My Busy Week

Last week was our spring Book Fair at school. This time around, my two Book Fair co-chairs and I decided to tackle the Spare Change contest along with the Book Fair. We actually held this the week before the book fair. The idea is that the kids bring in their "spare change" and at the end of the week we add up all of the different classes and the top classes get a gift certificate for a free book to the fair. 
Since the theme of our book fair was the Book Fair Diner, I used my cricut to cut out these ice cream scoops to show our progress all week. Every day we earned $100 in spare change, we added a scoop to our cone. If we made our goal of $1,000 for the week, we got to put the cherry on top. As you can see by the picture below, we made our goal!!! 

I cut all of the letters and the scallop border around the window out with my cricut too. And now that I'm looking at the picture, I can see that we forgot to put how much we collected for Free-For-All Friday. We were also setting up the book fair on Friday, so I think that got lost in all the other things going on by that time. Oh well! 

This spring fair went much smoother for us than the fall fair. The fall fair was the first one for the three of us and was a huge learning experience. We were like pros this time around! 

The picture below shows Spencer shopping with his class at the fair. The picture isn't the best, but it is the only one I have. 

I forgot to get a picture of Connor shopping. :-(


I spent pretty much all of last week at the school. So I haven't been able to do much creating lately. I hope to get back in the swing of things soon. I have some birthday cards to make for this month. Plus one of the message boards I visit is holding a Scrap Olympics this month. I already missed the first week of competition, but I'm hoping to enter a few events. Since I was the big loser in our family Olympics the boys held here last week, I'm hoping to redeem myself in the Scrap Olympics! 


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Busy, Busy...

That has been the story of the last few weeks. Busy, Busy, Busy! Which explains the lack of blogging on my part.

So what have I been so busy with? Our Scholastic Book Fair. Last year I volunteered to be one of the three Co-chairs to run our Fall, Spring and Bogo Fairs. We are all new to this and weren't really sure what we were getting into. Well let me tell you that it is a lot of work getting one of these fairs up and running. It started about 2 months before with us meeting and planning our decorations, getting volunteers to help man the fair, getting fair flyers out to all of the students, and a whole lot more.

Then came time to set up the fair. And this is what Scholastic delivered to us. I took this with my Iphone so the quality isn't great, but it will give you an idea. So we started wheeling those carts into the library and set up our little (actually I think it is kind of a big) book fair.
We decorated in the library and one of the co-chairs, Becky, came up with this cute door decoration! Our theme was Destination Book Fair. We hung up inflatable globes and flags throughout the library. For three people not really knowing what we were doing, the fair looked really, really nice!
Here is a small sampling of the cases we set up. I think we had around 12 of these throughout the library.
We also set up lots and lots of tables with books. I have no idea how many tables we set up.

And then we worked it. All day during school hours, and 3 nights last week. I haven't worked that many hours outside the house in a long, long time! I was so tired last weekend.

I do think the fair was a success though! The kids really enjoyed coming in with each of their classes to shop. It is always fun to see what books the kids are into. Especially the girls, since I have two boys here. I learned all about Goldilicious, Purplicious, and Pinkalicious. As a mom of boys, I had no idea these books even existed! lol!!!

So the book fair pretty much consumed all of my time the last few weeks. But now that it is over, we have Connor's birthday party this Friday and then we are going to Gulf Shores, AL in a few weeks for a little beach vacation. I can't wait!

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