Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

Sweet baby boy starts preschool tomorrow morning. Excitement abounds – I think more from his sisters than from him. He is still saying, “No thank you, Mommy. I stay home with you and the girls.” Sweet little boy!!! Although today he seemed a little more upbeat about the possibility of going. We’ll see what happens tomorrow when it’s drop-off time. 
I’ve made a little “first day of school” treat for the three ladies in the office, his teacher and co-teacher, the music teacher, and the PreK teacher…even though we don’t have her this year (she had all three of my girls and we all love her). I’m doing water bottle “tags” with drink mix.  I got the idea from google images and I don’t remember what I was looking for when I found it but I thought it was a fun little treat. This is the blog post I found…mine aren’t nearly as cute since I don’t have all the cutie punches or Nesties yet (working on that!).  I wanted to go a little more “primary” since it’s the first day of preschool. I used yellow for the tag, stamped the tag in blue, sentiment in black and apple in a reddish pink (I really need a good *red* – hopefully PTI will have theirs out next month!!).  The drink mix is a raspberry lemonade. I love raspberry lemonade!

Because these drink packs are wider than Crystal Light, I had to cut the “tag” a little wider.  The yellow cardstock is 3” x 8.5”, the patterned paper is 2-7/8” x 6”.  I adhered the pattern paper and then scored at 2” and 6”, used adhesive on either side of the “pocket”, die cut the hole for the top of the bottle, and put on the Tag-It. As I look at it now, I wish I’d used foam tape and some baker’s twine. I’ll know to do that next time.
Recipe:Cardstock: Michael’s
Patterned paper: ancient from my stash, but I think it came from Michael’s about 10 years ago (I need to be on Paper Hoarders!)
Stamps: Tag-Its #6 (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Chipped Sapphire, Worn Lipstick (Distress Ink), Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)
Dies: Nestabilities Standard Circles, Large (Spellbinders)
Water bottle, drink mix – get your favorites from the grocery, WalMart, Target, etc.
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