Summer's End

Every year at the end of another summer I go through a time of mourning. Kaymen is off to school again, fall is around the corner with the holidays in tow, and the care free living of summer has gone. This year however I leave summer behind with a definite sense of excitement! Kaymen (my baby) has started High School! I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel!! I'm both excited and nervous everything counts from here on. If I have ever considered myself a good parent in the past I have to set those standards aside and raise the bar ten fold. All the work from the past will come to fruition in the next 4 years and man, that's freaking Exciting!!!!

I'm also glad to see summer close because I was so busy; my social calendar was booked like never before, which is awesome but I'm ready to get back to some normalcy and I'd like to get back to work (literally).

I co-hosted a bridal brunch and came up with some great stuff!

The summer fun hasn't all been in vain. I was able to make some crafts for one of the events~

These hearts were for a game that my Mother-in-law and I came up with; The Key to a successful marriage. Each guest was given a key with a unique cut out that fit into a heart, the guest was to write on the key ~ advice, what they think the "key" to a successful marriage is. The keys were then placed on a key chain and given to the Bride To Be, she then read the keys aloud and had to guess who had the matching heart the guest would hand the bride their heart for the bride to try and place the key in the heart, if it fit the bride guessed correctly keeps the heart and moves to the next key if the key does not fit then the bride chooses another guest.
We had twelve guests at the brunch so I cut out 120 hearts 96 were cut out of pastel card stock the additional 24 were cut out of decorative paper I then separated the card stock into twelve piles of eight and glued them together. Then I chose two pieces of the decorative paper and glued them to the front and back of my piles of eight. (Sorry this is my first attempt at writing out directions.) The next step was to make keys using an additional 24 pieces of my finest paper and 1 pieces of card stock I cut out 12 unique keys. Each key had a specific blade. The key were made of three layers of paper a decorative front and back with a piece of card stock in between. Once the key was made I traced each of the twelve key blades on an individual heart then using an exacto knife cut into the heart about five layers.

the Bride after the game

They turned out beautifully!

My sister introduced me to this blogger Ann Wood http://www.annwood.net/blog/  and I love her so!! I thought I'd try my hand at some of her stuff IE: her paper mache boats.

 here's my attempt (not nearly as nice)

I had to throw in some paper flowers

I made two boats and they were surprising easy to make! In fact I finished them on a trip to the beach in the hotel room.

The last "completed" craft I have is neither paper nor a small dish but it was fun!!

Take home bags!!

What to do now that's summer is over??

Finish all unfinished projects

Finish school

and Find a freaking job!! 

I'm doing it again

Ok so I'm a bit behind (an understatement). I had hoped that by this time I would have at least one how to posted or my business plan started, but no such progress has been made on my end. However, I haven't been neglecting these things in vain I have been a bit busy....... I'm doing 20 projects at once again. AAAHHhhh I have so many things on my brain and I'm  terribly unorganized which, as it turns out makes for slow going.
So please devoted readers do not forsake me (all 5 of you). I'm still in this I just need some organization.
Here's a look at what I've been up to I can't show all of it because it's not done yet.

Yes I am cutting up a book and I can't believe it either. It took a lot of planning to convince myself that it would be worth it in the end so I think this one will be great once complete. Unfortunately this is only the beginning.

I'm also in the final stages of my paper mache hot air balloon mobile (yes I'm still working on that). All I have left to do is paint them and ship them yay!! (pictures to come)

What else? Remember all those flowers I've been making? Well I flew to VT recently to visit my sis and her beauties. I brought the flowers along to make on the plane and I had planned on giving some away. I wound up leaving them in VT, so I'm starting over I think I probably had made upwards of 2,000. Luckily there easy busy work and I already have close to 50 new ones made. VT was beautiful and I got to spend time with both of my sisters and all of our children at once!! I also came across some really great ideas (like the book above).  I'll share my inspiration for the book once it's complete, but I've been collecting supplies to make this or something like this I can't wait because I totally love it!

Not the greatest picture. I found this in the Burlington Library, it's a large fish with little fish inside.

 I'm working on some stuff that's top secret but I've been getting pictures so I'll reveal them when allowed.