Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Big Oh-Two

It feels unreal to me that my baby is turning 2. Seemingly overnight she has become a real person, walking around, making demands, blowing kisses and melting hearts.  I am fiercely proud to be her mother and I am terrified that she's going to grow up too fast.  It's true what they say: the days are long but the years are short.  

Are they ever.  

She'll only turn two once, so naturally we are throwing a birthday party for her.  And naturally, I am making the goody bags.  I grossly underestimated how much time I had to complete this project, however.   I ordered enough of our new Lagoon treat bags for all of the kids; cut a couple of images out on the Cricut; and stamped the sentiments I had in mind.  I was all ready to assemble!  And then I got the tracking uodate.  I hadn't ordered the bags in time.  They won't be here until next Wednesday (grrrr). 

I had 12 of our Slate treat bags on hand but alas, I needed 16!  I thought about using some clear bags I have in my stash but I hated that the items inside the bag were visible.  The colors clashed with my artwork.  And then I thought, maybe I could get white store-bought bags and stamp on them with our Geometric Backgrounds stamp in Slate ink.  Felt ambitious, but doable.  

So that's what I did.  I love how they came out!






I know what some people might think:  all this for something people are going to throw away?!  But when you're a paper crafter, you get it.