Year 3 - Day 220 - August 7

If you look at yesterday's picture, you can see the preview of this. I'm carless today for the 2nd day in a row, and feeling bored. I honestly didn't do anything interesting today so I walked back over to the end table where I took yesterday's picture and turned the page. :)

This is her visual representation of our library. Alphabetical shelves, some people, and of course a SmartBoard. :)

Year 3 - Day 219 - August 6

Another bag from the end of the school year emptied and another end of the year gift. :)

Year 3 - Day 198 - July 16

I cleaned out my school bag in preparation for a work thing I'm doing all week, and found some end of the year gifts and notes inside. This is one of them.

Top Row: a picture of a book with a tree, complete with standard little kid style squirrel hole. (I used to do that too - I know that every tree doesn't have a big squirrel hole, but I always drew them) I think the 2nd picture is a house with a pool and someone swimming

Middle Row: Me (complete with glasses), another book of some sort, and a mini Smart Board

Bottom: A declaration that I'm the #1 Library teacher and the other box says "Awesome teacher."

Kids are cute. :)

Year 3 - Day 137 - May 16

One of my cousins is having a baby. Well, his wife is if you want to be technical about it. Which I think is fair, because he just has to stand there. :)

It's a boy. Well, it's supposed to be. Hopefully the ultrasound is right. :)

I've made these before, but I'm getting better at using the Cricut to make little things.

The Cricut direction books are better than they used to be too. The color coding helps so I know how many pieces I need to make with each color.

Planning the books out ahead of time helps too, because I know how much of each color I need for backgrounds, numbers, and words.

 I just got a book of random (Non Stampin Up) baby paper from Michaels to use as the mats for the photo snapshots that the parents-to-be will add to the book as the first year goes by.

 One book I made was backwards and used the patterned paper as the background, but in retrospect that wasn't the best idea because the pages are pretty busy.

 I box the album (it's 8x8), the onesie stickers, and four (0-3mo, 3-6mo, 6-9mo, and 12mo) onesies together to make it look like a nice gift. I have found that in a regular size shirt box, you can fit the album on 2/3 or so, and then roll each of the onesies up and the four rolls fill in the remainder of the space. Then you can just pop the stickers on the top or bottom. I completely stole this idea from the girl I carpool with, but I've made them all a little different. This was my fourth one I realized today, because I only have one of each size onesie left! 

Year 2 - Day 272 - September 30

I really wanted to make a monthly photo book for the baby shower I'm attending tomorrow, but I didn't think it was going to happen. Life has been so busy lately that I haven't had time to sit down and create. I found it in me to stay up super late tonight and got it done just in time! This is the first one I've done for a girl, so it was fun to use my pink card stock and stickers after doing all boy things for the last two. :)

Day 345 - December 11

Today after Mike left for his friend's house, I made 3 more sets to go with the card packs.  They are all birthday cards, but different styles.  I must admit, I did not design any of these but rather borrowed designs from Splitcoast.  I like them all for different reasons in different ways.  I did get to use my new embossing folder on the bottom one and my top note die on the top right one, so it's good to see what they can do.  I wish the texture showed up with the bottom card, because it's the neat part about it.  Oh well, such is the life of an iphone picture. :)

Day 342 - December 8

For Christmas this year, I'm making packs of cards for some people.  I'm trying to make a variety of cards that people may need in a year.  I started with a birthday, get well, and sympathy.  I am making 6 sets that match, but I'm dealing with random papers and colors in my stash and slowly using up now-retired colors which is making it difficult to find good matches and color families.  I actually really like this teal color in the top right, but I just recently discovered it and it's retired from SU now.  Too bad, because it was a cool color!  I got 3 sets of 6 done tonight ... just 7 more to go.  Unless I decide to stop at 8 cards a person, which may happen depending on time and materials.