Snow day crafts

To keep Kaitlyn busy when we are stuck inside on cold, snowy and icy days, I look to different crafty websites for ideas on how to keep her busy with out overwhelming her with difficult tasks. I've found a great website that offers lots of activities for toddler-grade school with an emphasis on preschool. This is right at Kaitlyn's age and she loves doing all sorts of artsy type activities. These of course can be adapted to your own ideas and materials that you have on hand. For example, if you don't have "googly eyes" just hand draw eyes, no colored contruction paper, use white and let kids color the appropriate color (red, pink, etc).

Here are a few I am going to do with Kaitlyn over the next few days:

Paper Heart Person

Heart Butterfly

Handprint Heart Cards
And use a fun poem like this one:
Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls
But every day I'm growing --
I'll be grown some day
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away

So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small

Put a date here
Love, put child's name here

Get crafty with your little muchkins and send me your pics and I'll post them in my gallery!
Enjoy!

New Projects

I've recently added new projects to my list of jobs! I am so excited to be helping people complete their memory albums. The first project I'll be working on is for a customer who's asked me to finish her daughter's first year album...something very close to my heart! Little girls are just the cutest! This will be a superfun project.
The second project I'm working on is the 1st Birthday pages for a customer's daughter. I do several books for her including her son's yearly football book, another son's birthday book and now her daughter's birthday book. These birthday books are a great idea (I have to give her the credit). She keeps all the memorabilia from the birthday party (invitation, napkins, decorations, balloons, etc...) and of course the pictures and we create several pages and every year we add pages...to the same book. This way, the child has a book that celebrates their birthday - every year since their 1st! How fun?!
Both these projects are traditional projects, not digital. The craft is close to my heart since I've been scrapbooking for 10+ years! The digital age is upon us, but I still enjoy creating a uniqe, one of a kind traditional paper scrapbook!

Interested in other ideas for memory books I do for customers? Contact me or watch here for more posts, information and pictures.