Personalized Cups

I bought these cups at IKEA (during Spring Break?) for maybe$2/4 cups. I was going to use them in a gift, but didn't end up using them. So, I had ordered some outdoor vinyl that is supposed to be dishwasher safe. Mom is always going through paper cups with all the kids around, so I decided to make the kids their own little cups. Originally I was going to do monograms, but two of them have Ts, so I decided to put their entire name and then a cute little picture. I think they turned out really cute and I am excited to see how the vinyl holds up on them. I can see doing this for a ton of things. I was going to do water bottle for my kids at school, it would make a cute birthday gift or for a baby gift---put the name on sippy cups. I'll show you how I used the vinyl on a large tube later.

Cute Gift

I know---enough with the teacher gifts. But, I just had to share this one. I was showered with gifts the last day of school--which is not usually the case. Actually, we don't usually get too many thank you gifts, but this year I received a lot. What I love the most are the cards---which you can tell their moms made them write, but some of them are very thought out and honest--which always makes me laugh. Anyway, this cute thing was given to me by one of my girls (which I only had 8 this year--and 17 boys---YEAH--crazy). She was so excited to give it to me that a week ago, she told me in detail that she had this really cute thing to give me. It is a flower pot--with an real flower planted in it. Then, they took school supplies, taped to a popsicle stick with floral taped and stuck in them. It is so cute--- and clever.  Now, if I can just keep the flower alive.

Thank you for teacher

I know...another teacher appreciation thing. But, it's the last day of school. Megan will be giving this super easy, but cute gift to her teacher. I got the idea from here (printed the tag right from the blog), bought the cup at Wal-Mart, put some drink packets, and a hand-written note from Megan inside. EASY gift.
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