MY VERY FIRST CARD CLASS!!!!!!

so when i became a stampin' up! demonstrator, i was nervous about starting my own classes.  i knew that i could do it, but just the shear fact of putting it all together and making sure enough people would want to attend scared me.  but....i finally got the push to set up a class and my first one was last thursday!

the jazzercise lady, julie, in town that i have known for a few years now, just got her own studio about a year ago, i think.  i was lifting weights for a class i take through her, and started to look around and thought to myself, "i wonder if julie rents her space out?" i was having the hardest time trying to find a space to hold my class in cheney.  every place i contacted, churches, parks and rec, EWU, etc, wanted to charge me more than i was able to pay to rent a space for 2 hours.  well, i asked julie after pumping iron, and she said she does!  i was so excited and we worked something out and i was able to hold my first class last thursday!

i had developed the cards a while ago...like mid july...cards were done, supplies were ordered, prematurely, and i was ready to go.  here are the cards the ladies who came to class made....

Flower Bouquet Card

Poppy Card

"The earth laughs in flowers" Card

here are pics of everyone making the cards and having a good time!

the welcome table....i heart the vases of daisies!!!

Janelle, Rosee and Michael

Carissa and her 2 friends

Kaitlin

Rosee, Michael, Janelle, Ashley and Krissy

dough buddies!

you may be asking yourself, what are dough buddies?

dough buddies are my mom and raren's newest idea...gluten free donuts!  they are having fun in exploring this new business venture, but needed a little something from me.  what you may ask did they need from me...i don't cook! lol!  they wanted a sign.  so originally i did something a little to big, no pictures of that...it wasn't that good, but showed it too my mom and then our heads came together for this.....

I took 1 inch strips of patterned paper and then scored them to make accordians.  glued the ends together, and then hot glued the middle so that when i went to turn it flat they would really stick.  hot glue was the best thing i have tried for these.  the letters are stickers that i found and i hot glued them too just to make sure they would last and survive the trip through the mail.  i glued the whole circle onto a punched out circle on the back...just for stability purposes.  you can kinda see in the close up pictures another circle punched out underneath the letters, that was put there to hide the hot glue mess! 

i love that my mom interlocked them!  it makes it flow better, i think.  great job mom!  good luck to you and raren!  im here for any creative things needed for dough buddies! 

everyone else...look for dough buddies coming soon to your area! :)