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Our Valentines Recap

February 20, 2012 1 Comment

I waited until the last minute yet again to create the valentines for the kids this year. I pre plan and make a lot of things, small holiday stuff isn’t one of them. (yes I consider Valentines a small holiday).

I took pencils and some pretty scrapbooking paper and created these pinwheels. Since the pencils and paper were all different each one turned out unique! The kids loved them!

I found this fun Spinning quote from online (from the movie Practical Magic?) “Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like.” And created these pencil flags (Free download valentines pencil or straw flags), with “to” and “from” on the other side so the kids could personalize them!

On Valentines day itself The DA, Baby Boy and I took cookies, frosting and sprinkles over to the school and helped in Lego Boy’s classroom. I love her “What cookie? I didn’t eat a cookie” face in the first picture when she thinks I caught her doing something wrong!!! She was pretty excited when I said she could EAT the cookie she decorated!

And of course Lego Boy- I love his concentration, from frosting to adding sprinkles this guy get’s down to business!!! His fun and energetic 1st grade classmates are hilarious, and it was so much fun to be a part of their party! You can also see the hole where he lost his first tooth last week!

Filed Under: cookies, craft supplies, crafts, family, holiday, kids, paper, printables, valentines

Rainbow Sprinkle Birthday Cake

February 15, 2012 20 Comments

One of the very best things about living here is being so close to so many family members. Obviously there are my mother and father in law upstairs along with a sister in law, but I also have an amazing Sister in law just 4 exits down the freeway. We love to spend as many Friday nights with each other as we can, with the kids playing and us adults enjoying each others company (she’s hilarious!)

Anyway we also get to spend time together for family birthday dinners. Last week was my nephews birthday. We got together for just dessert, and I offered to make a simple cake. He requested chocolate cake and vanilla frosting! Beyond that it didn’t matter. So I had a ton of sprinkles left from my Ice Cream Parlor birthday party and having seen an adorable cake on pinterest with sprinkles I decided it was the perfect time to try it out!!!

Then as I was taking pictures I moved it to quickly and it FLIPPED OVER!!!! GAH!!!! Luckily the cake didn’t break, so I flipped it back, re-spread the frosting, intermixed with sprinkles now, and re-sprinkled it! It worked great (and of course tasted amazing- and that’s all that really matters, right?)

Here is how I sprinkled it: I tilted a FRESHLY frosted cake, poured a pile of sprinkles into my hand and put it against the bottom of the cake and then brought my hand up the cake, pressing in the sprinkles as I went. For the top I poured a pile on and softly spread it around, pouring more where I needed it.

Pretty simple, BOTH times I did it! And quick to, an easy last min cake decoration if you need one! AND I have to say but I kind of LOVED the extra texture of the sprinkles in the frosting! I might just do that under the fondant in my next cake for FUN!

Filed Under: birthday, cake, family, tutorial

Lego Star Wars Birthday party food labels~

January 26, 2012 3 Comments

While Lego Boy’s Star Wars birthday party was only my 4th highest views post last year it’s the front runner in emails for the year. I get an average of 5 requests a week for the food labels I created for the party. Because the images are copyrighted to Lego I can’t sell them. And I wasn’t sure about giving them away, not only legally, but also personally. I spent hours and hours and HOURS on these labels and I’m a bit attached to them.

As part of my 2012 goals for this blog I’ve been wanting to utilize my facebook page more/better. SO as an incentive for “liking” my page, for the next month only, I’m giving away my Lego Star Wars birthday party food labels! Just go like my facebook page, and download the link. If you already like my page just click on the “Lego Star Wars Labels” on the left hand side!