Creativity running rampant!

We were cleaning out our bookshelves and came

 across our Harry Potter book that had fallen apart 

(maybe from the fact that all three girls 

have read the entire series about seven times each

 and carried these books all over the world....literally). 

 With half of the chapters missing, we all 

were silently trying to decide what to do....none

 of us could bear to throw it away but

 it was completely unreadable!  

All of a sudden, Sara said

"I know what to do with it!"

Problem solved!  I gave it to her and finished the cleaning the

 bookshelf (which by the way, 

looks fabulously neat and clean). 

 The next morning, she

 proudly came down with this!  

Sara and Ellen took quotes from the book and lined the inside, 

then hodge podged the whole book, cover and all.  

Sara hot glued fabric on the sides 

and braided the strap 

and there you have it...a true 

"Harry Potter purse"

Sara is sharing it with Ellen but she got 

first dibbs to take it to school!  

Needless to say....it was a hit!

Not to be left out of interesting, creative projects......

let me introduce Elizabeth's venture!  She has

been writing a book for the last year and is around 30,000 words 

into it.  Any spare time she has, which 

is not much, she carries her 

"sketch book",  laptop and notebook around. 

 Her sketch book contains sketches of

all the characters along with their attributes 

and character descriptions.  I personally

have not seen it, as she is very private with it.

But from afar, it looks really cool!  

I have read her "rough draft" of the book

 and I say with bias, that 

it is awesome and she has a real shot 

at getting this thing published.

So what is this a picture of?  Several weeks ago, 

she came downstairs asking for duct tape. 

 I procured it for her and didn't bother to 

ask for what.  The next day when I entered her room, 

I was greeted with walls of index

 cards duct taped all over her room! 

 She now has so many characters in her book, 

that this is her invention to help her keep them

 straight!  You won't see this decorating style in 

Pottery Barn!