guess what I finally bought today!

I think that we would all be in the same boat.....least said soonest mended is best policy. Take it from someone who knows.......LOL I am currently encouraging my DD in card-making and scrapbooking and I am beginning to wonder if I too am creating a monster. She was here today and went home again with a bunch of strokables from my stash....LOL It always start with me showing her new techniques and suddenly she has armfuls of what she needs to do the stuff when she gets home :o) Both GD1 and GS3 (her children) love to get in my craft room and make cards and play with paper/glue/stickers. I think that you have to allow your DD to develop her own style by experimenting once you have shown her the basics. Doesn't really matter if things match when you are only four...how sweet that she loves to craft already...cherish the moments as they are all too short!!!!

Marilyn

I bought her a little scrapbook set from Big Lots for $1.99 about a month ago and found some odd pictures that I couldn't really make a page out of and gave them to her. I bought her some stickers (cheap ones) and gave her a glue stick. I at first would let her put the glue on the picture and tell her where to put it and where to put which stickers. But I felt like I was doing the scrapbook for her. This was suppose to be hers. So, I backed off and cleaned up her desk in her room and put her stickers and album and pictures in her room and let her do what she wanted to do with them. I showed her how to use the photo corners stickers and border stickers and she ran with it. I looked back at her album later that night and she had gone back and put the photo corner stickers on all of the pictures (even the ones she had already done before getting the stickers). She also has letter stickers that came in the book of stickers I bought for her and she was trying to spell words out but she is too young to know how to spell words yet. LOL. My DS was trying his best to try to figure out what she spelled out on one picture til I told him she was just putting stickers on the page. She then proceeded to tell me and him "No, it says ....". I am going to put it in her childhood keepsake box when she is done with it and I know I will always cherish it.

Isn't it amazing how smart they can be with very little tuition? Imagine her quickly picking up the fact that she could use the photo corners, even on the pictures she had already stuck down....how sweet!!! I had a little chuckle over her use of the letter stickers...Mommy how dare you not know that her stickers said ??????? ROFL

I just about fell into that trap a few weeks ago with GS. Both he and his sister were making their Mum a birthday card and Kieran was painstakingly cutting away at a piece of lilac card, to which he added a quilled daisy I had shown him how to make. When they were almost finished I said to Abbie that she would need a "Mum" sticker from the sticker folder. I took out what she would need and asked Kieran if he needed one too. His retort was, "No Nana...I cut my Mum sticker out of the card" I quickly looked at it and said "Oh, yes son, so you did and good job too!" I would never have known if he hadn't told me....but he had been creative and that was what was important.....LOL I related the events to his Mum and she too had missed the fact that he had created his own Mum sticker.....I pointed out to her that it is often the little things we miss and we should praise their efforts and encourage them to develop their skills or they are quickly lost!

Marilyn

LOL at colors do not match. In our house when I'm having trouble figuring out colors I go to my 5yr old DD. When she scraps with me the colors often (not always) match better than mine. She would like the frames. Her wish list is as long as mine (and different of course). I just tell my DH I'm trying to keep the hobbies even (his is technology and gadgets).

That is so great that you are making things with the grandkids. I think I enjoy that most of all when I visit with mine. We play Scrabble,too and I saw some wooden scrabble letter tiles that I have to get and make a LO of three of the gks and me playing. We play an aggressive game,they are all so darn smart these days that they have a large vocabulary and they love to challenge me! LOL One of them finally said,"Don't challenge Nana,she is always right , she just acts dumb ,she is really smart for an old lady! LOL

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

LOL....mine are beginning to say to their Mum that she is becoming more and more like me all the time. LOL

DD hasn't had a wonderful 10+ years, so her self-esteem had taken a serious nose-dive. Following a 5 month stay with her Dad & I, and a lot of hard work she is getting there...finally! My encouragement on the craft front is all part of the plan to grow her confidence/self-esteem and show her that life has positive moments to cherish...you just sometimes need to search for them in the myre!!!! The scrapbooking is part of all that, although I wish I had found it years ago! I love it!!!!

Marilyn

You will love it Jennifer! Just tell him to wrap it and you will be suprised when you open it for your birthday! LOL

LOL!

Judy, SA

Yeah ,I thought I had them all fooled! LOL They also said ,"When Nana watches Jepoardy,she knows all the answers" LOL I am addicted to that show....either that or I have a crush on Alex Trebeck! he he

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

That is so sweet! I'd let her do her own thing but do one thing too - since she wants to label stuff ask her if she'd like you to write a 'translation' of her messages so that other people can read it? Like in little kids workbooks at school - they write their stories and then the teacher writes it underneath for everyone else :) ~Karen aka Kajikit Crafts, cats, and chocolate - the three essentials of life