Just a little journaling tonight!!! A memory that I want Aimee to remember!
Today was Aimee's first assembly in St Joseph's! I knew Aimee had a few lines to say! "If we don't wash our hands properly we will pass the germs from our hands to our food and then to our stomachs which will make us ill", little miss had all this learnt off in the first evening she brought it home. The school nurse had given them a talk on how to wash hands properly and brought in the germ seeing machine!!! A little black box with a ultra violet light, which highlights the germs on your hands.
The children have also been learning about families, they have been reading books about the Large Family (Family of elephants, funny books), drawing and painting their families. They then picked one of the books "A piece of Cake" to act out. My Aimee was the narrator! She had a whole load of lines to say, and she only stumbled once!!! I can't believe how confident she is! No nerves, smiling all the time!!! This assembly was a pleasure to watch! For a treat their teacher baked them a chocolate cake for them to have! As the children were filing back out of the Hall, Mrs Keys said "I'd better take this cake with me, what do you think will happen if I leave it here?", children answered back the "mummies and daddies will eat it". Aimee piped up and said "you don't have to worry about my mummy, she won't eat it, she doesn't like cake" LOL and of course she said it sooo loud everyone could hear! LOL
Unfortunately Aimee's school is one of the ones that doesn't allow photos or videos, so this blog is even more important now, as all I have are these words from her assembly!
Then I dashed off to pick up Chloe for her appointment at the orthodontic clinic!!! Just made it with a few minutes to spare. We found out that her brace wasn't working properly, Chloe has to use a "key" to click on the brace twice a week to tighten up the brace! So the last 6 weeks nothing was happening!!!!
I managed to sneak into Tesco's after that and pick up a little something for Tracey, I hope she has fun with it, it should help with using up all those scraps from the December a Day Book that we have decided to do! WHY, OH WHY? do I do these things, it's not like I don't have enough to do already, haven't even started on Christmas cards yet!!!! But it looked like such a brilliant idea and excellent memory keeper!
That's it! I am actually going to start on some cards tonight, I have to, lol!!!!
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Altered Chipboard Advent Calendar .....
at last, lol!!!
I have finally finished the Calendar, I used way too much wet stuff and had to keep waiting for it to dry - sigh!!!!
This is how it looked
and after I got my hands on it!
Again photos do not do it justice, IRL it looks a lot nicer! CLICK ON THE PICS TO SEE A BIGGER IMAGE!
I used a square punch and a scalloped scissors to make the roof "tiles". All the papers are K and Company expect for the snowflake paper which is s.e.i. The icicles are from a £2:00 Christmas Decoration pulled to pieces. I used opal dust to give the impression of frost, and a snow writer on the edges for ice.
I have used a lot of glitter, well it is a Christmas decoration after all, you read right, this is not for the girls, this is never going to be used the way it is supposed to be, Grinch I know, but too much blood, sweat, tears and gluing my fingers together went in to this, lol!!!! I had told Aimee that I was making it for them to open, so she kept asking which number was she going to open! I told her that everything would fall apart if it was used properly and that I will buy them the usual Advent Calendars, Aimee being Aimee didn't create a fuss and said "yes mum I think you are right it is too beautiful to use", that little lady sure knows how to pull at my heartstrings!!!!
Anyways, all of the embellishments on the drawers were bought from Netto about 2 years ago, and I saved them for the perfect thing, as you do!

The chimney took me the longest as I wasn't sure how to decorate it!!!



Beautiful K&Co Christmas stickers
Stash used
K&Co - Christmas papers and Stickers
Embellishments from Netto
Stickles - Crystal, gold, red and silver
Jo Sonja's - Artist Background Colour
Arcylic Brown Paint
Iceles - Christmas Decoration
Jo Sonja's - Opal dust
Decoart - glistening snow Writer
S.E.I - Alpine Frost, Dust of snow
Sandylion - Kelly Panacci - Season's Greetings
Numbers very kindly cut by Tracey
Bazzill Bling - Black

I have finally finished the Calendar, I used way too much wet stuff and had to keep waiting for it to dry - sigh!!!!
This is how it looked
and after I got my hands on it!
Again photos do not do it justice, IRL it looks a lot nicer! CLICK ON THE PICS TO SEE A BIGGER IMAGE!
I used a square punch and a scalloped scissors to make the roof "tiles". All the papers are K and Company expect for the snowflake paper which is s.e.i. The icicles are from a £2:00 Christmas Decoration pulled to pieces. I used opal dust to give the impression of frost, and a snow writer on the edges for ice.
I have used a lot of glitter, well it is a Christmas decoration after all, you read right, this is not for the girls, this is never going to be used the way it is supposed to be, Grinch I know, but too much blood, sweat, tears and gluing my fingers together went in to this, lol!!!! I had told Aimee that I was making it for them to open, so she kept asking which number was she going to open! I told her that everything would fall apart if it was used properly and that I will buy them the usual Advent Calendars, Aimee being Aimee didn't create a fuss and said "yes mum I think you are right it is too beautiful to use", that little lady sure knows how to pull at my heartstrings!!!!
Anyways, all of the embellishments on the drawers were bought from Netto about 2 years ago, and I saved them for the perfect thing, as you do!

The chimney took me the longest as I wasn't sure how to decorate it!!!



Beautiful K&Co Christmas stickers
Stash used
K&Co - Christmas papers and Stickers
Embellishments from Netto
Stickles - Crystal, gold, red and silver
Jo Sonja's - Artist Background Colour
Arcylic Brown Paint
Iceles - Christmas Decoration
Jo Sonja's - Opal dust
Decoart - glistening snow Writer
S.E.I - Alpine Frost, Dust of snow
Sandylion - Kelly Panacci - Season's Greetings
Numbers very kindly cut by Tracey
Bazzill Bling - Black

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