buckets of berries

Just a little something I brought to my visiting teachees this month.
Buckets from the dollar bins at Target. Did my tag on photoshop. They felt very summery to me, loved the colors.







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mother/daughter dinner

Well I'm bummed because I didn't get a lot of fabulous pictures of this event. I was so occupied with everything else it completely slipped my mind until people had started eating. So this is what you get instead.

these were the tables obviously, I did mini poms and wrapped them around the napkin and silverware. Each place had their own bowl of chips and salsa.




Center pieces were the frames I painted from the dollar store and I had a few quotes about mothers and daughters with them as well.



















I had been growing this grass for a month, way longer than needed but it turned out to be super cute.

We had some great desserts, mini cheese caked, mini chocolate cupcakes, & stuffed strawberries.

Dinner was taco salad.

we also had a photo booth that the moms and daughter had their picture taken in and then we printed them out for them to take home in the frames that were on the table.

We also played the newly wed game only with questions for the mom's and daughters to answer.

I had so much fun putting all this together, can't wait to do another party!

centerpiece and favor

I must confess I'm not a big fan of felt. It has always looked kinda cheap to me. BUT I must also confess I LOVE these felt flowers!!!! I'm sorry I can't remember where I originally saw them to give credit but oh my heck! SO cute. I also have to say I love the fabric button maker I invested in to make the centers for these flowers. This is what the girls get to take home from the Mother/Daughter Activity I'm planning. The idea is they take a picture with their mom in a "photo booth" I'll have set up and then print the pictures out there so that they can add them to the frames to take home. I'm also using the empty frames for the center pieces on the tables. I'm loving h0w they're coming along so far!

















The frames I got from the dollar store and primed and spray painted. I found the button maker at Hobby Lobby and used random fabric I had on hand. Felt, well you can find felt almost anywhere, I found mine at Michaels.

prep & gather

I've been out gathering things and finding inspiration. I found these beauties at my local DI. I like the shape of the smaller and the detail on the larger frame and knew these would be perfect.
I'm still on the hunt for at least another two frames but this was a great start.

The colors I'm using are teal, lime, white and brown. I LOVE this frame that I got at Hobby Lobby, (so much so I got it in black as well). I'll be using it on the table in the hall with a Welcome sign in side. The small stand I made from a candlestick and a candle plate from the dollar store, and the large cake stand I found at HomeGoods, LOVE that place!!!

For the centerpieces on the tables I'm growing grass in those white buckets, which I found in the dollar bins at Target. They're coming along great and will be so cute. I'll change out the white ribbon for either brown, teal, or lime. The candlestick is something I have in my bedroom that I found at Real Deals. I think I'll use it one the welcome table with a teal tissue pom on top.

I'm so excited to put this all together but still have LOTS of work to do. I'm gathering tissue to make my poms from and fabric for flowers and small frames for the girls to take but it's been so fun planning.

More to come!!

Picture Perfect in the works

I am SO excited to have some kind of entertaining in the works again. This time it's a Mother/daughter activity for Young Woman's. The plan is for a taco salad bar and chips and salsa for the dinner and then play the Newly Wed game with adapted questions for the mothers and daughters.

I've already thought up the color scheme I want to use and a "theme" to go with it. It's going to be a "Picture Perfect" night. I've had this image in my head since I saw it back in February on Hostess with the Mostess.

I'm going to use frames on the table that I've found at DI and painted white and teal. As well as having one to use in a photo booth that the mom's and their daughters can use to take a picture to take home.

I can't seem to fall asleep at night with ideas running through my mind. I'm so excited to be planning again!!!

I'll post as I develop more ideas. : )

St. Patrick Day treats

This past Valentines Day was a bust, mostly because of the move but also because I just dropped the ball. So I wanted to do a little more this St. Patrick Day for the kids and others. We of course had green milk and green pancakes, but I also made these sweet treats for the kids as well as their teachers and my visiting teachees.

One thing I would have done different would have been to do the clovers on parchment first and then attached them to the cookies instead of drawing them right on the cookie. I had a few wonky ones that I could have done with out.

I'm also bummed because I accidently ereased the picture of the whole treat so all you get to see is the top and the tag and even that isn't very good since it's blurry. Not my finest post ever. But anyway here it is.

Dipped Oreo's with clovers

movie boxes

When we moved we lost a lot of space that we had before. One of the "space" things I miss was our movie closet. Todd had built these shelves that fit all our movies perfectly and now I was clueless as what to do with them. I had them all packed in these orange boxes and this is how they sat on our shelf. I thought about buying baskets or bins for them to go in on the shelves but after looking around and pricing them out it was going to cost more than I wanted to spend.





I found the paper at Michaels on sale for .14 cents a sheet and used two sheets per box. The ribbon I had on hand (both are from Stampin Up). I organized the movies and printed out what I wanted each one to say. I cut those out on my Cuttlebug along with a solid cardstock. I stamped the swirlies on for that little something extra.

I punched holes in the top and tied knots in the ribbon to make handles.

Much happier with this than orange boxes. To bad Todd doesn't like the labels on the front and laughed that I organized them. One of those things he puts up with being married to me. Poor guy. : )

I wish I could I could stager the boxes on the shelf but with a two year old in the house they'd never survive. Over all I think it looks pretty good.

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