The Best Ways to Finish School and start Summer Break

If school isn't out for your kids yet,

it will be soon.

I'm looking forward to the lazy days of Summer

and all that that entails like:

sleeping in

less busy schedules (I hope),

playing in the sun and the water 

and all the good stuff!

But I'm not going to lie-

I'm a little nervous.

Summer also means my kids eating 

and making messes

ALL DAY long,

plus they'll need chauffeuring, entertaining and 

refereeing.

In my experience, I've found that most things turn out better

if I have a plan.  So I came up with 

The Best Ways to Finish the School Year 

and start Summer Break!

3 Easy and Inexpensive Teacher Gifts

Guys: it's T-minus 4 days until school gets out.

If you waited until

the last second to put teacher gifts together,

don't worry- I got you!

I have 3 easy (4 days people) 

and inexpensive (my wallet is empty this time of year)

Teacher gift ideas

Graduation Gift- money balloons

It's graduation season!

That means lots of gifts.

I love giving a creative gift, but I want it to be useful as well!

Today I have an idea to creatively give 

a gift that will be used and loved!

8 reasons why teenagers are the best!

I think teenagers get a bad rap.

Oh sure, there are moments of moodiness,

selfishness, and maybe even a little mischievousness.

But it's not all bad.

As a mother of 2 teenagers,
I am going to share some of the parenting lessons I've learned.

How to make a Junk Necklace

I love junk! 

And I love unique items that I can repurpose.

Recently, I took some of my favorite junky things 

and made a few necklaces.

Mother's Day plant gift with printable and tag holder

Mother's Day gifts are hard!

Mom's already have just about

every thing they need.

Something most all mom's would like is

flowers
especially flowers that can be planted!

DIY Corsage

It's Prom season.

Mother's Day is also coming up!

So it's the time for corsages.

I love fresh flower corsages,

but they don't last long.

So I made a super cute bracelet corsage from faux flowers!

As I said in my post here-

Hobby Lobby has an awesome selection of 

corsages and boutonnieres.

But I wanted something a little more non- traditional.

So I headed to the hair clip section.

I found this cream colored flower hair clip 

with pearls and rhinestones

on ribbon already made for SUCH a great price!

This is such a cost effective way to 

make a corsage!

It came attached to a felt circle with an alligator hair clip.

It looked really pretty on it's own,

but I wanted to dress it up a bit!

The inside of the flower had pearls and rhinestones,

which I pulled off.

I hot glued 3 red mini roses into the center

and then glued the pearls and rhinestones to the 

center of the red roses.

I found some mini spools of red glitter ribbon 

in the scrapbook/paper craft section of Hobby Lobby. 

I tucked some red glitter ribbon 

in the corsage with the pre-attached cream ribbon.

I found a red beaded elastic bracelet in the jewelry section.

Although the tassel is super cute, it wasn't great with

the corsage so I clipped it off with wire cutters.

Then I simply clipped the corsage onto the bracelet

using the hair clip on the back.

I added a small bit of red glitter ribbon to 

the boutonniere so it would match.

My handsome son and his cute girlfriend

looked so fantastic at Prom!

BTW- we purchased my son's vest, bowtie and pocket square here.

(amazon affiliate link)

It's such a sweet little corsage!

It would make such a great Mother's Day gift as well!