still need a Father's Day idea??

My 3 year old ended up giving my husband his Father's Day stuff early.... tonight after his daddy got home from work. My little boy was just too excited to wait!


But here is what I am giving MY dad for Father's Day........




A popcorn container filled with goodies:

• Dad's cookies






• Dad's old fashioned root beer






• toffee POPcorn






• a few more sweet treats: Skor chocolate bar, package of mini Almond Joy chocolate bars, and a big Tootsie Roll candy.
  
  




• framed 5 x 7 of my kids (for his office at work).






• picture my son drew for his grandpa (rolled up and tied with a piece of ribbon).






• card I made for him.
  
  

And just because here are the cards I made for Father's Day. I just whipped up some super simple ones using the patterned carstock that came with my Project 365 kit.

Hope you have a great weekend & that you are able to celebrate all the dads in your life!! :)

{This project was featured at Sassy Sites!}



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scrapbook sturday #17- family mini album

This week I made up this small bracket-shaped mini album of some photos of my family that I love.

The cover:




inside pages:

And just a plain back over to it:

I just wanted to use paper that I loved, simple sentiment stickers, and most importantly- photos that I love to look at!!

And I may as well share the Mother's Day cards I made......

I just used fun coordinating patterned paper and my sewing machine to put these together. They're quite simple, but I think they turned out pretty!

Have a Happy Mother's Day tomorrow ladies!!

girl's 1st birthday party- black, white, and PINK theme

Hi everyone! This is the last birthday party post I have to share this week. Last month my daughter turned one and I did a black, white, and PINK party to celebrate the occasion!


I made and mailed out these invites:



I kept the design fairly simple because I had to a dozen to make!

I made tissue paper pom poms to hang above the table in her party colours. And I made a cute pennant birthday banner to hang up as well. ( I obviously coloured over her name in this photo of it though)

We had pizza for lunch. I set up drinks on the table.....


I selected soda pop flavours with her party colour in mind.


I bought the small pops for the kids that were there. (We did a family party where we had 27 people in our home.)


I had bottled water for those who didn't want pop to drink.

Now onto the TREATS!

I filled four margarita glasses with candies in her party colours.......


I also had some lollipops and some mints......



I bought these candy melts:

.....so that I could dip some pretzels sticks in pink:

.......and I dipped oreo cookies in the white.

Dessert time!

In addition to the cupcakes I had made, we had an ice cram cake. {my daughter is a total ice cream monster!} I had to order it over the phone and the guy didn't get what I was originally asking for, so I just had him put on pink polka dots and do the writing in black. It wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but it was still yummy and the birthday girl of course didn't have an opinion on it! {wink}

My fave thing that I did was this photo banner of her first year:

I painted 12 clothespins pink and one hot pink.

Then I selected one photo from each of her first 12 months and had a {black and white} 4 X 6 photo made. Then in the middle, I used the hot pink clothespin to add a photo of her at age one. That one I left in colour and had a 5 X 7 photo made. {She was also wearing a pink and white top and a black and white headband- I was pretty consistent in the whole black, white, and pink colour scheme!

Her first 6 months...

...and her second 6 months...

Now onto the treat bags!

I made these little matchbook notepads in black and white...

And found some other things that fit with the party colours:

So that each child got:

~black and white notebook with matching pencil

~pink sugar straw

~pink lollipop

~cookies and cream chocolate bar

It was really hard coming up with pink ideas that work for boys as well because there were more boys than girls.

I bought these pink party bags from a party shop. The boys were just lucky that I didn't buy the matching party hats, etc!! {wink}

And finally, here's what I did for the other guests to take home:

I made up a bunch of these pink fabric rosettes...

And put together these simple cards with a photo inside for everyone/ each couple to take home. {This was a family party.}

I really enjoyed putting together a girly party together for the first time. The fun thing about the 1st birthday is that the child is too young to choose what they want for their party. So the first birthday is a bit more fun for the mom in that way.

Thanks for coming to my birthday party week!

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Don't forget to enter the My Dream Sample Box giveaway which ends today. I'll announce the winner tomorrow!

And the winner for the My Dream Party giveaway will be announced later today!

a few birthday cards

I have a love/ hate relationship with handmade cards. I love giving them, I hate coming up with ideas.

Here some recent ones that I made...

blue and beige card

This is a card I made for my cousin's wedding...



I like being able to make up simple cards and use up some of my paper scraps!

FYI, I am working on another post right now- check back later! :)

card folder

This past weekend was my mom's birthday. Something I added to her gift was this set of handmade cards:





She likes crafty things but doesn't make things herself. I had given her a few cards I made in the past and she loved having handmade cards on hand. I put this set of 22 cards in this pink zippered folder by occasion so she can find what she needs easily and add more as she desires. I added a fabric twisty flower to one side using my glue gun.

How fun would this gift idea be for someone's stocking or for sisters you visit teach at church this Christmas?!