I have been consumed with a long term 3rd grade sub job for the past month and have neglected my poor little blog. I did finally finish some of my Melissa Frances chipboard houses for a class at Paper Tales this coming weekend. I'm so addicted to making these little houses......
Speaking of Paper Tales....funny little story from the other day....Last week Andres was telling me that if you leave your shoe out on the front porch, St. Nikolaus (German Christmas tradition) would come to visit that night and leave treats in the shoe. Fun. So he eagarly, left his shoe out on the front porch and raced to bed ready to go to sleep. In the meantime, "St Nikolaus" waiting on the couch fighting sleep hoping to still be awake by the time a certain little boy fell into his slumber. Finally, snoring could be heard from down the hall.
Now here is the problem....my little crafting buddy knows every inch of my craft room and adjoining craft supplies. So I had to be very careful with what I used to wrap his little gift. Luckily, I had some little cloth bags that I had gotten from Paper Tales that were purchased with the intention to make adorable little Halloween decorations. Fotunately, they were buried under a bunch of other Halloween crafting material that was never used. Perfect. I'm such a genius. Seriously.
So the next morning comes and happy laughter could be heard the world arround....St Nikolaus had arrived! Fast forward to three days later.....
Excerpt of actual conversation.....
Andres : Mommy.....this is soooo weird.
Me: (laptop on lap, looking at cute kitten picture on facebook) Huh...what.
Andres: Look....this little bag that St. Nikolaus gave me....
Me: (glancing briefly from cute kitten picture) what......
Andres: He got it from Paper Tales....
Me: (immediately stop looking at cute kitten)
Andres: See this....it's the pricetag...the same price tag that Paper Tales uses....that's so weird....
Crap. So I then explained to him that Paper Tales was the official sponser of the St. Nikolaus gift giving year....it was quite the honor...blah, blah, blah.....thousand of entries.....blah, blah, blah.....He seemed to buy it. Then I immediatey distracted him with candy, cookies and chocolate milk.......Damn his attention to detail.....
Anyway, here are some pictures of the new expansion at Paper Tales......
