12 Days of Christmas*Teachers' Gifts...Day 8

Day 8 brought felt snowflake ornaments from Target, along with Hershey's Kisses and peppermints.

I put them in a quart size Ziploc bag and stapled a doily to the top.  A stamped tag finishes it off!

12 Days of Christmas*Teachers' Gifts...Days 5-7

Hey there!  I hope y'all had a great weekend!  We did!  We had two cookie exchanges, so it was a super busy, fun time!  

Day 5 of the 12 Days of Christmas was snow globes!  I'm sure you've all seen these around Pinterest and other blogs.  I love them!  They are super simple and inexpensive to make.  I saved my jelly and spaghetti jars, so it brought the cost down even more!  I just took the labels off, washed the jars really good, and spray painted the lids.  Then, I took trees from Wal-Mart and glued them to the lids, added in a little snow, screwed the lids back on, and voila, a cute gift!

I loved this packaging!  I took small tags that I aged in coffee and cinnamon, stamped a 5 on, then tied them to the bag along with a snowflake ornament, and grey ribbon.

A little closeup...the snowflakes came from The Dollar Tree in a pack of six.

Day 6 was yummy, homemade cookies!  You can tell I went all out on the packaging!  Haha!

These cookies are seriously yummy! You can find the recipe here.

Day 7...I decoupaged ornaments with book pages and glitter.  I then printed out the Noel on the computer and strung it all on twine.  My inspiration came from Pinterest.

I just nestled these in some kraft paper shreds in a cellophane bag tied with twine.  Simple and beautiful!

12 Day of Christmas*Teachers' Gifts...Day 4

Day 4...I made tags that the teachers can either tie on a package or decorate with.  My personal favorite is the snowman.  I just found a vintage snowman postcard, saved, and printed it to size.  Then, I just used a glue stick to adhere it to my tags, which I soaked in a bath of coffee and cinnamon to age, then used good ole Elmer's to make a bead around the edge and sprinkled glitter.  LOVE how it turned out!

I wrote a little poem, then stapled it to a fun cellophane bag.  Ready to give!

12 Days of Christmas*Teachers' Gifts, 1-3

I got this hair-brained idea to do a 12 Days of Christmas gift giving extravaganza for the kids' teachers this year.  You know, cause I'm not busy enough!  Aren't we all, though?

So...Day 1 was homemade hot chocolate mix, that I just put in mason jars and added cute lids.  The little bags hold marshmallows and Bob's peppermint sticks.

Day 1 all packaged and ready for gifting!

Day 2...Decoupaged initial ornaments...

A closeup of one...

Day 2 packaged up!

Day 3...Christmas Popcorn!

I have lots more ideas up my sleeves so y'all come back!

Horsey Love...

One of Lilly's friends is into horses.  As in, she has won first place in her shows.  The sweet thing broke her arm and so we decided to make her a care package.  I made a horsey hair clip inspired by this girl's.

Lilly made a little hoop art for her friend.  I think she did a great job!!  We threw in a few other store-bought goodies and called it done!

Come Fly With Me...A Vintage, Travel Baby Shower

This Spring, my mom and I hosted a baby shower for my baby brother's girlfriend.  I knew immediately I wanted to go with a vintage, travel theme.  I made the banner hanging on the fireplace out of thrifted men's shirts.  The "B", for Braxton, is just covered in atlas paper and wrapped with twine.  A couple of vintage suitcases, a globe, a vintage camera, and atlas pinwheels in a mason jar complete the scene.

The drink station...I used an old quilt top of my mom's on the table.  A Squirt crate held mason jars with paper straws.  We had punch, fancy water, and sweet tea.

A little closeup...

I didn't want to use paper plates, and since Nick and Ashley are just making a home together, I bought colorful plates that they could keep.  I used an old milk crate to hold them and more pinwheels and a vintage camera help carry the theme through-out.

Yummy...homemade hummus with mini pitas and veggies, chicken salad on croissants, marinated cheese, fruit...I love party food!!

We set up tables outside...

My Mamaw's vintage dough bowl holding pinwheels and a vintage camera...

A couple of vintage books, more pinwheels, and another camera...

More books, more pinwheels...I was making pinwheels FOREVER!!!  

Triple chocolate bundt cake with an atlas flag topper...

The wreath greeted people at the front door, but I don't have a decent pic of it...

I just wrapped a straw wreath with burlap ribbon and used straight pins or hot glue to attach the pinwheels.  A paper mache "B" for Braxton.

The happy couple in a prerequisite cheesy pose.  Hahaha!!!

The proud aunt of a nephew, finally!!!

Big boy Braxton now!!  Not only did our family get another little boy to add to the mix, we got 3 more cousins in addition!  Ashley's other 3 children are my other kids' ages, so there is always fun when they're around!!

Friday Thrifting...

Today Violet and I went to visit a friend who had a baby, but first we snuck in a little trip to the local thrift shoppe.  I picked up some books to use in my Fall decor, a vintage camera to add to my ever-growing collection, fabric, a wreath form, and a pretty blue and white plate.

I also found this darling coat and sweet little white shoes for Violet.  The spool of baby ric rac will be fun for gift wrapping and crafting!!

Thanks for looking!!  Hope y'all have a great weekend!!