Happy Graduation

Tomorrow I will be going to my first graduation party in about three years. I guess I just don't know that many high school students any more... The party is for the son of a good friend of mine... two challenges when creating a card in this situation.. 1. I don't really know the graduate and 2. He's a boy. Making cards for boys is generally harder in my opinion. This is the card I came up with... I hope he likes it... if not I am pretty sure his mother will. 

Pottery!

Usually about once a year Mr. Jones, the art teacher, will ask if I'd like to make the project that the kids are working on. I love getting the chance to create the same projects the kids create. This year the project was making clay bowls. We used a plastic bowl as a mold and draped the clay slab (that I had to roll out) over the bowl to form the shape. After it was fired in the kiln I used different shades of blue to glaze my bowl. Then I applied a clear glaze over top which will allow me to eat my ice cream or cereal in a hand made bowl. Thanks Mr. Jones for letting me try something new! 

Raffle Winners!

During the Book Fair the kids had the opportunity to participate in a multiple raffle drawings to help raise money for the school PTO fund. The items that we donated we fun activities to be done with a teacher. Making Ice Cream Sundaes, Decorating cookies, playing Hopscotch, Playing Guitar Hero were just a few of the items being raffled. I decided to donate making cards with a winner and a friend.... x2. Last week I had the opportunity to make cards with one of the winners and her friend... they happened to be two of my 5th grade students. I had a great time showing them a couple of techniques... I am looking forward to my next session with the winner from 1st grade. Here are their creations. I barely helped them with their final products. Great job Katelyn and Jamea. 

Happy Birthday!

Every Friday the teachers of Riverside stop everything so they can get together and eat breakfast and celebrate birthdays... When I say stop everything... I mean nothing gets done for the 45 minutes before school except eating, laughing, and story telling. We even try to avoid scheduling meetings for Friday before school. This week we had a chance to celebrate Deb and Jos. I made cards for each of them... here they are! I hope they both had a great weekend celebrating their b-days! 

Happy End of the Semester!

Congratulations 

You survived your first year at IWU! 

Finals are tough and so is saying goodbye to friends for the summer. I am so proud of all your hard work... Keep up the great work! 

Happy Birthday Becka!

This is the year everyone is turning the BIG 3-0! This one is for your Becka! I hope you enjoyed your super special day! 

I cartooned myself!!!

Blogging, facebooking, twittering, all new things to be dabbling in on a more technological front... but in the midst I am thinking of way to CREATE using technology (especially in my classroom) So here is my newest creation: A cartoon of myself. I can't take the credit for the idea, one of my students actually thought of the idea... here is my take on me as a cartoon! 

I love...

BROWN AND GREEN!!!! 

Adopted Grandfather!

I have lived away from my family for almost ten years... EEEK! I spend as much time back at "home" as possible. I have an adoptive grandfather... (thanks Erika and Melissa for sharing) I make sure I have lunch with Grandpa Bud whenever I am in town. It makes my day as much as it does his. A few years back I was saying goodbye and he told me to send him a note in the mail so he would know I had arrived safely back in Ohio. I thought this was completely ridiculous. I had to drive 800 miles and the last thing I wanted to do when I got home was sit and write a note. Plus if something had happened it would be days before he ever knew. BUT when it's your grandpa you do it anyway even if you don't want to or think it's ridiculous... SO, now after every trip when I get home I make sure within a day (or two) to make a card and send it to Grandpa Bud.. :) 

Happy Birthday Heather!!!

Heather turned 28 over the weekend and it's spring so here is a little card to celebrate them both! 

Happy Birthday Sistah! 

Going ONCE... TWICE... SOLD!!!

Thursday, March 5th is the Riverside Elementary Pancake Dinner and Silent Auction... I made a bunch of cards awhile back to be places in the auction but last night I decided I wanted to add something else... I thought of the cute clipboards Erika and I made... Of course I didn't have any of the necessary supplies (clipboards,Modge Podge, tags). After two days of running around and late nights cutting paper, glueing, and tying ribbons they are complete and ready for the the highest bidder!!! 

Erika and I like to say we are going to do fun little projects... I think we said we were going to make these cute hand made bags about two summers ago. I am sure there have been many other projects we have said we would like to make and never took the time to create them. Or we are too busy going on adventures... WELL... this Christmas I arrived in New Hampshire and Erika had all the supplies ready to go to make decorative clipboards... They weren't completely finished when I left to go back to Ohio... so while I was there last week we took a few minutes to complete our cute clipboards... we will be styling and organized!!! 

Happy PRAXIS Day Anita!!! 

You are going to do a great job! This is the card I created to celebrate Anita and her big day. I am in love with adding a little bling to my cards. I think it adds just enough something-something to make the card look like a million bucks! 

GIGGLE

Erika had this great idea for some cute wall decorations for Melissa's shower and then told me she didn't have the time to make them so of course I told her I'd take care of it... well, with the help of Tammy (and Toby) we cut out all the letters. I took a little trip to my favorite papercrafting store in Derry, NH (Scrapbook Island) and the rest is history... 

Little Boy Gorgenyi!!

Surprise Melissa

Happy Baby Shower!

We celebrated the new addition to the Gorgenyi family on Saturday. I had a great time visiting with family and friends and watching Melissa open all the fun little baby items. I can't wait to meet this new little one!