Firstly ... Happy Birthday to mum for yesterday ...
I wanted to do this yesterday on her Birthday but I was tooo busy with my Aquaerobics first , then taking her for brunch (had very yummy eggs Benedict without the salmon!!! at Vanille... good thing we did an extra hard workout !!! ;-) ... organising a birthday cake for her and then taking Kelsey to go buy her present ... hope you had a great 71st mum !!!! June & Irena popped round for a surprise visit last night so we still managed a bit of a party ... cake, candles etc ... (you'll see the photos when I find a way to get them on here!!!)Still having major camera hassles ... not heard about my 'baby' and we've managed to bugger up Kelsey's camera - I think it was the shock of being used again ... my OLD cell phone keeps jamming up, so I've finally managed to get some photos with my NEW cell phone (the one I got last year and is still in it's box ... I'm terrible when it comes to technology)... and now I've spent the last 3 hours trying to download the photos ... finally got it ... so here goes the rest of the week ...
We've been soooo busy (makes a nice change - see that's what happens every time I decide I'm going to get the craft stuffs out and actually do something!!!) although a lot of it Kelsey has been doing all by himself ... he's had to organise all his 'Valentine Love Stuff' for school ... here's the photos for you to see him in action ...
Part of the 'project' was that not only did he have to make the 'items' to sell but he also had to provide a 'box/receptacle' etc. that he could sell his items from ... it had to be portable so he could 'walk around and sell' at school ...
He covered a (beer) box in red paper that he had stamped black hearts etc. all over ... then we had to think of a way to get the 'Love Lollies' to stand ... good old oasis to the rescue ... covered in red paper ... some ribbons tied in critical places and the box was ready to go ....
His 'MOBILE SHOP' ... called 'LOVE STUFF!'
The 'Love Notes' .... remember those red pegs! He made Love Notes out of those ...
Last week we dyed them red ... coloured everything else too ... but hey !!!! That was fun ... when they were dry ... I cut very thin strips of pretty pink papers for him ...
These thin strips were glued to the sides of the pegs:
He punched out red love hearts:
The love hearts were attached to the top of the pegs:
He cut up smaller pieces of paper, stamped love images on them and hey presto ... Love Notes.The 'Love Bookmarks' ....
Firstly he cut some pretty pink papers into strips of different thicknesses...
Then he stuck them onto an A4 sheet of white card:
This was then cut in half (A5) and then cut into 5cm strips to make these lovely patterned pieces of card ... he used my Zutter Round-it-All to round off the corners:
Next he stamped a 'love' stamp onto white card:
He punched out the image using a circle punch ... to make little medallions:
Punched 'button holes' in the medallions:
The medallions:
He inked around the edges of the medallions so they would stand out against the pink background:
WE added some ribbon but then decided that ... hey bookmarks are not sooo cool so I had found some pin badges with love hearts on at one of the warehouse shops I visit ... and even though they were not supposed to 'sell badges' (that was 1 of the rules .... ooops) we said theoretically we were not selling badges as we added the badges to the bookmarks ... now they look COOL....(hope he doesn't get penalised for that ;-0
Now how 'COOL' is that ... with these you just 'gotta luv reading' !!!!! ????
I'll let you know how he does ... I hope he gets good marks cos he worked really hard at this ... especially as all this 'faffing' is not his 'THING!!!'
You'll probably notice in most of the photos Kelsey is half naked !!! It has been sooooo incredibly hot this last week ... it's LOVELY .... but because of the heat you find you just don't have that much energy ... the aquaerobics classes have been a special treat ... swimming early morning ... mind you not that it cools you down for long cos Lana ... that's our instructor ... she sure knows how to give a mean workout ... (Just hope we get see some results one of these days lol ... but actually it's not that hard on the body ... even at my age !!!! ;-)
Unfortunately cos of the heat the boys have not been able to do rugby practise either so Kelsey's been 'miffed' about that ... school rules : if it's raining & dangerous no rugby ... if it's too hot & dangerous no rugby ... he's hoping practise is on today because it has cooled down a bit and we have thunder- storms forecast for later on today ... hopefully not during practise !!! ;-)
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