Sesame Street Card

The girls got invited to a friends birthday party.  He will be 2 but they love hanging out with him so we got a gift and then I went to pick out a card and was blown away by the prices on kids birthday cards.  Seriously who spends anywhere from $5.00 to $6.00 for one birthday card.  I can buy a whole pack of blank cards for $5.00.  So I decided I would make his card instead of dropping a fortune paying for one. 

So this is what I came up with.  It did make me wish I had the Sesame Street Cartridge but what use would it be for one card so I made some circles, and threw on some googly eyes and made some mouths out of circles I cut in half and made a beak out of two circles I glued together and card done.  I had a couple stickers and put them on the envelope and the card cost me nothing except things I had on hand instead of paying $5.00 for a card.  Plus he is two he will love that the eyes move and hopefully that it is Sesame Street that he loves.

Friends Books

 So it's been a long time and I have had people to add since before we left Texas but aside from printing up some more pictures I got the pages made up for the girls Friends books.           I now need to hunt down more pages the next time I am out at A. C. Moore because I had to take pages out of Zee's book to add to Kyrie's book.  I need to put them in order because they are just in there however I thought of who needed to be next.  But it felt nice to sit and scrap even if it was only small 8 X 8 pages.  This is the most I have done in awhile and with ripping cd's into I-Tunes to put on Kyrie's new I-Pod she is getting for her birthday I had a lot of sitting in front of the computer time on my hands.  So I pulled them out and got to it.  I also took down all my albums and sorted through them to see where I stopped on which ones and what all I have to add, and I found some empty ones.  I know empty ones it is like Christmas every time I find an empty one around the house.  I still can't find some pictures I am looking for which started the album searching to begin with but I found an empty photo album and a bunch of pictures that have already been scrapped that I can put away so I have more room for when I have to order the pictures I need to be caught up to this year. 

2013 Crafty Catch Up

So I was crafty when I could be the end of the year.  I got some invitations made for Church for a Pumpkin Party in October.  I brought in some Pumpkin cakes for the girls classrooms and I made up some cupcakes for special trick or treaters.

 

 I made myself some motivation jars, and made each of the girls a good behavior jar.

 I made two Turkey's for the table at Thanksgiving.  I put napkins in them and they made great decorations for the table.  I also made a Turkey pictionary game for the kids to play. 







I drew up trees and cut out leaves for the girls to have Thankful trees.  It went over great and we will be repeating it next year.

I made a snowman out of bottle caps and painted a ton of caps for the craft afternoon at school.

 

 

 And I made Christmas cards 20 a month from January through November.  It kept me busy and I decided this year to take a different option but I did it.

Back to School Bags for Teachers

The girls picked out some things to give to the Teachers they have this year at Back to School/Meet the Teacher Night.  Kyrie's is the 27th and Zee's the 28th.  So I decorated a bag for each teacher to put the things the girls picked out in.

Birthday Anniversary Binder

 I used to have a store bought one until two little girls got to it.  I made it work even though it was colored on and they had ripped out February.  Well I finally decided enough was enough and decided to make one.  I got a binder and covered it in paper and attached a ribbon to close the thing up.  Then I got 6 dividers covered them in patterned paper and made a pocket for each side.  I then stamped the month on each pocket and did up lines for each day of the month.  I also decorated each one with stickers.  Then I added all the birthdays and anniversaries into it and I have my binder.

Card Storage

My card storage has been awful since we got here I was using a CD tower and it was fine unless I had to move it.  And of course I had to move it every time I needed a card.  So I was going through my pinterest the other day looking for a craft to do and fell upon a card box I had pinned.  So I went looking for a box.  The one I found was bigger then the picture but since I still have a bunch of store bought cards left from my Granny's stuff it works for me.  So I got to work covering the box in patterned paper, hunting out wooden letters and coloring them.  

Then I started sorting my cards to find out how I wanted them separated.  I decided on six big categories Birthday, Blank, Friendship/Thank You, Holiday, Sympathy/Get Well and Congratulations.  I had these awesome cardstock designed papers left from a friend's Mother in law and I cut them down and folded them so they stand by themselves.  Then I busted out my stencil and did up cut labels for each one.

 Then I needed sub-categories because I am that OCD!!!  So I went through and broke those down.  Thank You, Thinking of You, Just Because and Missing You for Friendship and Thank You.  Valentine, St. Patricks, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas for Holidays.  Get Well and Sympathy  for the Get Well/Sympathy group.  In Congratulations I have Baby, Graduation, Anniversary, and Newlyweds.

I put it all together and it looks great.

Getting my crafty on

So since it seems like all I spend time crafting lately is doll stuff (which is a ton cheaper then buying it) I felt I needed to do something not doll related.  So I cruised my crafty to make folder on pinterest, which doesn't see anywhere as much attention as my doll folder.  And found a card holder I had pinned.  So I went in search of a box to craft over. I was having no luck then I saw the Ramen noodle case for Seth's chicken ramen and I tore off the plastic and went to work.  So far it is covered in patterned paper and I made the dividers for the sections (Birthday, Congratulations, Holiday, Blank, Get Well/Sympathy and Friendship/Thank You).  I want to make subdividers for the Congratulations, Holiday, Get Well/Sympathy and Friendship/Thank You and I need to cover the corners.  But that is a task for another day since it is 11:30 and we are taking on two more little girls tomorrow.