Birthday Celebration w/ Lots Of Crafting

We recently celebrated my sister, Maryl's birthday with our usual activities: eating, crafting, laughing & playing! Below is a picture of all the projects we made.

As you can see, we worked on a variety of items: Anna Griffin pop-up cards, Catherine Moore paper dolls and wire heart necklaces.

Below are some of the paper dolls we made with the latest doll stamp from Catherine Moore's, Adventure in Tea line.

 These are some wire heart necklaces everyone made...

My sister Frances was generous to let us use her supplies of Anna Griffin pop-up cards to make these beautiful greeting cards. We added some of our own images as well.

 

Maryl made this beautiful and delicious angel food cake...

Frances made our mom's famous walnut cookies...

We all had a great time together...love the laughter!

Happy Birthday Maryl! Frances, thanks for hosting a great party!

Now onto another note, I'm still into planners and I used the Kate Spade Wesllesley planner last year - see picture below. It was lots of fun buying all the planner accessories and decorating each page.

Then I purchased several new ones this year from Heidi Swapp and Target, as I've shown previously.

Now, I'm hooked on watching filofax planner videos and building yet another planner. I recently purchased the Filofax Pocket planner in patent duck egg.

Love the color, mint green and the size is very small, something I can carry in all my purses. Now, I'm on the hunt for matching accessories and to my delight - the Target dollar spot had these items to match my pocket filofax perfectly.

I just love all the coordinating items from pens, to sticky notes to file folders - which will be transformed into dividers in my pocket planner. I've used planners on and off for the last 20 years and it's amazing how they've evolved and become not only an organizational tool, but a creative outlet as well!

Have a great weekend!