I have a friend, Cec, who works in the school library with me and she is always amazed at the creative items I make for the students (shaped flash cards) and gifts for co-workers. The truth is I am amazed with her creative ability with writing. In honor of a retirement, Cec wrote this poem and made some lovely "bracelets" I am modeling in the picture with the poem, to give to the retiree, Barb. Barb was spotted countless times in the hallway wearing masking tape bracelets as she hung up the student's work and she was so practiced and expert at it that nobody could do it faster, or with more style! Here are the creative words written by Cec .
Barb's "Bracelets"
How does she do that,
From afar we did watch.
She's up on a ladder,
From "bracelet" many a swatch.
Rolled up in a flash
In very precise sizes.
And to a piece of art,
Onto the wall those many prizes.
How does she do that,
So effortlessly grand
Once can only wonder
As in amazement we stand.
So here's to that person,
To that Masking Tape Queen.
To Barb! To Barb!
With envy we turn green!!!
enough in early June in northern MN! After the fishing vaca. Bob and I headed to 
southern MN, actually into Wisconsin for a family reunion camping weekend. Returned home and I took off for a couple night with DD for college orientation and registration. Oh and the day before heading to Em's college, I went to visit my grandmother who had a few days stay in the hospital, giving all of the family a scare! So basically I had two days to prepare the house and yard for Emily's graduation open house. The thunderstorms stayed away during the party and everyone had a great time. Sunday, I was so exhausted and my body was so sore, I could hardly move. It's a good thing I had an interesting book to read and no plans to go anywhere. I think I slept more hours than I was awake! I did manage to do a few decorations for the open house using my Cricut and Gypsy. The first picture is of some small metal pails I purchased from the Target dollar spot. The blue 2010 was a cutout of vinyl. I used my gypsy to weld the letters from Plantin School Book cartridge and the graduation hat from Hello Kitty Greetings cart. I think the letters were 2 inches high. I wanted to have a decoration by my front door (usually there is a large blooming plant but it died during the winter and I haven't found another I like to replace it) so I grabbed a fake evergreen tree I bought on closeout after Christmas last year at Target and decided to make some graduation ornaments. I was pressed for time (the theme for June!) so I went simple using the hats from Everyday Paper Dolls and cut the hats in school colors -blue and red. I made some black graduation hats (mortarboards) to honor Em's graduation from Community college. I laminated the mortar boards to protect them from the predicted rain and they weathered the night beautifully!
