Graduation Tee-shirt.

It's that time of year again; graduates, cards, and signing little plush dogs, cats, bears, etc...

Anyone who knows me knows that I like to be a little (maybe a lot) different, so while walking through the store with mom the other day I saw the little plush animals for friends and family of graduates to sign and this idea hit me like I just walked into a brick wall.

Instead of getting a little plush animal why not get a white tee-shirt, or really any color if you wanted, and fabric paint or markers that shows up on whatever color tee-shirt you got. On your shirt write something, my preference is something like "Graduate, 2014" or whatever suits your fancy. Then get your friends and family to sign your shirt with fabric markers.

Now, I'm sure somebody in the past has come up with this idea, but I happen to adore it because it's a little bit different, and then you don't just have some stuffed animal with a graduation cap sitting around taking up space, you have a shirt that you can wear and keep small notes from friends and family on your body. Now please note that I have nothing against the stuffed animals because I don't, and I might even get one when I graduate, but I definitely think I'm doing this too.

Below I have a possible design for the shirt that I took a minute to make in Paint. It's nothing special, but I like the design for my future shirt.

I hope you like this idea and possibly do it when you or a loved one graduates or inspires you to come up with your own unique idea! 

Thankful Jar.

On Thanksgiving this year I decided that I really needed to see what I was thankful for. I came up with this idea; get a jar, in my case it was on old, plastic trail mix container, and every year get sheet of paper. With every sheet of paper, write the date, mostly just to be sure you know what year it was from, and fill at least one side of the paper with things you are thankful for. I wrote everything from Dad still having a job all the way to the fact that I didn't have a solo in my band's Christmas concert. 

I plan to do this next year too, and for many more years. I plan on looking at this years' paper next year and then looking at them every three-five years to see how the things I'm thankful for change over the years. And whatever you do be sure that you put the year on the slip of paper so you can look at previous years' lists if you want to!