Catching Up...

Finally! A minute to catch up on things here! I now have a chance to catch y'all up on what Maggie's been up to these past few weeks...

First we had Graduation from ECE! We watched our little grads come down the aisle at the school auditorium to the typical commencement march! Then they all sang a bunch of fun songs for us. Afterward we enjoyed some yummy cake with her classmates & teachers!

With her proud Grandparents!

Miss Lisa - Maggie's Para all year & all the kids adored her!

Miss Lisa - her incredible teacher! We will miss her a lot!

The weekend after Graduation, she had her first big dance recital! They performed a tap dance for us as well as a little show of ballet positions. (We weren't allowed to take pictures at the actual recital, so all of these are from dress rehearsal.)

Ready?

Tap dancing to "3 Little Fishes"

Boob-booping...

 This was her most favorite part of the dance! She love to feel the tutu bouncing around with her! And then of course, the "Choo" part afterwards brought smiles too!

 For the ballet portion of their recital, they showed us the first 5 positions. I apologize to all the ballet afficianados out there - I don't know the positions myself so I didn't label them accordingly! Ha!

 

If you look closely, my little ballerina is yawning!!

 The recital was absolutely adorable, albeit a little long! (All the students of the studio performed - including the adults!!)

The following week was Maggie's last week of school & she got to experience her first Field Day at school! Now, I had always hated field day when I was little because I was on crutches almost every year & couldn't play along! (I would either sprain my ankle or her my achilles in soccer every spring!)She had a blast!

 She did really great on the Egg Walk - almost all the way back without dropping it!

 She's a natural in the Sack Races too! Didn't fall until the very end!

 Trike Racing was everyone's fave!

Tossing the Whiffle Ball around!

So, that's the big stuff over the past few weeks...Everything in between has been pretty low key except that Maggie lost her FIRST tooth!!! She got so excited when we discovered that her tooth was loose & everyday we checked it. It finally popped out Saturday afternoon! So, I leave you with one more set of picts...

She's got 2 more wiggly ones, so expect to see some funny face pictures soon!!

TTFN!

Fab Friday Giveaway from WWC!

The very lovely Tracy Porter is the guest blogger on Where Women Create today (Friday 5/27) & she is giving away an amazing prize!!! You'd be a fool not to enter this one!!!

here's a couple of my faves:

I'm not really a cross wearer, but this just appeals to me!

Always wanted a pair of C'boy boots! These are nice & broken in!

I have absolutely NO place in my house for these two pieces, but I LOVE them!!

And, finally, from the sale section:

So, other than a little blog surfing this morning, I am hoping to finish cleaning house in prep for the Holiday weekend full of BBQ's by noon today! 

One of my bestie's b-day is today & I got totally inspired yesterday to make her something fabulous! (Luckily I have all weekend to get it done before her BBQ on Monday!!) My goal is to spend the entire afternoon in my room crafting - which I haven't done in SOOOOO long! An hour here or there just doesn't cut it! LOL!

I promise to post pix of all of Maggie's shenanigans over the last week & more of this project when it's all said & done. (Since my girlfriend reads this occasionally, you will all have to wait until Monday afternoon to see the finished product so I don't spoil the surprise!!)

Have a wonderful Holiday Weekend!!!

Thanks to all our men & women who serve this country to keep us all safe from the crazy people! :)

Thanks to Maggie's wonderful Teachers!

Maggie has had a wonderful year at the local elementary school & will be "graduating" from preschool in today! I can't believe she will be in Kindergarten next year! Where does the time go???

First day, 8/20/10

 

Ms. Lisa

Ms. Kim

She had two wonderful teachers this year, Ms. Lisa & her aide, Ms. Kim. I wanted to get them something special for the end of the year because they really just do so much for our little ones!

 

So, I discovered that Ms. Lisa loves to cook, but I couldn't really gather what kind of cooking was her favorite. So, I opted for one of Rachel Ray's cookbooks because her food IS yummy & fairly simple to pull together!

For Ms. Kim, I know that she LOVES to be creative & crafty! So, I thought this "Delight in the Details" would be a great inspiration for her.

And, of course, I HAD to make cards to go along with their gifts, right?!

