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 The first day of a brand new year is the perfect time to introduce a new category on Craft Gossip: DIY Weddings! My name is Kimberly Jones and I am thrilled to join Craft Gossip as its newest editor.  A wedding day is one of the most important days of your life and I want to fill this blog with creative ideas, inspiration, and resources to help you make your special day truly your own.

Winter has settled in to stay in my part of the world and the skies are gray and cloudy, so I thought I would start things off with a cheerful splash of color!

Pantone has revealed the color of the year for 2011 and it’s Honeysuckle!  A vibrant shade of pink, Honeysuckle is already popping up everywhere. Michelle of My Personal Artist created the gorgeous inspiration board above combining honeysuckle pink with beeswax yellow and coral rose orange, a happy melange of hues sure to banish the winter blues!

For more Honeysuckle inspiration visit these lovely sites:

Percy Handmade 

Prepare To Wed

My Wedding Reception Ideas

Thanks for welcoming me to Craft Gossip! I can’t wait to share more amazing inspiration for your DIY wedding day! If you’ve discovered ideas you’d like to share please email me at [email protected]

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

 

 

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]