Pick Your Plum - Clocks for the Teacher!

These are absolutely adorable and so affordable.  Get some now for your kid's teachers for Christmas.  That will be one name off your list.

 

There's six designs to choose from and they're personalized, y'all!  They are just $12.99 each and ship for $4.99 for up to 14 clocks.  

Click here to check them out.

Polka Dot Design - For All Your Party Needs

Have y'all ever heard of Polka Dot Design?  Well, if you haven't, you're missing out.  They have top-quality stationery items such as birthday party invitations:

Personalized note cards:

Party supplies, such as flag straws:

Personalized recipe cards (gotta get me some of those):

Cool note pads that would make great teacher gifts:

Awesome envelope wraps (they wrap around the side of the envelope and you write the address of the person you're writing to on the front and your address will be printed on the back - really neat idea.)

And they have these cool, little personalized stickers you can use to stick on your Christmas packages:

 They also have personalized iPhone 4/4s cases:

And these really neat, totally customizable and interchangeable Lucite trays:

Polka Dot Design has so much to offer that I could stay on their website for hours.  Their website is so easy to navigate.  They make shopping for things easy.  For example, say you want to order that cute Lucite Let's BBQ tray up there - you click the link to the tray and then listed on that same page will be a list of other things you might need to order, like the kissing pigs BBQ invitation.

Everything Polka Dot Design offers is so modern and chic.  I have fallen in love with some of their designs and the different color combinations they have to offer.

You want to know one of the reasons I really love Polka Dot Design?  Because they're based right here in Fort Worth.  Can't get much better than that.

Oh, wait...maybe you can.

Want to know one of the other reasons why I really love Polka Dot Design?  Because they're offering Fort Worth Mama readers an exclusive 30% discount.  Isn't that awesome?  Who's your Mama?  Just use the code FORTWORTHMAMA30 at checkout.  Also, right now they're offering a $5 flat shipping rate.  Sounds like a great time to order to me.

Thank you, Polka Dot Design.

Teacher Appreciation Gift

So this was my attempt at a teacher appreciation gift.  I had the best of intentions - I really did.  Here goes:

I found this saying here about teachers planting seeds.  There was no printable so I had to figure out how to do that myself.  You can copy it if you want since it's so fabulous - ha ha!  Here's what I came up with:

 

Next I put some seeds in a ziplock baggie and stapled that to another piece of paper I printed out about what kind of plant it was.  I just copied the information from Burpee and tried to make it look prettier.

 Then I took some double-sided tape and taped the two pieces of paper together.

Next, my daughter painted this pot.

I wrote a little note to my daughter's teacher (using my daughter's words) on the water-catcher dealybopper.

Names have been covered up to protect the innocent

 I took the plant that was grown from some of these very seeds and potted half of the plant into this pot.  Then I poked some holes in the papers I taped together and stuck some jute twine through it and tied all that to the pot.  I had to put a few dabs of hot glue on the twine to keep it from slipping.

Wouldn't it be simply grand if I had a picture of the final product?  That would be awesome, right?  Well, just imagine it looked something like this only less toddlerlike:

A certain ding-ding forgot to take a picture of the final product.

Wouldn't it be all cherries and roses if that was the end of the story?  Ahh, but it's not.  Enter this chick:  

This chick who totally had a cat party all up in that plant last night and destroyed it and made it look like this:

So thank the Lord up above that I originally only potted half that plant and there was another half still left on the porch.  I repotted it this morning before my sunshine left for school - that way she won't be giving her teacher something that looked worse than that Charlie Brown Christmas tree Sam the cat left us with this morning. Yay, me!