Fun 50th Gift

My friend Lisa turned the big FIVE OH last week and I wanted her to know that she's still a blast so I made her something fun.

I hot glued a bunch of mini liquor bottles onto wooden skewers.  For the "after" party, I threw in some packets of Aleve, packets of Gatorade and Happy Birthday breath mints and wrapped an aqua mask around the pot for a fun look but also a neccesity in my opinion.  She loved it!

 

Candy Plant

My friend's Dad was turning 80 and I wanted to get him something but seriously, what do you really need at 80?  He's a young at heart, totally hip 80 year-old but still??  I'm 45 and there's not a lot that I want so I thought I'd go with something fun.

 

I know he likes his sweets so I decided to get him some of his favorite candies.  80 pieces of candy to be exact.  I hot glued (just a little dollop will do ya) over half of them to wooden skewers and pushed them into floral foam that I had glued to the bottom of a Terra Cotta pot.  I'm not particularly artistic so I opted for a Happy Birthday spinny ribbon thing to finish it off. 

 

Gift Idea

Two stop shopping...Target and Michael's.

Grab some mini Tootsie Roll Pops at Target and a foam ball, terra cotta pot and paint from Michael's.

Paint your pot and let it dry. We just picked up some cheap paints at Michael's that are not too far from the pots themselves. I think any paint except water colors would work.

Put your foam ball inside.

Start pushing suckers in until you can't see the foam ball any longer. Ta DA!

Claire had a fun making this and our birthday girl loved it.