Graduation Time

Our youngest son is graduating May 7 from University of South Carolina in Chemistry.  We are so proud of him.  I need to brag for a second.  He's been doing inorganic chemistry research for a professor the last two years.  Upon graduating, he wrote a paper and presented to professor (I think a requirement).  Anyhow, the Department of Chemistry was so impressed it is being "published" .... that's a huge deal and a bigger deal for an undergraduate.  Usually, this is saved for doctorate candidates.  From a mother's point of view, I hope it will look good on his resume and help him get a JOB!!!  Anyone out there need an outstanding chemist with strong lab experience in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry???  Haha

We are having a very small luncheon after graduation ceremony.  I wanted to do a few things for the table at the restaurant.  We will be out-of-town, so I'm trying to keep it simple and portable.  I did a few easel pieces and made pillow boxes (Silhouette Store).  I''m sharing these in today's post.

$1 easels from AC Moore's, vinyl

Approx. 5"x 3"  Inside: bags of peanuts and mints (placed at each person's seat)

My thermal wine acrylic/glass

I showed the glass I did for my youngest son's girlfriend....now I will show you mine....same thing except I used a lime green and MY name...haha

Liking the green

Kept my name simple

Wine Time

I love making something fun from "almost nothing".  The thermal wine glass came from the Dollar Tree...yup...$1.  All the vinyl was given to me "free" from a nice man who has a sign business.  The image cost me $.50 from the Silhouette Store.  However, I did buy some other colors since the free stash...like the pink.  (PS  I'll post the one I did for myself tomorrow...lol)

I decorated this particular glass/acrylic for my youngest son's girlfriend.  I didn't realize how hard it is to take pics of glasses...wow...trouble...haha

Teal blue....writing on bottom says "Wine Time"

Her name in the same color

South Carolina tumbler gift

I picked up a bunch of these clear tumblers, along with some colored, at the Dollar Tree.  Yup, everything is $1...great!  I love personalizing these glasses as a quick gift token.  If they get lost or break, it was only $1.  My friend Harry accidentally ran over his (a story for another day), and had really become attached to his glass....his had a bone fish on it.  Anyhooooo, I was happy to make him another....took all of 5 minutes.

This one is for my friend Angela who is giving it to a fellow counselor.  Her friend is moving way up north and wanted Lynn to hopefully remember her wonderful time in SC.  The palmetto tree and crescent moon combo is out state logo.

If you scroll down the right hand side of my blog you will find the free SC logo that is always available for download.

Bean Sprouts

ABC Monday

at Catch the Bug

ABC Monday means "anything but a card". Well, I'm back on a kick growing my own bean spouts.  I enjoy watching things grow.  I've even been told I like watching grass grow under my feet!  (I don't think that was a compliment..lol)  Anyhoooo, I pulled out one of my glass canning jars and then I became "a growin fool!"

Just for the fun of it, I decided to decorate the jar since I like to "watch things a growin'".  I used Coffee Bean - Spoon from Bugaboo Stamps and turned into a svg die.  Sorry, I can not share this svg/die. I simply masked the spoon and added a sprout to his head.  (I got permission from Jodie to do a little altering.)  Using different colors of vinyl I went to work.  I'm please with both my sprouts and my sprout growing jar.

Head over to Catch The Bug and see what else is sprouting up today on ABC Monday.

Use Silhouette Cameo to cut all my images

side view

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