A Heart Surprise

Hop on over to I am Baker for a great tutorial on an adorable heart cake! Just in time for the holiday!

You can bet we'll be trying that over here!

Gather Your Family for Dinner

Enjoy this warm table we created for the holidays that can be used for any special occasion, 

and so easy to replicate!

{Featured Party} Loving A Valentine Party!

We are so excited to share this party with you! While admiring all of the fantastic parties in blog land, I came across this Valentine's Day Party created by Maureen and Adria from Anders Ruff Custom Designs. 

 

Jennifer and Sonny over at the Hostess with the Mostess, have already written up a great feature of the party. Head on over to their site to see the full party spread- it's adorable and can't be missed! Full of GREAT party inspiration for any party you have coming up.  Enjoy!

{Book Review} Funky Lunch

Wow! We really took some unexpected time off for the holidays, but now we're back and ready to kick off a great new year! Just in time for the new year, as kids are going back to school after their holiday breaks,  comes a book review we are so excited about! No, we're not getting paid for this, and we weren't contacted by the company to review the product, we bought it over the holidays to jazz up our own lunches and wanted to share it with you!

If you are looking for a fun to spruce up your kids lunch- this is your answer. I just ordered Funky Lunch, Happy Foods for Happy Children by Mark Northeast.

The author takes simple sandwiches and turns them into monkeys, pigs, rockets, ice cream cones, and much much more.

The only tools you need happen to be things you already have in your kitchen such as a sharp knife, vegetable peeler, apple corer, and circle cutters (which included a multitude of things in your kitchen drawer such as tips for cake decorating, glasses, a shot glass). How easy is that?

Most recipes include bread and a sandwich filling of your choice.

You decorate with carrots, cucumbers, olives, tomatoes, grapes and the list goes on depending on the recipe. My favorite sandwich is the giraffe and I can't wait to try it out. Please share your own sandwich pics with us, we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Our Kick- Off Wall-E Party!

We are so excited to share this party with you! We put on a Wall-E themed party for a five year old boy, and had a great time doing it! Who would have thought that robots and the little leaf that could would be so much fun! 

Favors - the kids got to plant their own seed to take home with them, in their own Wall-E favor bag.

Vanilla cupcakes topped with their own little green leaf, and adorable cupcake toppers

 

The birthday boys' mom even brought out her own Security-Bot costume and filled up Wall-E's cooler!

Wall-E was fascinated by cd's -so they became the focus of our banner. Sorry for the picture quality - turns out it's really hard to get a decent picture while looking out the window at any angle!

Love the paper striped straws!

I'm am linking this party up on these fantastic blogs!

*Feature* Holiday Baking is now Complete!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, jingle all the way. Oh, the holidays make me giddy! They are my big excuse to bake whenever I want, and make all those delightful little goodies that I've been yearning for all year. Every year I search for a new cookie, truffle, candy, treat or dessert to add to my holiday baking. Just to change things up a little bit, bring smiles to my family and friends. This year I've already scoured the holiday baking magazines, perused my holiday cookbooks and had not been inspired. Until now.
  When I saw this post from One Charming Party, I immediately knew this was my fun new treat that I will be bringing to parties, and the family gatherings this year. It is E.A.S.Y. and looks delicious! I cannot wait to share it with family this year.
Enjoy!

Feature Friday - DIY Paper Ornaments

After our whirlwind trip to visit family for Thanksgiving, I promptly returned home and grabbed my Christmas boxes out of our storage unit to start decorating! We have moved many times over the past few years, and have not spent a single Christmas in our own house. Which meant that I stopped opening our Christmas bins about 5 years ago! I have been adding little things to them over the years, but never took anything out! Imagine my amazement and joy as I opened up each box- ornaments, nutcrackers, candles, snowmen - Christmas joy came early for me this year. The added bonus is that my daughter is now 3, and she had as much fun as I did digging through all the boxes, pulling out little Christmas treasures.

As I opened up the second box of goodies, I let out a little shout of glee when I found these - adorable, handmade, paper ornaments. They were made by my dear friend, Bekah, as a gift for me a few years ago. This is the first year I get to hang them up and show them off, and I can't wait to share them with you! I'm so inspired by them, I hope to make a couple of my own this year.

LOVE these gold ornaments!

And while I love the classic look of the gold ornament, I think the pink and green take on the darling little hanging ball is a perfect twist for the holidays! 

What I can't do is give you a step by step, picture tutorial on how to make your own little paper ornament, but I can send you over to Inkspirations for a GREAT tutorial.

Here's a few more pics, just for fun!

I'm featuring this project on :

Now you get to share your holiday projects for this season!

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