Hi ho, hi ho, we love to do our chores

I don't know about the rest of you, but I struggle to get my kids to do their chores willingly. I'm not sure that will ever happen, really. One friend has the kids chores tied into their allowance, another friend pays their kids marbles(worth 10 cents each) for doing different things, and some friends who use chore charts. We've been trying varying degrees of all these, but I think we finally found the right mix for us.
When I saw a cute chore chart on a friends blog, I knew I wanted add it to our chore mix too. Six months later, I finally got around to it. And here's what I ended up with:




These were actually rather inexpensive to make. I had the ribbon and paper on hand; the modpodg, flowers and metal brads were from a store closing it's doors; and the clipboards came in a pack of 6 from for a few dollars from Sam's. The velcro ended up being the most expensive part of the project.
You may notice some extra velcro on the blue board. Larissa was sitting with me while I was finishing up the boards. I didn't notice that she decided to help by adding extra velcro pieces on her board. Later, she tried to take them off and ripped the paper. Luckily, it's nothing a little modpodge can't fix.

September Card Club

The theme for this month was fall colors.
Here are the cards so far (looking forward to seeing what Barbie Jo and Kara create):


I'm a copy cat so, of course, I cased a design I found on Split Coast Stampers. I've been wanting to use that stamp since I bought it...glad I finally did it.

This is Jen's awesome owl card. She started out with something completely different in mind. I'm not sure what it was, but I'm happy with where her creativity took her.

Chere combined watercolors, vellum, and embossing to come up with this cute card. I like the shimmer.

Summer wanted to use her origami paper and even stamped an origami bird on her envelope. She didn't think it looked very autumny, but looking at it now, it seems kind of harvesty to me -- the orange from the scarecrows shirt the yellow of the fields... And I love that button.