Thursday, May 10, 2012

15 Great Teacher Appreciation Gifts

UPDATED: With the tragic, recent Connecticut School shooting many parents are wanting to show their appreciation to the wonderful teachers that make it their priority to keep our kiddos safe! Here are some great ideas from last years Teacher Appreciation Week! Show your teacher how great you think they are! 
Thank Them!
1. Adorable Crayon letter Frame
2. "We're NUTS for our teacher" treat/gift idea
3. "Bear hugs for Mr. Stu from Bradley" treat idea: add teddy graham bears (you can also use gummy bears) to fold over sandwich bag, cut off fold, make tag with text and punch hole in tag than tie with ribbon. So simple!
4. "My teacher is AW-some" A&W pop idea
5. Quick and easy snacky M&M's and mason jar idea
6. You were mint to teach idea with altoid mints
7. Adorable chalk board planter gift
8. Inexpensive pencil frame for your teacher
9. Multiple cup idea's for your teacher
10. Cute and delicious apple and homemade dip gift
11. Quick and easy water bottle gift tag idea
12. Simple and cute "Teacher's plant seeds" theme planter set
13. Yummy We need "s'more teacher's like you" treat
14. We're stuck on our teacher" mason jar and glue gift: Fill Mason Jar with glue sticks and create or hand write "We're stuck on our teacher" text, then punch out with circle or decorative punch and hot glue to jar. To finish off tie decorative ribbon around top of jar.
15. Extra Gum and Gift Tag: Make a tag that says "The difference between an ordinary teacher and an extraordinary teacher is alittle EXTRA", you can either make on your computer and print or hand write out, punch hole in tag and string ribbon/twine through to tie. Place "Extra" gum into a fold over sandwich bag (cut off fold) and tie closed with tag.

Show your teacher some appreciation~
Bree and J

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Dazzle Expressions Giveaway

Farm House Feature of the Month: 
Dazzle Expressions

If your on facebook all you have to do is share there page to be entered to win!

Dazzle Ezpressions~
Having a little giveaway for Mother's Day! Share our page with your friends, then once you do let us know and we will put you in a drawing. The winner will receive a personalized printable poster for each of their children (you choose sizes). Winner will be selected on Mother's Day... so share away! 
Let them know you were sent from 
Farm House Sisters!

What are you waiting for??? Go Share~
Bree and J
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Honor A Mom: Wednesday

Honor A Mom: Wednesday
Bella Cullen
 Today Farm House Sisters honor Bella Swan, yes you may say "shes a fictional character", but for those of your in love with the Twilight Series you would agree with me that she is real. LOL.
Even though Bella is a young mother with hardly any experience under her vampire belt she is still a mom...who choose to and did die for her child. Now THAT is a committed mother!
From the moment she found out she was pregnant on their honeymoon (probably about 4 months along) she was in love with that baby. Carrying her child that was starving her to death and growing at a super natural rate all while having to fight her husband, best friend and Cullen family to even keep her baby had to be the hardest thing she had yet to go through. Don't mention she was unable to see her family and friends as well. The only friend and backer she had most of her pregnancy was a woman and new sister-in-law that happened to not think very kindly of Bella...well her choices up until her pregnancy anyway. 
Thank goodness Edward was able to start hearing the baby and he FINALLY joined Bella's side to keep the baby and they were able to enjoy in a few "normal" pregnancy moments before drastic measures had to be made to keep Bella and baby alive.
 Now very late in the pregnancy the baby had drained Bella of basically all nourishment and Bella was close to death. It was her best friend, Jacob's, snide thought/comment that lead to Bella, willing to try anything for her child, to start drinking blood in hopes that that was what the baby wanted.And in fact it was! Now happy and healthier everything seemed fine and almost ready to go for delivery. Of course a series of events would occur leading up to having to deliver the baby all while half the family, including the Doctor, were gone on a very much needed trip for blood for Bella and to feed. 
Edward, a true husband and soon to be father, did everything he could think to try to save his child, Bella's one and only wish, and his true soul mate and wife. In the end a beautiful baby girl, Renesmee Cullen, was born...via Edwards teeth tearing apart Bella's uterus to do so (LOL). 
Though what was to become of her mother that risked everything she had even her life? Like any true husband, Edward, worked tirelessly and without hesitation to do everything he could to save her. Did venom injected straight into her heart and bite after bite save his wife....? At the end of Breaking Dawn Part 1 we are lead to believe by the second of Bella opening her blood red eyes that she survived.....but only book readers will really knows what lies ahead for Bella Cullen. Will she get to hold her child she died for? Will her family live "Happily Ever After"? Only times will tell for this wonderful, amazing, very young mother whom has yet to even hold her new daughter.


Twihard~
Bree and J

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City of Lost Souls

 Book 5 of The Mortal Instruments was released yesterday. "City of Lost Souls", by Cassandra Clare, was ready to go on my nook and waiting for my slightest touch to download last night. I forgot about it until just right before bed and ended up staying up until about 11:00pm reading. The book is already getting 4.5 stars...who in the world has already read it...obviously someone without children. MINE in particular were up all night long...taking turns waking up...waking the other up and finally going back to sleep just so we could get a mini "nap" before another woke up. Any way...back to the book...I am super excited to finish reading this, though that will mean having to wait forever again for the next book to come out. I just hope this time Jace and Clary can finally have....some...intimate time before their "star crossed love" is pulled apart again and they are fighting to be with each other. I don't mind cause anything is better than them being brother and sister.....(gotta leave that hanging for those of you who have yet to read The Mortal Instruments series. Which on my list are a MUST read! If you have not read this series my tastes or on my MUST read list so far are The Twilight Series, Vampire Academy Series, Hunger Games Series, Harry Potter Series, etc. If you liked...no, no, no...you WOULD have LOVED those...so starting over again...If you loved those you will love this series as well! Enjoy, read a book!

The Mortal Instrument Series:
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels


Synopsis of Book 5 of The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls: (don't worry this is also the first few pages of the book so its not a spoiler)


"The demon Lilith has been destroyed and Jace has been freed from her captivity. But when the Shadowhunters arrive to rescue him, they find only blood and broken glass. Not only is the boy Clary loves missing–but so is the boy she hates, Sebastian, the son of her father Valentine: a son determined to succeed where their father failed, and bring the Shadowhunters to their knees.

No magic the Clave can summon can locate either boy, but Jace cannot stay away—not from Clary. When they meet again Clary discovers the horror Lilith’s dying magic has wrought—Jace is no longer the boy she loved. He and Sebastian are now bound to each other, and Jace has become what he most feared: a true servant of Valentine’s evil. The Clave is determined to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. Will the Shadowhunters hesitate to kill one of their own?

Only a small band of Clary and Jace’s friends and family believe that Jace can still be saved — and that the fate of the Shadowhunters’ future may hinge on that salvation. They must defy the Clave and strike out on their own. Alec, Magnus, Simon and Isabelle must work together to save Jace: bargaining with the sinister Faerie Queen, contemplating deals with demons, and turning at last to the Iron Sisters, the reclusive and merciless weapons makers for the Shadowhunters, who tell them that no weapon on this earth can sever the bond between Sebastian and Jace. Their only chance of cutting Jace free is to challenge Heaven and Hell — a risk that could claim any, or all, of their lives.

And they must do it without Clary. For Clary has gone into the heart of darkness, to play a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing the game is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she even still trust him? Or is he truly lost? What price is too high to pay, even for love?

Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series."



Gotta go read~
Bree

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