Journals and such.....

Hello my Crafty friends.   This past week has been a very wet one!  You would think I would have done a lot of crafty things while being held up in my house this entire week.....but NOT!   LOL  All the rain and storms just made me sleepy, lazy and more sleepy!   But I did get a chance to do  a little crafting.  My 15 year old daughter, Brandi, has been bitten by the acting, singing and modeling bug.  She has been in camp almost the entire summer.  Next week is the last week of camp and then the Show Case on the 20th!!!

Don't tell her I posted her pics though...LOL. You're probably thinking what does my daughter's head shots have to do with Crafting.... well, in camp they do a lot of writing and take a lot of notes.  I wanted to give one of the Mom's and her daughter a journal to use.  I tease the Mom a lot, because she is always taking notes!  She takes notes on everything!  Which is a good thing!  She will read a book and take notes, then forward me the notes just in case!  LOL... my daughter and I went to our local Michael's and bought a couple of journals.  I took them up to my Crafty room and added a little bit of embellishments cut with dies and vinyl.  We only gave 2 books at first, but as others saw them, they wanted one too.  So I think in all I altered 7 books.  LOL

 

 

I tried to add something to each inside page that fit each kid.  And my daughter wrote notes to each of them.  The one with the Eiffel Tower, the little 8 year old girl wishes to go to Paris one day.  I put ribbon on each side to use as bookmarks for each book as well.  All of them are singers but the one with the hot air balloon.  She just wants to act, but she is shy. So this balloon is to represent her going higher.  These were very fun to add embellishments to and the people really appreciated receiving them.  One of the first ones was for a friend of mine, one of the Mom's of a singer.  When I gave her her book, she started to cry.  She told me how she was on her last few pages and her daughter had just used her last pages the night before and how God's timing was so awesome because she really didn't have any more journals then  and here I was with journals, gift bags, cards and all!

I hope you like my post today.  And like I said in an earlier post.....I can get side tracked easily.  But I think today's post I stayed on topic pretty well.  I even tied my daughter's pics into the whole Crafty story very well! and to show her off just a bit!    LOL  

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you will come back again soon!