasionally my son and husband) fixing up my room for the coming school year. Friday was our first "offical" day back as teachers. We had a "welcome back" meeting in the morning and then in the afternoon we worked in our rooms. My teaching partner and I mapped out our first three weeks of lessons and set our schedule for the year.

My room is nearly finished. I have a couple of little things to finish and I'll be ready for Meet the Teacher Night next Friday.

I do need to get out my Cricut and cut some shapes for magnets. My teaching partner had the best idea. Make magnets to match your room theme and put your name, school phone, e-mail address and conference times on it for parents to keep handy all year long. I have "Goin' Buggy" theme this year, so I need to look for something in my Cricut carts to go with that. Butterflies, maybe?

I'll take pics and post them of the finished room soon.