How to not organize a party, or, envelope DIY

May 29

According to the party planning list, on Tuesday morning I am supposed to call my friends, and ask them to surrender their plates, glasses, cutlery and chairs to me.

I actually manage to sit down at my desk, when I remember that Eva is in urgent need of some warm clothes.

Seeing that she has a birthday coming up, I decide to give her money so she can go and buy herself pants and some sweat-shirts for winter.

She will probably come back with flimsy t-shirts and about a hundred pairs of earrings, but it will at least be to her liking (her mum's great taste doesn't really cut it anymore...).

Of course I immediately have to make something to present the money in style!

My lovely friend Esther regularly gives me the sweetest little envelopes she makes herself, and I decide to do something similar. Esther even provides a template for the envelopes!

I used different paper I cut out from a magazine, glueing things on top of each other until I liked the look of it.

Here is the finished product: