Bailey's 4th Birthday...

Forgive I haven't posted in a long time... but I'm gonna try this blog thing again.

Bailey has turned 4. For her birthday we did a Disneyland theme. The Disneyland game just came out for Xbox and we wanted to theme her party around that. Since the party was gonna be family we needed a game that would keep adults entertained and that certainly did. Here are a few of my decorating ideas that I came up with.

This was my front door. I wrapped it with garland (Christmas wasn't too far away) and did the multi colored Christmas lights around as well. I printed misc. Disney characters off my computer and punched them with a circle punch and back them on colored paper punched with a scallop punch. Then all I did was taped a paper clip to the back and clipped them on the garland branched. The princesses were window clings for Dollar Tree. In the door I put a Mr. Potato Head with a bunch of Disney parts on him and Bailey's Disneyland hat. Turned out so cute!!

The wreath I did the same thing with the garland, also with multi colored battery operated lights and some curling ribbon tied in there was well.

This was the cake table. I framed vintage Disneyland ride pictures that I printed from my computer. I had those all over the house. I used a lot of Bailey's stuffed Disney characters as decor too. The bouquets were just more Disney characters I printed of the computer on a bamboo stick stuck in a soup can with floral foam in it. I just wrapped the can with scrapbook paper and stuffed some crinkle paper in.

My cupcakes were just a regular Oreo and two mini Oreos to make the Mickey heads on top.

This is the dinner table. Kept the food pretty simple. Popcorn, corn dogs, churros, M&Ms, soft pretzels, and nacho cheese. It's all stuff from the freezer section of the grocery store. Easy Peesey!

These were my steamers for in between my lights. Just a regular steamer, glued mickey faced on both side going down. Mickey faces were just made from two different size circle punches, punched from red scrapbook paper. I tied and glued a black bow on one to make it look like Minnie Mouse. I also taped some colored curling ribbon in my lights coming down for more color. So easy, and it was stuff I already had laying around the house.

Disneyland or Bust in February 2012!

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...Ni Hao Kai Lan Party continues...

... so there's more...






Our thank you goody bags were chinese take out boxes filled with Kai Lan ping pong paddle, jump robe, a chinese finger trap, a chinese yo yo, and some asian candy. The kids loved it.



For the cake I made cupcakes and put them on my infamous cupcake stand. That sucker somes out for every birthday and holiday. The picks were just images from Google back with a blue cardstock punched with scallop edges. They were than glued to toothpicks with ribbon tied in bows around it. The 3 candle came from the Dollar Tree, love that place!






We than played "Pin The Glasses On Ye Ye" The game is a free printable at NickJr.com That game actually turned out to be really fun, even some adults played... it's not so easy when you get spun around 3 times!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAILEY!

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Bailey's Ni Hao Kai Lan Party!

So my little girl celebrated her third birthday asian style with a Ni Hao Kai Lan birthday party. I made a lot of the decorations and decor for her party that I would like to share...






First were the center pieces. They are just images fron Google that I copied and printed on white cardstock of Kai Lan and her friends. I backed them on red cardstock and glued them to bamoo screwers. I tied bows around the screwers and stock them in a soup can. The soup can I wrapped with the cutest asain paper I found and my scrapbook store. I think they turned out super cute and only cost me about a dollar to make.





...and what's chinese food without chopsticks. I got red ones from my local asian market for about a dollar for 6 pairs. I cut some retangles out of my scrapbook paper, added some slits, and pulled the chopsticks through. I added the three just from a scallop punch and a circle punch.





... next are these yummy fortune cookies and made. I bought the cookies and the asian market too. I dipped them in melting chocolate and added some cute sprinkles. Totally easy and totally cute!!

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My Thanksgiving Signs...

Thanks to www.craftlyeverafter.com I have some really super cute Thanksgiving signs for my kitchen. Just go to her site and print them off. I than purchased some frames from the Dollar Tree... they had an ugly gold trim so I spray painted them black. Added the pics, hung, and there you have it.





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My educational blocks...

So I wanted to make something fun but educational for my soon to be three year old daughter. She knows all the sounds of letters but I wanted her to start working on putting the sounds together to make words so I made her these blocks.

I decoupages all the side except for one with cute scrapbook paper. The blank side I spray painted with chalkboard paint. I did this with three blocks but you could make four or five blocks to make more difficult words.

So since the one side is chalkboard I just write letters in and make three letter words for her to sound out and put together. She's getting it little by little, but it definitely helps.



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Pottery Barn Wanna Be...

So like many others, I go through the Pottery Barn catalog with a dream of someday having enough money to own something from that book. But until than I am a "Pottery Barn Wanna Be". So I've just copied the ideas and made them my own. I loved their mercury glass pumpkins so I went out to on a mission to copy them. I got some ceramic pumpkins from Dollar Tree. I spray painted them white (base coat) and than silver. I used the cheap cans of spray paint at Wal-mart. And now I have some cute decorations for the middle of my kitchen island that I've had up since the begining of October and can keep them up till Thanksgiving. Totally cute!





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Halloween Spiders...

I know a little late on my post and a long time since I've post but something is better than nothing right?

So I had a Halloween party at my house and I wanted a quick decor for the kitchen island. So I got my cricut out of course.

I had cut out 6 purple spiders and 6 black spiders, all at 3 inches from the Doodle Charm cartridge. I glued some googly eyes (something every crafter should have in their craft drawers) and hung them from my pendant lighting with fishing line. I just taped the line to the inside of the light. I even taped some to the lamp itself for a different look, It turned out so cute. I was so proud of myself.






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