A very good friend of mine retired from her job recently and invited me to her celebration. Of course my first thought was ‘How amazing!!’ But after awhile, the question seeps in … ‘OMG what do you gift for retirement?!!’
Sooo the imagination and wondering starts … the Googling starts … and of course the Pinterest search starts lol. I see all the typical gifts … gift cards, lottery tickets, mugs, t-shirts, etc. Nothing was jumping out at me until I came across gift baskets. Who doesn’t like a nice gift basket, am I right?! Especially when it’s full of items that you like! Now I know there are some gift baskets that you get and you end up giving half or more away. But not this time! This time I’m thinking specifically of the recipient. I’m picking out items that I really think she’ll like (at least I sure hope she does lol).
The first thing I did was decide to use the word RETIRED. I began thinking of each letter and something associated with each letter. This is what I came up with …
E … Enjoy
T … Travel
I … Indulge
R … Reconnect
E … Easy (as in take it Easy)
D … Dream
Now that I had my words, I thought of items to represent each word and this is what I picked …
Relax … a soothing face mask and candles
Me being the crafter I am, of course I had to make the little signs with my Cricut lol. I put all of the goodies in separate bags, filled with crinkled filler & tied with ribbon, attached the signs to wooden skewers and stuck them in each bag. I filled a bin with newspaper and crinkled filler and put all the goodies in. I tried so hard to line up the letters! They kind of line up if you start with the bottom R ... They just weren’t cooperating lol
