Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a terrific weekend. If you played along with Finish It Friday this weekend, here’s the spot to check in on your Friday to-do lists. Here’s my update.
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Kailea’s party. Check! It was fun and very high energy, just as expected.
Here’s a picture of the much talked about birthday banner. It added a festive touch to the party and the celebration in general. I made the banner using some left over fabric, so the project cost was virtually nothing. Gotta’ love that! I also used a bit more of the fabric to create bows for some of Kailea’s packages, so the red, green and yellow theme carried throughout her party.
To make the banner I cut out fabric triangles using pinking shears. The letters are felt, which I cut out by hand using a printed word doc as a template. I used fabric glue to attach the letters to the triangles, and the triangles to the ribbon. It really was a simple project…even though it lingered on my to-do list for a couple of weekends.
To keep the girls entertained, Kailea and I planned a few party activities such as truth or dare, a talent show, and a couple of craft projects. One of the craft projects was painting a wooden letter, with each girl getting her own initial. This made for a fun (and quiet!) party activity, and a nice little take home for the girls. Here are some before and after pictures of the painting festivities.
It looks like a fun time was had with the paint, doesn’t it?
To Finish List
- Laundry. One load is lingering which I’ll finish up this evening.
- Put finishing touches on party prep. Check!
- Finish Christmas shopping for people who live out of town. Progress was made in between birthday festivities and celebrations. I hope to wrap this up with some online shopping this evening…and then, I can turn my attention to shopping for local people.
So that was my weekend. Lots of fun with a little bit of finishing. 🙂 How did your weekend go? Leave me a comment and let me know. I look forward to hearing from you. 🙂
Play: Finish the book I’m reading – Finished
Next weekend is jammed pack with fun for all weekend!
To Finish:
Balance checkbook & bills – Done
Order reward cards – Done
Write Birthday Thank You Cards – Finished This Morning
Wrap gifts of party next Sat. – Hopefully Tomorrow
Ironing / Wash – Done
Pick up house – Done
Ordered bathroom rugs which was an extra
Love the idea of the initial painting for the girls. Going to share this with my sister-in-law for my niece. They love doing craft projects. Thanks for sharing. Looks like the girls had a blast. Have a great week! Dottie
What a fantastic banner! Beautiful and it can be used again and again! My weekend was full of play. We had the in-laws for a visit and watched my son play baseball all weekend. Can’t complain about 80 degree weather in Southern California in December!!!!
Well, this weekend turned out sooo much better than expected!
Play:
Not much. Nothing really. – I was so wrong! My brother and nephew came round for an inpromptu dinner and we had a great time. The kids love their bi cousin. And we bought our tree 🙂
To finish:
Work Saturday morning. – check. And it was a lot of fun actually! So calm to do an extra few hours when hardly anyone else is there.
Prep for dreaded meeting on Monday. I have to tell someone off and I hate that. – check. The meeting was terrible but I was prepared and managed it better than I thought.
Prep for meeting on Tuesday. – check.
Grocery shopping. – nah, I let the hubby handle that.
Next weekend will be spent in bed so I won’t join. I’ll be back after christmas!
I love the painting idea for a birthday activity! I bet they loved it!
TO FINISH:
Eliminate 1/3 of the contents in our guest room/office closet.-CHECK
Organizing the remaining contents in that closet.-CHECK
Laundry- Started, not finished
Finish designing the photo calendar & order it- CHECK
Play:
Go see a hockey game with my hubby & son.- CHECK
Check out the free download–Not finished. Waiting until I have some “me” time.