All Paper Arts

Look what I found while I was actually working on one of my goals. That would be the goal to get my craft area organized. Okay, the craft room is not organized….yet. However, I must have dug a little bit in the abyss that is the paper arts area. How else would I have found this cute little invite that is from my now 7 1/2 year olds 5th birthday party?

Once you pull the smiley face out pops the flower with the tag and the flower pot. This let the guests know that it was a garden theme party. On the other side of the tag I had written that the kids would be planting flowers. The parents appreciated this because they knew not to let their kiddos get dressed up.

At the beginning of the party the children decorated their own little flower pots then after the pots were dry they planted flowers in the pots and took them home as favors. Instead of cake and ice cream I made a dirt cake and had it in a beach pail. It was a great little party.

dirt cake, handmade party invitations, card making, scrapbooking, all paper arts, childrens birthday parties

! Happy New Year! I am not one for making resolutions. To be honest I don’t really keep them. It’s not that I don’t keep them as I just tend to forget about them. Instead I try to make a few goals to complete. So here are a few of mine for the year.
1. Start posting on this blog daily again. I have let down everybody by not doing so.
2. Get my craft room organized again and keep it that way.
3. Actually put stuff on my personal website so people can buy some of my stuff or contract my services.
4. Start a book for not only the baby but for my 6 year old. Somehow I never managed to buy her a baby book. I am pretty sure it was because I was going to scrapbook and paper arts one for her.
5. Go back for another semester of college. This one is pretty easy; I have already registered and paid.
6. Get all my thank yous out. The ones for baby gifts, people who brought dinners, my kids thank yous for Christmas presents, and so on. Don’t worry my children will be making their own thank yous. So I should actually say getting the thank yous in the mail.

There is much more I could write down. Like now that I am smaller than I was before I was pregnant to work at getting toned. Or to finally figure out how to keep my house in order and stay that way. Instead I will leave it at a short list. I am sure you have your own list going through your head.