So since I did an all handmade Christmas (except for my boyfriend because that would have been IMPOSSIBLE) so I did a lot of searching on Pinterest.
This is what I made my sister, it, of course, is pinterest inspired, with a little twist.
My sister is obsessed with elephants, so I had seen this on pinterest with a girl holding an umbrella, which i also thought was really cute, and I was planning on doing, but one day I was driving home and it hit me, She loves elephants! I wasn't quite sure what to do with the idea, because rainging on elephants is kind of random, so I told my mom and boyfriend and asked for ideas. My mom had a really good one... in theory, she said that we could kind of funnel the drippings down to the elephants trunk and make it look like it was sprouting from the trunk. So I went out and bought two 96 packs of crayons and sorted out all of the blues. Then I got some foam board (which I am now obsessed with and will use for EVERYTHING) and a stencil of an elephant. I put the elephant on and let me tell you, I was pretty proud of that thing, it was shiny and black, it almost looked like it was a sticker, and I am certainly no artist, so I never even dreamed that it would look as good as it did, anyways, so then I glued on all of my blues, in random order. and then, we put some painters tape from the trunk to the end of the board and my boyfriend, being the great guy he is, held some rulers on the tape to make sure we caught anything that was trying to go past the tape. Then I started the blow dryer, I really don't understand how the air comes out of that blow dryer because I could NOT for the life of me control where my drips were going. anyway, we got it all done, took of the rulers and tape and looked. It was a PURE disaster, I was so upset, because it was so ugly. We rushed out to a local like cheapo store, hoping to get more crayons for about the same price we got them at wal-mart. we got there, and it was more expensive to get a sixty four pack there than it was at wal-mart. and A) I am seriously cheap, and hate to spend my money and B) homemade presents are NOT that much cheaper, so the cash flow was running low. So we went back home and I just redrew my elephant, planning to go to wal-mart the next day. Of course, my elephant looked not nearly as good, but I just had to deal with it. We got the crayons and retried, this time just letting it rain on the elephant, which is what you see up there. So much better, and my sister was THRILLED!
So that's it for now, my mom and I are rushing out to get the last of the cheap ribbon and wrapping paper for next year, it's really fun to make the presents pretty!
I hope everyone has a great day!(:
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