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I borrowed a page from last year’s Christmas card where I had a flying angel, to make it look like my Sugar Plum Fairy was balancing on the hand of her cavalier. Getting my kids to cooperate for this shoot was no small feat, and it did require quite a lot of editing, to get the image that graced the front of the card.
I also staged pictures of my children “nestled snug in their wee little beds.” And wrote in cloud-like bubbles what they were likely to be dreaming of, besides sugar plums.
I guess Mom and Dad have to be in their, too. Although I forgot the kerchief and cap.
And since I used a double sided design, there was room to add our current family picture. You know, one with our eyes open!
I’m so excited I get to share Paper Coterie with you all, and hope to complete several more projects with them! They are a perfect enabler of my insanity!
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A Mother’s Day Poem
Happy Mother's Day, everyone! I wasn't expecting much of a Mother's Day for me this year since our focus has been on the surprise party we threw for my Mother-in-law's 60th b-day yesterday. (Don't worry, it's in the blogging queue now-and the last of several parties in a row, so hopefully I can get them all blogged now.) But I was happy to have several small surprises from my kids and husband this morning to make me feel loved. I thought you all might especially appreciate this poem by my 11 year old (the bookworm). She does have a way with words: Please excuse the blurry phone picture. Here are the words... Happy Mother's Day! Gentle, patient, loving, kind, Almost always losing your mind. Helpful, busy, doing things, and your mind takes off on wings. Creativity and craziness sprouting from your ears, But always time to calm my fears. Juggling four children, each in … [Read More Insanity...]
Chapter 3: Book Party Fun and Games
The action intensifies in this chapter as our party guests solve puzzles and fashion accessories appropriate for bibliophiles. In the book party invitations, our guests were instructed to come to the party dressed as a favorite character from a book, but NOT to tell anyone who they were. I was unprepared for the level of enthusiasm, with which they took this challenge. They were especially excited to guess who their friends might be. Although, no one guessed my daughter's somewhat loose interpretation of her character. Can you guess who she is supposed to be? (Answer at the bottom of the post) As the guests arrived they worked on guessing who the characters were, and on solving a word find full of Kira's favorite books. Each guest had also been instructed to bring a wrapped used book to exchange. We handled this like the White Elephant Christmas game where you draw numbers and choose, … [Read More Insanity...]
Mothers Day Bouquet, Tablescape, and Mantle
I think the saying should be "May Madness" not March Madness. I have a dozen or so posts waiting for me to have time to give them the attention they deserve, but I'm bumping this one up the queue since Mother's Day is THIS SUNDAY, and I thought you might be looking for a little inspiration. Among other festivities this weekend, we held an early Mother's Day Dinner. I shopped the house for some homey feeling decorations and set a pretty table to honor my MIL. This flower arrangement and tablescape would be great for any Mother's Day breakfast, brunch or luncheon, as well. Very feminine but fresh! The colors and bouquet are inspired by raspberry lemonade, with pale yellow and soft pink flowers. I set the table with a lace table cloth and pulled out a few pieces of vintage China I inherited from my grandma as accents on the table and the mantle. Since we served the meal restaurant-style (with my … [Read More Insanity...]
Chapter 2: Book Party Decorations
The scene of our Book Club birthday party was set by surrounding our literary enthusiasts with books and words at every angle. Our kitchen island was transformed into a temporary library--it's shelves lined with our heroine's favorite books (that would have been more meticulously styled, if I had had time to rearrange them all, rather than have the kids quickly stash them there). A bookshelf from my bedroom, placed atop the granite counter, created a centerpiece of epic proportions. Shelves were adorned with handmade banners, cut from the pages of dollar store books, and strung from purple striped bakers' twine. With the assistance of my Silhouette machine, black card stock letters were cut to spell the birthday girl's name and wish for happy birthday. My daughter has been enamored with the color purple for sometime now, so to capture her personality, splashes of purple were … [Read More Insanity...]
Chapter 1: The Invitations (Book Club Birthday)
It is time to continue with our celebratory story! This story begins--as all parties should--with a great invitation! A library book card invitation! Alas, an element of irony is already introduced to our story since none of the party guests have experienced libraries with actual cards in the books. I'm certain they all had to ask their mothers what significance this card held. As I, too, had to explain to my daughter, that this was, indeed, the perfect invitation for her party--even if she had never seen anything like it before. The anticipation began to build as I posted this photo to Facebook of our invitations in media res. I felt fortunate to have my young apprentice/birthday girl to aid in the slave labor artistic process of invitation assembly. We created a pattern for the book page envelopes, from a package of colorful teaching supply (bulletin board?) envelopes from the dollar … [Read More Insanity...]
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