Cupcakes

I have a daughter that doesn't like cake, which means she doesn't like cupcakes either.  My friend, Summer, made some super adorable cupcake toppers to match the "WIPEOUT" Theme my little7 year old wanted for her party.  Do you see my dilemma!?

Enter blogland.  I love this place.  I found this cake and decided if they could make a cake (which is SUPER cute) out of rice krispies, I could make cupcakes!!

 

  Source: eighteen25

 

Pretty cute, huh!!??

Cupcake Toppers made by Sugar Britches Designs.

Baby Shower/Adoption Celebration

Back in March, I shared this story with you...one about a baby discovered on Facebook that instantly filled the hearts of so many.  Adoption is beautiful and we finally got to celebrate as it became "official"!!!  We threw a Baby Shower/Adoption Celebration for my friend and I wanted to share some of the decorations with you.

We held it at a church, so we knew we had a lot of browns to work with.  We went with a blue/brown/red/white color scheme (which was pretty easy to find around the 4th of July!).

I made onsies with his name spelled out (the fabric used for the letters became the common thread that pulled the color scheme all together).  We used twine as the "clothesline" and added baby socks for extra cuteness!

Made much lovelier by the generosity of friends and family!

We used more twine and decorated clothespins to hang pictures all over the room.  Again, with a few socks stuck in here and there.

The decorative clothespins are SUPER easy and just adds that "little extra" punch.  You can find the tutorial here.  I didn't make mine magnets like she did, but that's a cute idea too!

 

On the tables we used a white round tablecloth and then cut a large square of fabric (the same as the letters on the onsies) to place on top.  A white vase filled with 3 pinwheels and tied with a ribbon made for fun centerpieces.  I found the pinwheels here.

We had a "Blessings" station set up for each of the couples 3 kids.  Guests were to write a special note for their upcoming birthdays and adoption days (they were all adopted).  There was an envelope for 1st bday, 1st adoption day, 2nd birthday, 2nd adoption day, etc.

We put a note next to the blue bins that said, "Please choose a blank envelope and a blank card and share a special memory, a piece of advice, or simple well wishes to provide a blessing in the future."  One bin had the envelopes that we had already labeled, the next blank cards, and the third was for the completed cards in envelopes.  The parents will then be given all of these cards to give each of their kids on the corresponding bday/adoption day in the future.

Food, lots and lots of food...

The beautiful momma and of course the guest of honor!  Every time I turned around, he was in the arms of someone else...just as it should be!

I finally got my hands on him!!!  A beautiful day.  God is good.

Tie Dye Cupcakes

I made these tie dye cupcakes for my daughter to take to school to celebrate her 10th birthday.  It's times like these that I'm thankful to live in a small town that lets you take in homemade goodies.  They were fun to make and she was so excited to take them to school. You can find the recipe here.

Oh, and for the frosting, I just bought the Duncan Hines Whipped Frosting.  It was easy...and sometimes, like when you are making cupcakes at 10pm the night before they are needed, mom's need easy!

Super Bowl Water Bottles

Another quick and easy way to add a little something extra to your party.  I printed off logos from both teams and then the kids and I colored them.  I cut them out and then taped them on the bottle with a little double sided tape.  The I taped over the top of the logos with clear packing tape.  You could get fancier and wrap a ribbon or something around the bottle, but since it was FOOTBALL, I went with simple.  I think they turned out pretty "cute"!

Here is the Steeler's logo that I used.  I can't seem to find the site that I got the Packer's logo from, but I will keep looking!  You could decorate bottles for any theme/birthday party...the possibilities are endless!

Super Bowl Football Cake Pops

We had some friends over to watch the Super Bowl.  I decorated the table with Green Bay Packers on one side and Pittsburgh Steelers on the other.  We found food that was "ethnic" to each area that the teams were from.  The middle of the table was divided with this (the sign was painted by my 9 year old)...

I found the tutorial for the footballs here.  They were a bit time consuming to make, but yummy and super cute!!  My husband kept informing me that a Super Bowl party wasn't supposed to be "cute"!  What does he know!?  Anyway, they tasted like a Reese's Peanut Butter cup and when he tasted them, it was decided that we could do "cute"!!  HA!

More Super Bowl ideas tomorrow!