My Mom retired at the end of May. So exciting. After 25 years of teaching she closes the work chapter and starts in on a bit of leisure (maybe). Woohoo mom!

Back in May the family threw her a retirement open house. It was so nice to catch up and visit with everyone. I created an invite (just for the fun of it) that was mailed and was emailed to extended family and also made a few items of decor. I tried to create those fancy tissue paper POM-POM's you see on pinterest. Tried and failed. I consider it a total pinterest fail. But the other items I made turned out cute. We wanted her to feel special. We had wanted to throw her a BIG party but she wanted something more simple with less fan fair. In the end it was a perfect choice.

Simple decorated water bottles (paper flower with button & patterned patter belly band)

We had all the family (including the kids) offer up any advice, places to travel, books to read, etc and then I compiled it into a tiny project life style book. One cute kid said she should try 'running with the bulls'. Hilarious.

I used a mini book from We R memories that is sized for instagram 4x4" photos and includes pages for 2x2 pocket cards. This small size was perfect for advice. I designed a few pocket cards to fit into the book. If I get my act together I'll show these in a future post. I'm please with how the project turned out... but like a dummy didn't snap any pictures before I finally gave the book to mom.