Thursday, January 31, 2008

Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Fourth Banner


I'm late again but finally found some time this afternoon to do some crafting.
The Haiku reads:
My mind is a length
of thread and I bead one dream
after another on it.

Kylie Pics


Here she is sitting on the stairs. She loves climbing up and down and always says, "She'll do it by herself."
The video caught her saying the alphabet but I missed the beginning.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

A Thank You Note



This is a thank you note the paraprofession-al in one of my classes gave me for a Christmas gift I had given her. It came at just the perfect time because a few days before, unbeknownst to her and while she was still in Arizona visiting her daughter, I had given the students a lesson in how to write thank you notes. I shared this page with them to show them that ty notes are still alive.

They also loved looking at my journal and asked all kinds of questions about how I do it and, I know that several of the girls are thinking of starting one.

It's amazing how many postage stamps fit the theme of the pages I do. As you can see here, the stamp matches the daisy on the thank you. I love coincidences like that!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Red, White, and Blue


I painted this flag-looking page when I got home from school. A little while later the mailman dropped off a letter from my friend with the big flag on the back of the envelope and another piece of mail with that presorted stamp.