Blog Land

I've been blogged about on a few sites recently and thought you might want to check out these creative ladies. Some of them own their own cute Etsy shops too. If you know of any other posts, leave me a comment:)

Memory Bean Designs

Design A-Peele

 

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New family post

Some rambling by myself and cute pics of my little bug are up on my private blog. Stay warm! And if you are already warm, I'm jealous. Melt snow! Melt!

Vanilla skies

This lovely Treasury featuring my ivory & turquoise Amy clip is making me kind of like the 2+ feet of snow outside of my window...kind of:) So wintery!

"Orange" you glad you stopped by...

One of my favorite color combinations is the inspiration for this spunky treasury. Be sure to stop by here to explore all the shops being featured and the procurer of the Treasury. 

Chocolate Fudge

Something for you to drool over here.

Houndstooth Fairy

My "Cookies & Cream" headband is being featured in a treasury right now. Check it out here.

Birthday Bash

These last two months have flown by! As I started prepping pics to post, I couldn't believe that it is already almost Valentine's Day. Oh well, better late than never. So here are my inspirations from this post translated into reality. Even with my husband being out of town the night before, I felt like things came together nicely without a lot of stress (which is kind of a big deal to me).

Dessert table goods

• light & dark pink M&M's (totally lucked out here because they were sold in the normal grocery store for breast cancer awareness)
• Hershey Bliss chocolates with purple wrappers
• Smores pops (I don't remember where I saw this idea but there are tons of posts about them)
• purple wrapped Hershey "Kisses from Madi"
• Mini chocolate cupcakes with pink non-pariels
• Large chocolate cupcakes with bunny chocolates (I made the chocolates myself and only a handful turned out, and the frosting was hard to tint the color I wanted. I needed Abby and Jamie something fierce that morning.)

Food...the pics of the food were lost when my hard drive crashed:( I kept it pretty simple anyway.

• Black forest ham & swiss sandwiches
• Field greens with vinegarette
• White grape juice with owl stir sticks (no particular reason for this choice other than if it spilled it would be easy to clean up)

Decorations

• tissue paper puffs....thank you Martha Stewart
• table backdrop Michael Miller Pet Deer Fabric
• favor bags and a sign for the entryway created using Cocoa Studio Forest Friends clipart
• birthday banner with epoxy chipboard from the "Friendly Forest" line by Colorbok
• butterfly mobile (fishing wire and cut-outs...super easy!)  

Activities

• The kids all made paper antler "party hats" by tracing their hands and cutting them out. I cut out the headband portion and glued the chipboard letters from the Friendly Forest collection onto them the night before. I figured with eight kids (the majority under four) and their parents, one small activity for the whole group would be plenty.
• The cake smashing...she was hesitant, confused, and then ultimately crazy excited about the whole thing.

*Special thanks to Libby Jones for the pics. MORE PHOTOS on my private blog.