Groopdealz.

Have you guys heard of Groopdealz? I've been subscribing to them for about 6 months now, and I just purchased my first item--the turquoise earrings.  Not only are they fun, they were super cheap, $4.99 + shipping.  Basically, you sign up to recieve daily emails (yeah, that can be annoying) and they feature different items each day at a discounted price.  They have lots of party supplies, jewelry, or other gifts.

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Cupcakes To-Go.

To celebrate the end of a great season, I made these for my Cheer gals. After much thought about how I could travel with individual cupcakes, this is what I came up with.  These are the giant cupcakes, so a clear cup wouldn't work.  Target saved the day with these clear bowls (harder to come by than you would think!)  I hole-punched the edges of the bowls, then secured them with ribbon.  Crossing my fingers that they make it to the girls without toppling over!

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Snow Globes.

So you have probably seen this craft floating around on Pinterest, and I decided to give it a try.  I thought it might be neat to start a snow-globe anniversary tradition.  I can just imagine looking back at 15, 20, even 50 years of snow globes, each with a little something from that year of our marriage.  We'll see how that goes :)

I looked high and low for a house ornament.  You would have thought that would have been easy to find.  I wasn't even being picky- a ginderbread house would have worked! I found pizzas, pigs, tutus, ... and no house.  So I improvised.  That's a wooden #1 I painted red (for 1st annivesary), the 3 trees I found in the Hob Lob craft section, and for some height, I added the silver ornament.  The silver key replaced the house-- biggest event of our first year, our first house!

Dumped a bunch of glitter in the jar.  Sparkles!

The clock is the modern first anniversary gift.  I just used hot glue to put it all together.  Let's hope it stays together-- for like ever.

 

I read on one blog (sorry, don't remmeber where!) that you could use baby oil to help the glitter "float" like snow.  This is what happened with the baby oil-- not snow--more like Gak.  (Remember Gak??!)

I opted for just water and glitter.  I tied a tag to the jar with a little recap of our year.  Happy Anniversary!

Enjoy!
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Teacher Gift.

One of my cousins is starting her first year of teaching Kindergarten this year!  I am so excited for her as she begins this new adventure.  I know she will be one of those teacher's that students will just love.  She's good :)

Setting up your classroom, although it can be fun, can be quite daunting for a first year!  I thought it would be fun to put together a box of goodies to start of the year.

These are just ball jars with ribbon, pom-pom balls and bandana scraps for desk supplies.

Mini clothespins with ribbon.

 Clipboard decorated with scrapbook paper and ribbon, and an "A" magnet for Miss A! I used yarn to cover the letter then scraps for the flowers.

 Finally, two bandana pennant banners! I was determined to make fabric pennant banners without sewing.  I cut the bandanas into 8 triangles, then glued two of each color together at the top.  Then, I hot-glued the ribbon to the top, folding it over onto each side.  

Ta-da!

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