Day 3: DIY Teacher Gift + {FREE PRINTABLE}

diy teacher gift every teacher will love

On the 3rd day of Christmas, j. sorelle gave to you…a DIY teacher gift and free printable.

We decided that we couldn’t go wrong with a chalkboard for a holiday teacher gift this year. And with handwritten notes from kids on a free printable, it’s priceless. We love the DIY Teacher Gift we shared with Momtastic. It’s a gift from the heart that really makes the grade – an A+ grade – so it’s worth checking out.

{image via j. sorelle}

Day 2: DIY salt and pepper shakers for the hostess

DIY salt and pepper shakers

Shake it off, Shake it off. Ok, Jessica has a minor obsession with Taylor Swift’s new song, and it’s a great motto for  Day 2 of our 12 Days of Christmas.

On the second day of Christmas j. sorelle gave to you…DIY heart-shaped salt and pepper shakers.

These DIY salt and pepper shakers make an easy, affordable and adorable hostess gift or Christmas gift. You can start and complete the project in less than an hour.

DIY salt and pepper shakers_jsorelle

You’ll Need:
Mini jam jars – You can find small jam or honey jars at your local grocery store or you can find some from the English Tea Store
Push pin like these
Clear Scotch tape
Sharpie pen
Salt & pepper

How To:
Step 1: Clean out the jars.
Step 2: Place a piece of clear tape over the lid of the jam jar and with a Sharpie, add dots in the shape you want. We chose to do a heart to go with the theme of ‘season everything with love.’

DIY salt and pepper shakers

Step 3: Poke holes through the lid on your dotted design.

DIY salt and papper shakers

Step 4: Once you poked through every dot, remove the piece of tape to see your design.
Step 5: Add salt & pepper to the shakers, package with twine or a bow and give, give, give. To make it really cute, attach a ‘season everything with love’ note to the twine.

season everything with love_DIY salt and pepper shakers

 Season everything with love this Christmas!

{images via j. sorelle}

Silhouette America Black Friday Deal Alert

It’s almost Black Friday. To those of you who plan to be out and about…may the spirit of shopping and patience be with you, and may your pocket-book win! For those of you looking for an amazing Black Friday deal without having to deal with the lines and crowds, we have a sweet deal for you, and it’s for one of our favorite thingsSilhouetteAmerica.com cutting machines!

Here’s a rundown of the amazing deals available here with promo code SORELLE, from Nov. 26, 2014, 10pm MST to Dec. 8, 2014, 11:59pm MST.

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If you already have a Silhouette cutting machine, you can use promo code SORELLE for 40% off at SilhouetteAmerica.com (*excluding machines, design downloads, download cards, subscriptions and gift cards) PLUS Free Shipping on orders over $25 for the lower 48 states. Plus, you can get 50% off all designs at SilhouetteDesignStore.com – no code needed!

We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. And, we wish you happy shopping and crafting!

DIY Gift When Loved Ones Are Sick

feel better in a box

We love this time of year, but unfortunately that time of year is also here – the time for snot-nosed children with coughs running around, flu germs floating around and lurking on surfaces and aches and chills that keep us stuck inside and in bed all day. Well, there’s nothing like a little TLC and vitamin C to lift ones spirits…thus Feel Better in a Box was born. We shared all the feel-better details at Momtastic – to see all the goodness and natural ways to feel better, you must check it out.

Stay healthy this season!

{image via j. sorelle}

DIY I Believe in Pink Birthday Gift

i believe in pink birthday gift_jsorelle

We can never get enough Audrey Hepburn, and we can never get enough of the color pink {correction: Jodi and Jessica can never get enough pink}. So, the two combined just made perfect sense. We love the Audrey Hepburn quote, “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

So, we revamped the quote for a recent birthday gift. I believe in pink…and I believe in celebrating birthdays. We filled a black and pink metal box with all things pink you can find at a local big-box retailer such as pink chapstick, pink nail polish, pink polka dot straws, pink tic-tacs, a balloon with pink note on it, pink candles, a custom chalkboard matchbox {standard matchbox painted with chalkboard paint}, a Via Starbucks Refresher packet and a Chocolove Raspberries in dark chocolate bar.

As for the quote, we used our new favorite find, Sharpie Oil-Based Paints to write on the metal box with the help of Chacopaper transfer paper.

I believe in pink_jsorelle

i believe in pink birthday gift_jsorelle

i believe in pink birthday gift_jsorelle

i believe in pink birthday gift_jsorelle

Whether it’s October, December, March or June, there’s always room for pink, which means you can give a gift like this year-round. We believe in pink! Do you?

{images via j. sorelle}