Once upon a time...

...there was a little girl called Mel. She loved to make things. She also loved to take part in classes run by Shimelle.

One day Shimelle sent out a prompt as part of the Something From Almost Nothing class. It was all about interesting ways of using page protectors. It got Mel thinking about a way of using up some spare 6x6" page protectors she'd found tucked away in a box. She'd also remembered an idea for a mini-book that she'd been meaning to create (probably originally inspired by Shimelle's When I Grow Up class which she'd bought a while back but not had the chance to work through yet!) She found some patterned papers from a couple of pads of Little Sizzles (from Sizzix), printed off some photos, found her scissors and some little punches, and set to work.

She sewed three page protectors up the middle to join them together and create six smaller pockets. She then cut six pieces of cardstock to size and decorated the front and back of each to make the covers and ten pages. She realised that what she really wanted to do with the front cover was add some foam letter stickers to spell 'Once upon a time', but as she didn't have any she left that for the time being and just added a background picture for now:

(When she has a chance to go shopping she will get those foam stickers and add them straight onto the front of the book, outside the page protector!)

For the inside pages she wanted to tell the story of all she'd dreamed of being 'when she grew up'.

She'd always wanted to be a teacher.

She'd hoped to find someone special, fall in love, and get married.

And she very much wanted to have children one day.

Mel was very blessed. When she did grow up (relatively speaking...) she found that all her dreams came true!

Wasn't that a happy ending? :-)

There was just one thing that bothered her a little.

How would The Doctor feel about his new body shape and dress sense?! ;-)