What do "Books, Reading and Decorating have in common?"

It's been a busy and interesting month...


Trying to get ready for our Annual Reading Council Meeting...


Colleen and I are in charge of decorations, we wanted something different for the table decorations. But budget friendly! So we rescued some old books while donating to the local Hospice Store... and started folding and folding and folding!!! Than rolling lots of roses and hot gluing them to branches. So for about $1.50 a table decoration is made... But before I started folding I took the books to my mother to see if she wanted to read any of them first. She took 6 and read them all. Mom loves to read, so I was glad I let her take a look first.

I will take pictures and show you what the tables look like for the Annual Meeting.

Now for a few wall decorations, it is amazing what a few pages of a book can look like all rolled up... glued...with a big rose in the middle...

Next onto The Reading Counsel's annual Readers Walk only this year it wasn't much of a walk for the kids. It rained all day and we had to move indoors. But the kids still came out in force. They really enjoy all the books we read to them and all the great gifts we give away at the end of the day...

Martha a retired Kindergarten teacher loves reading the one about the pumpkin seed and the kids really get involved with it...

Here I am reading one while he enjoys his bag of popcorn...

Another one of Martha's about the Daffodil, with a Daffodil hand puppet...
My daughter Colleen always has fun signing the books to the kids as they are read...

So this month we bought books,we read books and we decorated with books. It was a very educational month for us and a fun one too...

Have a Great Week,

Lynn