$5 Christmas Gift

For our Christmas gift exchange with all my siblings and nieces and nephews we decided to do a $5 homemade gift. For mine I got my niece Lia who is almost 12. I decided I wanted to make her a memo board for her room so she could hang pictures or whatever she wanted. Sounded easy enough..... then I decided to make it into different mediums and it turned into a whole other beast. This is how it turned out though.

I got the cork tiles from Hobby Lobby, and the little notebook and notepad from the Target $1 section. The rest came from supplies around the house. So it includes the cork section, magnet board section and ribbon board section. Just when I thought I was done with it my mom would come out with something else I should add like the little rickrack piece around the edge, that landed me a few burns from the glue gun.

Bracelet Giveaway!!

My cousin has a really cool blog called Heart and Sew'l and she is giving away a really cool bracelet right now. Now tonight is the deadline, so if you want to enter to win on of these cute bracelets you must be speedy... Anyway I love her blog she is ultra creative and comes up with the best ideas. Sometimes I wish I could think of some of the things she comes up with instead of always copying her. You should visit it and see if you like her ideas. She loves getting new readers! Here is a link to her blog..

Heart and Sew'l

Magnet Boards

Here are those magnet boards I got at the Wood Connection. I love this store it is so much fun to have some fun easy crafts to do in a few min.

These are super easy to make and I think they turned out really cute. I made each one to fit the person's personality that I was giving to, and they each loved them. All you have to do is buy the magnet board, find some paper that you want to use, tear it to the size you want and mod podge it on, then add the ribbon. I chose to put some vinyl wording to them as well, you can do this step before or after you mod poge over the paper. For these projects I chose not to make magnets, Anna found some really cute ones at Home Goods, so I just used those. Anyway, simple easy project for under $10 no matter what size you choose.