I purchased a house two months ago now. I can’t believe it’s already been two months! Anyway, my house is conveniently only three doors away from one of my very best friends from high school! I still can hardly believe my luck. I knew that living so close to Liz and her husband would be so fun and exciting, but I never could have dreamed what incredibly generous neighbors they would be.
The night I moved in, I went out to dinner with Alex. I didn’t rush right home because honestly, I was a bit nervous and scared to be in a new place all by myself. But I needn’t have worried. When I got home I found a beautiful gift basket on my front steps. 
It was so incredible and generous! I was blown away and completely comforted knowing I had such great friends so close by.
Then just last week I came home from work to find Liz mowing my grass, raking my leaves, and filling up five bags worth of twigs and leaves! With all that she’s done for me, I knew I wanted to do something special for her to show my appreciation, but what? I didn’t have a clue until I came adds this cosmetic bag from Bath and Body Works.
I couldn’t not buy this bag! I instantly envisioned the gift basket I could make with it. While I was at the Bath and Body Works store, I also bought some honey hand lotion and honey soap (pictured inside the bag) as well as a “bee happy” hand cream! They also had adorable “bee happy” gift cards, so I had them load one of those up so Liz could get some things of her choice too.
Then I bought a honey bear of local honey, some Burt’s Bees honey lip balm and face mask, as well as some honey cinnamon almonds.
To tie together the theme I just used a plain notes are that I already had that sort of matched the cosmetic bag. I drew little bees and colored them in with colored pencils, and wrote “Thanks for bee-ing so sweet” .
Once I finished, I stuck everything in this adorable little basket that came from the dollar store! (Shhh…..don’t tell Liz).
This basket was so much fun to put together! I hope this gave you some ideas on how you can brighten someone’s day. If you can’t find a cosmetic bag to go with this theme, that’s okay! This basket would still be adorable without it. Some other ideas of things you could pick in this basket would be more variety of Burt’s Bees products, baked honey cookies, sugar cookies decorated like bees, a honey pot, honey sticks, Winnie the Pooh products, or really anything that you love or think is cute!
