Hip Hop {Thursday} & RAK!

Welcome to our Holiday Hip Hop!!!!! I hope you have had fun thus far! You should be joining me from Jennifer's awesome and amazing blog. If not, make sure you hop back to the beginning, the Unity blog. You definitely do not want to miss the hop today because I know there are lots of surprises along the way!

This week, I wanted to share with you three gifts I made for my mother and two of my aunts. We will all be together at Christmas, and I thought this would be the perfect time to present them with these personal journal jars. My dear friend Shanna Vineyard made one for a challenge she hosted. Basically, you present the person with a jar full of questions about themselves. They pull a question every day or once a week and journal about themselves. It is a wonderful history to pass down to children and grandchildren once it is complete. Shanna's jar contained 365 questions. I do not know how many questions my jars have but it is a lot. I took a lot of questions from a spectacular book called "To Our Children's Children" by Bob Greene. This book is FULL of nothing but questions. I am going to use the book to journal my own history. I won't need the jar for myself. The book will work just great. Here is what they look like: Shanna put the following on a tag hanging on the jar. I chose to change a few words and put it on the inside of the book instead.

"This little jar & journal celebrates someone dear—YOU!
If you follow a simple plan, you will find that
before this time next year you will have
a very PERSONAL history finished!
All you need to do is draw out one slip of
paper every day or once a week.
On it you will find a question. Spend a few minutes
and just enjoy remembering. Then paste the
question in your journal or rewrite it at the top
of the page and TELL about it. Don’t worry about
spelling, handwriting, etc. Just tell YOUR story
and remember you are loved!"

The stamps I used for these was the butterfly from the Unity September kit Friendship Love Miracles, and then all of the sentiments were from the Unity Our Life Our Stories kit. I purchased the jars and journals very inexpensively from Wal-Mart, and the papers are Basicy Grey and Creative Imaginations. I did emboss the title and butterfly. They really stand out pretty in person with the embossing. Overall, I kept the journals pretty simple, and I did not put ribbons on the wire binding because I knew they would be opened and used a lot. I hope you enjoy this.

And before you hop on to the next blog, I am offering some blog candy today! Please leave a comment in the comment section, and I will randomly draw a winner on Friday, Dec. 19th. The winner will receive the Unity Becoming Butterfly single!

Now, hop on over to Heather's awesome blog and be sure to wish her Happy Birthday! It was her birthday on the 16th (the same as my precious sister). Happy Birthday girls! And I pray that you have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!