Count Dooku’s being in school was a very good thing this year. I didn’t feel like throwing a party and so I didn’t have too. I made 30 cupcakes in Spiderman tins, decorated each of them with white frosting and a black spider’s web, bought 30 juice boxes and took it all in to his classmates. He was completely satisfied. Thought it was a great party, and so did I.
No real clean up, no game planning, treat boxes, thank you cards, wrapping paper, etc. Was I feeling lazy or what? We had a quiet pizza dinner that night followed by chocolate cake (except for me of course) and the opening of three little presents. He is very proud that he is now 6 years old.
In other news, I really haven’t had much blog inspiration of late. I guess I’m going through a bout of blogger’s block. Although I think it may be due to my excessive playing with my new toy, Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Mac. I got it for a steal on ebay and it’s fantastic. Although I actually really haven’t used it for photos. I’ve been busy creating digital scrapbook kits which I plan to use in mylatest business attempt. I want to try to feel like I’m contributing to the income in some manner. Or at least earning money for that Wii I so desire.
Summer out.
What an awesome birthday idea!
Punkin’s birthday is just a couple days before Christmas so I think I have a cop-out if I don’t want to do birthday parties, but if I ever don’t, I may steal this plan!
Brilliant idea!
I know what you mean by blogging block…I’m starting to think about taking a week off or something, but I always get grumpy when I’m away from my blogging buddies too long. Bit of a catch 22 sort of thing.
Good luck with the business! If you make yourself a button/banner for it I’ll put it in my sidebar for ya. =)
Now that’s how I’d like to have my kids’ parties. Simple and Sweet! Glad he had a great birthday!
Isn’t PhotoShop fun, I could spend hours on it? Not to add to what I allready know can be alot of work to start, (which is why I’ve put mine on hold), just a thought, if you find the time, you could also do graphics and websets for Etsy headers and Ebay auctions, and open an Etsy shop.
Love the look of your design blog.
I think it’s great when the kids are easily satisfied 🙂 Doesn’t happen often enough in our house!! We only do birthday parties every other year – that helps too.
I have a trial of photoshop, but I haven’t really played with it. Weird, I know… how do you make scrapbooking stuff on there??
Melissa,
I don’t know which version you have but I think they’re mostly alike. You can make backgrounds and tags and the like by using different filters, the shape cutter, etc. It’s really hard to explain. If you had something specific in mind maybe I could tell you how. I’ve just had to figure it out myself since there aren’t many how to’s on scrapbooking stuff with the program.
I think a lot of people are going through the blog blahs right now. I would love to learn to use Photoshop, what’s the best way to learn without taking a class? For an ADD person?
I’d much rather play with a program like photoshop than most other things. You know how guys can get lost in the TV or Video games. Not me but I do love to play on my computer. And you’re super awesome because you are figuring out how to make some money while you play!
And I love that idea for a birthday party! My kids all have birthday’s in the summer though, except my baby. Oh well!
Wow…30 kids in the class. That’s a big class and a lot of cupcakes. Noah’s birthday is 4th of July so I always use it as an excuse to throw a family party. Then I can call it a potluck and everyone helps out bringing something.
That sounds like a wonderful birthday celebration and a lot less stress than planning a big party and dealing with all of that craziness.
I love your blog designs, but I’m still considering moving to WordPress – you’ll have to branch out a bit… 🙂
There are so many birthday ideas on the internet but i love those medieval b-day setting. ^
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