Monday, September 19, 2011

Hostess gifts

Morning all!
Are you impressed yet with my increased blogging frequency?  I am.  I'm not promising it'll last, so please enjoy it while it does!  I'd love you to post a comment sometimes, so I don't feel like I'm talking to myself here.  I'm quite capable of talking to myself, but it's much more fun if I know you're out there listening!

OK, here's a cute couple of little jars I decorated recently.  Really simply decorated, but I didn't think they needed much.  I just used the lace border punch (and trimmed one of the flowers), the Flirtacious Designer Series paper, a little adhesive rhinestone for the compulsory bling, and another piece of that gorgeous organza ribbon.  These jars are SO cute!  I got them on clearance recently (can you see the theme in my blog posts - I did say I was a bargain hunter, didn't I?).  I filled them with lollies myself (don't worry, I have an honours degree in Food Technology so food safety and hygiene is very important to me - no sticky fingers, I did the filling very  hygienically!).  

Anyway, these jars are going to be hostess gifts, if I can hold myself and Miss 7 back from eating the contents before I have a hostess who wants one as her gift from me!  My hostesses receive a free catalogue, a hand made gift like these presented at the party, and they also keep the projects that I demonstrate at their party.  Of course that's on top of the hostess dollars (= FREE STUFF!) they earn from sales on the day!  If you haven't checked out the hostess benefits section at the front of the catalogue yet, you really should.  Hostess dollars to spend on fabulous hostess products or anything else in the catalogue, and can you imagine paying half price for a Big Shot?  How exciting is that!

I'm making some other things as hostess gifts at the moment too, so if you want to invite a few friends over for a relaxed, no-pressure and fun party, you can choose your favourite gift from my growing selection!

OK, must get on with a few chores so I can get back to the fun business of stamping!  Have a wonderful week!

1 comments:

dalesnail said...

Hi Rachael
Love the jars - just a suggestion - you could do these as a class as they would make lovely gifts for teachers for Xmas! I am always struggling with ideas for teachers at Xmas and these woudl be great! You could have 2 designs - a male and female version and tehn we could fill them ourselves. I would be keen!
Dale