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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Teacher Appreciation Week... Day Four

Take Note We Appreciate All You Do!
 
 
Today's Teacher Appreciation gift was a really simple one too!  I just purchased a nice notebook that has the Bible verse Psalm 46:10 "Be Still and Know that I Am God" written on the Front.  I just added a little tag that says "Take 'Note' We Appreciate all you do" and a bow!
 
 
Have a Lovely Day!!!


Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Teacher Appreciation... Day Three

Hands Down You're the Best Teacher Around
 
 
This was a pretty simple Teacher's Appreciation gift.  I traced and cut out Savannah's hand print added the text and a bow to a bottle of Bath and Body Works Hand Soap.
 
 

I hope everyone has a great day!


Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Teacher Appreciation Week... Day Two

Teachers Plant the seeds
 
Teachers Plant the seeds of knowledge that bloom for the rest of our lives! Thank you for helping me blossom this year!
 
 
First I cut green card stock out to fit inside the clear miniature paint can.  I added a Styrofoam ball in side and then put green paper shreds in to cover the Styrofoam ball.  I cut three different sized flowers out of three different colors of card stock to make each bloom.  The blooms were attached with a pearl head pin through the eraser of the pencil.  I then bent the pin down flush with the eraser and snipped it off with wire cutters.  I then just pushed the sharp pencils into the Styrofoam ball to hold them in place.  I used washi tape to attache the printed saying to the outside of the can..  You can't really see it well in the pictures but I added a piece of scrapbook paper to the top of the can and attached it with a ribbon so they can reuse the can.  
 
 


 
Laters Y'all
 
 
 



Teacher Appreciation Week.. Day One

Thanks A 'Bundt'ch for all you do!

 
 
 
First let me say that I did not come up with super cute idea.. It came from here:  http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2013/04/thanks-bundtch.html  . What I can take credit for is that I made my own mini bundt cakes and packaged them myself. 
 
 
 
The mini bundt pans are from Bed Bath and Beyond http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=112176  Don't forget that Bed Bath and Beyond will take even their expired 20% off coupons.. 
 
 
I used a 3inch circle punch to make the white paper circles that the cakes sat on in the box and to punch out the tags. 
 
You can use any type of bakers twine or ribbon to attach the tags. 
 
I made butter pound cakes with cream cheese icing and Devils food pound cakes with dark chocolate icing. 
 
I just filled the center of the bundt with the icing (ps.. I took the easy road on the icing and used Duncan Hines out of the can)
 
I tied one of each flavor together with the twine and added the tag. 
 
 
 
 
Here are the recipes for the pound cakes I made..
 
Butter Pound Cake
 
•1 pkg Duncan Hines Butter Recipe Yellow Cake Mix
 •1 (3.4 oz) pkg vanilla instant pudding and pie filling
 •4 large eggs
 •1 cup water
 •1/3 cup vegetable oil
 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 for dark pan) grease and flour mini bundt pans. 
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water and oil in large bowl.  Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes and divide evenly into pans.  Bake at 350 degrees (325 degrees for dark pan) for 18 - 20 minutes (I used the cupcake timing on the cake mix box)  or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool in pan for 10 minutes.  Invert onto cooling rack until cooled completely.  I then put my can of Duncan Hines Cream Cheese icing into a gallon zip lock bag, snipped off a tiny corner of the bag an piped it into the center of the cakes.
 
 
Devils Food Pound Cake
 
•1 pkg Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix
 •1 (3.4 oz) pkg chocolate instant pudding and pie filling
 •4 large eggs
 •1 1/4 cups water
 •1/2 cup vegetable oil

 
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (325 for dark pan) grease and flour mini bundt pans.
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water and oil in large bowl. Mix at medium speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes and divide evenly into pans. Bake at 350 degrees (325 degrees for dark pan) for 18 - 20 minutes (I used the cupcake timing on the cake mix box) or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto cooling rack until cooled completely. I then put my can of Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate icing into a gallon zip lock bag, snipped off a tiny corner of the bag an piped it into the center of the cakes.
 
 


It's been a long time...

First I want to apologize for not being here for a long time.  I got a new Job last year to implement Electronic Medical Records for a large practice and just did not have much time to blog.  I hope to be back on my game now.. I have lots of good stuff to share with you guys...

Love Y'all

Sherry

Saturday, May 4, 2013

No Boy Wrapping Paper

I was in a bind this morning... We had a birthday party at 10am.. and I realized that I had a gift that would not fit in any gift bag that I had in the house, and I have no boy wrapping paper.  I have every sort of pretty polka dot, zebra stripe girly girl paper you can imagine but nothing suitable for a 4 year old boy... 

Never fear.  I have a large roll of butcher paper.  I wrapped the present in butcher paper used my Pazzles machine to cut out chevron paper letters of his name, a little twine for a bow and TAHDAH... I think it turned out ok for last minute... What do you think?

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Fortunate Valentines

I'm Fortunate to call you my friend

This year I made felt fortune cookies for Savannah's first grade class.  I placed them in a mini Chinese take out box along with a few pieces of candy.  I had to experiment with sizes and ended up using a 3inch circle of felt and glued a two and a half inch piece of pipe cleaner in the middle to hold the fortune cookie shape.  I did add a sticker to the outside that said Happy Valentines Day that didn't make the picture...