Gift #2

 

So next, I used a little plastic jar from Hobby Lobby and filled it with two different kinds of Nonni's yummy biscotti and tied a little package of Harley & Sons Christmas tea on the side.  I made the label using a graphic from http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/p/search.html and put one on the top too.  The ribbon was perfect it is Mara Mi but from Tuesday Morning, still expensive but not over-the-top expensive and when you see words like "Gingerbread, Cookie, Cupcake,Treat, etc" on the cloth ribbon, so totally worth the lettle extra. I use Corel Draw as my graphics program.

Linda's Month of Birthdays

 

 

My beautiful DIL, Dawn, her mother's birthday is on December 25th. So we decided that on Thanksgiving day we would give her a card to tell her that three of us (myself, my DIL and DIL's Nana) were going to mimic the advent calendar idea but it would be a countdown to her birthday instead of Christmas.  Having your birthday on Christmas day means you always get the "duel" gift, just not fair.  I became (maybe a little too much) so enthusiastic with this today that I just ran with idea.  Made the card on 8 1/2 by 11 card stock and put a photo of a car from the year she was born & some interesting statistics from that year, inside the card is the announcement about the birthday "days."for her. Took a graphic from http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/p/search.html and used for the "Queen Bee" sticker on the oversized envelope. Then as luck would have it I found my first inspiration from some chalkboard graphics from http://www.nestofposies-blog.com/ and with a (half off, of course) Hobby Lobby frame made the gift for my first day..

IKEA Bottle

 

For a nice and inexpensive gift how about a bottle of sparkling water and a lovely bottle of lemonade?  My IKEA had these bottles marked down to $3.99 over the weekend.  I found a graphic label that looked French - it was Eiffel Tower Lemonade, and made a decal label for the bottle.  To fill the bottle make simple syrup (=parts water & sugar) and fresh lemon juice.  This should be very concentrated.  To make a very refreshing lemon drink, add some of the lemon mixture to a glass with ice and then add the sparkling water!  Yum!