Teacher Appreciation Week - Wednesday

Today's Teacher Gift is a Flower Arrangement.

The Watering Can container is from Michaels. I thought the blue & floral motif coordinated with the paper we are using for all the Teacher Gifts this week.

We got the Daisies and Alstromeria from Safeway yesterday. Little K picked them out. We intended to cut some roses from the garden to add more pink/coral, but I should have checked first, because we are in between blooms right now and there were only 2 skimpy roses to be found...it's still cute!

The flowers are in floral oasis to keep everything in place (and transport to school easier). Simple and Cheery.

New Bento Box

OK, I know I said I wasn't going to post any more lunches...but I just had to show the new Bento Box that arrived today:

Isn't it too cute for words. It's going to school tomorrow - all packed and waiting in the fridge.

Fruits and veggies, Sesame Sticks, Fortune Cookie, Rice ball with Salami and Dark Haired Little Girl (Nori decorated Pierogi).

Teacher Appreciation Week - Tuesday

Today's Teachers Gift is a Button Heart Picture.

I saw something similar in a recent Paper Crafts Magazine. My daughter picked out all the buttons and glued them in place along a heart shape we lightly penciled onto the cardstock matte.

The colors coordinate with the paper we are using for Teachers Gifts all this week, so it's not the true colors of the rainbow (ROY G BIV), but we did try to get them in close order.

The frame is 4 X 6 with the glass removed (to allow for the button depth).

Here it is, wrapped up and heading off to school.

Teacher Appreciation Week - Monday

It's Teacher Appreciation Week at my daughters Elementary School. I'm not quite sure why it's an entire week? I think the intent was that parents could show appreciation to their child's teachers at anytime during the week.

For some reason, I got the bright idea that I would do something for each of the days of the week. I guess I could blame (err, I mean give credit) to my friend Marni who has always done something for her kids Teachers on each of the days during Appreciation Week. It sounded like a good idea at the time...but in keeping with my usual style of never knowing when to stop, I may have gone a little overboard?

The plan was to do something little each day, ending with a more meaningful gift on Friday. Let me know how I did.

These are the tags that will be attached to each of the little gifts. There is one for each day of the week, and they make up a poem (kind of like the days of the week poem for when you were born...Monday's Child is...).

I made a Paper Bag Album that each of the tags will slip into after they are removed from the gift. I'll show that on Friday. Now I just have to hope Ms. H. keeps the tags until Friday.

Monday's gift is a Composition book covered in decorative paper. Little K designed this one (I just did the gluing). There is also a post-it matchbook cover.

Here they are all wrapped up with a tulle bow. This photo shows the colors more true. All the papers for this weeks projects and most of the ribbons are from Hobby Lobby (although the solids look remarkably similar to Bazzill colors and textures). I did also use some Bazzill solids from my stash.

One neat thing about HL solids, they are textured on both sides (looks like Washboard on one side, and Burlap on the other). This is great for me because I am always accidentally sticking things down with the texture hidden...and those glue dots are hard to get up.