Wanna hear something crazy?
Like Gwen Stefanie bananas status?
My oldest niece graduated from high school this week!
Well....not crazy in the sense that she
graduated....but crazy in the sense that she’s a freaking adult and getting
ready to start life for realsies! AND crazy that it was almost ten years ago to
the day that I graduated high school....
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| That's the newest graduate there in the front |
but I digress.....
I wracked my brain for weeks and weeks trying to decide what
gift I would give her and I came up with a whole lot of nothing. I asked around to other people to see if they
could help....got nowhere. I asked her
what she wanted, and her response was “Currency would be good.”
Ugh.
I know receiving money is pretty much always welcomed
(unless you’re like Oprah or Bill Gates or something) but it’s just not my
favorite thing. I really REALLY love
giving gifts. I take pride in trying to
give things that are personal and/or funny and creative. Money is none of the above. But as I thought about it more.....it really was
the gift that made the most sense. It’s
traditional to graduations (and I also REALLY love traditions so I’m convincing
myself the gift isn’t completely sucky be playing this perspective up in my
head) and she could really put it to use whether that be having the best damn
final summer ever before heading off to college, putting it towards her dorm on
campus, or saving it so she’s a slightly less broke Freshman. Money wins....but it’s boring. If the gift itself was going to be boring I
needed to do something for her graduation that checked the creative, funny, and
personal boxes. So here’s what I came up
with…….
Like me, Katie is super into puns. We are punny gals. In a moment sitting at my desk at work the
little lightbulb went off.... FLOURS!!
YAAAAAAASSSSSS!!
I would give her a bouquet of flours. Done.
Boxes checked. Necessary
self-fulfillment filled. Cool.
I completely winged it and it turned out for the most
part. Hopefully I get to do it again
someday and with one under my belt maybe
it will turn out a little cleaner looking....but the overall process was pretty
easy. I found the smallest bags I could
of various flours and emptied them out.
I knew that it would be way too heavy to be functional if I left them as
is. I also didn’t think Katie would be terribly
heartbroken without them. (pssst!….Kayday,
I have Ziploc bags full of flour if you’re feeling gypped) I hot glued one of the bags to a skewer. This bag became the nucleus of the whole
thing and I hot glued the other bags to that center bag. I wrapped the whole thing up in tissue paper
and cellophane, tucked in a few artificial greenery pieces, tied a bow a round it
and called it a day. It was really quick
and easy.
I sort of figured she wouldn’t get it right away….and I was
right🤣 In the hustle and bustle of
handing it to her after the ceremony she just kinda looked at it. I asked, “do you get it??” She stared at it some more and shook her head
yes. I said…”no…..you don’t” About another 5 seconds passed and then she
yelled “Oh my gosh….FLOURS!!” I knew as
soon as she got it she would love it….and she did.
My sister even captured this completely candid photo of her
showing it to her friend
(Slapping theirs knees….ya get???)
I’d say it was a hit 😃
