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For our extended family Christmas party this year, I decided to take the Saran Wrap Ball game to a whole new level. I have seen online and even played ones where there's mostly candy, and a few prizes and they are way fun! But I wanted to make it even more exciting. We asked each family member to contribute money instead of bringing a dollar gift to help buy all of this stuff. Here are some pictures of most of what we put in ours. The items mostly came from Amazon, Dollar Tree and Walmart. Since we made 4 saran wrap balls the blankets and filled mugs were in the middle. I made the designs on the mugs with my Cricut. Then we wrapped the bigger gifts. Some of them we combined to make sure the items were more even in price. I love this wrapping paper we used from Dollar Tree. We made 4 balls to help things go faster with 35+ people expected to come. So while we wrapped and sorted we put them into 4 boxes. Once everything was wrapped we wrapped them in Saran Wra

We love to go thrift shopping. Yard Sales, Goodwill, Deseret Industries etc. We have found so many cool things we have fixed up and made better over the years. This past Summer we found a yard sale that had this cute organizer. Since we bought a couple of big items they threw this in for free. Can't beat that! I wanted to give this gem a face lift so I took all of the hardware off and took the black chalkboard out. Then I sanded it so the paint would stick and wiped it down with a dry rag to get the dust off. I painted the chalkboard with regular black paint and the rest a teal color. Then lightly sanded and wiped it all down again before brushing on Minwax Polycrylic with a foam brush. I just followed the directions on the can. This is to seal it and make it easier to clean. After 2 coats of Polycrylic I had a nice even shine so I decided not to put on a third coat.  Next I worked on the "chalkboard" piece. With my Cricut I made a vinyl cut out wi