Projects...

per Rachel's request, i believe, here are some of the things i mentioned i was working on before...i figure i'm safe enough to post them now, most of the gifts are given or will be very soon....

For Ethan's teacher, for Teacher Appreciation Week, we made this little sack of goodness...the bag topper was from 30 days, shared on Skip to My Lou i just had to go with a pink bag as well, so bright and fun. inside we put some highlighters (to go with the "bright" theme), a gift card to Dairy Queen (who doesn't love ice cream?), and the wrapped little box is a box of Jiffy mix for chocolate muffins, one of our favorite treats with a handful of chocolate chips mixed in...makes only about 6 which is perfect for not overeating them. The gift card little holder i made, saw some inspiration from Martha and decided to give it a go...turned out well i think.

back (above) front (below)

For my just-turned-one-nephew, Theo, i made some freezer paper stenciled shirts...i can't help it! they are so fun and easy to make and i just love the results! so here are the two i made for him...hope he enjoys them:)

For Mother's Day there were many ideas chasing around in my head, but what i settled on was (a few things); starting with some of this great sugar scrub , my jars are Ikea spice jars (4 for $4), and i got the "flavoring" at hobby lobby. the ones i made for Mother's Day happen to be grapefruit.

i took this picture of the kids and framed it in some great distressed black frames i found at Big Lots.

i wrapped up some more Jiffy muffin mixes (i just can't get enough chocolate muffins).

and i tried making some quilted notecards, to use up some of my endless fabric scraps...it was a fun, quick project and i actually loved the small composition of each card... i will definitely be making more! the idea for those came from MADE ...i just want to make up bunches of them and have them on hand to give as little gifts..i know i would love to use them myself, perhaps others would as well! (don't be surprised if you receive some in the near future!)

is that all? seems like there had to be more...but i think that's it for the projects, for now.....

while i was at Big Lots (love that store!) getting frames, i found this set of notecards and envelopes...

but it had no price tag. so i took it up front and had them try to find a price, they couldn't, apparently it was the last of it's kind, so the guy let me buy it for $.50! awesome! and all the envelopes and cards were there so it was perfect for $.50. i love it when stuff like that happens!