Family Birthday Banner

So after talking to Nancy about how her family keeps a bin of birthday stuff, that they use each birthday I started thinking. I really liked that idea, and loved how it created a tradition that the family would always remember. But I didn't know what I wanted in our birthday bin. Then a friend mentioned how they were making a fabric birthday banner for their family. I loved the idea, but didn't get to see it so wasn't sure how she did it. I then came across some blogs where people had made them, and there it was. I joined the ban wagon. I did however make my own changes and sewed it and created it differently than the blogs I found (each one had a different method, and mine was different from them all). But I liked the end result. I just looked in my scrap pieces of fabrics and found ones I loved and put them together. It was actually very easy and I finished it in 3 days (inbetween everything with the kids and all). So here is our birthday banner. I guess this is just a little show and tell. Maybe it will inspire you to do something you've been thinking of too. :)