Whirlpool of Imagination

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This weekend we celebrated my brother's birthdays (they're twins). One brother got his cards from the kids earlier in the week but we didn't see one until yesterday. Meg was the cardmaker in the family this weekend. Here's her card.....

I suggested the baseball card since Rob is a Mets fan (and I did tell her the teams' colors to give her a jumping off point).

The baseball player is from a retired set from TAC and the banner is from Papertrey.  I believe the screen is drawn to be the screen/net behind the backstop. What I thought was really cute was the wording which was all Meg's idea. I didn't see it until it was done. The front reads "It's a home run" and the inside reads "to have an uncle like you." How fantastic is that????

Today Meg and I went to see the Kit Kittredge:American Girl movie. I thought is was really well done and Abigal Breslin was just wonderful as Kit as well as a great supporting cast. Meghan loved it and gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up.

100th Day Frame

I find myself so busy this February that my computer time is extremely sporadic. I enjoy going to boards, galleries and blogs for inspiration and ideas but lately find myself staying off. I'm not sure if I'm in an overload with the number of projects I'm working on and need to complete in the next week but I'm hoping it will pass so I can enjoy all the great inspiration out there again.

Tomorrow is the 100th day of school celebration at Meg's school and she had a project due. I laugh because the directions to the homework are such that really, can the kids do this stuff alone???? I made sure Meg did most of hers although she's not allowed to handle a glue gun yet so I did need to help her.

She had to pick 100 objects and be as "creative" as possible when showing them. I'm all about how can we use this after it comes home so I suggested that she put her objects on a frame. When the project comes home, she has something nice she can put in her room.

Meg chose to use buttons and as you can see, she went with a specific color scheme. As my daughter is the queen of all things pink, I wasn't surprised with her choices. She painted the frame with a couple of layers of acrylic paint. She chose the color and I have to say, I like how it works as a background. The painting wasn't thick enough to truly cover the original color of the frame but as it was just a background, the two layers she did were plenty. She then laid out the buttons on a duplicate frame and under her direction, I glued them on with a glue gun. You can't see in the picture but we added pink polka dot ribbon all around the edges of the frame to finish it off. This was a fun project to do. She enjoyed being able to get her hands into it with the painting and she was able to direct the project by choosing the buttons and their placement. I would recommend this as a fun activity with your kids and its a nice keepsake as well.

And now, Conor is itching to make one! You know me, I'll probably let him make one too.

Just a Little Brownie Project

My creative spark completely abandoned me today. I fooled around a bit in the studio but it was pretty obvious that I should quit while I was ahead! I went with a quick and easy project that I'd had in my mind this week. I thought it would be nice for Meg to thank those who have ordered Girl Scout cookies from her. This is what we came up with.

I have the cutest stamp from a Girl Scout set I got from Close to My Heart a few years back. I'm not sure why I originally ordered it, but it's coming in handy now that Meg is a Brownie.

We used the computer to print up the words and stamped the Girl Scout in burnt umber to go with the Brownie theme. I left room at the bottom for Meg to print her name and she is going to color in all the Brownie girls on these postcards.

We'll attach these to the boxes of cookies when we eventually deliver them.

That's my big project for today. I do have some ideas milling around for tomorrow. Since its a day off from school, we'll see what I get done but since its also supposed to be VERY cold, I have a feeling we'll be inside most of the day! Night.