advisory secret santa

i'm an advisor for the 9th grade.  our team leader organized a secret santa, with a spending cap of $10, for all the advisors and i got my colleague ryan, who shares a cubicle with liz!  ryan has very expensive taste, so i had to make my $10 go as far as possible.  

ryan coaches the speech and debate team and travels with them to competitions, so i sewed a travel tote and filled it with lots of travel-sized toiletries: gum (in case he needs to mask the fact that he snuck away for a drink, hehe), floss (to keep the dentist away...), facial moisturizer samples from kiehls!, facial cleanser from kiehls! ($8 of the $10 limit), travel-sized toothpaste ($2 of the $10), antiwrinkle cream sample (never too early to get a head start), H tissues (his last name starts with h... and my 1st name starts with H!), hand-sanitizer (kids are d.i.r.t.y.), tiny nail-clipper, kiehl's amino acid shampoo sample, amino acid conditioner sample, a tiny empty container in case he wants to bring his own goodies, burt's bees chapstick, soap sample from sabon (my fav soap store in nyc)!

for lining, i used leftover fabric from robert's apron from years ago!!

my zipper installation was particularly stellar!!!  check out the straight sewing!  not easy though... as my sewing machine kept acting up because the zipper was thick!  i also scotch-guarded the exterior so that the fabric would repel dirt and stains!

happy holidays, ryan!  i love secret santa!