A+ Teacher Gift

Do these soaps look familiar?

They are the exact same shape bottle as the 

expensive Bath & Body Works brand.But these 

are from the Dollar Store for $1.50. 

And they are all jazzed up

for the kids Teachers.

I cut this cute tag with my Silhouette.

I love that it's 3D.

I signed the back in my own handwriting, just 

to make it a bit personal.

I added a strip of burlap around the neck

and a piece of olive grosgrain ribbon.

I kinda want to keep them for myself now!

Happy Back To School!

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DIY: Altered Notebook with Mini File Folders

This altered notebook is for my daughter. 

School is right around the corner and I 

thought it would be  cute for her to have 

a notebook that she could use for friends 

phone number and addresses 

but was also big enough for her doodles and 

all the fun things that her and her friends do together.

As a tween they love to write everything

down from favorite teachers

to favorite outfits...and perhaps some 

not so favorite things too!

The free file this week from Silhouette was a file folder. How perfect!

I re-sized it to my preference and cut them 

out on patterned scrapbook paper.

I picked up a notebook at the Dollar Store.

Here are the mini file folders in

comparison to my hand, so cute!

I covered the notebook with scrapbook paper and added

a scalloped boarder to the top and bottom.

I cut a label also with the Silhouette, I left it blank so

my daughter could personalize it herself. 

I glued the mini file folders on the pages, about every 8 

pages or so. She can keep things that they make

during recess or little trinkets in them.

I covered the back of the notebook as well.

This is a quick and easy project that you can 

do with your daughter or her & her 

friends can do together!

Shutter Display - Bright New Look & Awesome Sign

I love shutters, I just wish I could come up with 

something creative to do with them.

For the longest time, this is how 

they looked in my craft room.

I love the yellow, I love the lanterns

but something just isn't flowing.

Perhaps it's those ugly orang-ish candles

in the lanterns for a start!

I gave the shutters a fresh & brighter coat

of yellow paint.  I also cut out a little

banner from scrapbooking paper and glued

it to some bakers twine and draped it across the shutters.

And I painted those aweful candles.

They were just for display anyways, I wasn't going to 

spark them up so I slathered it on, nice and 

thick - wax is hard to cover with paint!

And now for the " AWESOME " Sign!

I started with a ceramic floor tile, 

painted it a pastel turquoise.

The best part is that I bought a Silhouette!

Hooray for me!

So I got to work and cut out the words on cardstock,

and placed it on the now dry tile

I painted the first 4 words grey.

And the AWESOME a variety of pretty pastels.

Now here's the new look!

Bright & Beautiful

I may give this to my super daughter

for her room because

she is  AWESOME !

Make sure you are all  AWESOME  today, 

and everyday!