A Sweet Gift

I was once again on Pinterest looking for a simple and cute gift for my son's pre-school teacher. I saw this one and thought it was very cute. I didn't have a cute thin glass jar like this one but I had just cleaned out some Snapple jars and thought that it would work just as nice.

You can find this project here.

Here's my final project.

 

I used Jelly Beans in mine and instead of a flower I just pasted my thank you card on as a sort of label. I also added a silver ribbon tied with a bow.

 

 

I even thought the Snapple top was cute.

 

 

 

 And for those who also have trouble thinking of what to write I found this great Pin on Pinterest for help on writing different types of notes. Great Help. It has all types of messages to help you out.

His teacher loved it and I loved that I made my own version. I feel like sometimes we're so worried on making sure our projects are identical to those we see online instead of just using them as an inspiration to make our own projects. I hope my project inspires you guys to make your own versions.

 

This year I turned 30 years old and I finally got to go to a Blue Man Show! But there's a story behind this. See as a teenager I really really wanted to go see them but couldn't. Then fast forward a little bit to when I met my now hubby. I let him know how much I wanted to see the Blue Man Group. Now I have to admit I didn't know how much tickets cost, and didn't think that they would be too expensive. So then on my 17th birthday, out first birthday of us dating he told me he had bought me something really special!!! So then we went to his house and he game me a card and was really nice to me but then nothing. Due to personal events that same day I ended up staying with him and his mom that day and it had been such a hectic day that I forgot about the "special gift".

 

I ended up staying for a couple of months with him and his mom. And during this time he told me that he had bought me Blue Man tickets but that he had to return them cause they were on a Sunday and because of our beliefs we couldn't go on a Sunday. I was sad but glad he stuck to our beliefs. I hoped one day in the future he would take me on another day.

 

Fast forward a year later. We were married!!!! And he decided to come clean. He told me that he had told a white lie. He said that that one year he had told me he had bought me Blue Man tickets he really hadn't. He said that he had gone to buy me some but when he got there and saw the PRICE he realized he couldn't afford them (he was a 20year old with not a very good job). He said he felt so bad and embarrassed that he had told me that white lie so long ago. My reaction was just to laugh. I wasn't mad. It was more funny to me than anything else.

 

Now fast forward about 12 years later and 3 kids and many birthdays and I still hadn't gone to see the Blue Man group. Until I turned 30 years old. He finally had bought me tickets to go on my birthday. It was all that I had imagined and we had great seats too! It was well worth the wait. We have pondered together why it took us so long to finally go and well we can't quite come up with an answer. Maybe we had just forgotten, we had other priorities, other places to use our money on. Who knows, all I know is that 13 years later my wish finally came through and I got to go with the same man I had wanted to go from the very beginning.