I love summer BBQ's!

One of the best things about summer is BBQ's!!  I love getting together with friends and family, I love being outside, I love BBQ'd food, and the list goes on and on.  Totally a win, win, win, win, win situation if you ask me!! Now, what to serve and how to serve it?? KABOBS....for everything!!! Much easier to eat while walking around outside, much less clean up, and super cute ways to display them on your food table!! Check out Martha Stewarts slide show of kabob recipes HERE!!

You can even kabob dessert! These Brownie Fruit kakobs from Betty Crocker look soo delish I'm fighting going to make them right now!!

HERE is a list of tips of displaying your kabobs.
PS...they have kabob sticks at the dollar store;) just fyi. 

Enjoy! :)

Cake it pretty!!!

Want to learn how to make this Fathers day "fake cake" and get some fondant practice?? Check out the tutorial I did on Bird Crafts later today.
PS There is a GREAT give away attached to the post. DONT MISS OUT!

Little Miss Chef Party!

I am SO in love with this super creative party theme by Bee in our Bonnet!  This cooking party is so adorable, and my inner 5 year old is totally jealous.  I love the aprons she made as favors.  Great Idea!!!! Find it HERE!

Sail Boat Party, Matey!!

Last weekend Lawson Beau turned 1!  His party turned out amazing.  I can't take credit for all of it, unfortunately, only some of it.  We had a FANTASTIC time crafting and preparing for this party.  It was so worth it, it was adorable and so fun! Here is some of what we did!!

The smash cake was made out of one of those giant cup cake pans with a fondant sail boat on top.  I did a tutorial on the cup cake stand HERE. The banner was cut out with a cricut and hot glued on to ribbon. She made origami sail boats and put life savers in them for treats for the tables, and also gold fish.

She made a "say ahoy to our little boy" box as a keep sake for everyone to write notes to him and she'll keep it until his graduation day.  there was a fishing net under the food.  Anchors hanging outside. She made him a sailor shirt, and gave sweedish fish as the favors. They had slip and slide and baby pools for kids to play on. The list goes on.  I loved this party I think it was soo cute, Thanks Taylor for letting me be a part of you and LBG's special day!!

White chocolate sprinkle cup cake toppers!!!!!

It's Official.  I'm totally in love with white chocolate, and now I'm totally in love with these.  What a great idea from Little Birdie Secrets, and they look FANTASTIC. Find the tutorial HERE~

Well isn't this cute as a button!!

I'm totally in love with this "cute as a button" baby shower done by Brandy from Home Sweet Home. Check out the chocolate button favors tutorial found HERE! SOO CUTE!!

Marshmellow cream filled cup cakes.

I love how simple and obvious this idea is.  Check out Stephanies Sweet Creations for a short explanation on how to fill cup cakes.  You could fill them with anything.  SO CUTE!  Check out the rest of her blog for other adorable cakes and cup cakes. Find it HERE.

Ahoy there cup cakes!!

So I helped my friend make a cup cake tower tonight for her sail boats birthday party coming up this weekend. I LOVE the way it turned out and i have to admit that Im pretty proud of myself for coming up with it.  "toot toot" (thats me tooting my own horn).  Anyways here is how we did it.....

First we cut four strips of card board. 2 shorter than the others.  And taped them together at the ends with duct tape.

Then we traced the top and duct taped that on.

 

(ps please excuse my shirt my sunburn on my shoulder was bleeding.)

We cut up red and blue bandanas and used spray adhesive to glue them to a poster board we had cut out like sails. We laid the squares slightly too close together so we could cut the excess into fringe to give it a patched look.

I covered the boxes with that brown post office wrapping paper (that I CAN NOT remember what it's called right now) which was kinda difficult because of the shape but turned out ok.

Then I poked a hole in the top of the top box and stabbed a bamboo stick through (that we broke off of a butterfly net from the dollar store) duct taped the bottom, and hot glued the top.

Then I used the Cricut to cut out Initials and a 1 and hot glued them on, on top of a white ribbon.

To put the sail on we hot glued the white ribbon between the sails, then behind that hot glued some card board so the sails would stay the right distance apart, and hot glued that on to the stick.  Then we tied some white ribbon into a hole we hole punched to make it look like it was tied on. 

We had to hot glue another white ribbon from the back of the stick to the back of the top boat so that the sail would stand up straight since it was heavier on one side.  And TADA! I LOVE IT.  I can't wait for the party saturday its going to be adorable.  YAY

Seriously Genious!

I'm dying over how cute this is!! What a great idea.  It is, after all, all about the presentation!  Check out the tutorial HERE by The Decorated Cookie.  I dont drink tea, but how fun would this be for Cookies and Milk, or Hot Chocolate.  Yay.  Actually I found a really cute Cookie first birthday party not long ago that this would go GREAT with. You can find that HERE. Wouldn't a cute dollar store coffee mug with a rim full of these cookies make an amazing party favor for this party?? SO IN LOVE!

Happy Mothers Day!!

My girls on mothers day!

