Category Archives: Gifts

You are a FOBulous Teacher / Friend – ribbon mini key fobs

I love how this turned out!!  I have to GIVE FULL credit to the wonderful blog “She’s Kinda Crafty” I decided to make these for the teachers this year. I wasn’t going to do any sewing projects but when I saw how fast and cute and fun this was. I had to jump on board!!…

Happy Nurse Appreciation Day!

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I regret posting this so late. I have been out of town for a nice early mother’s day weekend with just the girls in my family. But I got alot of requests while I was gone and wanted to put something up to help those looking for a gift for nurses. I hope you get…

Teacher Appreciation Week – I have the BERRY best teacher!

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Needed: -Homemade Strawberry Jam -Cupcake liner -Tag I made strawberry jam a few months ago. I knew they would make great gifts and decided my daughter’s teacher would probably appreciate fresh jam. 🙂 I know I would! This was simple to do. I unscrewed the neck and added a cute paper cupcake liner to give…

Teacher Appreciation Week – You’re the apple of our eye! Thank You!

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Needed: -Plastic Apple -Candy -Tag The plastic apple is a “fruit saver” container that was found a few months back at Target. I love to raid the $1.00 section and saw these apples and bought a few of them. Can’t beat a $1.00!! This makes a quick sweet candy gift for that special teacher in…

Teacher Appreciation Week – Thanks for making my school year BRIGHT!

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Needed: -Light bulb jar -Candy -Tag The light bulb jar was found at my local Hobby Lobby. They usually cost approx. $1.47 each however they are on sale 50% off. WOOHOO!! This makes a quick sweet candy gift for that special teacher in you / child’s life. I filled it with my daughters teacher’s favorite…

Teacher Appreciation Week – Here’s the scoop! You’re a sweet teacher!

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Needed: -Ice cream Cup -Scoop -Candy -Tag -Bag The scoop is currently found in the $1.00 section of my local Target. Ice cream Cup was also found at Target but purchased a while ago. This makes a quick sweet candy gift for that special teacher in you / child’s life. I filled it with my…

Teacher Appreciation Week – I MENTO tell you thanks…. Mentos Gift

Tag reads “I MENTO tell you thanks for being such a great teacher” My son too wanted to give a little something to his teachers. Being a tweener- its uncool to be a teachers pet in middle school. But a little gift he still wanted to give. And this one he was excited by. It…

Teacher Appreciation Week- Teachers can’t live by apples alone….they need chocolate!

Teacher appreciation week is coming!! NEXT WEEK!!! This is a very simple gift 🙂  If you are in a pinch this works great 🙂 –Gable boxes found at Michael’s. –Cut out apples on my silhouette machine. –Filled it with candy. That happen to be buy 1 get 1 free at Publix. –Add a tag…the tag…

Easter & Visiting Teaching April 2013 Candy Flower Favors

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I made these for both Easter Sunday favors and made extras for my sisters in church I will go Visiting Teach. April and Spring/Flowers seemed appropriate. They were very simple to make. I collected baby food jars from friends. I LOVE LOVE LOVE JARS!!! I have an addiction to all types of jars! I simply…

Make your own Pinewood Derby Trophy for Cub Scouts

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Surfing Pinterest we saw this idea and instantly fell in love with it. It was quick and we were able to do this in one evening (You know as in the night before the pinewood derby- that’s how we roll!) There was no tutorial on this just a photo on Pinterest so I decided to…

I mustache you to be my valentine – Free Printable

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This is the valentine my daughter gave away to her classmates last year. However I was in the middle of making these while we were moving to a new home. I forgot to blog more about this 🙂 I melted chocolate in a double boiler and used Mustache Lollipop Chocolate Candy Mold and some Lollipop…

You make my heart glow – Valentine with free printables

You make my heart glow valentine

We have so many of these glow sticks. I bought LOTS off ebay for my hubby’s 40th birthday party. We still have tons left. I wanted to be able to reuse them for another event and came up with these. The glow sticks are necklaces and there are 2 in a pack so I needed…

February 2013 Visiting Teaching – Capture the vision of Relief Society

February 2013 Visiting Teaching Message

February is almost here. And I always like to make little treats to take my sweet sisters that I visit. I think pink and doilies and hearts in February and love my sisters dearly. So to keep this months theme going with the treat this is what I came up with 🙂 I filled the…

Easter Treats – Some Bunny Special

I gave each person that came to our Easter dinner one of these treats. I even gave them away to my Visiting Teaching sisters at church 🙂 I simply printed my own pink gingham paper on card stock. Used my silhouette to cut out a bunny and the outside  rectangle. Folded in half. Used a…

St. Patrick’s Day Treat Toppers – Free Printable (great for Visiting Teaching)

I am sorry this is so close to St. Patrick’s day. I just designed this last night for me to go visit my church sisters for Visiting Teaching.  However I created one for regular use as well for all of my readers. I made this tag that will fit on a sandwich size zip top…

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