Monday Morning

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Monday Morning

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Good morning! Wow, did I ever get bitten by no see ums this weekend. Both legs are driving me nuts with itching. Grrrr. While it's wonderful staying outside until bedtime, there IS a price to pay, lol.

Shelly's right about "where the heck is everyone?" There must have been some great stuff on everyone's agendas this weekend.

This morning I have to do battle with Veterans' Affairs for my father as they are claiming he now has to pay for his taxi rides up front and they will reimburse him later. That's hardly the point as old people don't like having to go to the ATM all the time for cash, and those taxi rides to a downtown hospital for medical appointments are over $40 each way. Damn government has no problem pouring billions into that shameful oil sands project (in Alberta) that is polluting the planet in the worst way, and yet short changes their veterans. Time for a new government around here.

TinaLord68 · The Smiling T.L. Fan

The weekend was busy, although we didnt' have any formal plans, for once. we did have church luncheon for newcomers. I hve to tell you all too look up the recipe the pastor's wife used for the asian slaw. She said it's called, Super Slaw. Awesome!

My washer is acting up, might need a new one. I do about 4 loads a day, so I really should invest in a new one. But it's just not in my budget. We pretty much spent what we planned to spend for the year on the house and the big party. Now we had plans to take it easy on money!

Plus my carpet looks awful now and that just needs to be replaced. (it's beyond what a steam cleaner can do)

Ryan is still at band camp, I think it's so great for him to get away and be a little independent!

I have been enjoying One Life lately, anyone else??

-- Edited by TinaLord68 at 09:42, 2008-08-18

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

So I have kind of been put in charge of our next ladies luncheon at church and have no idea how to do the decorations. We are running with a theme of Mentors because they are actually starting a class on mentoring. With the older ladies teaching some of us younger ladies. And I have to come up with a bulletin board. Not as much fun as it sounds I promise.
And what color schemes go well with September. I am thinking of doing some bright colors since fall is coming and the browns and oranges are going to move in.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

My d-i-l made a bulletin board for her Montessori classroom. I'll e mail her, ask what she did. I hope she took her laptop with her to Wisconsin.

Fall colours are so pretty - yellows, crimsons, golds. Brown can be kind of drab. Crimson and gold work well together and it's cheerful, too.

Shelly, what do you have to decorate? Can you just go to Home Depot and buy a bulletin board or do they want you to make it from scratch? Martha Stewart had bulletin board ideas on her website before she went to jail. I think that's where d-i-l got her idea when she made hers.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

I am trying to hold off on the fall colors until at least October. I am clinging to the warm colors as long as I can.

And we have a board up on the wall. I just have to use paper and borders to decorate and then put something in the middle. I am not as creative as our ministers wife seems to think I am.

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Martha Stewart's Bulletin Board Ideas

There's the link anyway, Shelly.

OLTL has lost it's appeal for me. The only soap I actually give two hoots about is Y&R.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

After reading the spoilers that Brandon posted I don't think I will even bother to read recaps.

y&R and GH is it for me

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

How large is the board, Shelly, and when does the board need to be up?

And once again, you're bringing back some happy memories for me! When our kids were in elementary school (after they took a break from the private school that I talked about with KaeEll in another thread), I was asked to take over the "Birthday Bulletin Board" which was in the front hall of the school.

It was the school's tradition to dedicate that board every month to those kids who were celebrating birthdays. Their names were displayed, and the board usually had some simple theme. The woman who turned the task over to me, a former neighbor of mine, told me that it would be simple. The school would send me a list of names, and all I had to do was to cut out little mittens for, oh, February for instance, and write the kids' names on those. Done in thirty minutes.

Of course, I couldn't leave it at that.

I did the bullentin board for YEARS, and they morphed into these elaborate productions that people were literally memorializing with pictures! LOL... What I liked to do was to make them three dimensional, to appeal to children's tactile preferences, and I used to lie awake at night trying to figure out how to make supports behind the 3-D stuff that would be invisible, yet sturdy. The kids loved the boards, and were always curious to know what I was going to do next. I even enlisted Jim's help for one of them because he's artistically talented! That one was a Wind in the Willows theme, and Jim used different colored foam board to create characters from the book.

I'm NOT suggesting that you get this elaborate, but if you're going to do it, you may as well have some FUN with it!

One of the things I did was to incorporate fabric. Of course, that's what I like to work with, so it was a natural thing for me to use. I'm with KaeEll about the colors. Reds and yellows would be bright, and draw attention to the board. Purple is the complimentary color for yellow, so that might be nice to add. Those three colors used together would be very rich.

Mentoring makes me think of hands (reaching out), so I might play off of that. If I were doing it, I'd sew up a bunch of stuffed doll-sized hands/arms, holding onto each other, and from different ethnic groups. If something like that appeals to you, I'll sew some up for you! Otherwise, you might want to consider another way of using them. Going back to that foam board idea, you could use that to cut out large hands for impact, and they would really stand out! You could use yellow as a background, cut out several foam hands and arms (a white/pink one, a tan one, and a black one), and use red and purple fabric to drape the arms. Maybe also a little bright yellow-green.

