This Boy...

...turned 8 years old this week. Eight. My baby. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this, but it's a fact. I just can't seem to stop time. On the upside? *HE* is really excited about him being 8!

And because he's 8 and being the good mama that I am, we're incredibly busy planning a Harry Potter party in the woods at our local park. It's going to be SO much fun and I think my husband and I are even more excited than him and his brothers. So to kick off the week of party festivities, these sweet invites were delivered to his class Monday along with some cupcakes. And you know? Sometimes being a scrapbooking mama pays off in unexpected ways. Just how many other mom's would have enough vellum and embossing powder in the house to create 24 invitations? ahem. Just sayin'.

Source: instructables.com via gluestickgirl on Pinterest

Oh...and these wands? Well. They're our next project. Daddy's next project anyway. This mom already did her part by knitting Griffyndor scarves for the party guests. Ok, so I really only knitted two while my mom did the rest, but still....

And speaking of the boy...unfortunately he has also decided to quit football. Daddy and I are pretty devastated about that as he'd been looking forward to it for so long and was so excited about it, but we're not about to force him to play a sport he doesn't want to play. It was just an unfortunate little accident (a kid fell on his collarbone) that did him in and that. Was that. So to document his brief stint on the turf, I created this layout for the BasicGrey sketch this week. It features the Oliver line (probably one of my all-time favorites) as well as that sweet gap-toothed photo shown above.

Supplies : [OLIVER] MET-2720 Assorted Brads, VER-2716 Sticker Elements, VER-2702 Greyson (navy grid/grey stripe), VER-2700 Drake (green), VER-2709 Tate (multi-striped/white circles), VER-2705 Keegan (red polka dot), VER-2698 Austin (red chevron), VER-2713 Tyson (red solid), VER- 2706Mason (navy solid), [OLIVIA] VIA-2639 Isabella (white), BUT-2667 buttons (clear), [WANDER]WAN-2983 Sticker Mini Monograms (red), [HELLO LUSCIOUS] HLO-3249 Sticker Micro Monograms alpha stickers (black).

And yes! You might have caught that I said BASICGREY SKETCH!! They're back, baby! We've been so excited to have our own little corner of the blogosphere lately because it's really let us be in contact with YOU, our loyal fans and one of the top 3 requests for the new blog was SKETCHES! It seems that you all want inspiration and a starting point for your pages so here's what we're gonna do:

Each and every Monday you can expect a sketch to inspire your next project over on our BasicGrey blog. We’ll provide you a sketch and an example or two of how we put the sketch to work. And there may or may not be prizes along the way. (We all know how we like FREE goodies!)

Which brings me to my OWN free goodies to give away! The winner of the fantastic spot in Jennifer & Kristina's Summer Card Camp class is nbuston! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

And I never heard from - the winner of my "other baby" - my BasicGrey 2012 calendar! Congrats to you as well!

If you'd please contact me at kelly(dot)goree(at)gmail(dot)com I'll be able to hook you up with your prizes!

Have a great week!

xoxo,

k