Guest Crafters – Iris and Bertie’s End Of School Badges

There are always little fairing gifts at the end of each school term for Iris and Bertie’s teachers and the end of this summer term was no exception. 

No grand gestures, just a small bottle of shower gel and a face and hair mask that they could all easily slip into their holiday suitcases plus a bundle of three Lindt assorted chocolate squares.

There was also a holiday themed magnet from Nanny (above) plus badges from Iris and Bertie, using the Super Badge-It Maker I got from an Evesham charity shop for just £1.50, which was worth it just for the badge spares themselves, as they are pretty hard to find and when you do find them they are stupidly priced …… which is probably why you find the machines in charity shops and carboots!

Bertie took advantage of the rectangular shaped badges, making a bee badge for his teacher and toast badges for the staff of Breakfast Club, somewhere he has always dreamed about going to ever since he first started school, just to be able to try Mrs Thorley’s famous white toast, poor deprived child had only ever had wholemeal until then!  Needless to say he has really embraced it, for a tiny little thing the staff say he can certainly pack away his breakfast!

I made a special badge for “legend in our household” that is Mrs Thorley too!

Iris made her badges all the same …….. going for a heart in the centre of each, that’s my girl!

So that’s another school year gone ………… time is running at far too fast a pace  for me, I never try to take any school run for granted, these are such precious days. One day a little hand will slip into mine and it could be the last time they feel the need to keep hold of me, feeling that they are too big now to hold Nanny’s hand.  I always give them such a tight squeeze when they do it and tell them how much it means to me and how I don’t ever want to let go ………………………………