Safari Party

For Lily's 10Th birthday, she wanted to include her love of animals into the mix.... We decided on a Safari theme.

She wore Brian's hat and Levi's fishing vest and some tan shorts for her ensemble.

I strung green crepe paper up for the vines, bought a monkey pinata to hang up in the vines.
I used her large plastic animals on the table for decoration, and bought paper plates and cups that said "Queen of the Jungle".

We used some small plastic animals for the cupcake toppers.

Before the girls arrived, I made passports and put the girl's pics in them. (printed off of the school annual)

When they arrived they wrote their vital statistics and then every time they played a game they stamped an animal image on the page inside.

The party favors were animal print eggs (candy inside), a little notebook, a pencil ,a small animal inside, plus a individual animal crackers and frosted animal cookies.

They played pin the tail on the Lion, tic-tac-toe with animals and bean bags, musical "mud holes" with cardboard outside on the grass, and hide and seek with stuffed animals.

Lily was over joyed with all the animal gifts she received and the art / make up supplies given to her. Hum -now where to put all of them??

Water slide = fun,fun,fun!

We went to Target on Friday and I spent the best $21.99, I could have!



For 3 days the kids have been playing outside on this slide!!



Seriously who knew they would love it this much??

I should have gotten this a long time ago-they want to go out and play on it as soon as they wake up. (They even finished their chores in record time!)

Barbie and Ken even got to try it out!

Later at night-they were all tuckered out!

Easter Tags

Here are some close up shots of the tags I made for the kid's baskets..

Lily had a "girlie" chick-image from Crafty secrets.. Martha Stewart ribbon & Crystal fine glitter.


I sponged Stampin' Up Creamy Carmel ink around the edges of the paper...

Placed a button on using Stampin' up mini glue dots...

Levi's Tag -Crafty Secrets image,button, Martha Stewart Ribbon...

More glitter to edges and bird...

Sawyer's Tag..

Used some rick rack scissors for the bottom edge of the paper...

His little button has fallen off, I see...I'll have to go back, and add another glue dot!

Very fun to make-used lots of scraps and I love the sparkle from the glitter.
Thanks for looking!

Setting my Easter Table & filling the baskets...

I took tons of photos to post on my blog-this one is all about my table. I spend way more time on decorating then I do thinking about the food we'll eat!

Step 1. Clear away Lego boxes and laundry.

Step 2. Place tablecloth and garage sale find table runner on table..(use white fabric if table cloth is not available)

Step 3. Place last year's, thrift store rabbits and grocery store $1.99 a bunch daffodils on center of table.

Step 4.Place place mats, Fiesta ware dishes, and flower plates on table. (these plates were from Safeway and were much less then the Pier Import plates I wanted and had looked at last year)

Step 5. Add flatware,water pitcher,egg cup holders, and hard boiled eggs.


Step 6. Add candy and chocolate bunny's in bowl.

Step 7. Add a couple marshmallow bunnies too!

Step 8. Get baskets and grass ready.

Step 9. Fill baskets with children's little presents.

Lily

Sawyer

Levi

Step 10. Take final pic and hide baskets!
The end.

Jump in and Blog!

I am so far behind on all the "going on's" in my life! I figured I might as well just jump in and post a few photos...
Sawyer helped pick up coconuts in the back yard..wanted me to open them. That is Levi's job! too hard for mom.




Levi is the Bug Whisperer..

Praying Mantis, very big moths, you name it-he'll carefully pick it up and release it back into the jungle!

As I write there is a very big crawfish in a bowl-he's taking it to school tomorrow...

Hello again!

Sorry about the ole blog here! I had some busy days last week! I had a wonderful visit with my grandson and daughter in love and the time has just flown by! ( Ill have to post some pics..)
I finally got all the Christmas decor packed up and put away in the garage! Finally!! My back lanai looks so huge now!
I hosted a couples Valentine's party and it was so fun! I want to have one every year now. We all laughed so much!

Here are a few Valentine's cards I made...

Older set called "Mon Ami"

I used my new punch, then gathered the paper for a ruffle.. I used Vellum for the envelope...

Love this new set called "I Heart Hearts"

This is new DSP as well-love red and chocolate together..

Last card-used older DSP and lots of glitter! Sizzix scallop circle for the round cardstock..

Lots of layers and shading...

Hope you had a great February 14th as well!

Thank you's and Valentines

I forgot I had this post saved for awhile-Here's a few round cards I'd been working on. I love working with this shape.

I used my Big Shot and circle die cut for my pink card base. I used another Sizzix die cut for bird and decorative paper.

I added the Crafty Secrets crown on the bird's head and a rhinestone-love the sparkle!

Here's another Valentine card I did at my stamp class... I used the new embosslits for the scalloped heart shapes...

More cards to post!