Still Obsessed with the Silhouette
It's 11:37 pm. I am playing with my Silhouette. I'm making very necessary pockets to hold Avery's earned tickets. Of course, I also made Avery new tickets with ladybugs and bees and fairies and butterflies. And I laminated them. I'm a little obsessed with the new toy. I even volunteered to make RHG a chart and some tokens for Elise. See, here Elise is standing next to it.
Right now, I'm cutting the pockets after spending a bit of time getting the design right. Here's my pattern:
The numbers are mirrored because the flaps fold inward. The screen grab above doesn't show it, but the three lines where the card is to be folded are not actually solid cuts, but rather perforations making folding easier. Nice. However, I messed up when I did the numbers and made them perforations as well, so I had to use a box cutter (couldn't find an exacto knife) to cut out the numbers by hand. I would have just done another sheet on the Silhouette, but I only had one of the sheets I wanted to use for the pockets. I'm too lazy to use my camera, but here's a picture using Photobooth on the iMac. It's obviously a mirror image since it's all backwards, but you get the gist.
All things non-Silhouette related
- Avery came down with a weird little virus of some sort on Sunday evening. On Monday, she ended up with a fever of 103.2. I called the doctor to make sure I was doing the right things, confirmed that she shouldn't go to school on Tuesday, and spent Monday and Tuesday with a total trooper of a sick girl.
- Today, Avery apparently made quick friends with a new girl who will be attending her school and will be in her class.
- I couldn't help but donate to My Charity: Water after reading this story of a 9-year-old girl who asked friends and family to make donations instead of getting her presents for her birthday on June 12th. She set a goal of $300, but fell short at $220. She died last week in a car accident in Bellevue, WA. Her family put the site back up, her pastor talked about it at church, and some news stories were done on it. Now her project has raised over $500,000.
aw, man, I am tempted to take a day off of work and play with the silhouette and organize stuff. Some people fantasize about beach vacations; I fantasize about organizing, labeling, and decluttering, LOL.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the link about the Water Project. Heartbreaking! I noticed there's also a link in the article to donate to the family to offset medical bills, too.