My daughter, Alyanna (age 20) has expressed interest in becoming a photographer. When she comes home to visit, more often than not, Londonrose and I will pose as her models. This past Saturday was no exception. We braved the cold 40 degree weather of Atlanta, Georgia to visit Life's University (in Marietta, Ga) old village which contains about 5 old cabins, a barn, a bridge, a lake, and even a small waterfall. I chose two looks for my sessions with my daughter: black leather pants and heels paired with a red flannel shirt and bergundy mini dress with knee hish sokcs and brown leather boots. A few minutes in to the shoot, I noticed something bumphing into my left hip. It was Londonrose! She had crept onto the portch and began posing next to me, flashing her big pretty grin. Sooooo, my solo shoot turned into a duo. When Londonrose asked if she could take my picture I was caught a little off guard. Hmmm, I thought, this could be interesting. So, I slowly put my camera around her neck and she went to work. Omg!! Her pics actually came out great! Now, all she wants to do is take pictures. She constantly asked if she can take pictures of thisngs in her room: her toys, her bed, her prencess dresses. She even askes to take pictures of me! I think it's funny when she peeks around the camera to tell me to "pose like this" or to "smile like me, Mommy."
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I am a Spanish teacher. I love my students and loved sharing my passion for learning languages with each and every one of them. I am also one of the Dance Team sponsors at my school. To help raise funds for the team, I organized a fundraiser for them. They hosted a Fairy Tale Tea party for little girls (and a few brave boys) between the ages of 2-13. Most of the decorations that were used were pieces from my wedding and pieces from another teacher who does party planning after hours (she's amazing btw). Other pieces were created by my students. They are soooooo creative! About 10 of my students volunteered to stay after school the Friday before the event to help decorate. I was so impressed by the creativity of these students and there overwhelmingly HUGE hearts! I mean, what teenager do you know WANTS to stay after to school on a Friday to help out their teacher. Not many, that's for sure. Ans believe it or not, I had four MALES stay and help. WOW! Hmmmmm, I'm thinking I need to give them a treat, extra credit, or something for their help , lol. Many of the cake stands and 3 tiered plate trays were purchased, but a few were actually created by the kids. They made these by hot gluing candle sticks to the plates and layering them one on top of each other. I have a confession. All of the candle sticks were thrifted at the Goodwill and not all of the plates were glass. Ironically, the glass plates held the glue much better than the plastic! True, all the tiers lasted throughout the party but afterwards, the plastic plates began to separate from the candlesticks when we packed them in boxes after the party. Another favorite of my was the castle centerpiece. I fist got the idea for the castle centerpience when I was browsing though Pinterest. I saw a post about a newspaper castle sitting on a mound of moss piled high on a table. It was stunning!! Being the Baller On a Budget that I am, I new I would have to build my own castle if I hope to achieve a similar look to the scene I found on Pinterest. I had a plethora of copy paper but was running low on colored ink so I had to think fast. I decided to find a white brick wall paper picture on google image and printed about 30 sheets of the image which a student had stretched across the entire sheet of paper. My students and I then used invisible tape to tape the paper to an old packing box. We used invisible tape because it does not shine which allowed us to overlap the paper and tape right on top instead on looping the tape and fixing it to the back of each sheet. Next we made tubes out of card stock to mimic the turret of a castle. I would have preferred to use paper towel holders, but we didn't have enough to make four turrets for our castle. The cones at the top of the castle were made out of foam paper. The flags at the top of the castele were given to me by one of my students who happend to have extra left after a project she did a few weeks ago. The battlements of the castle were also made from the same blue foam paper. The gold trip is balloon string purchased from Walmart. The door and windows are actually color pictures I found on Google images. I had a ball creating the trapped fairy jars. I found this on Pinterest and could not wait to create one of my own. Surprisingly, it was very easy to make. We did not have time to order the suggested wood cutouts, so I printed fairies (from Google Image) onto clear overhead projector sheets and taped them to the outside of the jar, underneath the tissue paper sprinkled with glitter. View the video below for instructions on how to build your very own Fairy Jar Her's a little secret. When I was in college, I worked as a Balloonologist. Yup! That's right! I twisted balloons for a living. I wore a propeller hat, red stripped socks to my knees, a vest spotted with funny sloganed pins, and a black mini skirt with a split a little so high it bordered along the lines of trashy, lol. To help the boys feel apart of such a frilly affair, I canneled my inner clown and made them all balloon swords. For the fairy princesses I made them dogs. In truth, I couldn't remember how to make anything else but the kids didn't seem to mind....much. It's been almost 20 years since I twisted balloons and now that I have Londonrose., I'm seriously considering practicing the skill again.T When Alyanna and Austin were young, I would twist at their birthday parties and also at their school functions. Here's a comment written by Alyanna's first grade teacher. Btw, Alyanna is now a junior in college. The Fairy Tale Tea party was a a ton of fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again in the near future!
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