"Melle, you've just submitted the yearbook and you've hung (w/ a lot of help) the student art show, what are you gonna do next?"
"Well, why not fly to Salt Lake City for the weekend!"

 You can take the girl out of the mountain; but she sure is happy when she gets to come back!

I sure like seeing my youngest in the mountains too!

We are here to celebrate my mom's (Nana's) nomination for not one but two Baum Stoker Awards!

This was just before breakfast this morning....you can see that McKenna found the Build-a-Bear Workshop in no time!

....and where I am today.....

Well,
I am still in front of a computer working on yearbook, but now I'm down to only the laptop.
And, because it's the laptop, it is portable which means, it is out in the studio, so I am in the studio! 
The weather has been PERFECT for it and the garage door has been open letting in all that glorious light and Spring air! (Yes, I have one of those screens across the front of my garage for those who didn't know, otherwise, I'd be sharing this glorious Spring weather with all of our  not so glorious  Florida bugs!)

So, while I wait for yearbook pages to load, I am cutting, and cutting....
Next to accomplish this week are 70 thank you cards for our community volunteers.
I thought of the "Our Hearts Leap for You" theme because I knew we'd already done frogs at the beginning of the school year to go w/ our Reading Rainforest theme.....

Well, the powers that be, dropped the "heart" part, which I'm just as glad because I didn't really want to figure out how to make a heart shaped lily pad, however, they have taken off w/ the frog part. The other art teachers will make other decor. I just get the cards....hmmm wonder how that happened {wink}!
And so, I picked about 6 different little froggies :O); the students will sign the lily pad part that says "thank you"; and they will lay flat for storage, but fold up and stay in place with a paperclip....this is the prototype.....only 69 more to go!


So where I am today......is in the classroom for a little while. My mom will be kidnapped this morning in order to help me begin matting the art pieces for the student art show - yippee!

Then back here for more....yearbook and cards.....

I can't believe in a week, the yearbook will be all turned in....
I can't believe in two weeks the student art show will be hung up....
I can't believe at the end of the two weeks, Nana, McKenna and I will fly to SLC for the weekend (go Nana!) (oh, did I not mention THAT yet....more to come {wink})
I can't believe in three weeks, I will get to enjoy the week long event that has grown bigger than ever this year that will include all special area departments, better known as "Arts in the Park"....
And I can't believe in four weeks, I will be on the downhill slide to summer!!!!!!!!!

OMG! I am filled w/ emotion.
crazy.

Love to all.
Melle

Where I am today....

okay, the title might be a little misleading (would I do that)...
It's not really a literal "where I am today",
it's more of a mental "where I am today",
so caution, you might not want to read; the following might only be intended for mature audiences people who are really bored and need to find something else to do! {teehee}


 I can't believe when I last posted, I left you w/ a hint of what I was working on for McKenna's teachers' Valentine gifts.....

Well, they weren't exactly how I'd like to have done them, but I was still happy enough with the end results: a mason jar filled with Hershey's "Hugs and Kisses". Certainly not an original idea. I've done the hugs and kisses for Valentine's several different ways  over the years. The stamp is from Stampin' Up (years ago).

But I saw this "hug" idea on Pinterest, and it was a twist I had never seen before.

I wish I could give credit to the original site, but it was before I knew much about Pinterest.

In an ideal world, I would have filled the jar completely with Hershey kisses, but with 10 jars to fill, I just couldn't afford it!  So, I used filler, but I had to make my own with some paper scraps I've been saving and my paper shredder - *light bulb* we should market a shredder that has adjustable widths; just sayin'.

The little bling ring, I think was my idea. :O)

Okay, STUDIO

Well, it's been clean before;

and it's been messy.

(circa Christmas 2009)

However, since returning to school in August and several birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's and 6 months of neglect, the studio was a mess again...

(circa Saturday)

Thanks to a day and a half of p&p  (putting away and purging)....

the studio is reclaimed again!

(thank you Lord for Spring Break)

Okay, I've still got that pile in the foreground and there is some "stuff" to the left of the photo, BUT, I can see the floor, sit in chairs and work at the table. {happy, happy dance}

and finally,

"where I am"

"where have I been"

HERE.

YEARBOOK.

("its not only a job, it's an adventure")

(it's not only fun, it's all consuming!)

This is exactly where I have been every Saturday or Sunday (sometimes both) for about the last 6 weeks.

That's two computers in the photo.

(Never mind the clutter in background, shish.)

I'm hoping today's 10 hour block will be just about the last one.

and so, with blog updated, here I go

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Melle :O)