Welcome to my inaugural post!
I figured I’d start by sharing some of this year’s successful projects, since it’s nearly 2015! This year has been incredibly busy for me in terms of work; I’ve completed my green belt in Lean Six Sigma (project management) on top of my usual day-to-day role which has been much harder as we were two team members down for a large chunk of the year!
I still found time for these little projects though:
1. A “Puntastic” thank you present
This was a gift box I put together for a friend and colleague who helped me massively during my Lean Six Sigma qualification; crunching data for me and being a sounding board when I was getting increasingly stressed and mental.
As we both love puns and wordplay I put together a box of mini presents to say thank you. I wrapped a box in wrapping paper inside and out (wish I’d seen this tutorial before for the inside!)
I hit the jackpot in Tesco as I found present tags shaped like speech bubbles. I have saved the leftover ones and will likely trace around them in the future!
I started with some Krispy Kremes and added a tag saying I “doughnut” know what I would do without YOU!
I was putting this together just before Halloween so I couldn’t resist the eyeballs chocolates:
I found a lovely large latte mug (Sainsburys) for the classic “Thanks a Latte” pun. I didn’t get a picture of it but I also got a £10 Starbucks card and squeezed it inside the mug.
Everyone loves a moustache! I found this moustache pencil topper in W H Smith’s while I was waiting for my housie to post something. “I moustache you for the secret of your awesomeness” sounds best when said like Sean Connery!
I had a lot of choices on the bear pun but I went with a Lindt bear in the end
My friend is a major fan of Lego so I got her a Lego key ring torch (also Sainsburys). Superman since she saved my sanity on more than one occasion! Also I liked that it created a double wordplay/pun opportunity:
And here is the final present:
I hid it in my car, waited until she had gone for the annual office flu jab and put it on her desk for when she came back.
I think she likes it!
2. An impromptu Alice in Wonderland Costume
Our office decided to have a charity dress up day. As I’m the social committee floor rep (don’t ask me how that happened!) I felt I definitely had to get involved. I had a blue pinafore dress already so I decided to improvise by getting a white blouse and make a white apron from some scrap material:
I essentially sewed a sealed pillowcase and attached two strips as ties:
Last year’s christmas party was also Alice themed so I had a big bow headband to wear. My final outfit was topped off with stripy socks borrowed from the housie:
I also made my first foray into nail art:
I used this tutorial for the white square decals on my chequerboard nails, pinky and thumb nails. The heart and bows were done with a sharpie (I know, but it was gone midnight by the time I finished!!)
It turned out our team were some of the few to get properly dressed up but we raised lots of money nonetheless:
Yes that is a puntastic “Dumble-Door” on the end there!
3. Christmas Nails
I failed to get pictures while I was doing this one but I have the final product:
I used nail striping tape (from Amazon here) to do the christmas trees and then a nail dotting tool (also from Amazon here) to add the baubles and stars on top. I thought doing trees on all my nails would be a bit much (plus I’m lazy…)
They looked good on Christmas day!
I’ll be making a build your own fort kit (based on this tutorial) for my cousin’s kids over the next couple of days so I’ll be back with a British version of the tutorial on it soon. I’m babysitting for the kids on New Year’s Eve so hoping to have it finished by then!
Thanks for looking to my box wrapping tutorial! 🙂
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You’re most welcome, it will definitely come in handy in the future, thanks for sharing!
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