Simple Gifts

This week I put together some simple gifts.  The photo above shows what I gave my team. The printable "You make me happy when skies are gray" is from here. 

Source- I didn't use the bags- just taped a larger pack onto the card.

I share an office with 17 (!) other people.  So I also gave them each a pack of gum taped onto a cute card.  Figured we could all use fresh breath.  I didn't get a picture of this present but here is where I got the printable.

Finally, I made a gift for our neighbor who helped mow our yard when my husband was sick.  I heard the lawn mower, looked out and he was mowing!  So sweet!

Source

Again, I didn't get a picture of MY present.  Slightly different than above. My town has a soda shop with over 1,000 kinds of soda.  I just picked 6 random ones and packaged them in the store's carton.  I added the sign from here.

Did you know there were so many different kinds of sodas?  Some of my picks:

Leninade

Mr. Q Cumber

Boylan's Birch Beer

I'm sure he won't like all the flavors of soda, but hopefully he enjoys trying them out!  I'm linking up to 4th Grade Frolics for Made it Monday! 

Father-in-law turns 70

 

My father-in-law turns 70 tomorrow.  What a milestone birthday!  Of course you want to do something exciting to celebrate.  But. . . what does he need?  Nothing!  So I took an idea from a friend, added to it from Pinterest, and came up with a candy card.  

  

I went shopping before I planned out the card--- just randomly picked out some candy that I thought I could turn into phrases.  I wouldn't recommend this method but it worked. 

Then I opened a word document and started planning.  I highlighted the candy bar names so it would be easy for me to know when to put in a new candy.

I started writing on the card.  I know I am a teacher but I have yet to have that perfect teacher handwriting.  A professor told me that when she graduated, you had a test on writing neatly on a chalkboard.  I don't know if I would ever had graduated with that criteria.  My handwriting tends to go uphill.  Then I catch myself and it goes downhill.

Anyway, I ran out of room so I ended up putting the parts about my daughter on another page.  This worked well as the big poster paper is from my husband and I and the little paper is from her.

 

I thought about hotgluing the candy but then worried about it melting the wrappers.  In the end, I glued down the candy with my ATG gun.  I love this thing!   It is basically a large tape runner.  

Remember how I said buying random candy worked?  It worked well because I ended up with a couple of extra pieces.  Yum!   Anyway, I hope my father-in-law likes his card!  We also made cards-- I will post about that tomorrow.

I am linking up to Monday Made It from 4th Grade Frolics.  This is a crafty link-up that I love! 

My candy bar card project is really my 2nd Monday Made It!  The first is this blog.  I just started it on Wednesday (you know, new month = new blog).  I would love to hear your blogging feedback/ hints/ tips.  Thanks!