Slacker

This year has really thrown me off my game. I feel like I am perpetually behind and running around like a chicken with my head cut off whereas normally I am on top of things. It is a combination of both of my kids being in school and now having functions, permission slips, information forms, required meetings AND my husband's night schedule that has him either home and occupying me during the day OR home and sleeping requiring me to either be very quiet around the house or be out of the house all day. How's THAT for a run-on sentence? I won't be correcting it, because the chaos and lack of organization in that sentence accurately reflects the same in my life right now.

Normally this time of year, I have whipped up awesome Halloween crafts, cards, projects, treats and costumes but I have accomplished NOTHING this year. Nada. I am thankful that I somehow managed to delegate the kids' costumes to other people, because I don't know that I would have done it had the responsibility fallen to me. And that is so not me. I hate feeling like this.

The last crafty thing I accomplished was Zoe's Ice Cream Parlour birthday party in August. For today's Mama Kat's Workshop, one of the prompts was to "show us something you've created for Halloween" and I am going to link up this post from Halloween last year. I just wanted to have an explanation in case someone followed the link and then landed on my current posts.

If you have been with me for awhile, I apologize for the repeat, but if you are new.. enjoy!

Hopefully I will get my groove back soon. Has anyone seen it?

End of Year (FINALLY) Teacher Gift

Tomorrow is Noah's last day of school. ( I know- it's about time!) Here are the very simple gifts I made for his teacher and bus driver: ( you can click on the image to see it enlarged)

I took a simple canister jar from WalMart, filled it with pink lemonade mix, cut out some cute little flip flops with my Cricut, tied a pretty bow around it and added a tag. The pinwheels were easy too. I used paper I already had, a long straight pin, a bead and a pencil. Easy Peasey.

Happy Summer!!

Teacher Appreciation

Tomorrow is the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon at Noah's school. I just finished making my edible contribution about an hour ago and then went on to tackle my personal gift for Noah's teacher. True to form, I waited until the last minute. I mean, really, I don't work well, unless under pressure.

I found three of these cute little lunchboxes on clearance at Michael's this past summer and knew I would eventually find a use for one or all of them. Noah's teacher gives stickers for completed homework, so I bought a bunch of sticker packs in various themes and a gift card to Barnes and Noble and packed them in the lunchbox. I think it turned out pretty cute.

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I also want to take a moment to thank all of the teachers. Once our kids start school, they spend more time with them than we do and have a great deal of influence on our children. They not only teach them academics, but manners, morales, how to be a good friend and neighbor, how to be impartial and spark that belief in them that anything is truly possible.

I am amazed every day at what all Noah has learned. Just today, he came home with math homework that included finding the range of a set of numbers. He knew how to do it without me telling him. He's in the first grade. I think I might have learned range somewhere around fourth or fifth grade. Wow.

So, thank you to Ms. Marcie and Ms. Florina (PK3), Mrs. King and Mrs. Brown ( PK4), Mrs. Salkowski and Ms. Kim (K) and finally to Miss Gray his first grade teacher this year. You all have molded my son into the sweet, sensitive, funny, smart, full-of-wit-and-wisdom little man that he is today.

Craftiness- Halloween 2009

I haven't posted anything crafty in awhile... here is the Halloween decoration I made for my entryway....

It is made entirely of punched squares from the Basic Grey Eerie line.

I also made these for treats

...also using Basic Grey's Eerie line, a scallop punch and a border punch.

And last are my little ghosts for the front yard I made by draping white cotton fabric over Styrofoam balls and dowel rods (for legs).

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Finally- the last day of school!

The last day of school has finally arrived. These are the teacher gifts I made for Noah's teachers. I either got the idea from Two Peas in a Bucket or from Cricut.com. I can't remember at this point. It's a combination of a few ideas I saw posted. I thought this one was the most practical. A lot of the gifts posted were really cute, but not very practical and I just pictured them getting thrown away in a few days. It doesn't matter if these get thrown away.. they're disposable gifts!



Now for the details. The plastic bags are just sandwich bags folded over. All of the paper used is DCWV Citrus Stack. The lemon cut is from the Life's a Beach Cricut cartridge. The scallop is a 2" punch and I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch. The border punch is also Martha Stewart and the pinwheels are just made out of 4 " squares slit at the corners with alternate corners folded in. I stuck a straight pin through the middle and into a pencil eraser ( the pencil is the stick for the pinwheel) and covered the straight pin with the butterfly. Then I glittered them up with Stickles.