Creative Gifting

Yesterday Raine found out that it was Nicole's (her babysitters) birthday and felt bad about not having made her a card. I suggested that after her homework maybe it would be a good idea to make her on e and something extra special to go with it. We decided together to make her a treasure box. Something that was hers and hers alone for keeping all the little meaningful things safe and at hand. We started with a simple heavy duty cardboard box with a scalloped lid that I usually pick up at the craft store for a little over a dollar and this is were the fun began. We broke out mommy's scrap booking supplies and the GLITTER. That's right she got to use my super fine Martha Stewart (faerie dust) glitter and was over the moon. Ten minutes later we had a personalized box and birthday card from the heart. She thought that a gift this grand surely deserved to be wrapped so a white paper lunch bag was lovingly colored and tied up with a bow. It doesn't get any better than that....