My sister, Karyn, is due April 6 with my first niece or nephew! (We’ll find out which when the kid arrives.) There is a lot of excitement buzzing around my family (first grandchild, first great-grandchild, etc. for both sides [maternal/paternal] of our family) and I’m excited because it gives me an excuse to buy many things that I like but are more appropriate for children.
I’m hosting a family and friends shower for Karyn in early March and decided to go a little nuts with the invitations (click on the images for a better view):
I started by gathering all of my supplies at both
Michaels and
Archiver’s. (Note: I’m very experienced with an X-acto knife. Please don’t drink and X-acto… like I do.)
I’m going for a jungle theme with this shower as Karyn has registered for a lot of monkey things and I’ve already (Christmas) gifted Baby Crouse with many stuffed animals (note what I said earlier…). I was inspired by some invitations at Archiver’s and got fun scissors that made a cut which reminded me of grass.
I printed all of the details on a white card that Mom and I glued inside of invitations.
After making sure she was doing it right, I let Mom add the ribbons to the front flap of the invitations.
I got many cute, 3-D animals stickers made by
Jolee’s, which we put on the front of the card. With the four different patterns of ribbon that we used,
all of the invitations seemed unique!
Mom and I were happy to finish all of the invitations (we made 50!) and get them into envelopes for mailing.
And, of course, after all of our hard work and I handed Karyn the invitation I reserved for her, she informed me that I mistyped her address.
Think these are great? You can still sign up to have me make something awesome for you!
I found this idea on Jenni’s site and thought this would be a good challenge for me to be more creatively productive in 2009!
The first six (6) people to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those six who respond first.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
- What I create will be just for you.
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The catch? You have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!
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Ampersand is about 6 or 7 months old now, so I thought it was about time to take her to her first appointment with the veterinarians at the Kitty Klinic (35th Street and Lyndale Avenue in Minneapols).
I dropped her off at about 8 a.m. this morning, and brought her home shortly after 5 p.m. She had a full day—vaccinations, microchipping, and spaying. She’s been very quiet all night, but seems happy to be home. Ellipses had his worries for a little while (since she probably smelled like all of the other kitties from the clinic), but he has since calmed down, too. I guess I have a weekend full of quiet kitties ahead of me.
I have to bring her back in about a week and half to remove her stitches, then a couple weeks after that again for other booster shots. Then hopefully we can all stay home for a good long time!
