Last of the Teacher's books!

I've made a few of these over the last 4/5 years for the grandchildren to give their teachers when they are moving up to the next class or school as the case might be at the time. Charlie is leaving his present school this year and joining his big brother so this is the teacher's book for him to give her today on his last day. A little different from the others as it's a folding concertina type. I've had the blank chipboard book that came with an open ended box to put it in for what seems like years, well it probably is! I think it was a Provo Craft one and the paper I've used is equally as old but the colours are suddenly back in fashion!!!

This is the front of the box

Front of the book itself

and the rest! Charlie is adding his own little letter of thanks to put in the envelope on the last page. In his best handwriting of course!!

I'm back !!

Oh dear I'm not very good at keeping up with this blog just lately !
I haven't done any crafting for a couple of weeks as real life just gets in the way sometimes. I plan to do things and then the phone rings......"Mum, can you/are you busy......." I'm sure some of you can relate to these moments !!!!
Well the latest request was for one of my tried & trusted thank you teachers quote books for Jack's teacher.
Ordered some lovely My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 paper pads from here from the Stella Rose collection, one in the Hattie range and the other in the Gertie Range, I do so love My Minds' Eye! DD1 wanted the book in the Gertie collection so this is what I came up with :-

Having got into using the paper & glue again I then went ahead and made two LO's yesterday.
The first one, I'm ashamed to say, has been waiting to be done since 2008 when both DD's and their families went to Florida. The photos were all ready,I just hadn't got round to doing anything with them !! I really need to get going with the other 100 or so that are still in the box at somepoint !

The second one is of Molly at Northampton Festival doing a perfect split in her modern dance. The photograph isn't mine, you're not allowed to take any but they do have an official photographer there who is suppose to be a professional. Hmmmm by the quality of the photos I had to pay £4 each for that description is a bit questionable I think. Can't be helped, they were worth it just to see her " in action" so to speak.
Now on to saga of the LO......I saw a lovely LO on Sarah's Cards blog here a couple of weeks ago by Rachael Elliot and thought to myself " Oh I have those papers" so off I went with the intention of scraplifting this gorgeous LO ! - Firstly yes, I did have SOME of the papers - 3 sheets of the same paper from one LO and one sheets from the other LO !!!! I decided to take a bit of this from one and take a bit of that from the other and made it up as I went along with the minimum stash I had to play with !!! So I think the moral of this story is, if you're going to scraplift such a beautiful LO do make sure you have the goods to do so first. So acknowledgement to Rachael for the inspiration and scraplifting to make a two into one LO !

A Busy Week- End

The week-end just gone was a busy busy one with the girls dancing at the Northampton Dance Festival. Saturday saw Molly winning her Ballet Class and came 3rd in her modern. The song & dance group also won their class. Sunday saw Molly coming third in her song & Dance and the junior Modern Group came 2nd in their class. Although Emily danced her ballet very well she wasn't placed but we have made great strides.....she smiled all the way through the dance !!!!! It must have been something in the Roast Lamb she had for lunch before we went !! Lets hope we've cracked it now, bless her. Back again on Monday morning to see Molly & Miles win the junior classical duet, quite an achievement as the class they have to enter is for 9 and under and they're both only just 7. I had to return in the evening with Molly so she could collect her classical award and also the agregate award for her age group.Carys needed to go for a run ! Dance Festivals takes a little break now until the May half term when Molly will be competing in the semi finals for the London North Region at Welwyn.
Carys needs to keep in training for a little while longer until this Sunday when she'll be pounding the streets of London in the Marathon, running for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Me, I'll be jumping from one Tube/Dockland train to another with my sister in law & brother in law to cheer her on at various points in the race ! Nick and the girls, together with a few friends, will be at other points.We've tried to work it out that she sees one of us every 5 miles which is what we did the last time she did it and it worked well.

On Friday the headteacher of Molly's school retired after 21 years as head. She'll be sorely missed,she ran an excellent, firm on discipline but a very happy school and has gained an outstanding grading across the whole school from Ofsted since 1997.
Carys asked me to make a little book and this is what I came up with using some Echo Park Springtime paper.The girls wrote a little message on a couple of journalling cards and Carys attached them to the back of the book before she wrapped it up.

A Slide for today

This is a wedding book that I've been doing off and on for a year, how bad is that ? It's been made for my daughters best friend and as my grand-daughter was her bridesmaid she's going to give it to her tomorrow on her anniversary.
The papers used are all from the Making Memories " I Do " collection. Sorry about the quality of the images but I was in rather a hurry this morning taking the photos as my daughter was on her way to collect it....nothing like leaving everything to the last moment is there? !!!

I was going to make a slide of the teachers book too but decided against it as that pet game is driving me nuts popping up on all the slides. I don't know how to get rid of the thing though.

Anyhow, this is one of the two teachers books I made last week. I seem to have missed taking the photo of a couple of pages though but mever mind you get the idea :) The book was made with the papers from the May kit from Sarah's Cards ( link on the right side )

Teachers Books

My grandson finishes school tomorrow and DD1 asked me a few days ago if I would make, not one, but two teachers quote books. I've made a few of these now but even so it was still a bit short on the notice front for these two. Anyhow, even in this terrible heat I went ahead and managed to finish both by 9pm tonight. She likes them so that's one good thing!
They're both very similar though as with so little time I was running out of ideas to make the 2nd one any different from the others I've made.