Friday, December 3, 2010

Marlene's Gift

Every year I rack my brain to come up with a gift for my childhood buddy, Marlene that is better than the last! I think I did a great job this year when I came up with the "countdown" boxes!

I used the Karen Foster advent calendar box, and decorated in some colorful paper from Cosmo Cricket. Then I filled each little drawer with a small scrapping gift (and yes, they're small) that would give her some inspiration to create! I even bought some of the trinkets whenI was in Chicago in August, shopping with her standing next to me! Ha, she didn't even know!

And since I know Marlene, she LOVED IT! On her actual birthday, which was Tuesday, she receive ed a coordinating card, with a gift card to buy more stuff! Hey, we all "need" more stuff - don't we?? Big (((HUGS))) and lots of great scrapping days ahead Marles!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

You never fail to surprise and inspire me with your creativity and thoughtfulness. Of course, the bad news is, I so can't compete with you in the gift department, that you get gift cards from me on your birthday - BORING! I'm so glad you are the more creative of the two of us!

Love ya, Snot!

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Lisa said...

Great job! Looks like it was a lot of fun to make too.