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Mr. Nachos and I were talking today about what to do with the silver heart tins that we acquired through our lucky centerpiece find…

I initially thought about filling them with customized M&Ms because I like the thought of giving something edible. I looked up prices and they were ridiculous! I also learned that my future mother-in-law had the same idea and after she did her research, she came to the same conclusion.

Anywhere from $50-100 for a 5 pound bag is simply not justifiable. Then I thought about Hershey kisses and looked into having those custom-made with a sticker or a tag. Again, a little too steep, price-wise. So then I thought I could make little stickers to throw on the bottom of them and customize them myself! I Googled “personalize Hershey kisses” and learned that a 3/4″ round sticker would be the perfect size. I downloaded the template for Avery 5408 labels and got to work in PowerPoint…

First I inserted the circle from auto shapes, double clicked on it and made the height and width .75″…

Then I inserted another auto shapes circle, changed the line to a heavy dotted line after double clicking, made it blue, and resized it so it fit evenly inside the black circle…

Then I added 2 different kinds of word art and played around with the curve and the size of the font (using font Bell Mt) until it fit perfectly…

I added a text box in the middle using the font “Harrington”…

And I added a few little symbols on each side to fill in the blanks…

The version that has our real names is a little more symmetrical because our names are the same size as the bottom font. Anywho, from there I saved this as a JPEG, opened up the Avery template, inserted the picture a dozen times and placed the pic over the circles that show in the template…

Once I have the labels, I plan to print them and stick them to the bottom of each Hershey Kiss. Yeah, it sounds like a fun Saturday afternoon in front of a girly movie in my PJs! I’m going to hold off on buying the Hershey’s Kisses because I don’t want to give away bad chocolate… that would be a crime punishable by law. So for now, the hard part is finished, and seriously? The idea came out of nowhere but I’m happy I thought of it!

Are you keeping yourself busy like me, coming up with random DIY projects that you didn’t originally plan to do?