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Cupcake Theme Bridal Shower Gift

Cupcake Theme Bridal Shower Gift | NothingButCountry.com

As you can see from my last week or two I have been in a basket giving mood. I was invited to a Bridal shower and since I love to bake cupcakes and the bride needed kitchen items I decided to make a cupcake themed basket. I found all the stuff at various places. Target,…

Faux Scrabble Family Frame – DIY Gift

Faux Scrabble Family Frame - DIY Gift | NothingButCountry.com

I just love how this frame turned out. I now want to make one for my family!! I made this for  a sweet friend for her birthday. I did blurr out parts of photos for her privacy but I was able to still share with everyone how to make this still 🙂 This frame I…

Patriotic Flag Pallet – Pinterest Project Success

Patriotic Flag Pallet - Pinterest Project Success | NothingButCountry.com

I saw this Flag made out of a pallet on Pinterest. I loved it. It never went to a tutorial. Was a photo only. So I decided to try and make one myself. It seemed easy enough 🙂 I do know from others making them some of their paints didn’t work as well as I…

Basket of Sunshine – Graduation Gift

Basket of Sunshine - Graduation Gift | NothingButCountry.com

Keeping with my past posts – I made another “Basket of Sunshine” However this one is for a HS Graduate. Filled it with some different sunshine yellow items that a HS graduate may enjoy. School Colors are Red & Silver ….. Found silver shreds with a red basket. Created a tag for the graduate with…

Eagle Scout Court of Honor Cupcakes

Eagle Court of Honor Cupcakes | NothingButCountry.com

I am so excited because as of tonight my son not only is a 2014-2015 High School Freshman- tonight was his board of reviews and he is now a LIFE scout. He gets to start on his Eagle Project. He has to decide what project he would like to work on and how to execute…

Cedar Lemonade Stand

Cedar Lemonade Stand | NothingButCountry.com

You can see I have a slight obsession with lemonade stands. 🙂  As I just posted here my Pallet Lemonade Stand. My husband built me yet another one 🙂  This one made out of cedar. It comes apart in 4 pieces. The bottom, the 2 side bars and the roof/top. That way I can take…

Pallet Lemonade Stand

Pallet Lemonade Stand | NothingButCountry.com

This post was meant to be done 2 years ago. I realized I never blogged about my wonderful Pallet Lemonade stand my son and husband built for me for Mother’s day 2012!! Better late than never right? I have used this stand for 2 years and even in 2013 (photo above) For our cub scout…

Easy Candy Filled Brownie Bites

Easy Candy Filled Brownie Bites | NothingButCountry.com

Memorial day came and I wanted to make something different. I had some candies I needed to use up and decided to see if I could make brownie bites with candies in them. They turned out awesome! So yummy! At our family BBQ they were very well received! I will definitely be making these again!…

Basket of sunshine – End of the year teacher gift – printable tag

Basket of sunshine - End of the year teacher gift - printable tag | NothingButCountry.com

Wanted to make something cute for my daughter’s teacher t show her how much we appreciate her.  I have seen all types of “box of sunshines” all over pinterest. I decided to hit up the dollar tree and see what I could come up with. Also I had quite a few things in my own…

Your Future Looks Bright! Graduation Gift | Free Printable Tag

Your Future Looks Bright! Graduation Gift | Free Printable Tag | NothingButCountry.com

I have used these cute jars before I got from Hobby Lobby for teachers.  (See teacher post here) But thought it would be just as cute to use for graduates. School colors are Orange and Black and purchased Reese Pieces candies and pulled all the yellow ones out. My kids were just as happy to…

Congratulations Graduate! Cupcakes

Congratulations Graduate! Cupcakes | NothingButCountry.com

Three years ago I posted how to make these cute caps for the tops of your cupcakes. I haven’t made them since and created them again this year for some awesome Class of 2014 graduates!! It was so fun watching them eat the caps. They were so easy to make! Only hard part is keeping…

Relief Society Night Meeting – When life hands you lemons make lemonade

I have since been released as Pack Committee Chair at my church with Cub Scouts. My new calling/job is Relief Society Night Meeting Coordinator. This was my 1st month and it was alot of fun! This is what our invites looked like that we passed out. I cut out the shape on my silhouette machine…

Teacher Appreciation Week – Teaching is a work of Heart!

I love these apple fruit food savers. I found them some time back in the dollar section of Target. They had all sorts of fruit shapes however I picked up about 10 apple shaped ones to use for teachers. I am glad. This is my 2nd time using them and was able to pull two…

I am doing FLIPS – Teacher Appreciation Gift – Chocolate Pretzels

Simple , quick and yummy gift to let that special teacher know you are thinking of them and appreciate them. I found a nice size bag of Chocolate pretzels at the Dollar Tree. Created a cute tag which I printed and then cut out on my silhouette machine. Tied it on and WA-LA!! Cute gift!!…

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK 2014

You don’t want to miss ALL our past Teacher Appreciation Week posts!  Pages worth !  CLICK HERE TO SEE THEM ALL! Teacher Appreciation Week is My 5th- May 9th here in my neck of the woods. I am already gearing up for it. Some of what I am doing this year is what I have…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us »