Lollipops are Good Sellers!

Well, I'm a day late in posting but I wanted to share that the lollipop sale was a HUGE success!  We sold (drum roll please..........) 492!  Those babies were flying out of the baskets faster than we could count!  One little gal came in with an order (there's 40 flavors and she had the list) from her neighborhood.  She had the flavors highlighted and the number of each required.  She bought 28!  All I can say is that's one SWEET neighborhood!  


Yes, it was a very busy but good day.  Our 6th grade helpers were fabulous and they did a great job selling.  I can almost hear the Blue Man Group banging....  =)


Have a wonderful day!

Fundraisers

Last year, my husband was unemployed so I quickly found work doing whatever - where ever I could.  One job working at a ski lodge kept me working 45-50 hours a week.  I saw my kids when they woke up and was able to get them breakfast and on the school bus before I had to go to work, but didn't get home until well after bed time.  That was a hard adjustment for a full-time mom to go to work and take care of others instead of my brood!  One of the saddest parts of working (aside from not being able to spend time with my kids) was the fact that I wasn't able to volunteer at school like I normally did.  


SO!  Now that my husband is happily employed (thank God!), I'm back to the full-time mommy status and am volunteering like crazy making up for lost time, I guess.  Dumb of me, I know, as I can barely keep the kitchen floor swept, but we'll manage.  We'll have dirty socks, but we'll manage.  ;)


Tomorrow starts one of the big commitments I have signed up for - Lollipop Coordinator!  My son's school, his particular section called the Fine Arts Magnet, has numerous fundraisers to earn money for the special field trips they take.  This lucky group of 87 students gets to charter busses and go to Chicago this coming spring to see the Blue Man Group!  Yeah, I'm going, too!  F-U-N!!!  Anyway, I have over 1,400 lollipops that were ordered, sorted in bins and are ready to be sold to the kids during lunch time. (We guarantee job security for dentists!)  Tell me this lollipop doesn't look good...mmmm, orange vanilla whip!   =)

Have a wonderful, sweet day and give your sweethearts a big hug and kiss!

Young Fellas Can Scrap, Too!

My son, Jonathan (11-years-old), started using Story Rock Publishing's My Memories Suite digi-scrapping program. Well, I asked him if he was ready to share some pages and he sure is! He's up to 32 pages in the album and still has about 50+ pictures to scrap. =)

I love how he chose all different kinds of background paper. At first glance, it didn't seem very cohesive, but to him? It's totally awesome! It made me realize that scrapping doesn't always have to be "perfect" and all pages "matching". This is an art from the heart and whatever you like is how your pages should be! Have fun with it (like my son is) and enjoy sharing your memories with others. I learned a great lesson from my son and I'm thankful for that. And Jon's album? I'm having so much fun going through and looking at all the colors and patterns he chose. I think my kid's fun!

I'll post a couple here today and a few more later as he finishes the album. He's having such a great time and it's fun for ME to see HIM having so much fun! Can't wait to get them printed up and put them in a cute (well, I guess it has to be cool) album for him to show his buds!

Men Can Scrap!

White Caps Opener - Spring 2010

I've been flipping (or should I say "clicking"?) through my albums that are finished and am ready to send them in for printing! I forgot about a page that my husband created. Guys really can scrap and I think my husband's really good at it! He sees things differently than I do and his creativity is much different than mine.  It's nice to have two different perspectives in our scrapbooks rather than just my own.  


Chris and the kids went to our local minor league baseball park to watch the opening game with grandpa this last spring. The REAL reason they went was for the free snuggie for the first 1,000 fans (yup, we now have 3 snuggies that say White Caps on the sleeve!). 

They had a great time and took lots of pictures. My husband wanted to give his dad a special Father's Day gift so he created this page and had me print up one copy for him (I know - I should've printed an extra copy for us to keep but I didn't - kick, kick, kick). He chose a baseball background paper (sorry - I can't give credit to the designer on this one because I don't remember!) and started putting pictures on the page, including an image he took of the tickets, program and newspaper article (I thought that was pretty creative for him to THINK of that!). Once finished and printed, we put the picture in a nice frame and gave it to Grandpa. He loved it! 


Do you have some pictures from a special event that you can put into a collage? They make great pictures to hang on the wall or have sitting on a desk or mantle (create a 12 x 12 and you can size them down to any size square!). Have fun with all those memories!