Shhhh....Silent Auction? Please Yell Your Ideas!!!

My son's annual school fundraiser has come around again and I am coordinating all the class projects. Each class produces an item to be auctioned off at the Silent Auction. I have a running list of ideas (which I will happily compile & share here at a later date), but I'd adore some more ideas! The projects should be things that kids from Kindergarten through 5th grade could produce with the assistance of a parent volunteer or two. A few ideas I've seen before are...

Decoupage fun class photo as well as group and individual candids onto a small chest or memory box. Can paint the item with sayings from each student, or use favorite cartoon characters, animals, fairies, etc.

Hand-painted serving items like decanters, glasses, serving tray, tableclothes and matching napkins.

Painted outdoor canvas or Adirondack chairs, dog house, or garden bench.

Hand-painted/decoupaged furniture – buy unfinished chests, bookcases, small tables, child’s rocking chair. Class paints item in a theme (i.e., fish, sports) and signs in some way (i.e., each fish has the child’s name or decoupage a photo of the child on the fish).

Decorate and fill an LLBean canvas bag. Decorate with hand or footprints of children, have each child sign their name (in pencil, you go over in black fabric paint), then fill the bag with summer (or winter) fun stuff, videos, backpack, etc.

Please share with me your ideas or any great links you may have! Thanks!

I think I have a blog addiction!

I've been away from my blog for quite a while. To try to get back here I decided to start perusing through the blogs I follow for some ispiration. Guess what??? I follow 300 blogs!!! What was I thinking? How could I possibly read 300 blogs? So of course I had to start culling that list to my favorite favorites! So far I've gotten it down to 144 and I'm not finished yet. If I can get the list to somewhere around 120 I figure I might actually get to visit each blog once a month, right?

When I get better prepared I'll share with all of you some of my favorites. But in the meantime, tell me yours! I love checking out new blogs (obviously). What inspires you?

Hope you are all having a good day & week!

so happy new year!

a little late!

I promise I'll revive my blog!