Placemat gifts

I got this idea from my friend Robin who is a scrapbooking freak. I mean freak in a good way of coarse. She had made placemats out of scrapbook pages. They were so cute that I thought I'd make some for my mom for Christmas.

There is one for every grandkid, one with a "grandpa" poem and one with a "grandma" poem. So there's a total of 8.

Now Robin used contact paper for her placemats. I didn't want to bother with that though so I took mine into Office Max to be laminated. Bad choice. If I hadn't signed a waiver saying that they weren't responsible for damages, I don't think I would have paid for them. You can't really tell by these pictures but they did a horrible job. One of them even has a hair stuck in it. Gross. But after all the time, money and energy I'd put into them I just gave them as is.

I blurred out the names of my wee ones but you get the idea.

"Grandpa's" page. Notice the green and white ribbon? It was straight before I had it laminated.

My little Tommi.

My niece Norma.


My crazy boy.

Nephew, Will.

Niece, Hannah.

Kmac. She helped me put her page together.

"Grandma's" page. Those black things are actually a dark purple and the big rectangle has the "grandma" poem on it.