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Let the School Year Begin!

Well, another summer is over and another year of school begins! Big changes here, my oldest daughter, starts the middle school! She's excited, I'm a little sad though, I like seeing her during the day but she needs to move on and up to bigger and better things! My little one, is starting 3rd grade! When did I get so old?! Here are some pictures of the latest bulletin boards my Cricut helped me create! Enjoy!

Washington DC!

We spent a few days in our nations' capital. We have the greatest friends! They own a condo in Arlington VA, and were heading to the Jersey shore for vacation and gave us their keys to the condo! How great is that! We drove, 3 hours from NJ, hit a little traffic, but arrived in one piece. Okay now let me preface this by saying, we saw TONS of great things and it was wonderful to see all the new monuments that I've never seen, however...................we had no idea how freakin' hot it would be! I know, it's August, it's hot in August, I know! I live in NJ! It's hot here in November sometimes! But this was unlike any heat I've ever experienced! OMG! My oldest was so hot she actually was getting goosebumps, a sure sign of heat stroke! Good times! We needless to say came home earlier than we had planned but nevertheless, we saw amazing sites and I'm happy my kids saw DC, but next time I'm going in the winter!

Getting Ready for School (part 1)

Well, my friend is a 5th grade teacher at my kids school. He doesn't decorate alot, and since I sub in his class, I selfishly decided to decorate! My daughter and I worked on these posters and went to school, laminated them and hung them up yesterday! I hope he likes them! There were 8 in all, and the Cricut was super handy (each is about 25" x 40", except the reading and the writing ones)! We used, Cuttin' Up!, My World, Graphically Speaking, Lyrical Letters & Plantin Schoolbook! The diversity and "solution" posters were stuff we found online (gotta love Google!), but the technology poster & the reading=everything posters, I came up with! Gotta say, I'm pretty proud of them! Enjoy! (there are 2 posts because the file was to big!)

Getting ready for school! (part 2)

CK Convention Valley Forge PA

Well, I went again this year. My friend and I have gone every year for about 4-5 years now. The first year we took 3 classes, and only one was really any good. If you scrap you know the stuff they were teaching. Complete novices would benefit from some I think, but if you scrapped even once or twice, beginner classes are not so good! We haven't taken classes since that first year though. I have to say, I was a little disappointed this year. I expected to see alot of the same things as last year, maybe new colors or new packaging, that doesn't bother me since I always look forward to seeing the "new stuff" or hot new item, not the case this year. I walked the whole convention vendor fair in under an hour, bought a few glitter pens and glue and left. Nothing was super great or new. I don't know maybe I was expecting too much! I guess the economy really screwed everything up!

Are you kidding me?!

This is no joke! Apparently it was at the CHA convention in Orlando at the Provo Craft booth! C3PO or what?! Could this mean a Star Wars Cartridge is not far behind? It's so funny, you can't help but laugh! After my day today, this made me giggle!