End of Year Teacher Gifts {DIY}

The end of the school year was a little crazy (and early) at my house because of the move. Both of my children attended a fabulous pre-school (Parent's Place, for those of you in the Morgantown WV area looking for a pre-school) plus received some extra therapy due to developmental delays (early intervention, both have benefited from services!!) so it only seemed right to give something special to the teachers + therapists we saw on a regular basis. I decided to go with a relaxing summer theme: 

• personalized beach bag (purchased as a 3 pack from Walmart)
• personalized (embroidered by me) beach towel (purchased at Target)
• magazine (ladies home journal)
• gift card (from barnes + noble, my intent is so they could buy a fun summer book)
• sunscreen + bubbles (although I think I must have gotten ahead of myself and ended up forgetting to put them inside the first two bags I had given, oops!) 

All in all the embroidery took the most time, just because I made so many towels, etc. I also created a stencil using my Silhouette machine and then painted the initials on the bags using fabric paint. Even with the gift cards and items to put in the bag, I felt these were extremely reasonable and fun, unique teacher gifts. 

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Quick + Easy Newborn Baby Gift

Right as we were about to move, one of my friends gave birth to a baby girl a few weeks early. Having limited resources, I whipped up a quick personalized onesie, with cute ruffled pants: 

The lettering was made with iron-on transfer cut with my Silhouette machine. I think the shirt is from a previous season at Target. A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E or what?

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Howdy from Oklahoma!

Well, it's official, we are in Oklahoma. I swear our road was not that sloped in WV. We booked it out of town about 2 hours after the movers left, and we finished cleaning for the new owners. We made it midway through Ohio before stopping for the night, thinking we didn't want to push our luck with the kids...they woke up bright and early the following morning, so we got on the road by 830am...and drove and drove, through the time change, into some rain, out of the rain, and actually all the way to our final destination in central Oklahoma in the middle of the night. Yikes. The kids were awesome.

{I should add: before we left some of our friends from pre-school had given us some going away gifts, and what a HUGE difference they made for us during the trip. Simple things like prepackaged treats, bones for the dog, atlas dry erase maps so we could track our progress. Oddly enough, the most frustrating part of the trip was the car dvd player I purchased but randomly didn't work. Extremely frustrating!}

We ended up arriving a few days ago, and have been in the process of getting settled into a long-term rental where we will live for a few weeks until our new house is finished. It's been fun getting to get the hang of a new place. It's nice to check out stores that we didn't have locally before. We have also had some amazing summer-like weather.

It was great to show our boys the new house:

I ended up sending my sewing machine with the movers, but still have projects to share from before the move...so hopefully I'll be back soon...

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