October Calendar is Ready

I'm trying to be prepared like the good little Girl Scout that I am. Doing a desktop calendar is great as far as having something personal and useful on my screen, but I'm going to have to start celebrating holidays a month early! Sawyer has his Teenage Mutant Ninja costume since he wore it last year, but Bella's going to be a witch and, of course, I don't have any pictures of her as a witch. (a total brat, yes, but a witch, no!) It's okay though. Ryan and I went to a costume ball last weekend so we got a shot of us in our costumes and for the rest, I went back to Halloween a few years ago when we went to Michigan to carve pumpkins with my sister and her family as well as my mom. Why Bella insisted on biting the top of the pumpkin, I'll never know, but I'll never forget either!

In other scrapbook related news, I'm one of the scrapbook moms for Bella's class. I got the job when the teacher sent home a request for scrapbook paper and stickers. Hurrah! A chance to clean out! I got all the bundled pages that I wouldn't use, but kept my Basic Grey, SEI, and the like for my altered projects or pages that have to be done physically. When they realized I know what I'm doing (*blush*) I was "hired". My first day on duty was Friday and, well, they scrapbooked. The teacher printed out pictures of them and the police officer that came to visit. Each kid had about 6 pictures so we let them make 2 pages. Of course, no one wanted the paper they picked out after they saw someone else's paper. I went in telling myself these will be their creations and my job is to dole out stickers, die cuts, paper, glue, etc. Yeah, well, that was until Bella saw a page with a castle on it and decided she needed a castle on her page. Pink page and she used pink cardstock- same shades. Yeah, I just couldn't let it go. "Here Sissy! Why don't we use this purple ink around the edges to give it some dimensi....make it stand out against the paper." I tried really hard, really I did. The good news is that the other scrapbook mom was proud of what she learned from me (how to layer pictures so you can fit 3 on a page without featuring the police officers crotch for instance) and might be a new convert!