Teacher Appreciation end of year gifts

I completely missed giving gifts for teacher appreciation week so to make up for that I decided to give an end of year gift to all 12 instructional staff who have made an impact on Adam's education this year. I made this up on the fly. Living in Florida it's easy to give the gift of beach towel! What do you think?

Even more monogram gift card sets.

Another set of monogram note cards.

I still need to make the storage box. I'm posting 2 photos as my camera doesn't always show the details, colors correctly.

Box for the monogram note cards

Looks a little "Shabby Chic"?

Set of 8 monogram note cards

Monogram note cards. Group shot of all the cards together.

Monogram note cards set of 8

I just finished this unique set of monogram note cards. I still need to make the box. I'll post that later. What do you think?

Wedding Card made very quickly

Not my best effort but you get the idea.  Love is like a butterfly? Say what????

Making Cards!

Made business cards for a friends accounting business. She has a cute logo. It's her pet Boston Terrier.

Rainy Day Creations

I've had my card stuff out for MONTHS! Today is the last day of summer and I finally got a few knocked out. Making the ribbon flowers took forever but it's a nice effect. Hope you enjoy!

No glue mess Pinata- Summer activity

My son and I decided to follow the example that Curious George gave us making a pinata with boxes, tape and tissue paper. It was fun and easy to do.

Gift Card set Custom design

Prayer Jars (Demos for Ladies Meeting)

I picked up these jars typically used to store pepper flakes from my local Dollar Tree. I used the holes in the lids to my advantage with my embellishments. I used only paper scraps and did this very quickly so it's not my best work. 

Exploring next year's handmade gifts?

Perhaps I'll make scarfs for everyone? I just adore Pinterest! It has so many easy yet creative ideas for handmade items. 

Handmade Sugar Scrub as Christmas gifts for teachers, paras and bus drivers

Making sugar scrub. My question to you... What do you think about the decorated mason jars? I didn't want to spend any more money on decorating materials so I have utilized ribbon, and embellishments I already on hand. Thanks for checking this out. I'll do a more details post after I've finished because at this point I'm still making adjustment to the recipe I downloaded from another pinterest pin!

Christmas Cards 2012

This girl is NOT an artist by any means but, well, I did these little doodles and decided that this is what I'll be sending out for Christmas cards this year. Color me LAZY because this is so much easier that cutting, pasting, stamping. It may be a bit childish looking but well... it IS handmadebydavenie@blogspot.com

Fall Door Hanger

I just made up this fall door hanger for my Mother-in-Law. It took all of 5 minutes. Sorry my heart just wasn't into crafting today but I promised I'd get this to her so here it is...

Using What I've got!

I'm trying to make use of what I already have in my craft room. I thought maybe just hot gluing a piece of ribbon around the edge of this brown bag would be neat. Yes, I'm that cheap!

Recently my son and I had some rainy day fun painting. I didn't want to put the wet pages on the fridge so I strung up this simple system on the pantry door. Thought I'd share the idea although it's pretty simple and you have probably seen it before.

Just some more cards

Had to whip up some baby shower gift cards for my momnlaw. Hope she likes them. It's hard to see but I added pearl accents and dry embossing too. Enlarge to image to see the detail. If you desire that is.

Tile Coaster for a Demo I'm doing today.