So, I have decided I have a problem.  My problem is that I plan and plan all this cute stuff to do, and never plan enough TIME to do it in.  So moms mothers day lunch didn't quite go as planned.  Plus I forgot I was working in my mothers house again, which is the most unequiped place in the world.  For ANYTHING.  Food and craft wise.  Anyways so for lunch ma wanted Stuffed Shells and Pepper Salad.  I also made these bacon wrap things, which are AMAZINGLY delish.  (let me know if you want any of the recipes)  I made a dirt cake for dessert.  I wanted to do kinda a garden out door theme since my mom loves being outside and gardening and hates that she cant do that this year.  Well. like i said i never plan enough to actually DO any of the crafty things (Atleast the food was really good!) I wanted to make the flowers from the Garden baby shower I found (HERE) and do some decorative straw thingys, and atleast do like a cute gardeny table cloth with some butterflys and I thought about trying one of the ribbon birds from (HERE) but like I said, I have a problem.  So, I think im going to try and find or create a party planning timeline to post.  Anyways, heres a couple pics from my mothers day!!
ps we had just gone out on the boat, were not usually this nasty haha

Sunflower cupcakes!!

I LOVE THESE sunflower cupcakes from Janel at Mackenzie's Crafty Mom.  They are such a fun idea for mothers day, and SO Springish!  You have to check out the tutorial HERE!

Garden Baby Shower

This summery garden baby shower is so fun, bright, and beautiful I have just fallen in love with it.  I LOVE summer, and being a Florida girl who moved to Canada, you can imagine how much I anticipate it every year.  I wish summer could be the theme of my entire life, but I suppose I could deal with just the theme of a baby shower. ESP. when its this CUTE!! Check it out HERE by Ashley at Little Miss Mama!

I absolutely LOVE the mason jar glasses!

And this food looks sooo beautiful and delish. its making me hungry!

Mad Scientist Party

How cute is this Made Scientist party from Homemade Mamas? I love all of the fun activitites they planned.  5 is such a fun age, old enough to participate and pay attention to organized activities but still young enough to think everything you do is amazing and super fun!! I love this party theme!! Check it out HERE!

She's about to POP!!

This is soooooooo cute!! I love this soda POP themed baby shower by Shanda and her sister Kendra at My Insanity! So cutsie and creative!  I love the cake POPS!

Find it HERE!

Sweet as Candy!!

Katherine threw this ADORABLE Candy Land themed birthday party for her sons 5th birthday. She made a REAL candy land in her home. I can't get over how cute it is.  My favorite part is the Toothbrush Party Favors.  Check it out HERE!

Polka dot baby shower cake!

I made this cake for my friends baby shower.  She was having a little boy.  I used the cake recipe in the last post, and covered it in fondant.  I used ribbon to cover my messy bottom, and just used a sterilized pin to hold it in place. and set a ribbon bow on the top. TADA!

Best Cake Recipe EVER!

My friend Heather gave me this recipe when I was going to try and make my first cake for Alyvia's first birthday party.  I have NO idea where she got it from or who to give proper credit to, but whoever or wherever it came from I LOVE YOU.  here goes....

1 box cake mix
1 package pudding (4 serving size)
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of water
1/2 cups of oil
1 Tbls vanilla

Mix the cake and the dry pudding mix together. (Get as many lumps out as possible...i use a flour sifter because im psycho about lumps but really probably not needed.)
Add eggs, water, oil, and vanilla and beat together.

Bake @ 350 degrees for usually around an hour or untill done. 
The time will have crazy variations depending on pan size and shape.  It is VERY wet when going into the oven so it takes quite a while to cook.  Dip a wooden skewer and when it comes out clean its done. 

Variations:
Chocolate: Devils food cake mix and chocolate or fudge pudding
Lemon: Lemond cake mix and lemon pudding
Spice: Spice cake mix and butterscotch pudding

ENJOY!!


oh and ps. it rises TONS!! and i mean TONS!! leave at least an inch maybe an inch and a half from the top of the pan. or youll end up with this.....

april fools?? maybe not so much!!

Ok...I know this is suppose to be an april fools gag....and on pots it obviously is.  But what if you put all of those cute little ruffles on elastics and put them around your serving dishes. I think its ADORABLE!! They could slip on and off of your bowls and casserole dishes etc.  I may be taking crafting too far but i dont care I LOVE THIS!! Screams amazing hostess to me!!  Check it out HERE! from Make It and Love It!

My second favorite....

theme is DAMASK PRINT!!  I love it on everything and everywhere.  Stacey at Fun to Craft made over this $1 tray from Good Will and I think it is AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!  Hello who doesn't love a damask themed cocktail/dinner party??!! I DO I DO!  Check it out HERE!

An apple a day...

LOOKS DELICIOUS!!  I found these Chocolate and caramel covered apples at My Sweet Creations!! They look SO yummy I can't wait to try them.  They would be PERFECTLY with a ton of party themes....cowboy, carnival, beachy, pool parties, etc.  Go Check em out HERE!