christmas advent calendar

(project as seen on the Tombow USA blog  www.blog.tombowusa.com)
i have been far too absent from this blog... but a new year's goal for me will be to update my blogs more often. so, to start the year off right i'm showing off my banner advent calendar.
on each flag is an activity that the family can do during the christmas season. some are generic, just in case we have to work around it. for example, there are two service nights and two christmas parties. some are more specific, with a movie to watch or something special to eat.
i made a tab that folds down over each one, to which i attached a piece of fastener adhesive made by tombow (a kind of velcro). then i made 25 numbers, also with fasteners on the back. at the start of the season i went through my calendar to figure out what nights already had something planned, and when we could fit in the other activities.
each day we pulled off a number to see what the activity for that night would be.
i loved that it was part of my decor for the season and served a purpose as well.

menu boards

here is the project i had posted on the tombow website this week. i love it! i think i'm making them for gifts. some special people in my life may be the recipient of one of these fabulous menu boards!

easter egg

so i saw this idea on the cosmo cricket blog...using rubons on your easter eggs and then dying them. it totally worked! i am so excited for next year. i'll hoard a few eggs before the kids can dye them all. this was the only one i got this year. the rubon is from pink paislee. it was large, but it worked. however, i might stick to smaller images...
happy easter! off to helen, ga with the kiddos and the in-laws.

"love" my layout

i made this last month...
i am making it a priority to get out and scrapbook LAYOUTS once a month.
too often i work on projects, decor, mini books, or albums for someone else that i don't have enough done of just my kids.
so, this was one of my creations for february's cropping night!
i used it as my "intro" for the tombow design team. it was posted on the tombow blog on march 3rd.
it was fun to create with pictures that had just been taken and printed...
love my two babies!

thanksgiving craft project

joanna had a great idea over on the tombow blog, so i gathered up some supplies -paper scraps, glue stick, pens and scissors -and brought them with us to my in-laws, used their card table while watching the parade and created some of our own place tags.

i was surprised at how into it xander was, and how well
cassidy cut!

hiatus?

is that how it is spelled?
well, last year IRW closed it's doors and i stopped teaching for a while. life gets in the way, when really it is life that i should be trying to capture and remember.
i'm busy right now, teaching pre-k, working part-time at archiver's, completing a master's program for elementary education, working with the children at church and being mom to two adorable children (most of the time they are adorable).
so i don't know how many projects i'll get posted, but i haven't left scrapbooking completely, so i still have ideas i am wanting to work out.
now i'm just more of a collector...

some of my favorite projects