{My Parties} Hailey's Communion Dessert Buffet!

In honor of Hailey's Holy Communion, we created a dessert buffet for her celebration! Check out the pics below!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

I saw this on Confessions of a Sugarbelle a few days ago and fell in love! We are all bringing in Mexican food tomorrow for a potluck and I knew I had to make them!

Here they are:

(Sorry about the pic... Cell phone took it!)

Enjoy your day!

{My Parties} Caileigh's 2nd Birthday!

The weather did not cooperate, so we had to move everything inside. I had visions of a perfectly sunny spring day and everything set up under the trees in my yard. However, I am still pleased with how it worked out! The kids all had a dance party inside and had an inside egg hunt. I am so excited to see the professional pictures by Kathleen Hertel Photography. She even had a Photobooth for the kids!

These wonderful cookie toppers for the cupcakes were made  by O'licious Cakes. They were delicious and beautiful. I decorated the cupcakes with green icing to make it look like grass and displayed them on my beloved Pottery Barn stand!

Also on the stand where my homemade bunny ear cupcakes...I found the mold here: The Chocolate Belles

The entire dessert buffet...

Drinks, anyone?

Loving the mason jars with the paper straws! I found the yellow & white paper straws on Etsy at the ThePartyFairy ... The lids from the mason jars were purchased from an on-line candle making site

For brunch we served cereal, pancakes, bacon and sausage!

Centerpieces: I painted unfinished frames from the craftstore and put in the picture of Caileigh in her yellow & white raincoat. I made the centerpieces after seeing them all over blogland! The gerber daisies were found on clearance at Michaels. 

Favors: I saw a lot of "bunny noses" around and thought they were adorable. I found a case of mini-masons at Michaels on clearance and filled them with pastel skittles. 

Any the birthday girl- flying away!

Linking up to:

Totally saving this idea for next year!

I've been super busy working on Caileigh's birthday party for next weekend. We are spending a few days at the beach because this is our spring break! I am so happy to be here- the beach is a place of true happiness for me... Although I am saving my party posting for next weekend, check out this adorable party Crossing the Bugger-Dixon Line. There are great pics on her blog!

This is a great party for anyone (include myself!) who has an April birthday- which always comes along with some crazy weather! Come to think of it, Caileigh is so obsessed with her rain boots, this would have been perfect for her... along with her favorite song, which you can check out below!

Winner and some great news!

Sorry about the delay! Blogger isn't working well for me tonight! UGH!

Anyway, the winner is post # 13, Kelly :)

Even though Kelly won the hat, LeftyLoops and Create, by Carrie want everyone to walk away a winner! So, you can use this discount code CBC15 in the LeftyLoops Etsy Store! This code will be valid until April 4 at 9 AM. If you see a hat that you totally MUST have, but the listing is sold out, just email leftyloops@gmail.com and it will be relisted! Just think of how cute those Easter baskets will be with a cute hat poking out of it!!

Thanks again and stay tuned for more AWESOME giveaways!

One last note, I'd love for you to vote for me in the Circle of Mom's Top 25 Party Planning Moms. There is no log in required! Just click here to vote: Circle of Moms

Giveaway...{Lefty Loops}

Every September, there is a local event called "Montgomery Day". The day kicks off with an 8k run and hosts a ton of vendors- both food and crafts! I stumbled across a fabulous vendor called Lefty Loops . This lovely lady was able to master left-handed crocheting, which immediately made me super jealous because I have battled my left-handedness to learn to crochet for years! Anyway, I got this hat for Caileigh:

I love the colors!

And then I got this one for my niece:

(Not going to lie, I also got this one for Caileigh and one for her little friend!)

Then, I got this for a baby shower gift:

(LOVE this one!)

So, Leftloops is now offering my readers a chance to WIN an adorable Easter hat.. Check 'em out!

There are 4 ways to win! **Please note, the comments must be left on THIS blog to count as an entry**

1) Become a follower of this blog and leave me a comment that you are! If you already are, let me know via comment!

2) "Like" Create, by Carrie on Facebook! and leave a comment on this blog letting me know you did. If you already like it, just let me know on this blog

3) "Like" Leftyloops on Facebook and leave a comment on this blog letting me know you did. If you already like it, just let me know on this blog 

4) Check out the Leftyloops Store on Etsy and leave me a comment on this blog letting me know what you LOVE 

The giveaway will end on April 1, 2011 at 5 PM. 

Expression Vinyl

I have a love affair with my Cricut. When I first got it, I look for any reason to turn it on to whip up some pretty cardstock creations. And they I found Expression Vinyl. The vinyl comes in various forms (iron-on, permanent, removable, and printable!!) and it super easy to use!

Use the link above to check out all they have to offer!!

Party Shirt!

Using the iron-on vinyl from Expression Vinyl and my Cricut, I made Caileigh this shirt for her second birthday! I got the shirt for $1 at Wal-mart and the vinyl was pretty inexpensive (2.49 per color- and I have a ton left over). Sure beats the super-expensive shirts that I saw on Chasing Fireflies! If I thought she would wear it more than once, I might be tempted to buy the CF shirt, but Easter is only once a year!

This was $38 (yes, thirty-eight!!) on Chasing Fireflies:

My Shirt:

Total Cost:

Shirt- $1.00 (if it's hot out, I plan on cutting the sleeves)

Vinyl- $4.98 total

Ribbon- Free ( I had it in my stash)

GRAND TOTAL: $5.98

Linking up at : 

TaterTots & Jello

 

{My Parties} Something blue... Brooke's Bridal Shower!

The invites

(The stamps & the cardstock are all Stampin' Up)

The favors...Once again, SU stamps & cardstock. The tags are from Staples. Seed paper was ordered from Amazon and cut with a punch from SU! The tag explains how to plant the seed paper.

Using a photo-board from Michael's ($1 with a coupon!), the gift table was decorated with a sign acknowledging the guest of honor...Burlap and brown ribbon were used to embellish the sign cut with a Cricut!

Allllllll Aboard!

Caitlin is about ready to have their first son, Jacob...and that means SHOWER TIME!  Since the nursery is train-themed, it decided was to go with that for the shower theme too...

Invites were all made with Stampin' Up Cardstock and some manilla tags from Staples.

For the favors, we did mason jars filled with sugar cookie mix.We topped it off with a train cookie cutter...

Found this adorable shelf on Amazon.com. We asked all of the guests to bring their favorite children's book and we piled them onto the shelf.

I made Caitlin a fleece blanket, with trains- of course!! 

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Drawers...

So, I stumbled across many blogs and they were all about organizing... My kitchen cabinets and drawers were A MESS!! So, since we were stuck home with the stomach bug this week, I used the down time for some purging and organizing:
                          Junk Drawer Before (sorry about the bad pic!)

After:

(all containers were from the Dollar Tree)

Large Utensils (Before) 

After 

Pantry Cabinet (I remembered to take the pic after I started...) 

We actually took our lazy susan's out, because stuff kept falling behind. That was tough- It was literally like getting a round peg out of a small square hole. My husband had to saw them in half!

Utensils After (no before, sorry!!)