It's getting there!!!

I'm knocking more things off of my list of to-do's!!!
I was totally ready for a crop at my place on Friday night, but slowly through out the day people called to tell me that they couldn't make it. Since C still had plans to be out of the house, I still scrapped and read a book and totally had a relaxing evening. Only a few times did I have to tell myself that I had planned for this to be a relax night and that I shouldn't be so worried about getting things off of my list! The house was clean and all my stuff was ready to go for me that night, so that means #4 is off my list!
I had been asked about 3 or 4 weeks in advance to teach power hour, they gave me the topic that they were working on and I had some ideas in place. Of course, God doesn't work that way though. Ya see, on Sat afternoon I went in a different direction COMPLETELY! But it all worked out and I really think that the kids enjoyed it and 'took it home'. But I sure am glad that is over. It is way too hard to keep 67 6-11 year olds quietly engaged all at the same time! So that means #3 is off my list!
Since I was by myself on Friday, I was actually able to work on #11. See, if people were over I didn't want to work on those that night b/c then they would see... and well, I like it to be a surprise. So, I got ALL the printed paper cut to the size that I needed, I got 34 cards cut and folded. What is left to cut is 100 squares of cardstock for where I'm gonna stamp and then assembly! So whooo hooo on that one!
I was really dreading #12. This sounds bad, but I thought I was going to be up REALLY late on Fri night and I have this list of things I've gotta do ya know, and well I'm not the best at sitting and paying attention. But we went, and it was good, and I had a good time hanging w/ people that I don't normally get to hang with.
I'm REALLY looking forward to Friday night, I think the murder mystery will be sooooo much fun! Of course it also means that the biggest things on my list will be done. I'm TOTALLY sweating this appreciation banquet!

So here are some pics of what I worked on this weekend....
I got these wood letters from Michael's they are 9" tall and about 1/2 inch thick. I painted them, covered the fronts in American Crafts patterned paper and the backs w/ just cardstock, then I sanded them and put some Stickles on them. Now, I'm just adding some more 3d embellishments and they will be all done!


The Y isn't done, it still needs some ribbon(s) and some embellishments.

and here is a box that I recovered in some of the Basic Grey 'Fruitcake' paper. It still needs some embellishments, but you get the idea. I covered the snowflake on the lid with some cystal accents. That makes it 3d and REALLY shiney! It looks pretty good if I do say so myself! ;-)