Some of you may remember my rant on Friday about making Gretchen's valentine's day box for school….Well, we accomplished the task this weekend!
Let me clear up my ranting first…. I'm not ranting that we actually had to do the project. I'm just ranting that I didn't have the interest to make the box Pinterest worthy. I feel like I have zero ounce of creativity for a decorative Valentine box… give me some ribbon, an appliqué design, some tulle- absolutely- I can go all out, but decorating a box. It's just not my forte.
After surrendering to the fact that her box will likely not be the best in her class, I was more than happy to let her have full control.
For some reason, I refuse to throw away boxes. I have a stack of shipping boxes underneath my sewing table, and I let her choose one of the boxes to use for her project.
Then, I decided that we would wrap her box in purple wrapping paper, because I had it left over from her birthday party. DJ helped by cutting a heart shaped hole in the box, so her friends will be able to put their cards (or goody-bags for those over-achievers) in. (And y'all, before I get hate mail about the over-achievers- i'm totally kidding! We just didn't have the energy to make fun treats this year. Last year, her friends got handmade bookmarks, this year, they're getting $1.00 store Valentines!)
Anyway, once the box was wrapped, Gretchen set to work glueing on doilies and adding stickers.
All of us working hard! Megan had to make a box too, so DJ wrapped her one and I cut out hearts out of glitter foam sheets.
Megan working away on her box. See how happy she is that she's doing it herself! Makes it totally worth it!
We added Gretchen's name with little glitter foam stickers that we found at the Dollar Tree.
I really do love how happy she was and how hard she worked on her box!
Megan didn't put her name on her box, she just put on her "A, B, D's"
So, yay, her box is complete! Actually two boxes are complete since Megan had to make one too! Gretchen is so excited to take hers to school today and I'm glad that the girls had fun making their boxes! I'm also glad that my type-A didn't take over to try to "fix" things that I thought were wrong or could have been better.
Sometimes God teaches us when we least expect it, and i'm thankful that in this little project, I learned to "let go".
And, before y'all go, I have THREE Winners to announce for the Beautiful AM Moisturizer giveaway!
Hannah Joy Burgett
Jennifer Brown
Jen Herold
Thanks ladies for entering!
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