Christmas Elving: supplies part 2

O the joy of stamping!

I found more Christmas stamps complete with kraft paper tags - SO much fun!

The assembly line beginnings are below...

Christmas Elving: supplies

I teach science. You wouldn't believe the things I find in my back storage room at school. 

 Recently, I found dozens of old beakers in the back room. 

DOZENS AND DOZENS.  

And we're already well overstocked at school, so I thought, "Why not use them to make Christmas presents?!"  So that's what I did!  

Here's the beginning stages of the whole endeavor.  Like all handmade, DIY ideas, it took way longer than I expected, a little more money than I planned on, but turned out beautifully...which I will show y'all after I've delivered them all.

Can you guess what I made???

It's really christmas?

I'm having a difficult time feeling in the Christmas spirit since school is still happening for me...so here's my small effort to capture Xmas here at the Trinkley house...

It's beginning to look a lot like

Christmas! Here's some photos of the weekend's activities...

the holidays are nearing

When I was younger, I competed in "Gift Wrapping" in 4-H.  For 10 years I wrapped presents...but to be honest I don't remember much of it.  But I started thinking it might be fun to design my own wrapping paper...so I recently went to Michael's, and they had all this Christmas stuff on sale!  Now generally I condemn the selling of Xmas stuff months ahead of time, but I figured since Thanksgiving is next week, and it's on sale now, why not?!

Christmas stamps, inks, kraft paper, raffia, calligraphy pens...I wish I didn't like that store so much.  But I do get the Teacher's Discount!  

Here's the general idea - but I'll post an update soon of what I'm coming up with.