Happy Birthday Kyle!!

Yes, it's very hard to believe, but my "baby" is 7 today!  And this was the best of about a dozen shots if you can believe it!  hee hee

He had sort of a funny day because he had an hour and a half of school and it was essentially an assembly for the Grade 7 "graduation".  Usually, the Kindergarten kids give roses to the Grade 7s, but there weren't enough, so Kyle and a couple of kids in his class got to help as well.  The kids played a little while after school and then we were done there for the year!  Crazy!

Sophia is sick today, so I have Matthew, but not her.  Tracy wanted some ginger ale and Gravol for her, so the boys and I went and got a few things to take over there.  We didn't stay, but headed back here for lunch instead.  Matthew is napping and Kyle is waiting for me to finish so he can play computer while Nathan plays with the new Star Wars toys that Kyle got for his birthday!

This is the card I gave Kyle's teacher with her end of the year present which was a gift card for Staples and the following...

This was a card organizer that I saw online and used this fun Piggy Tales Thumbelina paper for.  I have seen a few tutorials and videos for this, so check them out and try it!  I alternated patterned paper and cardstock pages in mine.  Such a great gift and quite easy after the first one! Another great Bind It All project too!  The first tutorial link has the calendar pages I used inside it as well!

Well, think that's about it!  Oh I had a wonderful mail day yesterday...

I didn't have time to play with it yesterday, but I got my first Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients package and a few extra goodies I ordered as well (like the bag of buttons!)!  Check out the link to see all the goodies and why I'm so excited!  Yeah! 

Hope to play a little tonight with any luck though we're going out for dinner to Denny's  - at Kyle's request!  And then we're having George's parents over for cake and presents as well.  Maybe after everyone's in bed...

Cheers,

More Playing with my Bind It All!

OK, so I recently posted a food journal I'd made with my Bind It All and I think I mentioned that I pulled it out again after making cookbooks for my family with my mum and my sister.  I had more of the Creative Cafe coloured chipboard that I mentioned in my previous post as well, so I just took some Fancy Pants paper and used that along with some American Crafts Thickers for the title and some Bella Diamond Ice Baubles to give it a little pop.  Along with some stash ribbon I had, this was another one of those quick stash projects.  I'm having so much fun with these that I'm thinking I might start doing a few for gifts!

These are the cookbooks we did for family for Christmas.  My mum collected all the recipes and then we put them together.  Just used chipboard covered in Bazzill cardstock and then some of the Flair paper that I printed right onto.  Fairly quick to actually assemble once everything was printed!

Well, guess I'd better go do a few other things and add some more to my list of "to-dos" in my new notebook as well.  I'm using it to help keep me on track and organized for the new year since my "One Little Word" for 2010 is "purpose".  But more about that another time...

Cheers,

I finished something important...

OK, so I'm on the bandwagon too as far as trying to eat better and get healthier!  My weight is a constant battle and I just have to look at this journey the same as any other adventure - one that will have ups and downs.  For me, I know one of the keys to being better about my food is having a food journal, so I decided to make something fun that I would want to actually use!

I got out my Bind It All (which I seem to be a little addicted to for projects lately!) and whip together something.  This is a true stash project!  I used some paper that I got a few months ago from My Mind's Eye and put it on some Creative Cafe coloured chipboard that I've had for more than a year!  All the ribbon was from my stash and I pulled the green Thickers, metal lettering that is ancient, and small Making Memories stickers out of my stash as well.  The circle journaling item from MME was on my table as were the flowers, button and even a flat top eyelet!  Just sprayed a little Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist before putting the journaling spot on the front and that was it! 

A fun, quick little project that will now get used right away!

Cheers,

Bind It All Desktop Calendar

OK, so as I mentioned in my post last night, I was trying to figure out what to do for a little gift for Kyle's teacher when I was looking through all the blogs on my Google Reader and found something on Kristina Werner's that clicked! She had linked up her roommate's blog and she had little calendars and I thought this would be perfect.

My original plan was to put it in a CD case, but decided I didn't like the look of that. Just before I went to work, I looked up desktop calendars made with the Bind It All and found some great stuff on the Bind It All blog. That then linked up to a little video on how to make this type of calendar. When I went to work, I picked up the paper I'd need and then did this when I got home at 10pm after work last night. You'll notice I lifted the cover design from the one on the BIA blog because when I was finishing at almost midnight, I was a little lacking in creative inspiration! I so love how it turned out though that I want to make more!

Supplies: Calendar from Jen. Cardstock is Bazzill. Patterned paper is Sandylion. Chipboard for covers. Bind it All machine and O-wires. Polka dot paper on cover is American Crafts. Numbers on cover are American Crafts Vinyl Thickers. Gemstones are Hero Arts. Flower punch is McGill. Scalloped punch used on cover is Fiskars Threading Water Punch. Misc gem for flower. Ink for distressing is Palette Noir Black.

Please feel free to ask any questions you have, but this was a surprisingly easy project and only took about 2 hours (other than printing off the calendar and that didn't take long)! I think I need to make more! And maybe even one for me!

Cheers,