I'm so excited!

Wow. What can I say but "wow!"? I am so honored and well... totally excited that I was featured on Today's Creative Blog. WooHoo!!!! Thanks Kim! Now I guess I have to get off my butt and start posting more often because I usually only get a handful of people (15 or so) that visit my blog. By 12:30 today, I already had 155. That's amazing! So, to everyone visiting from Today's Creative Blog, thanks so much for stopping by and thank you for your comments and thank you again Kim! I told you that you made my day, but really, you made my week!

So I better get crackin' on some new crafting posts. Truth is, I have been so busy just getting through the days until Christmas that I haven't done much crafting. There have been dentist appointments, eye appointments, Lego Robotic competitions, Gymnastics classes, homeschool field trips, Christmas parties, Christmas plays, Christmas shopping, Christmas cleaning, Christmas wrapping, Christmas decorating, Christmas cooking... ok, you get the picture. You know exactly what I am talking about too! But, it will all be over in a week and I feel like I haven't had a chance to really enjoy it.

But I do have one project that I have been holding out on! I remember as a little girl that I had this book called All About Me. It had questions on every page about what color hair I had, what color eyes I had, how many teeth I had... it even let me draw a picture of myself on one of the pages. I loved that book so much that I would erase my answers and keep changing them over the years. What I would give to have that book today and see how I answered all the questions. I would probably roll over laughing.

So, I thought how neat it would be for my students in my co-op class to make one for themselves. Their parents loved it and I am planning to give my mother one from each of my children for Christmas to keep on her coffee table.

What I did was take 5 envelopes and glued the flaps to the other envelope which created an accordian like the one below with pockets.

The first pocket was a blank card for my daughter to draw a picture of herself. Isn't it cute?

So each slot had a theme. One was About Me - she answered questions about what her name is, how old she is, how much she weighs, how many teeth she has, anything about her. The other pockets were "About My Family", "About My Friends", and lastly "My Favorites".

I decorated the pockets and then here I show you how it folds up. Fold one in, next one folds back, etc.

I attached brads to the front and back that allow me to use a rubber band to close it and keep it all together.
Isn't it adorable? And something special to keep forever. If I had the patience for scrapbooking, I think this would make a cool insert to a page layout. :)