Journal Making at GapKids! #CleverGap #ShineOn

 

This post is sponsored by GapKids. Check out all the fun Shine On activities at your nearest Gap store. For event dates and locations, visit Gap’s Facebook page and join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #ShineOn. 

It was great making my way down to the Coco Walk last Saturday for journal writing at GapKids.  I hopped a bus (and another bus and a train and a bus), y'all! I told myself I would make it down to Miami proper, and boy, did I!

I have happy memories of the Coco Walk from when I visited Miami during my birthday weekend about ten years or so ago.  (Could it possibly have been that long ago?)  Time flies.  My friend Mike and I had so much fun! We were buddies from the Tanglewood Music Center.  Good times.  Mike Kearns, where are you?

So, shining on, I made my way upstairs to the GapKids and found some perfectly sized kids' activity tables and several little ones working steadily on their journals.  :)  I explained to the very kind crew that I was a blogger from the Clever Girls Collective and not some weirdo randomly taking pictures of children crafting, haha.  But, as a teacher and discerning crafter, I had to analyze the instructions, usefulness, cuteness, and overall quality of the projects.

#ShineOn at the #CleverGap

 

 

This post is sponsored by GapKids. Check out all the fun Shine On activities at your nearest Gap store. For event dates and locations, visit Gap’s Facebook page and join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #ShineOn.

Thank you, universe.

It's all so exciting, isn't it? Those of you who follow me on facebook may be aware that I was recently accepted into the Clever Girls Collective, which is a network of powerful women bloggers who are selected to connect with brands and enjoy benefits from just doing what we love- blogging, tweeting, and connecting with our friends and readers!

This is a big step for the blog and for me, because even though I started Art, Like Bread simply to document my crafty endeavors, it has grown into so much more.  I'm glad to be a part of this, and I hope you'll join me for the ride.

Why didn't we have digital cameras in 1996? That was the year you would have seen me bopping around my residence hall at Mount Holyoke in my turquoise, long-sleeved Gap t-shirt bearing the simple word, "shine."  Is it a verb?  a noun? a command? a wish? an intention?  I don't exactly know what the designers intended to impart with those five letters, but it always put me in a good mood.  Fashion is a form of self expression, and craft is fashion is craft, so let's get to crafting, people, and let's get to the Gap.