Friday, December 14, 2007

gifts

I was inspired by the girls from Scrap of Faith to make Jacobs teacher a gift, which he gave her on the last day of school today, its a pen holder for her desk, Jake said she was quite impressed when she found out I had made it, I put boxes of smarties in it, because she was a good teacher and she made the kids a lot smarter because of her teaching! I thought that was clever of me to think that! and I told Jake to make sure he tells her what the smarties meant, but he forgot!

My next gift is a gift I treated myself to a - Clip it Up, I have had my eye on one for ages, but as they are quite pricey I knew
Id be waiting for a while, until I stumbled upon one on an American ebay shop, I bought both tiers plus a cover for it and all up including postage it cost me $140 compared to $110 from Blue Bazaar just for the bottom tier and not including postage, plus I received within 10 days!! so it was an early birthday present for me!

I will finish up with a couple of layouts 'peace, joy, love' is just a Christmas one of
Ella I did.

'When we were young' is one of myself and Ella and the quote I used is one I just love by Dorothy Evslin - 'What is the price of an afternoon when a small girl is soothed
in your arms, when the sun bolts through a doorway and both you and the child are very young' - so that explains the title! lol!

Well its Marks birthday today and we are about to sit down and watch a dvd, Im just waiting for him to tell me to "GET OF THAT COMPUTER" he says that in a nice way of course!!

2 comments:

Carolina said...

Good job on the pen holder Natalie, and cute use of the smarties even if your son forgot LOL! Are you loving the Clip it up??? I have one and LOVE IT!!!

Karen L said...

Great job on your son's teachers present and I love the thought behind the smarties - very clever. Love the look of hyour Clip it up too - would love to know where you got it from. actually I think it would be very handy. Layouts look awesome too - lucky you getting to scrapbook, would so love to get some done. Have actually packed some to take away with me - wonder if I will get any done though. Feel like I am going through a bit of a scrapbooking drought at the moment.