Movie Party Review

17 kids ages 3-5 years old....crazy yes, but so cute and so fun! The only kid who couldn't make it was my niece Malia, who was home super sick, poor thing. I never would have survived if it wasn't for my big kids. Sierra and Gabe took the first shift, they wear incharge of concessions. I found sesame street paper cups with lids and straws at Walmart and some cute paper popcorn bags at Hobby Lobby. The kids were really excited about their popcorn bags and cups, in fact they all took them home with them to make more popcorn at home. The first 45 min. the kids actually sat and watched the movie but once they had eaten all their treats they had enough of sitting still. It was funny how the kids began leaving the room, it was literally youngest to oldest. The girls began playing the usual elaborate imaginative games and the boys went wild. That's when Pierce got put to work. The six boys chased Pierce for at least an hour running and screaming and giggling the whole time. Pierce finally throw his arms in the air and said,"I give up, you guys win!" to which Max exclaimed, "We WIN! We WIN! yeah baby!" Then all the boys said lets do it again. Max was in boy heaven, he is always surrounded by girls, so to have five other boys over was so exciting to him. And so cute to watch. Izzy and Max had so much fun, they really love throwing parties. It was totally worth the chaos to see their happy little faces. I think we will definitely have to do it again, only next time 2 hours Not 3 hours.

Next Creative Kids Workshop

Just a quick blog to remind all tweens and teens this Friday July 10 is my next Creative Kids workshop. We will be creating this cute journal. Kids will learn how to sew a book and fun accent stitching, plus I will be teaching them some keys to successful doodling on the projects. Hope to see you girls there.

Surprise Mini Projects

In my Creative Kids Workshops I have been doing an extra little mini SURPRISE project each class. Which may I just say has been so fun to plan! I thought you all might like to see a pic of the last one, my Sierra graciously agreed to model it for me. We made fabric/felt 4th of July barretts. And since they are so cute I made two for each little girl in our family = 14 barretts, my fingers were so tired at the end. Now we have to do a photo shoot with all the girls wearing them....can't wait it will be so fun. By the way if you love felt and fabric, fun and funky barretts but don't want to make them check out the beyond adorable ones down at Scrapbooks ETC. made by the cutiest little chick Janeya (her mom is Kelli Collins, super cool lady)

'AMERICA' Banner

In the mood for some 4th of July decor. I made this banner to go with my USA wood blocks (there were still a couple kits left at ETC., last time I was there) Some ladies asked me if I would post pics of each letter, so here they are ladies..... enjoy. By the way I really did put the pictures in in order to spell America, but they definitely didn't show up that way here. Hope everyone is having a super creative day!

"We neeeeed a Movie night, too!"

So, here's the thing I love using actual tickets in scrapbooking. While I was kitting my first Creative Kids Workshop Izzy spotted the pink tickets I was using and got sooooooo excited. She immediately asked if she could have some, then her plans began, "We neeeeed a movie night too!" For the next hour she danced and sang as she glued tickets to computer paper making big plans on inviting all her and Max's friends over for a movie late night. It was so cute, I even set up the video camera to film her as she stood at the kitchen table singing, "I'm gluing tickets for my friends..... 'cuz it's a friends movie night.....my friends are coming with their tickets to the movie night.....'cuz it's a movie night" the whole time shaking her tiny bootie. Of course Max got in on the plans immediately, Izzy had him running around getting her supplies. Max of course was doing his own version of the 'friends movie night song' his versions of Izzy's songs are usually more like fight songs...he has to kick and jump and break dance while he does it. Oh my goodness it was to die for cute. I love love love that Max & Izzy are best buds and have enough imagination for five kids. Well, I of course promised that day we would have a movie party for the little kids (seriously how could I not and how could I not invite every kid they wanted too). It has taken me two and a half weeks but I have finally made and delivered invitations, with tickets of course, for the big movie party (they invited 16 kids ages 3-5 ...I have officially lost my mind). Max had to have blue invitations for the boys, which of course meant I had to make blue tickets.....NO pink for the boys....and just so you know he SAYS he called them and they wanted blue not pink (yeah, he never called them, but his little made up stories are so cute we just go along with them) Anyway I thought I would post some pics of the cards we made with little pockets for tickets. Izzy and Max want them to bring the tickets to get into the movie party. So cute .....I LOVE this age so sweet, innocent, full of imagination, excitement, love and they can dress themselves and go to the bathroom by themselves...Yeah, Life is good in the Motherhood.

Next Class

The next Kids Creative Workshop is almost here.

It will be Friday, June 19 @12:30-3:30pm. We will be creating this USA decoration plus a surprise project (my favorite of the surprise projects). I hope to see all you girls there, and if you aren't a tween or teen but want to make this project you can buy a kit. Hope you all have a super duper creative day!

12x12 Happiness

Oh, how I LOVE creative time. Can I just say how absolutely happy creating makes me. I don't care what artsy, creative or crafty thing it is, as long as I get to use my hands and make it look pretty or cool, I am in BLISS! I am so thankful for the blessing of creativity Heavenly Father gave me. When I am not creating it's like I have an itch I can't scratch. So the last 2 weeks I have worked really hard at scratching! I had so much fun SCRAPBOOKING! I haven't scrapped 12x12 layouts (for myself) in a long while, so I decided it was way overdue. Here are a few of the pages I've done lately. The pics of them aren't great but oh well.

Little Entrepreneurs

These two little cuties are cooking up some creative fun this summer. They will be teaching kids scrapbooking classes at our house.

They are calling their business M&S 'r' Scrappin' ( aren't they cute) They have two different age groups 4-6 years & 7-11 years. The classes are 2 hours long and on every other Weds. each class is $10. They are mostly doing mini books, but there are some other projects too. They have some super fun stuff planned. If you are interested you can e-mail me at jwagpaper@live.com

Creative Kids Workshop

Summer is almost officially here, although the over 100 degree weather outside says it's already upon us. If you don't know what to do with your tween and teen girls this summer sign them up for Creative kids workshop at ETC with me. These pics are of the journal we will be making in the third class on Fri. July 10 12:30-3:30. The girls will learn how to sew a book, do some decorative sewing & we will practice our doodling skills. By the way there are always late night crops on Friday nights until 11:30pm, so after your daughter is done with class you and her can stick around for some more girl time (my daughter LOVES the late niters. The second class on June 19 will be a fourth of July decoration. I haven't designed it yet, I am waiting for all the new 4th of July goodies to arrive. Have a happy creative day (Iam finally going to goo eat lunch, yeah)