The Giving Tree

I volunteered to be in charge of the teacher wish lists for Adlani's school, and immediately started obsessing about the wish list bulletin board. Since I'm so good with linear and geometric designs, I inexpicably decided to use a tree...I think it was because I assumed that the school would have a leaf shape for their die-cut machine so I wouldn't have to cut out 200 leaves by hand. After I had the theme fully-developed in my head, I found out that they only have dies for sailboats, bears, and a few other unsuitable shapes. Luckily, I know people. Rachael agreed to paint the tree, and Delia and Nelson translated the instructions into Spanish and Portuguese. I wrote each of the teachers' wishes on a leaf and assembled the tree with one branch per classroom. Now all I have to obsess about is whether people will remove the leaves and fulfill the wishes.

If any of you have excess cream of tartar or hand sanitizer laying around, the wish lists are also on-line: http://blockswishlist.blogspot.com