Tea Party part two

I organized Zoe's party down to the last minute. My house was not big enough to have 7 girls running willy nilly through the halls! When each girl arrived I had her pick out a party hat and "pearl" necklace. I strung the beads together myself with a box of beads I found at Micheal's. I used a 40% off coupon making this a really inexpensive favor for the girls to take home. About $0.80 per girl...or so. I also added a pretty pink satin ribbon to each one. For the party hats I went to the dollar store and bought a package of shiny metallic looking hats and recovered them in the paper I was using for the party. The paper? I bought a pack of scrapbook paper, and once again using a 40% off coupon I got 160 sheets of coordinating paper for around $12. You will be seeing this paper on everything! I also added a crepe paper fringe around the bottom of each girls hat, and for Zoe I added a fancy "6" and pom pom on the top. After the girls had their hat and pearls on I had them sit in front of a giant teacup made of foam board and scrapbook paper and took their picture! I had Steven get the pictures developed within an hour so each girl could take it home at the end of the party! This was his one and only job! The pictures turned out SO great! This was a favorite of the Mom's too ;)

Tea Time part one

My Zoe Bug just turned 6 a little over a week ago. How did I become the Mother of a 6 year old!It baffles my mind every time I think about it! For her 6th birthday we threw a party for her and 6 of her school friends. But not just any party....a tea party! I decided to make it a big girl party and not a princess tea party... I have a huge belief that there is more to life when your little than just pink princess crap. And guess what folks? SHE LOVED IT!

One of the party favors was a tiny vase and flower. The vase? A cleaned out syrup bottle from Cracker Barrel! Then just tied a small tag on with their name to be used as a place card. I did this to stop any argueing about who gets to sit by who. Worked like a charm.

Embroidered Butterfly

I recently taught Zoe how to embroider. She absolutly loved it too. I let her draw a picture and I transferred it for her. She sat for four hours on one of her many snow days and stitched and stitched until her butterfly was all done. We are trying to decide what her pretty buterfly will become... a pillow? an applique? a doll blanket?

Play Ball...in style!

I recently made up a couple of tie shirts for a friend. Her nephews are children of some big baseball fans. I was lucky enough to have just a bit of baseball fabric leftover from Steve's jammie pants I made him last year. I even have just enough left for a shirt for Hayden.

Happy Heart Day!

We celebrated our Valentine's Day yesterday because Steve won't be home till late. So yesterday morning we started the day with a heart shaped pancake breakfast! Heart shaped panckaes are actually very easy to do. Just pour the batter into the pan in a "V" shape...it forms a heart from there. Add a little food coloring and you can even have pink heart shaped pancakes!

And of course this morning for a little special treat I made cinnamon rolls...from a can :) But I did reroll them into a heart. I saw this around blogland somewhere.And finally, Zoe's heart shaped lunch. Did you know about this whole molding hard boiled egg thing! It's pretty cool. I found the idea here!

Valentine Box

I couldn't find a box to buy to make Zoe's Valentine box for school. I didn't have a shoe box we could use either. So, I am standing in the kitchen thinking to myself, "what on earth can we use???hmmmm" And it hit me...the ginormous goldfish cracker box. Sweet! Here's what I did...

Completely open the top and clean out crumbs with something damp...I use a cleaning wipe...

Wrap the box with wrapping paper...Neatly fold the paper on the bottom so that it still sits flat...On the top be sure to carefully fold paper over and tape down...Gently fold box top back together...Staple top back together...Using an exacto knife carefully cut square into paper only and fold down...Next carefully cut into box to form flap...be sure to leave the bottom uncut...Tape paper onto flap...Decorate until your hearts content...Done!

Pebble Puzzles!

I have no idea what this blog says. It was linked to from a blog from another blog. After following several links this is where I ended.

Picture and idea found at Zelnice.

I love this idea. Love love love it! I have plans to make a set...a big set! Plus a bag to put it all in. More ideas for this can be found here and after googling "pebble puzzles" I am thinking this is a fairly fresh idea? Either way.... if you didn't hear the first time... I LOVE it!

p.s. We missed most of that big bad ugly winter weather! And still are having 2 snow days! Seems like we were at the very edge of snowpocalypse! How's your winter treating you today?!