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:: Present Challenge: The Results!
Posted by Vanessa on December 17, 2007
Like any huge fan of Christmas, I like to have as many as possible. On Saturday I held a Christmas dinner party - on which, more later (except for a small crisis over giblets, it went well). But today my boyfriend and I exchanged presents. We’d set one another a challenge to make one another Christmas presents for a $30 budget. I had NO IDEA what he would come up with so I was really delighted this morning to open a wall clock made from a copy of my favourite Shel Silverstein book, ‘The Giving Tree’!
Fortunately he was also pleased with his Road Trip Kit…
I’ve yet to work out how Stephen made the wall clock… but the Road Trip Kit is a modified artist’s box, filled with road trip goodies - Spiderman plasters, a multi-knife, air fresheners, a chocolate bar and so on - and a book (part of the lid) with ideas for road trip games and former road trip mementos. And! I was lucky enough to have a sneaky mum who conspired to have a sewing machine bought for me over here which I opened today - so 2008 will be all about the learning to sew!
Categories: challenge, christmas, craft, tutorial
Tags: 'Shel Silverstein', christmas, clocks, craft, kits, presents
Kirsty says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Wow - both look fabulous. The road trip kit turned out really nicely - go crafty Mo!
Kerry says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Giblets. Surely they’re just the things you handle very gingerly on their way to the bin? Or am I missing something?
Joelle says:
December 17th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Ooh good job! Such a great idea to do this. I wonder if I could encourage Adam to get crafty?
J
Vanessa says:
December 17th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Agh! I just noticed that I took a picture whilst the glue wasn’t totally dry on my fire motif - it looks much less gloopy round the edges when dry!
Erica says:
December 17th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Wow! Go you! Go you both!
I love how your road trip kit turned out, good work!
Also, that clock is gorgeous! I’d say to give your mister a big kiss from me, but he might not appreciate it. Give him a big kiss from you instead.
x
Emily says:
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Oh wow, they both look great! I didn’t know what he had made for you - it looks great! What a good idea!