Make it Monday [Little Blue Candy Chips]

Good Morning and Happy Monday! Today I'm sharing with you how to make Little Blue Candy Chips with Wilton's Candy Melts. I've been planing a baby shower for my friend and I wanted to match most of the colors to the Tiffany Blue. With some of the decoration its almost impossible but with the candy melts I knew I could achieve the right color.

Here's the formula I came up with:

MOM Review [Cotton Candy Machine]

I love to host. Its something we do all of the time, whether its just a few friends or our whole family. I came across The LA Shop, they sell all kinds of items online. Everything from gardening, photography, kitchen goodies to trade show equipment. One of their kitchen goodies caught my eye, A Cotton Candy Machine!

I just had to try this out!

Party [Super Mario Brothers 30th Birthday]

I helped a friend throw her boyfriend a surprise 30th birthday party. He's a fan of the classic video games, he even has 2 NES consoles!

So naturally she picked the original Super Mario Brothers for a theme.

It was a lot of work but a lot of fun.... and now All About the Details:

Party [Thing 1, Thing 2 Baby Shower]

Today I'd like to share with you the baby shower I had for my twins. The theme was Thing 1/ Thing 2, perfect for twins. We had so much fun planning this party and even more fun there!

Everything from the invitations, to the food & even a game were Dr. Seuss themed.

DIY Tuesday [Photo-booth]

I love photo-booths, they seriously make parties fun! I've painted two backdrops for photobooths and I thought today I'd share how I made them and tips I've learned from it.

The first photobooth was for my twins' first birthday, it is still my most visited post. I guess everyone LOVES Sesame street.

What you'll need...

Mardi Gras Party [6 Recipes & Free Printable]

Mardi Gras [or Fat Tuesday] is tomorrow! To honor of this fun celebration I'd thought I'd share with you some recipes and a free printable. Fat Tuesday refers to the practice of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season; which begins on Ash Wednesday....And with any holiday there's always the fun of drinking [if thats your thing].

Party [Super Bowl 47]

Football always has and will always be big in our house. We both love to watch a good game, even if our teams don't make it to the end. This year we decided to host the big game and naturally I went into party planning mode, driving my husband crazy. :)

Freebie [The Big Game Printables]

"The Big Game" is this Sunday!!! In our house we LOVE football and can't wait to watch the game, even though neither of our teams made it. This year we are hosting the party for some family and friends.

Over the last few days I've been working on designing our party decorations and I really am happy to share them with you.

Party [Fantasy Football Draft]

Saturday was our Fantasy Football Draft Party...

Its a 12 team league that I'm Co-Commissioner of...... naturally I volunteered to host the party. I immediately started thinking of the layout for the munchies table.

Sorry about the photo quality, I didn't realize how dark this room was until we started taking pictures! (Anyone know a photographer that wants to shoot my work?)

Football Draft Party

I used astroturf that I bought from a home improvement store, the goal posts were made from pvc pipes!! I love how it turned out!

The food:
Chips & Dip
Spinach & Artichoke Dip
Strawberry Cupcakes
Muddy Buddies
Muddy Buddies-Cake Batter Edition (hug hit)
Pigs N Blankets
Meat, Cheeses and Crackers

Close Up of the Field 

Stadium Cupcake Stand

Cupcake tutorial

Pigs N Blankets

Everyone had a great time and I'm for sure going to use this table cover and goal posts again!!!

DIY Tuesday [Stadium Cupcake Stand]

I'm a Co-Commissioner in a 12 team Fantasy Football League and this past weekend was our Live Draft... Well we just had to have some football decor!!!


That post will follow soon..

Anyway I had envisioned this football field with cupcakes "watching" the game... So I started looking through my craft room to see what I could do about a Stadium Cupcake Stand...

Here's what I came up with~

Gather Materials

Materials I used:

Styrofoam these were 14"x15" (was in an order from Amazon that I kept for crafting reasons!)

Tape Measure

Pen

Knife (actually used a saw but you can use a kitchen knife)

Paint (not pictured here)

Measure where you need to cut

First step is to figure out how many cupcakes you will have and how big of a stand you'll need. I was going to have 12 cupcakes and each was about 3" and I wanted my stand to be two tiers (3 would have been best but too large for this small of a party).

The top tier was going to have 5 cupcakes and 7 on the bottom.

Top Tier Calculations: 5x3= 15"long by 3.5" deep (I added the .5" for more space)

Bottom Tier: 7x3= 21" but since my styrofoam was 14" and I was going to use two side by side I didn't see the need to cut them down from 28"... So I just used 28'long and 3.5" + 3.5"(top tier)= 7" deep

After you figure out your dimensions... Mark your styrofoam

I just used a pen to mark where I needed to cut

Thought a saw would be better than one of my kitchen knives

Next Cut Cut Cut Cut... I used a Saw from my Hubbys Tool Box.... Much better than a kitchen knife but you could totally use one of those too!

 messy job

All stacked up

I stacked the styrofoam to make sure its what I envisioned.... and it was ... just needed color

Left over Craft Smart Paint from the twins party

I would have used spray paint but I didn't want to run out buy some and I found these... so this cupcake stand didn't cost me any $$$$ (well any new $$$)

Here's the finished cupcake stand!

Dont mind my messy garage

Done!!! I'm posting Draft Party pictures soon and you'll see the cupcake stand in action! :)

Party [Girly Giraffe 1st Birthday]

Saturday was Keira's first birthday party and it was a great party! Keira's mom put me in charge of all of the party decor and goodies!

Party [Sesame Street 1st Birthday- Twins]

I've been working on the Twins Birthday party for what seems like forever but it was completely worth it!

Enjoy our Sesame Street Birthday Party

Party [Father's Day Mustache Bash]

This Father's Day was my darling husband's first.  It only happens once... So we hosted a brunch for family.

My goal: Create a theme that was appropriate for dads... then I got to thinking... My dad has a mustache, Joe's dad has a mustache, Joe's brother (who's a dad) has a mustache/beard... and Joe hadn't shaved in a while so he had a mustache... put that together with some ideas I've seen on Pinterest.. and BOOM

MUSTACHE BASH for 

Father's Day

I'm a relatively new pinner... but I love to browse and I've seen tons of things that have inspired me. I will do my best to give credit where credit is due and I apologize if its not the original creator... but I think I've gotten it all correct

All of the graphic's I made myself... the theme was inspired by the following: KPI, & APTG

The Party Spread

Just the banner

Detailed view of banner... I used scrapbook paper for the background and my design on top. I loved the woodgrain paper! Totally manly!

The gifts: 3. 2. 1. cake inspired by TMB.. I made a sample first and fell in LOVE!! This is a very awesome gift idea. Especially for those with a sweet tooth! I printed the instructions on the back of these handmade ties. 

Cinnamon Cookies, purchased.. honestly because they matched my color scheme... :)

They were yummy too!

And the cupcakes! The recipe can be found here VG. After baking a test cupcake with frosting...

My husband decided we should add  cayenne to the frosting for that extra

some... I have to say it was a very tasty addition!

Cupcake stand was made by me (by hand) thanks to a wonderful tutorial from: AE

Mustache Straws!!! Great detail inspired by WBS

These were the thank you's, mustache shaped coco rice krispie treats. I made a normal batch of treats

then carved out each mustache. Wrapped them up in a ziploc baggie and glued a label that said

 "Have a Fan-stache-tic Father's Day"

They were a hit

And last but not least mustache props... these I've seen all over the internet so its honestly hard to pin point one person to credit... so I think I'll just credit google.. :)