Big Sis Gift Ideas??
 

I know its usually the little sis that gets spoiled with the gifts but I wanted to put something together for my new big. I'm not really sure what to get her because shes already got loads of zeta stuff and I'm on kind of a limited budget. I can make the majority of the gifts (i've got some artistic skill) I just dont have a lot of supplies (i live in the dorms). Any ideas?

Picture frames are always a good gift in my opinion. Especially if you have a picture of the two of you. My little got me a picture frame and a really nice card and that was enough for me. Also if you get a plain one you can decorate it anyway you want to make it more personal.

Other ideas could involve symbols of the sorority or if your family has any specfic name or tradition something related to that.

The cutest gift I ever saw was when one little got her big a teddy bear(kds symbol) and dressed it in a child's halloween costume of a frog (her family's mascot). Everyone was super jealous and it was the cutest thing!

1st Suggestion: Leave your dorm and go to hobby lobby.

Get a picture frame that has room for two images-- put a photo of you on one side and poem about sisterhood in the other.

Matching letter shirts

Write her a sisterhood celebration letter and get permission to read it aloud during chaper

Get a container and draw on it with paint pens. Fill it with candy or fresh baked treats

Build-A-Bear

Decorate her door with posters and balloons

Halloween will be here next month! Make a date to carve pumpkins together

Have a slumber party or go to a movie together or get ice cream together

Maybe get her some white violets in a nice pot. If you don't find any, you could probably buy a Zeta flowerpot and buy seeds and plant them in that.

Got a mailing from IHQ that included a postcard ad from Oxford Circus Clothing.
Cute stuff!!

I'm posting an Alpha Gam related link, of course, lol.

(Oh, I just noticed the $32 price but you might find something else!)

http://store.oxfordcircusclothing.com/squpolo.html

Neat idea, but I feel like I could make that stuff myself!

How bout buying a plain pillowcase and decorating it. Or even one of those plain decorative pillows and decorating that.

Decorate a sleepshirt and put something on it like "world's best big sis".

My little made me a pin box by painting a plain wooden box and decopodging (sorry bout the spelling) violets on it. I still use it 8 years later.

That site has so many cute things! Such a nice change from traditional lettered clothing. :)

Whoa you must be kidding right? Click around a bit more. Almost everything on there is completely unwearable.
Such as the "Heart on the boob" shirt:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._1913_58586657

The "wrinkly and poorly chosen fabric" pants:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._1913_55558953

The "I wish I was Rainbrow brite" vest:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._1912_14640250

And the slightly see-through "It's a Dove because it has a olive branch in it's mouth" shirt
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._1913_67166129

Last, but of course not least.. on sale... the poorly embroidered "They're ladybugs not ornaments I swear" shirt

It's like someone had a good idea and ran with it... in the opposite direction.

Dude. That is clearly a duck with an olive branch in its mouth.

Quack. Quack.

From an expert on all things quacky, that is most certainly NOT a duck. Ducks have more rounded beaks whereas that one is pointed.

My first thought was "Hey, why is that penguin chewing on a stick"?

Gads - that stuff is just horribly made..good idea, poorly executed.

Didn't we already have a thread about this company somewhere??

Okay, it may not be super high-quality, and some of the designs are questionable. But my point was that it was a nice change from the traditional t-shirt with stitched letters.

I agree with PenguinTrax. A good idea, not the best execution.