Visiting teaching treat

Summer has put a damper on my Visiting Teaching. It's so hard to coordinate schedules when everyone is taking vacations. So to start the next month off right I did this little treat to take to my sisters. 

The tag on top reads:

We are looking forward top "popping" in on you each month. Love your visiting teachers

I put popcorn kernels in a mason jar, topped the lid with a cupcake paper and some ribbon, and added a brad to cover the overlap of the ribbon.

I also added a few paperbags to pop the popcorn in as well as the instructions on how to do that. 

I also put popcorn flavorings in those cute little tins that you can find in the wedding sections at Michaels. Topped them off with some tags so they know what is what. 

I love that you can take somethings simple and package it up cute to be a fun little treat.

End of year treats

For the end of the year treats I wanted to do something different than just the basic gift card so I made these cake kits. I've made them before but a little differently, for baby shower prizes and they were just as fun this way. 

 Cake mix and frosting wrapped up cute with an apron card to match, each a little different for each teacher. 

 This is what the inside said, then each child signed their name for their teacher.

I also made treats for each kid to hand out to their classmates

Already for summer and the crazy hot weather!!! 

Teacher appreciation week

It's teacher appreciation week starting Monday and this year I wanted to actually do something for my kids teachers. I have great respect for teachers, especially really great teachers. I know how hard it is to get my kids just to do their homework for a few hours each day so I can only imagine what  full day would be like. 

I always have good intentions but it always seem to sneak up on me. Well not this year, this year I'm prepared. I started on these a week ago and will have my last one finished this weekend. I of course went to my go to place for great ideas, Pinterest. I'm so thankful people are willing to share their good ideas and talent with the rest of us so that I don't have to come up with all this on my own. 

Day one: highlighters ~ inspiration can't be found. I know I've seen these somewhere before If you know please leave me a comment with the source so I can give due credit.

Day two: a pencil bouquet ~ inspiration found here.

Day three: hand soap ~ inspiration found here.

 Day four: scissors ~ inspiration found here

Day five still to come, still need the candy for the jar. Will post as soon as I have it done but here is where I found my inspiration.

Revised 5/7/12

Ok here is the last teacher appreciation gift we'll be giving this week

 

VT Treat

I am ashamed to say that I have not been very diligent with my Visiting Teaching the last few months but it's a new year and I decided I wanted to be the kind of visiting teacher I'd want and to make a visit every month this year. 

I am so thankful for this program and the opportunity it gives me to get to know the women of my ward and for the opportunity it gives me to talk to other women and laugh, we laugh quite often. 

This month I brought just a little treat for when you just need a little chocolate. 

These are Hershey Nuggets wrapped in paper and placed in the pretzel rod bags you can find in the candy isle of your local craft store. Original idea found here : Inking Idaho

Christmas Gifts

SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU ARE LACEY, ASHLEE, OR EITHER  MY MOM or MIL STOP READING NOW!

on the off chance that they check this blog and since I'm not going to wait to publish this until after Christmas you've had your fair warning. : )

First up I have the "neighbor" gifts I did this year. I had lots of good ideas but as my list was pretty long I needed to keep cost in mind. I have done this before but not for Christmas and not here in Vegas. I have a great recipe for a dill dip mix so I made some up, packaged it and attached it to a wooden spoon with the directions needed to make it. 

Second, we were finally able to participate in our family gift exchange this year. We had talked about having the kids draw each others names (all the cousins) and then having them make their gift for them. BUT we decided to do this a little late in the month so we drew a family instead. We had the option to make gifts for the kids in that family or do a "family" gift. I opted for the family gift. I saw this idea here on My Grafico Crafts blog for a movie night in a bottle. For some reason I had it in my head that the movie fit in the bottle too, but it doesn't. I filled mine with popcorn, M&M's, other smaller candies and in one went three little pandas to go with the Kung Fu Panda 2 movie that was going along with it. In the other I put three little penguin craft projects to go along with the Mr. Poppers penguins movie. 

They have the instructions on the site for assembly. I hope they like them!

And third is something that I really loved putting together. This year I got both my mom and MIL gift cert. to Hobby Lobby because when they come to visit it is a must do to go to Hobby Lobby. But I couldn't just mail the gift card so I found this great idea on Inking Idaho (she is amazing by the way)

It is a small box with a transparency slide. It hold 3x3 cards and 3 Hershey Nuggets. 

 Can you see my gift card sticking out?

 I made four different cards to go in the box. I probably could have fit at least one more but it was late and I could hardly see straight. Plus the flower card took up too much room for another card

 Love the wrapped nuggets!

 I'm so excited with how they turned out. I hope they'll love them and that they'll look inside to find the gift card. 

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

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ladybug party

 This year I did a ladybug theme party for my daughter. I made party hats for all the girls using scrapbook paper and cut up boa's. I also made the medallions from a tutorial I found at the TomKat Studio.

 Each girl had a ladybug coloring page, her party hat, and a box of crayons.

 I kept the treat table simple but also decorated with a few tissue pom, ladybugs, and balloons.

 I dipped Oreo's in red and brown candy melts and added my non perils for a ladybug look.

I made the labels for the water bottles as well.

 I had a cute ladybug on one of my cricket cartriges that I used throughout the party

 chocolate and powdered doughnuts to go with the polka dots in the party.

more ladybugs for cupcake toppers. I also used all my fun red and white scrapbook paper I'd been accumulating over the past year to make the cupcake wrappers.

 I love my new stand I found at HomeGoods. Some one had stripped the screws on it so it was really wobbly. I got it for a discount and went home and glued them in place and it's as good as new.


The girls got to take these ladybug takeout boxes home full of treats from the table.

 I also made these ladybug hair clips for each girl and the card they were clipped to.

 The girls had a lot of fun, maybe as much fun as I had putting this all together.


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