pass it on

seems like a good day to pass along the Over The Top award I got from nikki to 5 amazing paper crafters:

just give me stamps
thinking inking
here i am, here i am
circus life
paper playhouse
i left a little love on your blogs to let you know you are all Over The Top wonderful!

and for the last part of the award, here is my list of responses to the questions with one-word answers:
1. Your cell phone? orange
2. Your hair? annoying
3. Your mother? gone
4. Your father? irish
5. Your favorite food? potatoes
6. Your dream last night? forgotten
7. Your favorite drink? coke
8. Your dream/goal? health
9. What room are you in? family
10. Your hobby? art
11. Your fear? fire
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. Something that you aren’t? mature
15. Muffins? cranberry
16. Wish list item? housekeeper
17. Where did you grow up? ohio
18. Last thing you did? ate
19. What are you wearing? Jeans
20. Your TV? HD!
21. Your Pets? cat
22. Friends? patient
23. Your life? charmed
24. Your mood? Happy
25. Missing Someone? mom
26. Vehicle? element!
27. Something you’re not wearing? mittens
28. Your favorite store? goodwill
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When was the last time you laughed? Today
31. Last time you cried? unknown
32. Your best friend? husband
33. One place that you go to over and over? grocery
34. Facebook? Yes
35. Favorite place to eat? home

mixed bag

i could be a responsible blogging-type person and put each note in its own entry but in the interest of getting these notes from queue to post, i’m just putting them all together here. i did finally create a watermark (and use it!) on a few of these. and i caved and bought the edge punch du jour: Fiskars Upper Crest punch. i love the shape of the curly bracket (also known as a brace)! and it was 45% off!

this card was sent along in the lunch that followed the H1N1 vaccination extravaganza at school. celebrate your vaccination!

here scooby-doo helps showcase the note. which is just a corner from an 8×8 sheet from the retro collection of scrapbooking papers.

practicing the white embossing on some swiss-dotted kraft…it was in the “use it up” stack.

this note is stamped on the back as well. the pic of the whole card did not turn out and i was too lazy to reset after downloading the pics. love those trees!

this is today’s note. last night was our parent-teacher conference. the first half of the conference was student-led where she got to show us papers she was proud of and read a letter she wrote detailing things she loves about 5th grade, things she’s learned and things she feels she needs to improve on. must brag a little here: the two math papers she shared were 106%-ers…one a worksheet and one a chapter test! i’m sure the lunch notes have something to do with it!

the sad thing (or happy?) is that she has started buying her lunches some days. she still wants a note every day but for now they can be no larger than 2.25 sq and not too layered or they won’t fit in her coin purse. that makes things a little easier for days i’m short on time, i guess. thanks for stopping by!

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so, my awesome friend and fabulous paper-crafter, nikki gave me a web award! i’m not sure i’m deserving of it but i’ll take it anyway! nikki is the person who got me started with stamps and ink and paper and glitter and who gave me the confidence to post my cards and notes online. according to the award i am Over The Top and nikki says part of the reason is because i send a note in my daughter’s lunch every day. (i’ve been doing that since 1st grade and she’s in 5th grade now.) most of the notes aren’t really anything spectacular but my husband convinced me that i should post each day’s note. convincing my shy daughter to let me do so was a challenge and she’s still not very thrilled about it. but she said as long as i don’t share the inside, she’ll be fine with it. so if you stop by to see my notes now and again, thank you. and remember, sending a little love along with someone on even the shortest journey tells that person you’re thinking of them.

ETA: i know i need to send this along to five other wonderful crafters and do the one-word answer list thing but it will have to wait another day….i’m sort of over the top busy right now!

thanks!

last week i was lucky enough to work as one of my favorite teachers. she went on a cruise and chose me to be her sub for while she was gone. i was attempting autumn colors on this card to match the flowers i gave her. didn’t quite get there!

this is the note book i made for the week i worked. the week ended with the class halloween parties so i thought a pumpkin would be cute.

and this is what happens when your photo set is in the same place as the cat’s favorite bird-watching window:

random

yay! using up the tiny bits of paper!

out of the loop

worked full time this week. also, husband broke his ankle last Saturday and was home all week on the couch. merge those two things with prepping for Halloween as well as 5th grade peewee football playoffs and I had a pretty busy week. i did make one lunch note…another book…for last week so i’ll try to get that online soon. also, i realized i haven’t taken a pic of the note from two fridays ago. no, i’m not lazy. just keeping the priorities straight!

backlog

friday, october 16 (6 cm x 6.5 cm)

monday, october 19; tri-fold; minimal effort (5 cm square)


tuesday, october 20 (5.5 cm x 7 cm)

wednesday, october 21 (5 cm square)

thursday, october 22 (6 cm x 5 cm)

many thanks

there were a lot of wonderful people who volunteered their time to help at our school’s fall book fair. this was an easy card to make in bulk! i used my sizzix to cut the felt flowers and stems!

who’s at the window?

i love the ink n stamp sets from hero arts. i want these owls to move in with me! and i love that the teacher i subbed for today has a vintage hero arts ink pad that i got to use to stamp the students’ agendas! sometimes it’s the littlest things that us the feel-goods!

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