Stainless Steel Waterbottles and a Craft Fail

My oldest started kindergarten on Monday and today my youngest started preschool! It's been pretty crazy around here getting ready for school and dealing with the emotions that come with your kids starting school. I'm so excited I have finally done something crafty.

Let's start out with a little craft fail/funny situation that happened. I saw these cute lotion bottles for Back to School over on Oops, I craft my pants. I thought they would be great for my daughter's preschool teachers. I found some Vanilla Berry lotion at Bath & Body Works which smells heavenly. Most of Bath & Body Works packaging is see through, but this one is an opaque cotton candy pink color. I put the cute little label on, and suddenly I realized that the lotion bottle looks a whole lot like a Pepto-Bismal bottle! That wouldn't be so bad if the label didn't say, We hope your school year goes smoothly. I get the giggles everytime I look at the bottle now, I don't see lotion anymore. Oh well, it's the thought that counts right? Plus, that lotion really is wonderfully scented.

I usually give the preschool teachers a birthday gift. I found out on Tuesday that the new preschool teacher had a summer birthday so they were going to celebrate on Thursday. Both teachers got the lotion, but I wanted to do something extra to celebrate the birthday girl.

Lotion, Body Wash, Stainless Steel personalized water bottle filled with Starburst, and a cute basket.

That brings me to the Stainless Steel bottles. My daughter needed a new cup and I found that purple one on sale and gave it a try. After I bought it, I realized I could probably engrave on the bottles with my laser engraver. I tried it and I LOVE it! I have since been hitting up every store I can find that has these on sale. I made one for his teacher with her name on it and then one for my son.

My son is absolutely Mario obsessed, so I couldn't resist adding Bowser to his. He has a Mario lunch box, so this will match perfectly. Here's a close up of his design.

I feel pretty rusty, I can't wait to get back into the crafty swing of things. I'll be emailing the winners for the AnyPic software giveaway sometime today and I'll publish a list of the winners. I also have a big announcement coming up for an event I'm putting together. Stay tuned!

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