A Teacher gift for a WONDERFUL 2nd Grade Teacher

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Today was the LAST day of school, where did the year go???

Ever since my daughter started school I have made her teachers a special gift at the end of year and this year was no exception.  I have had the honor of reading every week to my daughter's class.  Twenty of the most wonderful children have sat and listen to me read adventures of all kinds, from Camilla with her bad case of stripes, to Mona the Vampire with glow in the dark Dracula teeth to Clementine cutting off her best friends hair and then drawing it back on in permenent marker.

  I volunteer that time because I want to, not because I have to.  It allows me to get to know each child, not just their names but who they are, we laugh and talk about what they did on the weekends, I quiz them on big words in the books I read and I always, always listen, really listen to what they are saying.  Those kids know when you are just half way listening to them and they don't appreciate it! lol

Not only do I read to them every week I also stay and help out in the classroom.  I file their weekly work in their Tuesday folders and sort and organize whatever needs to be done.  I run earns, make copies (the copy machine doesn't like me) I run to the office, library, other classroom and anywhere else.  You know WHY? because I LOVE it! See the way I look at it is that I get that much more time with my daughter, to see her grow up, to see how she learns in class, how they ALL light up when their teacher talks to them about projects or something new they will be learning.  Did I mention she is an AWESOME teacher.

When it comes to creating something special for each teacher, I completely take their personality into account, what colors they love, their hobbies and I design each purse from scratch.  Yes, yet again, no pattern I just started cutting and sewing and creating.

Hope you like my latest purse design:

I love the colors and fabrics I chose.  I knew she loved greens, blues and yellows and after an hour in the fabric store these are the fabrics I selected.

 Love how the flower turned out, I have made tons of flower clips for my purses but this one really worked well.  I will be doing a tutorial on how I made it next week.

My sweet peep modeling the purse this morning:

Here is my daughter the first day of 

school this year and the last day:

Summer here we come!!! 

~3rd grade see you in August~

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What I'm Sewing This Week: May 2011

 Now for some much over due girl stuff!!!

~A super fun, super comfortable summer dress~

My friend sent me this LINK from Sew, Mama, Sew! the other week and I fell in love with this top.  I decided to make a dress for my daughter using the tutorial.  Making the top into a dress is super easy you just add that much more length to you main body piece and I also added a band at the bottom.

I used seersucker fabric.  I have never use seersucker before and I am so in love with this fabric.  Easy to cut,sew and washes beautifully.  

I purchased the fabric from Joann's Fabrics.  It was 50% off so around $3.50 a yard. 

I also made her another skirt with the stretch knit top band.

The fabric is Micheal Miller's Hot Pink Eiffel Tower and the black and white hoodstooth was purchased at Hancock Fabrics.

One more thing, I love fixing my daughter's hair and the other day we did a little different braid in her hair.  I french braided both sides and braided the left across the back of her head and then finished up the braid together into one large braid.  I love the way it turned out!

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Meet my sweet graduate on his special day

I just love this photo, it is amazing to me by just changing a color photo to B&W and putting a black border around the image can make such a dramatic difference.  The original image is further down in my blog post.

Yesterday was the big day. My sweet baby boy graduated from preschool.  He is my last, there are no more babies to come, so it was even more emotional than when my daughter graduated from kindergarten.  How did they grow up so fast.  It seems just like yesterday that I was carrying him around at 2am while he was crying with colic.  He still looks like a baby to me.  My 8 year old daughter lost her baby look at 13 months but not my little boy he didn't start looking like a little boy and not a baby until he was about 3.  Somethings even now the way he turns his head or looks at me a still get that glimpse of my little baby boy.

I told him Friday night after his graduation that I will always call him my baby.  On his graduation day from high school, his wedding day and even when he is 40 years old, he will always be my baby.  He smiled and said that was fine with him and he gave me a big hug~

 

My two handsome men.

I'm sure most mommy's would have dresses there little graduates in maybe slacks and a sweater vest with dress shoes.  Not me, see this is WHO he is.  He is known for those cowboy boots. lol  We get stopped everywhere we go because he never leaves the house without them, and he totally rocks them.  Most days at school he is in shorts and boots and I wanted his graduation day to be no different.  Both of my children has their own sense of style, they don't dress like the other kids and they are both trend setter in their own little way. 

This is who he is and he totally owns it.

Oh, and I made the shorts! ;-)

Big sister and little brother.

Walking down the aisle:

Yep this is when I started crying, all I could think of was; that in a very short time he will be walking down to receive his high school diploma.  I need to treasure ever minute with this little guy.  They all grow so fast. 

He looks so little.....

They had 30+ graduates this year.

Love this picture of him so much, not posed or looking at the camera. 

You can tell he is in the moment, enjoying his graduation.

Getting his diploma from his wonderful teacher.  She has been such a huge blessing to us; kind, caring and has worked so hard with each child getting them ready for kindergarten.

 Signing "I Love you"  Be still my heart.........

 

All finished and has his diploma

 

All the graduates were ask to make a poster for the reception.  I love crafting and I wanted all the pictures to define who he is:  Click on the picture to make bigger.

  

This is a close up of the center of his poster:  All the things that make up who he is~

 Two best buddies being silly for the camera.

 Joshua and his teacher

 

~My sweet little boy~

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