Gifts for primary teachers and the women I serve with at church....Check!

Cookie Exchange

Cookie/Ornament exchange tonight...

Thanks to THIS fun idea from Shanty2Chic I have beautiful decorations for the 5th annual cookie/ornament exchange I help host.

  A cookie a day keeps the doctor away...right?  (After the cookie party I will take that sign off and put a drawing made by my kids on and it's now a teacher's gift.)

Teacher Gift - Take 1

Sometimes to make something super cute you have to make a bunch of junk first.  Well at least I do...I'm sure some of you just whip out cuteness on the first try....not me.  This is my first attempt at this sign.  I don't love it and know the changes I need to make :)

Today my friend commented on all the crates in my pictures.  Yep there have been a whole lot of them hanging around my house.  I'm even going to teach you to make some later in the week.   I'm sure most of you already know how or are wondering why you would want to know how.  Some super cute things can happen with wood crates!

Wish me luck on my second attempt!

UPDATE:  Here is my second attempt.  This one is for the Festival of Nativities.  I'm still working on it but I LOVE the jute twine rosette!!



Burlap Sign

Today my plan was to accomplish many things around my house that need attention.  Half way through I sat down to check my email, got distracted and started creating.  I'm glad I did because this project makes me happy!  This is what I'm going to give all my kids primary teachers for Christmas....

**I used THIS tutorial to print on the burlap***

I'm going to put some cute rosettes on it too but this particular one will be used for the Festival ofNativities. Thanks to Melanie over at Sugardoodle for helping me make my document into a pdf file.  Learn something new everyday!