The Goodbye Gifts

Last week, I showed you this picture and told you that I was finishing my internship by spreading delivering some fun gifts around the school! Today, I am telling you what is hidden in those fun packages!

Candy Bouquets

In my Friday Favorites last week, I mentioned that I was working on a fun treat to give the Bean after her dance recital. Well, it as it turned out, The Bean got a candy bouquet but so did her three dance teachers and her favorite dance friend!

This idea came to be as I did not want to give her the typical flowers after her recital, but I wanted to get her something! And I wanted it to be something good and memorable. Well, this girl loves candy, so what better to give than candy!? I did a little Pinterest research then I put my own twist on these fun candy bouquets!

Make & Take: a teacher gift

I mentioned in a couple of recent blog posts that I just finished up a teaching internship! I was in a second grade classroom with the sweetest kids and a wonderful cooperating teacher! As my internship was coming to an end, I started looking through Pinterest for gift ideas for my students and for my cooperating teacher! I'll talk all about what I did for the kids next week, but for now, I'm talking about what I made for my cooperating teacher!

Make & Take: A Retirement Gift

My mom put this gift together for one of her colleagues who is retiring and I offered up my Cricut to make the little tags on each part of the present. My mom did all of the heavy lifting for this present - she did the Pinterest research and bought all of the gifts. Once she had everything put together, I made some little labels to attach to the presents!

Top 5: Chrismtas Gifts

I have been sharing a whole lot about Christmas this week, and I'm sharing a little more today! Today, I'm talking about my top 5 favorite presents that I received this year for Christmas! I got some really fun gifts, but here are my favorites...

Teacher Gift Idea

Hello end of school year! Tomorrow is officially the last day of school around our house so teacher gifts are being put together! This little beach bag is an idea I saw on Pinterest and it was easy to put together but still so cute!

 I started with bags like this, which I found at HomeSense (Canadian equivalent to HomeGoods). They were big and perfect for carrying to the beach.

Next, I spotted these beach towels at Old Navy and there were only two left! I was so glad to get the last two because they were a perfect addition to the bag and the price was right!

My next stop was Chapters (this also only exists in Canada, the American equivalent would be Barnes & Nobles). At Chapters, I found a magazine for each teacher based on their interests and the little drink cup pictured above, which has a pineapple on it and says "Savour the Day."

Finally I stopped in at the grocery store to pick up some sunscreen and this iced tea mix.

I arranged all of the above items in the beach bag and tied this label on with twine. I made this label in a word document and printed it on regular white cardstock. I was impressed with how fun the end result is!

See you tomorrow,
Kenzie

A Bag Full of Sunshine

Yesterday, was the first official day of summer!! This is a perfect gift for a birthday during the summer. I gathered yellow items from a little all over the place... so I'll do a little wrap up for you.

I have spoken about my love for dry shampoo before, it's fantastic but I wouldn't have ever thought to give it as a gift. That is, until I was desperately searching for all things yellow and this Coconut & Exotic Tropical Batiste Dry Shampoo came into view. I got this from Winners, which is a Canadian company, but it is similar to a TJ Maxx or Marshall's in the US.

My next stop was Bath & BodyWorks because I knew I would find something yellow there and I hit the jackpot! I found this "I Love the Beach" hand Sanitizer, which I was so excited about and I had to use serious restrain to avoid getting one for myself because it smells exactly like the beach (and I love the beach)!! I also found this Love & Sunshine body wash which made me do a little happy dance because it was perfect for this bag and it smells AMAZING!

My next stop was LUSH cosmetics! I spotted this yellow bath bomb from outside and I knew it had to go in the sunshine bag! I have never personally used any of the LUSH products, but I have heard great things about them and this was a great add to the bag.

My last stop was the grocery store, and this was where I scored big time. I picked up some Juicy Fruit Gum, some Golden Oreos, and Peanut M&M's. I love this little bag of sunshine so much because it includes some practical things (dry shampoo/hand sanitizer) but it also includes some fun things (bath bomb/oreos).

I gathered all of the items into a yellow gift bag and made a label that says "A Little Bag of Sunshine" and it looked so cute all put together! Some other things that were on my radar while I was shopping include: yellow nail polish (I scared away from this because I didn't know how useful it would be), a yellow chocolate bar (Coffee Crisp/Oh Henry/Butterfinger/Toblerone/Mr. Goodbar), yellow hair ties, a yellow drink (lemonade)...

I would love any other yellow suggestions to add to the bag, because I foresee a few of these being given out this summer!
Kenzie