Dear Pink ::
Last year I had my family over for the 4th of July. It was our family reunion a few days after the 4th so many of us got together because my hometown does a great parade and fireworks. Here are two crazy cheap things I did to add to the festivites.
I couldn't find any cute paper plates that I liked. (No offense to allose wavy stars and stripes plate designers out there) So I went to the dollar store and got red, white and blue plates. They are kind of flimsy, I know, good for cake & ice cream but not much else. So I put my decorative scissors to work and trimmed the color plates down and glued them to a white plate. Cheap. Sturdy. Festive. And my family only thought I was slightly insane.
This is not a great photo but it's the only one I have. I recommend if you are recreating this to use the white plate as the under plate because sometimes the color plate doesn't cut very well and you have a white edge showing that the white background plate hids. I'm thinking this is cute for showers, birthdays, graduations, etc. This year my dollar store had some cute square red check plates. (happy dance)
I'm sure you have seen these Tissue Puff thing too, Pink. I just love how easy and cheap they are to make. I got the tissue from WalMart. And followed Martha's instuctions. (Click here for them) I cut my ends pointy not rounded so they looked like fireworks. They looked cute under my umbrella.
The rest of my photos from the holiday were of people who look kinda like me stuffing food into their mouths or power napping. Hmmm. Mental note to document other happenings on the 4th this year.
:: Think
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Cute!!! Must try it this year!!
Posted by: Beckie | June 28, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Clever idea on the plates. Glad to see you're back!
Posted by: Amy | July 11, 2011 at 01:34 AM
I also absolutely agree that you can't find your wisdom in other people's stories: often I have needed to live certain experiences myself. It's not enough to read about other people who experienced something. I need to experience it myself. It needs to become my story.
Perhaps this is the mystery of Scripture: somehow these ancient words on the page are able to become something much more than the stories of other people who lived a long time ago and experienced life, the universe, and everything in a completely different context than I do. Somehow that particular text (in a way unlike most any other text I've encountered) has the ability to become my story.
I think that's a key part of the invitation of the gospel: to understand ourselves to be part of the grand story...to come to understand that these words that were written thousands of years ago, in languages and contexts very different from our own, are - in fact - our story, too.
Posted by: justin bieber shoes | July 26, 2011 at 10:35 PM
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I featured your teacher {book} gift idea. I loved the idea of tracing your child's handprinting and writing a little about your summer happenings! So much better than just giving a book. Thanks for sharing!
Allison
www.room-mom101.blogspot.com
Posted by: Allison | August 25, 2011 at 08:17 PM
OM. MY. GOODNESS. After scrolling down your posts a little I just discovered your iron on teacher bag gift. TOTALLY LOVE IT! I just might have to give a shout out on another one of posts. That is just too cute!
Allison
www.room-mom101.blogspot.com
Posted by: Allison | August 25, 2011 at 08:20 PM
Hi Think and Pink! I'm an editor for FamilyFun magazine and would like to talk to you about featuring one of your ideas in the magazine... I do hope you'll get in touch! Thanks.
Posted by: Deborah Way | November 04, 2011 at 10:53 AM
Great idea! I like it. Thanks for sharing :)
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Posted by: Tarek | December 15, 2011 at 07:29 AM
They are awesome !! I love this post.
Posted by: Owl | January 05, 2012 at 11:32 PM
They are really amazing !! You are great !
Posted by: Pink | January 17, 2012 at 12:01 AM