Thursday, November 17, 2011

NEW Christmas Designs!

So I have been having fun getting all kinds of Christmas order out the door, and having fun making new yummy Christmas designs! I have them all available in my shop.. but here are some fun pictures I took!! I would have added more of the m&m bags to the photo (but I waited to long to photograph them... and I ate all the m&ms.. I only had enough left to fill one bag.. oops..not good) My new favorite design is my LARGE hang tags... they are 2" high and 7" long....they will be so cute to add onto large gifts and just something a little extra fun.. to let the kids know that.. Santa Claus is watching them! ( I will have to hide these from my son.. since I will use these for him on Christmas! I hope you all are having a great week!!

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Jack's Woodland Lodge Birthday

This past weekend we celebrated my son's 9th birthday!(where is the time going?) We decided we were going to go with a Forest/Lodge kind of theme... I really just wanted something fun and outdoorsy. So we rented out a beautiful lodge in the woods and thankfully we had decent weather considering they were calling for thunderstorms all weekend! I designed the invitations, stickers, tags, banner and such in beautiful tones such as brown ,teal, orange and greens(all the items are available in my etsy shop). Lori, from "Lori's Place Gourmet Delights".. made the cookies to match my invitations... She made Deer, Pine trees, leaves, pine cones, acorns... She is just so amazing talented! Below are some pictures from the party... it was so much fun and just a great theme to play with!

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I bought these cardboard letters and spray painted them with the "faux stone" spray paint in a chocolate color... and then glued moss in different spots on the letters.I surrounded the letters with more moss and some river stones and pine cones..It was my son's favorite thing ( besides Lori's cookies)


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I made these cookie jars for all the moms that came to the party ( inspired by the awesome Cowboy Cookie Jars from Bakerella)


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Awesome Cookies from Lori's Place Gourmet Delights


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Chocolate River Rocks.. so Yummy!


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we had a craft table set up for the kids to paint birdhouses and also do some rock painting.. they had so much fun!


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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Pizzelle Recipe

I have had some requests for the recipe I use to make pizzelles ( as seen in my Lemondade stand photos).. Here is the recipe... I typically do a vanilla or almond Pizzelle, rather than an anise pizzelle...
If you try them.. let me know how they turn out for you! Enjoy!

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Jack's Lemonade Stand

My son Jack has been wanting to have a lemonade stand for the past few weeks now... so I designed a fun printables collection for him .... and he finally got to have his lemonade stand set up yesterday ( he wants to save up money to go to Chicago for "Godzilla Fest")...of course you want to do something like this on a budget.. so I was very careful on the money I spent to put this together...and in the end, I created a pretty fun lemonade stand on a small budget! I used dishes I already had in my kitchen and a picture frame from my living room for the table print...I bought the yellow gingham fabric for $4.00 at JoAnne Fabrics and I bought the plain white school box at my local craft store for $1.00 (which I decorated with my printable stickers) and I bought almost everything else at the Dollar store (I love the dollar store)... the treat baskets, the polka dot tray, napkins, straws, cups, clothes pins and the styrafoam for the lollipop stand were all bought at the dollar store. You can check out the pictures below and the Lemonade Stand Printables Collection is now available in my etsy shop....My son had so much fun doing it and also made some spending money for his trip!

DIY Lemonade Stand Printables Collection includes files of the following:

*8x10 Table print
*price stickers (25 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents)...you will need a 1" round paper punch
*vertical "sweets" stickers
*2.5" round stickers ( as shown on cups)..you will need a 2.5" round paper punch
*food tags/ labels
*lemon garland...need a 2.5" paper punch... small hole punch.. and ribbon or twine to string them on!
*Iron- on T shirt / Apron
*money box labels
*5" lemon circles to make lollipop stand
*Banner- Lemonade Stand

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Included in the collection is an iron-on design.. so cute to add on a t-shirt or apron... the design is already flipped.. you just have to print it out on "t-shirt transfer paper"

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for the lemon lollipop stand.. I purchased the 5" round styrafoam from the dollar store ( you actually get 2 of them in a pck for 1 dollar) you can cut out the printable lemon design from my collection.... punch small holes in the lemon cutout using a 1/8" hole punch....they are the perfect size for small lollipops or dum dums.... just glue the cutout on the styrafoam and trim the edge with ribbon
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I attached the food tags to the baskets using clothes pins from the dollar store.. I just used 5/8" glitter ribbon and glued it to the clothes pin.. sooo easy and they come out really cute!

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Customer Party- Bling Boutique

Another great party from an amazingly fun mom, Natasha! She threw her daughter "Jadah" a really fun "Bling Boutique" birthday party using my Printables Collection! From the awesome jewelry, makeup and accessories table to the yummy chocolate covered oreos and fashion cookies..she tops the party off with an amazing runway fashion show.. how cool is that? these girls must have had the greatest time, what else could a girl ask for? Thanks Natasha for sharing your party with us!

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