It's Beginning to Look a Lot like CHRISTMAS! (No peeking, Islanders!)

I have been having so much fun making presents for my Nelson Island staff! 

It's been a great after-work diversion!

For one group of teachers, I made neck warmers.  No matter how warm your coat is, you need something extra around the neck! 

Thanks to Pinterest and all its crazy ideas, I made sets of "Vicks" shower disks - baked baking soda with eucalyptus, rosemary, and lavender essential oils.  If you're fighting a cold (something I seem to always be doing here), you set a disk in the hot shower (good thing, since none of us have bath tubs!) and let the steam and oils do the trick.  My house sure smelled interesting for the few days after I made them!

 

 

 

Some people got embellished clipboards - They weren't as easy and quick as I thought they'd be! Maybe Mod Podge is not my friend!:)

Backs of clipboards

 

Completed clipboards

And for the assistants, maintenance men, etc. - COOKIES, BROWNIES and FUDGE!!

Wrapped and ready to deliver:

I had to borrow a sled to haul the two tubs full of presents up to the school!

At our staff party the other night, we each had drawn a name of someone to give a gift to.  The cook, Simon, had drawn my name and made me an apron:

Cookie Swap

Front Door Greeting!

 Last Saturday we had a great time at a Cookie Swap and Game Night!



Two teams - who could make the biggest and best antlers with nylons and balloons!

 



 

Cookie Table

Finger Food Snacks!

 

Wrapping "presents" with only one hand!

Working in pairs to figure out Christmas songs from clues, i.e. "A psychiatrist's apartment" = Nutcracker Suite!!

Following directions for drawing a Christmas scene - on top of their heads!

 

Taking home the final product!!