Category Archives: Birthday

Puppy Party – DIY Puppy Collars

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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…

No Sew Blanket – Puppy Party Favor

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As mentioned other posts- my daughter’s having a puppy party. So we are slowly getting it prepared and making things along the way so we are not in a mad dash.  I love to play ahead too. Got this really cute fabric – fleece on sale with a coupon from my local JoAnn’s Crafts.  It…

DIY – Super Hero Shirts using our Silhouette

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Chad had a few shirts laying around he wanted to dress up.  He was also making a shirt for his dad for father’s day. (He made 2 of the red ones… keep reading) Simple project– he cut out transfer vinyl on the Silhouette and using our heat press ironed on the vinyl. Something different. (make…

DIY- Cupcake 3 tiered stand

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I am in LOVE with my new cupcake stand. I did not own one yet. I kept waiting for the perfect stand that screamed my name. I have passed by the stand at Target many times and almost bought it – but always put it back. Now I am glad I did. This one is…

Puppy Party – Frisbee

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Those that are following us on Facebook – Know we have already started getting ready for my daughter’s 7th birthday. However her birthday isn’t for another 10 weeks at least. I am a mega planner. My daughter picked out her theme about 6 months ago. So once I get a theme in my head– I…

Family Hands Frame – Perfect Gift

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This is a great gift for any time — Birthdays, Anniversary, Christmas for your spouse. (And maybe grandparents would like this too) I used my 50% off Michael’s coupon and got this lime frame. LOVE IT. Our favorite color in this family. We made this for Chad- for father’s day. I had to fib– GASP–…

Quick Gift Ideas – Personalized Candy Container

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I love to look for containers. I am addicted to containers of all kinds. Metal & Glass. All shapes. Bottles, even containers food come out of. I never know when I will need one. I had the perfect container for a girlfriend. Her birthday was near- and using my Silhouette machine- cut out her name…

Magic Show Party { Cub Scouts } – Part 2

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Part 2 of our Magic Show Party. We did this party for our Blue and Gold banquet for Cub Scouts. We called the night “The Magic of Cub Scouting” Ignore what Chad is doing. Good Grief!! He acts like a 8 yr old cub scout himself. HAHA We wanted to have a nice magic background….

Magic Show Party { Cub Scouts } – Part 1

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My husband and I are big time into Cub Scouts. I am sad that my little man is too old for cub scouts. He is now in boy scouts. But through our church callings we are still involved in cub scouts.  Between the 2 of us- we are the main folks in charge when it…

Princess & Frog Party – Decorations, Candy & Games

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Our candy table Lots of Pink and Green Candies in various jars I had. Mason Jars, lock lid jars etc. I love to collect jars so creating this tble was fun. We used pink or green starburst, or strawberry whopper candy, andes mint candies, lollipops in green and pink on long sticks found at our…

Princess & Frog Party – Goodie Bags

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  My husband and I own an embroidery machine- and decided to give out really cool goodie bags to the girls at the party. He digitized the frog we used in her theme, and added each of the girls names on the canvas bags. Inside we added fun items. 1- We made homemade play-dough for…

Princess & Frog Party – Cupcakes & Marshmallow Pops

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My daughter wanted a Princess & Frog party for her birthday. She wanted it also poolside. I looked all over the internet for fun ideas. So I am going to share a few of them  this weekend The 1st idea is the adorable Cupcakes. We had vanilla cupcakes simply iced either pink or green. These…

Kids Foodie Face Plates

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For Birthday and Christmas gifts– I loved making these plates. I ordered a kit from HERE.  You draw on the papers they send to you- and decorate with your own washable markers and mail it in. These plates are amazing!! They are not porcelain so they do not break if your kids drop it. They…

Almost Free Kids Colors Book

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I have all these swatches/paint chips in my home. I love to collect them because they are great learning tools. You can use these to play memory games by having 2 of every color. Skies the limit. I have friends that have little ones with birthday’s coming up and wanted to make a little gift…

Homemade Play Dough

This was very easy to make. My son needed to make a double batch of blue, single batch of green and white for a project they are doing at school. Of course the project is due tomorrow and it is 11:00pm when we started making it.  So I advise to do this at a more…

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