Isn't She Lovely?

Ashley attended her first formal dance with Madison.
Madison gave Ashley a lovely wrist corsage.

Christmas Cards

Grant and I were out and about shopping today. We bought a few "winter" clothes for this growing boy. He was gracious about the time I spent at Scrap It! Just 2 little sale items today. We went to Costco for one of their roasted chickens. (We all like it so that was the dinner plan.) While we were at the checkout counter this lovely woman came up and spoke to Grant. She introduced herself as Grant's speech therapist. I asked her how Grant was doing and she said that he tries his best and is a very good student. Bravo Grant!

Mini Album

My dad's sister, Dorothy, is turning 90. Can't wait to go to her party and give her this mini album.

Altered Art by Ashley

Ashley was bored....see what that makes her create!

Looking for Holiday Cards?

Support Grant's Class!
Check out the cards available at Maverick's Market Place.
http://MavericksMarketplace.com/index.html

This is a student run business and the quality is good!

Scrapafaire Project

Just love SAF - Leah Fung gave a great calendar class. I took the idea and used my own paper but incorparated ideas from the classes I took. water color with Tracie Kyle- December, Scrap Those Scraps - Christy Tomlinson - October, Little Book of Techniques- Erikia Ghumm etc. Very fun. When I flip them over the other half of the year shows.

I can see my stamps

Finally - storage

Halloween Cards

Here are a couple of the Halloween cards I've been having fun with.

The 30 Day Placement

The day before middle school started for my son, the school called a "30 day placement" meeting. This meeting included the Resource Specialist, District Ed Specialist, School Psychologist, our legal advocate, Speech Therapist and myself. There was a brief intro to the special ed teachers. Agreement was set on the school's desire to do additional testing and then meet again in 30 days to set up the IEP that would be in place over the coming year.

Special Education Advocacy

I will try and document my experiences in public education as I learn more about being an advocate for special education services.

William, Alfred and David

My mother's brothers.

The Wedding

My mother and father emerging from the church where they were married.

A Four Inch Paper Box - Full of Surprises

These are so much fun to make and relatively simple. This one has 2 layers inside but even one layer makes a lovely gift.

The insides are only limited by your imagination. This one celebrates the birth of a child.

Here I added little envelopes and tiny cards for friends and family to make remarks.

Heritage Album

StampinUp! designer papers are so inspiring. Here I have documented my mother's First Holy Communion with her two brothers, circa 1920.

Wall Art

So easy with StampinUp! 12X12 designer papers.

08/18/2007

My first attempt at blogging. So far so good!