Done

I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping. We still have to get something for Jeremy's dad and Mindy's husband, but other than that I'm mostly done.

Last night I just finished up Carter's teacher gifts. I found the idea on Pintrest, right here in fact. Now, you might notice a slight difference in mine and the ones I found, but that's the point, right? Make it your own.

I started with a white mug from Wal-Mart for $1.50. I printed off the letters of the teachers' first initials and taped them on. Then I traced around them with a red fine-tipped Sharpie in the same color as my paint marker.

I got the paint marker at Hobby Lobby for $2.99. There was a variety of colors.

Next, I traced over the Sharpie outline with my paint marker. Some of them I filled completely, some I scribbled in and some I left alone.

Here are the finished mugs. I filled them with Christmas candy. Not too expensive and I think a fairly nice teacher's gift. I may just do this for all of Carter's teachers in years to come.

Oh!! Spoiler alert if one of Carter's teachers (or future teachers) is reading this! ;)

Untangling Christmas

I came across a book a while ago that I would very much love to get my hands on. It's called Untangling Christmas.

You can find the website here. Have any of you read it? I think it looks like a wonderful book about making Christmas more about Christ and less about all the other stuff. I won't go so far as to say that we boycott gift-giving, but I would definitely love to have a more Christ-centered Christmas season. I would love to hear some of your ideas. I really want to do an advent activity of some sort, but it is December 1st already and I have nothing together and no idea where to start.