Making Thank You's

What's the news in baby-land? Not too much, but our church did have a shower for us this past Saturday! Everyone was so generous and kind, and now we have more material blessings and more thank you notes to write.

My goal is to write 5 thank you's each day. It seems to work best for me that way, because it helps me make significant progress without getting overwhelmed or thoroughly neglecting everything else. The only problem is that I ran out of thank you cards yesterday after writing only 4. So, this afternoon, I could have run to the store and picked some more up. The store is close by, but it was raining, and I'd already been gone all morning . . .

So baby and I stayed in and made some. :-)

No, little girl isn't born yet, and those aren't her real foot prints. Did you know that you can use the side of a curled-up fist to make an impression like a baby foot print? Sometimes Mom would have us stamp brown paper in such a way as kids to make wrapping paper for a shower. They come out looking realistically wrinkled because they're stamped by real skin, and then you add little toes with your pinkie finger.

Back when we ordered our multi-page wedding invitations, each one came with an extra blank 6"x6" piece of cardstock with a hole in the corner. Those extra cards got set aside as we assembled the invitations themselves, and now we're finally using some of them! Somehow, over 100 extra envelopes were also ordered, so each of these little cards is all set. After stamping each one, I threaded some re-used pink ribbon through each hole, because they looked a little funny by themselves. And then I traced a light black square around each set of footprints so they wouldn't look so bare.

Of course it took considerably longer to make these than to run to the store, but it was definitely more fun! And it feels nice to use up some of those extra cards and envelopes!