A special guy was Baptized this past weekend. We were so excited for him and his family!! Chad and I wanted to create a special gift. We have made this in the past but never took photos to share with our bloggers. So I made sure this time to take pictures. We have a professional…
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My son turned 12 in October. He didn’t want a theme for his birthday party. He decided for his main gift was to just go to a local theme park for the day instead of having a party. But– this mom– can’t let the day go by without some decorations. So the day before…
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I believe this will finally wrap up everything we did for the birthday party. WHEW. Alot of work but tons of fun!!! I seriously am already thinking ahead for next years party I have an idea.. but I will give myself a few months off. HAHA Here is the invitation we mailed out…
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These puppy cupcakes were so easy. We had planned to do something else but once I saw how adorable the Scooby-Doo Graham Cracker Sticks were for the bones. We kept it simple. Chad baked from Food Network – Chocolate Chip & Mascarpone Cupcakes & frosted/piped on a simple vanilla buttercream frosting they were soooo good….
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I so badly wanted to use my push pop containers for the birthday party. So I made these “PUSH PUPS” Filled them with chocolate covered raisins. Added this sticker to it- Click Here To Download I simply printed them on a 8 1/2 x 11 full size sheet of address labels by Avery. Then punched…
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The green / blue / brown bunting was so easy to make. Simply got paint swatch samples from our local home improvement store. (We asked before we took- the nice thing to do) Cut each swatch into a triangle and punched a hole in each corner We then threaded bakers twine and alternated colors. Once…
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We gave each of the puppy party friends a set of ears to keep. Maria @ Love & Sugar Kisses had the BEST tutorial on how to make these. They were SOOOO SIMPLE!! (Inside view of the ears) I found the headbands 4 for 1.00 at the Dollar Tree. Felt from JoAnn’s Crafts and some…
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Wrapping up the rest of the party. We had a blast with activities. We did a group shot of the girls. (We actually did this party 2 times in 1 day– friends in the morning and family (all boys) in the evening) If you missed our tutorial on how to make the card table dog…
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Continuing with the rest of the fun party we had a week ago for my daughter. We had many activities. This post is going to cover the fun stations we had I want to give credit where it is due – The Crafting Chicks featured their stations where I branched off and expanded on for…
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I’ve been so excited to share this post. Was not sure if I should show off the entire party at once or pieces. But if I were to show it all at once it would be a VERRRYYY long post. So I will break it up over the next few days Here was some of…
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Another fun item we have made for the upcoming party – an item for our Puppy Supply Store. “Puppy Chow” Very easy to make- photo is pretty self-explanatory. I got the zip top baggie from Hobby Lobby. The “chow” is simply chocolate puffed cereal. Then a tag. The tag was printed on a full 8…
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Going to feature a few of the smaller items we worked on for our Puppy Party. Pretty soon we will share with you how the entire party panned out So exciting. We have stations for the children to visit with their adopted “stuff” puppies. And one of them is the vet. They will receive a…
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I love all the rag garlands I see for birthday. I wanted one to hang between my dining room and kitchen to dress it up a bit for our party. Our Puppy Party coming up soon theme colors are Lime Green, Turquoise & Chocolate. So we found some fun fabrics. I cut my fabric in…
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Yesterday I featured how to make the paw print collars. Today I created keeping the party theme colors — made leashes for the puppies. Ribbon in party colors – I was able to make 3 leashes per spool. Bag of jump rings and bags of lobster clasps. I bought these at Hobby Lobby. The jump…
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Mentioned in previous posts – I am working on projects to get ready for my Daughters birthday. Having a puppy party. Colors are Lime, Turquoise, and Brown. Since the kidlets will be “adopting” a puppy at the party, and then going to various stations getting things they need for their puppies. One of the items…
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