Happy Thursday…

I am off to a Volunteer Brunch that I got a personal invitation to. Can I just say, I love having children, & a wonderful school for them to be in!

It is wonderful when you truly enjoy the people around your ‘community’. It makes ‘volunteering’ actually fun with friends.

Maya's Tribune

When I posted Alisa's first invitation, I felt I only give you a "teaser" view, so... here I am with "Maya's Tribune", Alisa's was called "Alisa's Times". The top image of this invite is the back and face of a "booklet". When I created Alisa's invitation 17 months prior, I said "never again!", but as all you moms know what you do for one of your children you would and do do for all :) I changed it up a little in the middle of the booklet. For Alisa's I did all her "firsts", for Maya's I did "a year", and did a little recap for each month. As for the table of contents and Maya's favorite things {my spin on Oprah's favorite things}, I did the same in Alisa's. So now you are asking about the lovely cartoon drawings to the left? That is my husband's page, complete with his hand drawings. He also did a page in the "Alisa's Times" booklet invite I made.

I have to say I am uber proud of how these booklets turned out, and I am hoping my children cherish them as they get older. They were both worth all the time and effort put into them!

Alisa's Birthday_Invitation (Part2)

So here it is, the second part of the invite!

This page was dedicated to her Favorite things around a year old.

I mocked up the page to resemble the *Oprah's Favorite Things* logo.

Everyone loved this :)

Alisa's Birthday_Invitation (Part1)

When Alisa was born we realized quickly we would have to get creative to keep everyone in the *loop*. We have family in Cali, Ohio, and even Europe, so my husband came up with a great plan! He started to send spiratic e-mails with lots of images and a little story to go with it. It was called the Alisa Time's. He would always title it something funny like ALisa Time's X-mas Edition.... it was a hit with the family to say the least!

When it was time for Alisa's 1st birthday, my husband decided that it would be cute to do a *post-card* type of invite with a magazine cover. Of course, how I am I took it to a whole new level. My motto is the famous *Anything worth doing is worth doing right*. So I made a full magazine. This is the face of the magazine, and I will post a couple of more pages as well.

Let me know what you think?!