You might also try to get a little dimension or texture on the board by using mulberry paper which comes in lots of different colors, and has a weave to it. It almost looks like fabric, and in fact I just used some in the display cases our club did a couple of weeks ago. You can find mulberry paper in large packs at craft stores like A.C. Moore (no relation!), Michael's, or in art stores.

I have to say that my involvement with the school bulletin board came at exactly the right time for me. It wasn't long after my sister had passed away, and I'd managed to survive that near-fatal blood clot. Thinking of what I would produce every month took my thoughts away from my heartache, and got me out of the house! The last two years I did the board, another mother asked if she could help me (she needed it too), and we became friends. We hadn't known each other before. Anyway, it was a bit of a lifesaver for me, and landed in my lap right out of the blue! So, whatever you do, ENJOY it!

everbran · GTA Revived The Radio Star

Welcome to another day of crap for me. Mondays suck around here. Over a hundred people waiting, people waiting 2 hrs, it is .... SUCKY!!!!

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Oh, Brandon. I'm sorry... What a bad way to begin a week!

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Shelly -- I also used to make use of brown paper grocery bags!

For a Thanksgiving board, I cut out (and taped together to make them larger) a Native American family, and "dressed" them. You can also make these a bit 3-D, inexpensively, by cutting out to of the same figure, staple the two sides together, and stuff them with a bit of newspaper. Paint on clothes or staple bits of fabric to them. You could do this with arms and hands too.

My Native Americans were given costumes, hair, and beads! They also held offerings of food. I created plates, and hot-glued corn kernels, dried beans, and I forget what else now to the "plates". It was fun...

-- Edited by Moore ideas at 12:22, 2008-08-18

everbran · GTA Revived The Radio Star

Moore ideas wrote:

Oh, Brandon. I'm sorry... What a bad way to begin a week!

But that's what happens around here. But I did get a funny out of it.

To quote my customer:

When ya'll say WWW you mean like World War 3

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

NO!!!

LOL... I'm going to have to pass that one along.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Moore I just knew if I brought my dilemma up someone here would have an idea. I like the idea of using hands. Past bulletins I used greeting cards, I would cut them up and glue them to a scrapbook paper.

I want to somehow incorporate the different kinds of mentors. Like a teacher, a religious mentor and even a parent. I want to say the board is probably 4-6 ft across and 2-3 feet high. Its a cork board type thing that you just staple whatever onto it.

I like the idea of using purple, yellow and reds.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Shelly, it sounds like you're working with a fairly small board.

If you want to get more than a flat effect, and I'm using your idea of having glued greeting cards to other backgrounds, whatever you end up with could be made a bit 3-D by doing what crafters often do when they make their own greeting cards.

Let's use the hand idea as an example. Take any kind of paper (printer paper or a brown shopping bag, or even craft paper), and cut it out to a size that's smaller than the hand. (This is so it won't be noticable from in front.) This backing paper is what will actually be stapled to the board.

Now glue a small square or circle of foam board to the back of your hand (or whatever else you decide to use). Glue the other side of the foam square/circle to the backing paper, and let it all dry thoroughly.

You'll staple the paper backing to the bulletin board, and the foam that's sandwiched in between the paper and the hand/other shape will make that shape stand out a bit!

You can mix things up a little more by attaching some portions of your design directly onto the bulletin board, and have others stand out.

You could suggest different professions by using whatever uniform or other symbol that suggests that profession, such as a nurse's cap, a mortar board for a teacher, etc.

Maybe you could use hand cut-outs (in different ethnic colors) to decorate a yellow background of the board (stapled directly onto the yellow background), and then have the heads of various types of mentors stand out in front of the hands by using the foam board sandwich idea. The representations of the different professions is where you could introduce the extra colors...

Hard to describe what I mean!

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

ALSO, don't be afraid to go BEYOND the borders of the bulletin board! You could also suggest additional costuming by allowing a little fabric to drape from a mentor's head. In other words, if you were to create the head of a nurse, you would do the foam sandwich that I described, put the cap on her, and then glue a little white fabric (no particular shape) BEHIND her face/head. That white fabric could flow down past the bottom border of the bulletin board.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Wow you are creative, I am a little uneasy about doing too much 3D because in front of the board is a counter that people sometimes put food on. Our gigantic coffee maker is actually right to the right of the board.

I did get an idea to look through our Michaels for ideas.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Shelly, that's a great idea. Browsing through craft stores always gets my creative juices flowing!

Take a look at mulberry paper while you're there. You should be able to find it in the scrapbooking area. That same section also has a lot of other great papers!

You might also be able to find some cool charms or stickers that would go along with your theme.

-- Edited by Moore ideas at 14:06, 2008-08-18