Scrappy Girl

New Classes!

 Just sharing some new classes I will be teaching at Paper Tales.

First Up: Oh Baby!!!  Milestone books for boys and girls!  A fun book for the first year of baby's life, with spaces for pictures and journaling about all of those "firsts" and stats.  I think this is much more fun than those boring baby books.  This would make a wonderful gift for any new mommy.  And I just loved playing with Basic Grey's Lemonade and Lime Rickey papers!

 

And next up, I am attempting a monthly-ish page class.  Right now, I am title-ing it "A Child's Life"-- I was going to try to do the first year of life, but I realized that I don't scrap chronologically, and that was bound to throw people off.  So, I am just going to go with some layouts of topics that most people with wee ones have photos of.  In this case, "coming home" (from the hospital, from an adoption, hey, even camp for those with older kiddos!)  And then the two page layout is about water-- here, first bath, but it could easily be about pool or any other adventure with a sprinkler or bucket of water.  I am also hoping to put together a couple of samples with some of the "leftover" pieces you will have when you finish these 3 pages!

 

Sorry about the less-than-great photos, but with two wee ones, sometimes what you get is what you get!

One of my favorite places

Greenfield Village has always been one my favorite places.  I always wanted to get married at the Martha Mary Chapel (it was too small, and it would have to be candle-lit--- me in a puffy dress and candles sounded like a very bad idea.)  So we took the family for a little visit yesterday (Erin's second-- the first was to see Thomas the train in May.) If you have not been in a while, you will be amazed at how much activity there is-- there were suffragettes marching, all the cars and bicycles and horses were out, there were musicians and singers out (Erin loved this), games you could play, and docents giving demonstrations and talks in most of the buildings.  Erin still loves the Roundhouse, where Thoams's friends are getting fixed. 

Suffragettes marching And Erin & Daddy giving a puppet show...

 

The singers (Erin sat and watched 5 or 6 songs), playing with the grace rings (very fun, tough I kinda suck at it), and the gazebo where Erin performed for us, and inside the McGuffy schoolhouse...

   

And some of my favorites, in the Cotswold Cottage gardens...

 

That last one we call "froggy face"-- she tried to make it her pouty face, but we laughed so hard, now she cracks up too!

And the cute story for today....we were in the McGuffy schoolhouse and I was explaining that a long time ago, when you went to school, you would have to sit on these benches and listen to the teacher, and Erin says "and watch TV!" I tried to explain that there would not have been any TV back then, and she just kept saying "no, they would sit and watch TV!".  Ah, kids.