Mimi's Memories

Friday, June 15, 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

ENS S4 Yearbooks

Books are scheduled to arrive between June 6-12th. Will contact everyone once they've arrived.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Yearbooks for the ENS S3 and Mattituck classes have been shipped! Barring any problems during shipping, books should be in everyone's school mailboxes on May 23rd. S4 books will be sent to print on May 24th, anticipated delivery is June 4th - will email everyone to make arrangements.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Thank You!

A big thanks to all the families that sent in material for the ENS yearbooks! I am very excited to get to work putting them together, the pictures you all sent in are terrific! Look for order forms in your school mailboxes on May 2nd. Orders will be due on May 9th, anticipated delivery during the last week of school. Thanks again, wouldn't be able to do this without you all!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

S4 Yearbooks

Working on the books for ENS today. Drafted up a student page to see what kind of design/layout might work this year. Here's what I'm thinking.....

.....I think after adding a graphic or textured background, this should look pretty nice. I like this for the way it preserves the artwork and personalizes the page since no two should be exactly identical. Well, at least it's a start!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Preschool Yearbooks

It’s yearbook time again and I need your help to make it a keepsake everyone will treasure! To make it a truly personalized book, I need your:

photos from class events/parties
artwork or craft projects made by your child in school this year that you want included on his/her personalized page

Digital photos and scanned images of artwork can be emailed to mimismemories@ymail.com. SkyDrive users can upload images and share via an email link. I can also access photos shared through Snapfish and Shutterfly.

Photo prints and original pieces of artwork can be sent in as well, email me to arrange. (All originals will remain intact and be returned to you once scanned or photographed.)

Deadline for submissions is April 30th

Thank you in advance for your help

*search my archive for June 2011 and you'll see some pics of last years books*

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Masters of Spinjitzu Party

Ninja Go!!!!
I now know more about Lego Ninjago than I ever thought possible. This one was fun to put together because it all had to be created from scratch since no one offers a Ninjago party package yet. I put together an invitation using a picture from Lego.com and the "Last Ninja" font.

First up were cupcakes for his class. Kept it very simple and just made little toppers using pictures of each of the four ninjas glued onto lollipop sticks.

Onto party day! When it came to decorations, I focused mostly on the red ninja - Kai - because he's my 7 year old's favorite. I made a banner using the ninja font in black, added yellow Ninja eyes and printed it on red paper. (The eyes were easy to do - only needed to design the eyes and eyebrows in black, printed on yellow paper, cut the shape and then used white out to color in the pupils)

I didn't go all out on table settings/decorations this time since we were just doing cupcakes and needed the table clear before and after so the boys could set up the Ninjago arenas and have their Spinjitzu competitions. I did get some red paper cups and glued on some smaller ninja eyes. When put next to the jumbo cupcakes with their larger toppers of each Ninja (and Sensei Wu) it all looked pretty nice.

I used plain red gift bags for the favors, less than $.25 each! I glued on cut outs of the ninja eyes and made a few marks with a sharpie to depict the folds in the fabric of the ninja hood. I used the same pictures of each character to make a name tag for the back of each boys gift bag.

Another set of ninja eyes glued to a balloon and the bags were ready to be filled with a Lego brick keychain light, a minifigure, Ninjago stickers, a Hershey bar in a wrapper I designed and a ninja headband personalized with each boys name.

The headbands were a hit when the boys all put them on and acted out their own Ninjago Spinjitzu battles with foam swords! Super easy to do - found headbands in the craft section of Walmart for $1 each and used a fabric sharpie to trace over print outs of each boys name in the ninja font. Fun way to go instead of party hats for this one! The last part, as always, is the thank you note. Used the red ninja again, added some text and used the resulting picture to order some postcards.

My little Ninja was a happy guy at the end of the day and that alone makes it all worthwhile!!