Retirement Gifts and Gardening

It's Another Beautiful Saturday! Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

A colleague of mine that I've worked with for the last 10 years decided to retire. He's going to enjoy this next chapter of his life in his garden. I thought that it would be appropriate to create a little basket.

What fun it was creating so many little gifts.

Here's the table where everything was setup:

The box on the right is a money box I created to put all the "seed money" we collected for him.

Here's a close up:

Anyway, it was good to take a little time and whip up something wonderful.

Enjoy the rest of your wonderful day!

Comments

Julie Odil said…

This is fantastic, Bek! I particularly like the "seed money" idea for a gardener. Very clever!

Sat May 03, 07:12:00 AM EDT

Donna K said…

What a sweet, thoughtful way to say so long to your coworker! I'm sure he will look on your gifts with great joy and his "seed money" will be put to good use! So very kind of you…

Sun May 04, 09:03:00 AM EDT

SusieScrapper said…

Love this idea and the 'seed money' is awesome! You are very sweet!!

Sun May 04, 02:56:00 PM EDT

Anonymous said…

What a wonderful gift and love all of the PP details added to the items!

Wed May 07, 01:12:00 PM EDT

Tiggerscraps said…

Gorgeous gift

Mon Jul 07, 07:12:00 PM EDT

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