Welcome to our Home Birdhouse

I wanted to share a project with you that I just did for ACOT. It is made with one of the new KaiserCraft Beyond the Pages Birdhouses and Pink Paislee's Amber Road papers. I hand cut all of the cherry blossoms and added them with pop dots for a 3D effect. I love how it turned out.

The KaiserCraft Beyond the Page items are made of MDF and come unassembled. That was so helpful with this project because I was able to trace each piece onto the back of my patterned paper and cut it out. It also came with some hooks. The photo on the package didn't give an example of how to use them so I decided to make them into hooks to hold our key chains. Ed is always losing his keys in our house (and I have no idea how when he has 2 sets!) The quote in the center says, "Home is where you hang your memories." Annabella helped me pick it out so it means even more to me.


You can check out my reveal article here. I have a couple more projects to share with you so stay tuned.

We have been super busy lately. Annabella has been sick (poor baby!) I hate it when she feels bad and wish I could be the one sick. We ended up going to the doctors twice but she seems to be doing better now. So thankful she is feeling better.

School has has also been keeping us busy. We have also been doing tons of homework. I don't remember having homework in the first grade and never imagined there would be this much. She has tests all of the time, too. She had one on Thursday and 2 on Friday of last week. But, she is learning so much at school so I can't really complain too much. I am so proud of her.

I volunteered at her school a couple of days last week for their book fair. That is always a lot of fun and the kids are so excited. I remember going to book fair when I was in elementary school and remember how much fun it was. So glad my girl enjoys it, too.

This year Annabella joined Brownies and I became a troop leader. I did Brownies when I was younger and loved it. I knew she would too. The activities and values it teaches are perfect for her. She loves crafts and helping others. At first she didn't like it at all and wanted to quit. I made her give it a little more time and she now admits she loves it. She plays Girl Scouts at home which I think is great to watch.