
I don’t have a teen (yet), but Ethan celebrated his birthday in the weekend and at 11, his wish list was incredibly short, expensive and totally lacking in inspiration. Something along the lines of;
- Xbox One
- Money
Sound familiar?
I’m not one for buying-for-the-sake-of-buying so in order to come up with something to go under the tree (that wasn’t a bucket of cash!) I decided to create a sort-of package gift that addressed a current need.
With E off to intermediate next year (read more about that here), I’ve been meaning to tackle his desk for some time and create a functional space that he would feel motivated to sit and do his homework at – I realise this is a massive stretch but one must try! Ethan’s desk is very little, which is fine as his room is also very little. It’s an old school desk I purchased for $25 from Junk ‘n’ Disorderly and repainted a fresh white.
I needed to maximise storage on E’s desk so started my wee gift project with the banter.morph wooden crate from Warehouse Stationery and added some bits and pieces as I went.
The crate comes in a cute flat-pack and is super sturdy with plenty of room to hide all of that boy-junk that accumulates between tidying.
To finish the gift I selected a couple of different sized spiral bound notebooks, some pens and I couldn’t go past that soda bottle! Perfect for sipping on while smashing out homework! I hope lol.
TIP: Shopping one range only (rather than wandering aimlessly around the store) gave my distracted-shopping-self some focus and I had this desk-pack picked out in less then 10 minutes! The new banter.morph range at Warehouse Stationery plays on combining functional pieces with on-trend decor items in fun colour-pops, perfect for the hard to please hard to buy for tween/teen!
Shop the banter.morph look: Wooden Crate, Soda Bottle, A4 Notebook, A5 Notebook, Pens
I love how this wee project turned out! I only scratched the surface of what’s on offer from the new banter.morph range which is available exclusively at Warehouse Stationery. Prices start from just $3.99 so consider your stocking stuffers sorted!
Dec 7, 2015 2:11 am
wow love the look of these and oh so practical too! 🙂
Dec 7, 2015 7:53 am
Looks like lots of stuff here for grandchildren Thanks for the opportunity to enter
Dec 7, 2015 11:20 am
thanks for the chance to win merry xmas lots of fun here
Dec 7, 2015 12:07 pm
That looks awesome thank you 🙂 It gives me some ore ideas for mr turning 10 on the 4th of January 🙂
Dec 7, 2015 6:23 pm
What an awesome prize
Dec 8, 2015 7:42 pm
Such great ideas!!
Dec 11, 2015 6:18 pm
very nice prize thanx for the chance
Dec 11, 2015 7:12 pm
Such a great prize!
Dec 12, 2015 10:06 am
Very cool prize. Would love to win 🙂
Dec 15, 2015 8:18 pm
Yes please would love to win ?
Dec 16, 2015 3:43 pm
Wow … Good reading and thanks for the ideas.. The older my son gets the harder he is to buy for .. Basically I feel like I just become a machine gun and fire out $50 bills to them all . ?