teacher gifts

Better late than never. I put together these teacher gifts in May for my kids to give their teachers at the end of the year as a thank you. I just never posted it. I had two parties going on and I was SO busy. But, when I saw the pictures again I thought maybe I'd still post this. And really, these flower pots could be used for any occasion, not just for teachers. I can't remember if I've shared my gift giving philosophy on here before, but I always try to give a two-fold gift: something that can be enjoyed now and something for later. For this gift the flowers are to be enjoyed now, but being realistic, these flowers will eventually die and then they'll have the container to use later to hold something else. Other examples of the two-fold gift are a small candy type treat and a book (something to eat now, something to read later). You get the idea.

I found the daisy type flowers at Wally Mart and the yellow containers at a local boutique-y store. I think the total came to $6 per teacher. Not to shabby. These aren't actual flower pots, just containers so I left the plants in their plastic pots for drainage, and like I mentioned earlier, they can reuse the container for something else if they want to plant the flowers in their yard or when they eventually die.I used a scalloped circle punch and a smaller circle punch, some purple ink,
long skewers, and some alphabet stamps.I stamped "Love (each kid's name here)" on the inner circle and stuck it to the scallop circle.
Then I taped the skewer to back.

And I was really diggin' the yellow and purple combo at the time. Maybe not so much now.