Emma's Sixth Birthday!

Emma's Kung Fu Panda 2 birthday party was on Friday! We had 12 kids in here, including 2 new friends from Emma's class. The kids played a KFP2 game, and watched KFP2. We ate Chinese food, had cake, and opened presents! Emma was so excited about everything! On Saturday we skyped Nona and Zeyda (Matt's parents) and Uncle Avi, so she opened her gifts from them: a panda winter hat (so hot in NYC right now), Beauty and the Beast Squinkies, and a baby Jasmine doll. Yesterday, her actual birthday, she got $5 from Mom, Dad and Siri, so she was able to get the Hello Kitty watch that she's been saving for! Fun weekend!

Bible Pages and Chipboard

This is a Christmas gift that I just finished. I had some chipboard letters that I didn't know what to do with and an ugly wall hanging that I had gotten on sale a long time ago to use for a mosaic. I went with a Christmas theme and stuck chip board letters on my board to spell, " A Child Is Born." then I cut out the pages from an old Bible from the passage telling of the Messiah's birth (Luke 1-2) along with some passages from Matthew and Isaiah, (5 pages in total.) My husband dyed the pages in coffee for me and then I decopauged them over the chipboard letters. I mixed the pod podge with water and that was helpful to get the paper wet enough to manipulate around the letters. It was meticulous, but I did it in one day in between playing Candyland and baking birthday cakes. I haven't decided if I'm going to mod podge over the whole thing, and I might add some light application of brown paint around the letters to make them pop.