Birthday - Getting Old or 40 & Fabulous

I say I'm getting old, my friends say I'm 40 and Fabulous. Edwin and my two great friends Christy & Pauline threw a 40th birthday party for me on Friday (my actual bday). It was so much fun, we had a terrific time. It's the first b-day party I've ever had in my life! Terrible to wait that long to have a party, too old to do much! The party was at a local restaurant but I wanted it to be for families so I rented a spacewalk for the kids to play on....best money I've ever spent. The kids played and the adults got to visit and enjoy some time together. I just may want to start having a party every year ;-)

The Cloak

We did it! The cloak is very simple but it works. Amazing what a little fabric and fabric glue can accomplish. Christine sewed the button on by herself and I cut the hole for the button. Now onto her Science Fair Project....science is NOT my thing! I'm glad she likes it, she can do it by herself (hopefully).

Sometimes I'm happy she doesn't listen to me

Christine was given a book report and project to have completed for this week. She read the book and wrote the report during break last week. Then she could choose from a couple of options for the project part: a diorama, a powerpoint presentation, or a bottle buddy. She of course wanted to do the bottle buddy. I didn't even know what that was and tried to persuade her to do a diorama since we've done several of those before. She wouldn't hear of it and insisted upon the bottle buddy, which by the way is taking a 2-liter soda bottle and turning it into a character from the book. Her book was set in the 1700's with the main character being an 8-yr old girl. I finally gave up and said, fine make the bottle buddy. Well, she made it (with a little help from me and a quite costly trip to HL) and it is so precious. Meet Sarah Noble below. She has long, braided hair that was hot-glued on a strip at a time, a styrofoam head, clay nose & mouth, wiggle eyes, plastic doll arms & legs and is wearing American Girl Doll clothes and shoes. She's quite stylish!! We need to make her a cloak since she wore one throughout the story. Wish me luck with that!

Scrappin Progress

Well, I managed to be somewhat productive while cropping this weekend. More importantly, I had a fabulous time. I completed 20 pages (10 double-page spreads) in Christine's 3rd grade album. I have about 10 more pages and it'll be finished, Yeah. Then I have to move onto 4th grade before she starts 5th! I'll post pictures of the LOs soon. Until then....

Most Recent Layouts

These are the layouts I did for Christine's 3rd grade school album. It's a shame...she's almost finished with 4th grade and I just started 3rd.

I really need to stay organized and focused so I can get some stuff done. I'm so far behind I don't think I'll ever catch up. Let's see what I can do this weekend.

;-)

Layouts

These are the last few layouts I did to complete Edwin's album.

This one is a kit designed by my scrappy friend Melanie. Thanks girl, it was perfect.

The last page is a pocket to hold the cards he received.

I did these a couple of months ago but hadn't taken any pictures to post them. I'm trying to get caught up on everything.

Recent Project

I haven't had time to scrapbook but did manage to decorate composition books for the girls' teachers as Valentine's gifts. I forgot to take pictures of the backs which I decorated also. Oh well! Here they are...