End of year gift for a wonderful teacher

Hello friends!

I thought I would share the end of year gift I made for Brayden's teacher.  His teacher this year was the best.  She is a friend of the family on both mine and Brayden's dad's side so it was extra nice to have some one we know.

I got the idea for this gift over at A Turtles's Life For Me and I am only a very beginner scrapbooker but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.  These pictures are before Brayden added his writing.

On the front it now says "What will Mrs.... do this summer?"

"Eat some ice cream"

"See a movie"

This one is from Indigo.  "Read a book"

"Drink some coffee"

I have also been getting some stitching done on Little Wings

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stitching!

Teacher's gifts

I bought 2 of these boxes at Micheals for Teacher's gifts.

I used a couple of the princesses from The Once Upon A Time Sampler, but changed their hair color to match Brayden's teachers.

Then I searched online for a teacher quote and this was the first one I found and I loved it.  I used this Cross stitch writing tool to make the pattern.

A few apples from the Snow White part of Once Upon A Time.

And their initials.  Now all that is left is to varnish and get a few goodies to put in the boxes.  I really hope they like them.

Here is a little progress on Cars.  The link will take you to the Etsy shop I bought it from though it looks like her last sale was in September of 2013.

I think I am a little over half way done of this page.  It is S L O W going!  

And here is my littlest having a rare rest to watch tv for a minute.  Brayden has started calling him Tom-O and I have been finding myself doing the same, and I was the one who said "nobody call him Tommy or Tom it is Thomas".  Oh well Tom-O suits him just fine.  

Happy Stitching!

Chocolate Stirring Spoons

I seen these stirring spoons here, and I loved the idea.  So my sister and I set to work.  We did milk chocolate and white chocolate coconut.  In the post it says she spooned the chocolate into the plastic spoons, but I thought that would be too messy so I used a ziploc bag and trimmed off one corner.  That was a semi bad idea, the chocolate is very runny when melted and it poured out of the bag like water but if I had thought of that before hand I would have been better prepared.

I forgot to take pictures of the milk chocolate but both bars were Lindt.  Also it really is important to prop the end of your spoon handle on something (gingerbread house tray in my case), it keeps the spoons level and the chocolate in the spoons instead of all over the table.  I melted the chocolate in a double boiler (nothing fancy just a pot of simmering water and a bowl that will sit on top of the pot but not in the water.  My sister claims she uses a metal bowl but you would probably burn your fingertips off if you forgot what you were doing so I would go with glass.  You will still need oven mitts but if you forget and touch it for a second you will still have the use of your fingers for the rest of the day).  Once you get the melted chocolate into the spoons you just decorate away.  In the dish on the far left below is mini Rolos.  If you use something chocolate like that you should wait a few minutes until you chocolate cools a bit before you put the in so they don't melt.  I put the spoons in the fridge to set up, I used a plate with a dish towel on it to keep the spoons level.

 Here is the final product.  I got small "Sucker" bags at the Bulk Barn and tied them on with ribbon.  They turned out so well.  I might do these again next year for gifts.

Here they are ready to go to their new home.