Faux Mantel

John got bored over Christmas break and made me a faux mantel for above our tv. It adds so much to our living room and I love it!

Disney Princess Palace Pet Birthday Party

For my daughter's fifth birthday, she was set on pink. In her opinion everything at the party needed to be pink and everyone needed to wear pink. The only problem was that half of the people she was inviting were boys so we settle on a lot of pink, but  not all pink. The new princess palace pets have been all the rage in our house since the app came out last year, and she has gotten several of them over the last few holidays, so she decided she wanted to have a palace pet party. I loved this idea because I could use some of the Disney princess stuff we have seen at the store but still make her party unique!

For most of the printed material I used a picture of the palace pets and added a border and wording to it. I used this for the invitation, gift table sign, treat table sign, and welcome sign for the front door.

I made two banners for her on my silhouette. The first one was a simple Happy 5th Birthday banner with the palace pet horses on each end.

And the second was a photo banner with a picture of each year of her life. I used a roll of tulle to hang across my mantel and tied bows at each end. I then printed pictures of the palace pets and the number 0-5 on cardstock and glued each one to the front of a clothes pin. I spaced all of these along the tulle and hung the corresponding pictures on each one. I love this idea of a banner your young kids and will probably start doing it at every party for them. I always forget they can't even read their birthday banner's yet, so this was a great banner that she loved looking at and knew what all the numbers meant!

For the treat table, I made pink tissue paper balls to hang around the light. I got some cupcake stands from Michael's and put all of the girls palace pets on them and around the table. I also put a few of the clip dress Disney princesses on the table as well.  I used Disney princess napkins I found at target.

For snacks, we had pink glazed popcorn, fruit cups, Disney princess cookies (found them at Toy'r'us) and pink heart marshmallows. 

I made a six inch cake for her with pink frosting roses all around it with a tiara on top.

For her cupcakes, I made princess palace pet cupcake toppers with my silhouette and of course more pink frosting!

For games and activities, we had a Disney princess pinata (see above in table pictures), I bought foam tiara's for the girls and cut crowns out of foam visors for the boys and gave the kids foam stars and letters to decorate them, and we played pin the tail on Bibbity. I cropped the tail off of a picture I had of Bibbity in Photoshop and glued cut out pieces of a boa to card stock circles for the tail.

Overall the kids seemed to have a good time and Emma loved her palace pet party!

Fall Front Porch

Last year was the first time I specifically decorated our front porch for fall!

 I made the sign with and orangish scrapbook paper, mod podge, painted wooden letters, some fake flowers and wired ribbon. 

I finished it up with some hay, a scarecrow from Joanns and potted flowers. I added a few pumpkins as well after we went to the harvest festival!

Yarn and Felt Flower Wreath

This is a blue and silver Christmas Wreath I made out of Yarn and the flower are made with felt!

Girly Diego Party

Emma was insistent on a Diego birthday when she turned 3. So I gave her a Diego birthday party but just girlied it up a little bit by adding hot pink and lots of animal print! She loved it because it was still Diego and I didn't feel like she would ask me in 10 years why I let her have a Diego birthday party when she was 3.

Animal Print Clothes Pin Birthday Banner

Baby Jaguar Birthday Cake - I had some major problems with the gel writer for the happy birthday wording, I am wishing that came out better. The zebra around the cake is a sugar sheet and the jaguar print on the topper is duct tape. The letters are wood and the baby jaguar was a nice extra gift for her birthday. I used a piece of Styrofoam for the topper and cut out poster board for the top and bottom of it so I could just pin all 4 of the stuffed animal feet into it and the pipe cleaner just poked right through.

For the games, we played a pin the spot on baby jaguar I found on the Nick Jr website and I created bingo cards with several of the animals they frequently have on Go Diego Go. 

   

For the party favors I made ears and tails for each kid there. We had zebras, lions, and giraffes!

Lion food tray! This was a huge tray (in fact, I realized the morning of that I did not have a tray large enough, so I had to cover a piece of plywood with aluminum foil to cover it all), but it was great because of the selection in it. It had cheese and sausage around the outside to eat on the crackers and carrots, broccoli tomatoes and black olives to eat with the ranch dressing cheeks! I served this with fruit kabobs and it was plenty of food for the 20+ people there to snack on.

I had also planned on cutting out serveral big leaves and making vines through our house but I ran out of time not realizing how big of project the ears and tails would be so that will have to wait for another party!

Cowgirl 1st Birthday

Every year my birthday ideas have gotten bigger and bigger thanks to pinterest... Scary thought considering my oldest is only 4! She is a total party planner so she has been pushing me to be more creative for birthday parties!

For Allie's first birthday we were on vacation with family so we just did a small birthday party at the cabin where we were staying. Since I still get full control of the type of party at 1, we did a coral/baby blue cowgirl theme! 

Pendent Birthday Banner with Twine for the rope and paisley bows on the sides. The cowgirl theme went great with all the wood walls of the cabin we were staying in.

Birthday Hats made from card stock. I took a piece of cow print fabric and wrapped it around the bottom. Added bows for both the little girls hats and cut out a 1 for the birthday girl hat! 

With the rest of the cow print fabric I made her a matching bib!

Okay so I still need some work on my cake balls but this was one of my first attempts!

So it was a simple birthday but made it very special for her! She loved it!

It's about time....

Okay....so it is time I started a blog...not just creating the blog page and leaving it blank for a year! Now that  its summer and my newest baby is almost 5 months, I am starting to feel crafty again! I am first going to post some of my favorite creations from the past and then hopefully I will finish several new projects this summer I have been trying to get to for a while!