next project
ok, found my next project: i’m going to make a peepee teepee. yup, a peepee teepee.
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sorry, i get carried a away sometimes…that is just fun to say! (or to copy and paste =)
anyways, I gave these as a baby shower gift to some friends a while back, and although they were really cute, they were tiny! My friends said they were hard to use because they were so small…so I’m going to make a larger version.
Keep tuned to find out how it goes, and i’m sure a simple tutorial to go with it!
Better late than never!
A blogging friend introduced me to “Sweet Shot Tuesdays” from the “My3Boybarians” blog. So I thought I would join in the fun! It is great to see other photography blogs and get inspired by other people’s enthusiasm and work.
So even though it is wednesday, I am going to put up my contribution to Sweet Shot Tuesdays =)
This picture is one I took yesterday for a photoshoot for a friend. She just had the cutest baby, and I just got some fun studio lighting, so I was able to do some pix for her even though it was cold outside!‘
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Quick and easy DIY cupcake toppers
Although I like to make cupcake toppers from scratch, I often find that I don’t have enough time for all of that.
So, out of “necessity” I discovered a quick and EASY way to make cupcake toppers:
with store bought STICKERS!
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The great thing you can find stickers for almost any occasion to fit your party or desire =) But you do want to make sure that the stickers are symmetric shapes. So that when you stick them to each other, back to back, they will match.
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Then all you do is take 1 sticker, put a toothpick in the middle, and then put another sticker on top. Press firmly so that the toothpick is sandwhiched well between them, and you are done!
For these toppers, I was in a bind, so I used some scrapbooking stickers I had.
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And for these halloween toppers, I used stickers from a $1 book of halloween stickers that I got for my daughter at Target. It was awesome!
Sure you can find cuter stickers, but this was a last minute addition to the banana muffins we took to a friend’s house for dinner. And the kids loved them!
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So have fun sprucing up your cupcakes and muffins!
Friday Freebie: Thank You stickers!
It has been a while since I’ve done a friday freebie…sorry!
Now that I am not working for a few weeks, I have a little bit more time on my hands (and room in my brain!).
So today I thought I’d share a Thank You sticker that you can print and use over and over again.
Click on the image below to download a printable PDF of the sticker.
Then print it on label paper, cut or punch, and you are ready to go!
You can also print it on card stock to make hang tags.
Enjoy!
(and as always, please remember that this file is for personal use only)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Hidden
This little tuft of grass was “hidden” in my yard behind some trees and leaves amidst moss. It is kind of an abstract pic, but makes me feel like the grass is so large that you could actually get lost in it!
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check some out other great entries from this week’s photo challenge here!
Halloween Surgeon’s Caps!
Stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make a surgeon’s cap, but thought I’d share some cute halloween ones that I made for L, before we get too far past halloween!
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I think they came out pretty fun!
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Too bad he can’t wear them for much longer!
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Bats & Ghosts!
I forgot to put this up earlier – R and I made some other decorations for the house – bats and ghosts!
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Like the pumpkins we made, we used the googly eyes…
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And to draw on the black construction paper, we used chalk pens!
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R drew the eye lashes on these one. It was apparently a must…
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I love all the faces she came up with!
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my little robot
In the 5 minutes before we had to leave the house to go trick or treating today, I managed to bribe (with fruit bunnies) R into letting me take some pictures of her in my new studio set up (my bday gift!). I have yet to set up the “two” light scheme, to fill in the shadows, but I like the effect of the one light as well.
Here is what I was able to get, and I’m falling in love. I think I might make bribing R to let me take pictures of her a daily activity… =)
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Halloween Celebrations!
We had a halloween party this weekend – and despite the 3 inches of SNOW that came down, we had lots of fun! We did not plan for L having to spend 2-3 hours shoveling and salting the driveway…so we were behind a little bit on the prep, but it worked out.
Thought I’d share some of the fun!
I love these little ghosts we got – they were from Target, you just fill them with leaves and hang them up! Unfortunately, I don’t think you could really see them with the snow =)
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Various other cute decorations…Radha had fun putting those in the ground!
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Carving the pumpkins was of course fun times. Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures of them before they started to wither…this first one is supposed to be an owl sitting on a tree branch…but the owl’s head kind of shrunk away!
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Had banners here and there. This one is from Pottery Barn (75% off!), and had another really cute felt one from Target that I liked too =)
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Had to have some healthy snacks for the kids: pretzels, fruit snacks and animal crackers. These are the ones that were in arms reach of the kiddos.
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I found a lot of really cute and free printables online. From these water bottles…
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To these really cute treat boxes. I didn’t think I would print all these out and make them, but it ended up being not that bad. I used my paper cutter to cut them out, and just made them squares except one tab on the side. The treats were super fun inside!
There was a rubber ball that actually looked like a sports ball (basket ball, baseball or soccer ball), spider rings, halloween themed silly bands, halloween tattoos, lots of halloween erasers and some stickers. R has been having a lot of fun with the left overs!
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And now for the dessert table. This was perhaps my favorite part of the prep! I found so many cool dessert ideas online and couldn’t wait to make them!
These are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with skeleton running men on them!
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This was my first try at them…didn’t work out so well. Skeletons are definitely better in white…and with mushroom heads!
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Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with ghosts on them. These took some trial and error, fooling around with different options for putting on the icing, till I finally bit the bullet and did it the old fashioned way with an icing bag and tip. Phew! The pros use those for a reason!
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I think these were my favorite looking desserts! Mummy cupcakes =)
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The yield was awesome for very little work!
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These were supposed to be “brain” cupcakes. I unfortunately did not have the right tip for these, I needed a large, plain hole. but instead I had to use a regular zip lock bag and cut of the tip. So it was kind of pointy. Oh well…
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Another set of printables (actually, same set as the treat boxes) – although I printed and cut each label, I made L wrap them all!
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I had a couple of fun activities planned for the kiddos also.
The first one was “Make Your Own Mummy Pop!”
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I put out a bowl marshmellows, a small bowl of corn syrup with Q-tups, jumbo sized confetti, popsicle sticks, and food coloring pens.
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The kids really loved these…although some of them had more fun eating them than anything else!
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The second activity was decorating foam pumpkins. I bought a stack of the pumpkins and two different packs of stickers from Ikea.
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R couldn’t wait until the party started to make hers!
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L actually did something really creative (don’t have pix of this) – he blew up orange and black balloons, then took different eye face stickers and made faces out of the orange balloons. There was SOOO cute and funny! We tried to plan ahead by doing this the night before…and unfortunately, they had all deflated by the next morning! Who knew that latex balloons don’t last long!
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Well, all in all it was fun and I’m glad we got to celebrate despite the snow!
My Upcoming Halloween Party!
We are having a Halloween Party on Saturday – I can’t wait!
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I have found a lot of great ideas of things to make and to decorate online and have been having tons of fun getting it all together!
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I’m working this week, so haven’t had time to put more up, but I figured I could put up a few sneak peeks at the festivities!
Yay!
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