I had seen a stamp at Michaels that would have been perfect for their cards, but I forgot to actually buy it when I left there the other day!! Silly me!

So, I used my own stash to copy the idea of the stamp...It was a cute birdie with the saying "time flies when you're having fun."

I started with a premade card from one of those boxes by DCWV, (I know! I could have just made one from cardstock, but I never have the right sized envelopes!).

I stamped the front of the card with my Burlap stamp (Ippity - from my friend Noelle's shop!) in a Timber Brown StazOn ink.

Then I Glimmer Misted a small paper doillie with a sand tone & stamped a faint image of a clock in the middle (Tim Holtz). (In case you're wondering how I got ALL the edges to adhere? I used a spray adhesive to attach the doillie to the card.)

Earlier in the day, I scanned a picture that Maggie had painted of a bird, shrunk it down & printed a couple out for the cards. I attached that to the front of the card & then added the saying, with my dymo. 

 All inspired from a simple stamp with the same idea! I made each of the teachers the same card, but the insides are different.

Here's Ms. Lisa's:

I don't have any picts of Maggie & Ms. Kim, so her's is much simpler:

(These stamps inside are also Ippity/Unity from the "Moment in Time" collection & the paper is from a DCWV Garden Party matstack.)

I think they turned out very cute & I love that they have a little creativity from both of us!

So, the next time I post, I will put up some more pix of Maggie at "graduation," her first Field Day at school AND her first dance recital this weekend!!!

Maggie's ECE Class 2011

TTFN!

Springtime, Faeries, Divas & More - a Mini-Album

Hello! Welcome to one of the stops in the Creative Cuts & More March Album-themed Blog Hop! Hopefully you are joining me from my sister's project over at The Scrap-a-Teeny Girls' blog. But if not, you'll want to go back to the beginning so you don't miss anything FABULOUS! Just click here & you'll be directed back to the Die Cut Diva blog where all the happiness starts!

As you read on my sister's post, we decided to split up the Mix & Match album from Creative Cuts & More (we each got 6 fabulous, double-sided pages to work with!). For my 6 pages, I decided to do a little Springtime Garden Book with a TWIST...lots of fun images of divas, faeries, butterflies & some great quotes to go along with each! (I hope to get this little gem up in our Etsy store on Thursday!)

A little quote from Willy Wonka with this springtime nymph!

Each spread of pages has a theme...the first two are all about Faeries...

A quote from Yeats

I made a large tag to insert between these two pages with this great Steampunk Faerie I found at the Altered Artifacts blog. Isn't she AWESOME! I printed her on a transparency & then attached her with a couple of brads to the tag...

 

Her quote is from Peter Pan

Here the backside of the tag...with Faerie Images from Luna Girl

 On the next page, I used this awesome image of Bette Davis (I think!) off the Web (can't find my link!) & a Tim Holtz stamp for her wings over the dictionary page for "fairy"...

Next, I moved on to the Garden...

I found this fun vintage image (online somewhere!) of a little girl at the garden shed looking so exasperated!

The quote reads, "My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus!" by Ogden Nash

Again, in between the pages, I made a funky envelope & added the flower, garden def. & a MME tag that I glittered over the word "sunshine."

Behind that is another Diva page with fun quotes about gardening...

The top Diva is from a Flickr gallery & the others were found online

 The two quotes here are: "I don't take myself too seriously anymore. Sometimes I garden in my knickers & platform shoes." Kim Wilde & "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." Margaret Atwood

And, what's a garden book without Butterflies??

The cutout butterflies are from a DCWV paper stack & all the other butterfly cards are from Luna Girl with the exception of an image of Joan Crawford added to one!

 And finally, the back of the album...I added this great nude photo from a "History of Photography" book I have, (but the photo was unlabeled!)...

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring & would stay that way later in the fall."

That's it! Again, sorry for the super long posting! I wanted to be sure you got a feel for the whole book (plus, now I can post this link in the Etsy listing! Ha!)

Now it's time to hop on over for our last talented lady of the day...Noelle of noellescrapsalot! I know she will have something amazing to share with you all!

Don't forget to head back to the Creative Cuts & More store to place your order for some great mini-albums & more! She's really got a great selection AND you don't have to cut out any paper to match up with the chipboard - just pick a background color & you're set!!

TTFN!