Or we can skip all that crap and just talk about food. I mean, why not?
Using that as my segue ... if you recall over the last few years, I've sent my son to school with rather unique Valentine's Day gifts for his classmates. It all stemmed from his love for his play kitchen when he was just barely old enough to stand on his own ... and his love for bananas.
Then, the following year, building on the crochet food collection, apples were the selection.
For 2020, I asked my son about doing another food item and he was excited for it, so ... straying from produce and moving into proteins ...
Yeah, that's a strip of bacon and an egg. And I must say, while my son is very excited about giving this out on Valentine's Day (case in point, he walked around the house all evening singing "bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs" after helping me kit these up) ... I was a little less than thrilled with the assembly process myself ...
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*Face palm.* Being cute and unique always comes with a price! Oh well, hopefully it's worth it, as I have no clue where these actually end up. I have grand visions of my son's classmates slowly collecting a play kitchen of hand made food items, but who really knows what happens with them after they leave my house?!
Anyway! With the above completed, I moved on to the teacher's gift. Which I have to laugh about, because the necklace alone retailed originally for almost $50 ... so when I picked up three necklaces at Nordstrom Rack (along with a pair of zippered wristlets on clearance for a future gifting need), my receipt told me I saved over $330 in retail value.
Well, thank you Nordstrom Rack. Thank you very much. Though in real life I'd never pay $50 for this necklace, Baublebar brand or not.
Actually, the Baublebar necklace above was an after thought. As you saw in my previous Chinese New Year post, I had already lined up a ring dish and jewelry tree set from Target's 2019 Valentine clearance ... and the only reason I added the necklace was because the price was good and it would help demonstrate the purpose of the gift for the recipients.
In case you forgot, here's the ring dish I previously gifted for Chinese New Year:
And here's the accompanying tree that I intended for Valentine's Day.
Honestly, I think they make a really pretty set. But that's just me.
Here's the tree, with the necklace attached - and the end result once wrapped.
Yes, I fully admit the gift box ended up being a bit, uh ... largish. Because the weighted stand on the jewelry tree was so wide, my options were either to put these in an oversized gift box that I already had and only spend $2.99 total on a roll of wrapping paper at HomeGoods - OR - drop something stupid like $4.99 each on an extra wide base gift bag.
So whatever. I chose overly large gift boxes. Bigger is better, right?
RIGHT?!
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Now, you'd think I'd be done spewing information at you by now. But you'd think wrong. Because NEW FOR 2020!!!! I am also going to show you my handy work for my friends and other various gifts. Because WHY NOT?!?!
So, as you saw in a previous cross stitch post, here's what I made for a few coworker friends.
And in addition to that, I picked up some very special socks for my husband and a reversible scented donut pillow for my son.
Because as you well know, nothing says sexy romance like pillows and socks ...
BZZZZZZ WRONG! THERE'S SOMETHING EVEN SEXIER!!!!!! BECAUSE I'M GOING TO MONSTER JAM ON FEBRUARY 15TH - just in time for a late Valentine's family date. LOL!
Oh man, the things you do for your kids. Wish me luck - and that I keep my hearing the day after Monster Jam.
Happy Valentines Day 2020 everyone!
