Superbowl Team Wreath

So my boys are not in the Superbowl! This is a picture of my front door during our playoffs this year. Thank God I had a party for my Steelers or I would have to wait another year for a chance! Anyhoo, I always decorate my front door and usually whole porch for whatever party theme I am having. Unfortunately, I had another party that same week so wasn't able to do my whole porch but wanted to do a quick and cheap project for my front door. I simply draped black mesh (cheaper than fabric and tulle) around door and used yellow bows I found from the 99 cents store. This picture was also taken before I finished my contact paper black and gold stars. Oh well!! Yes, I told my husband to buy yellow flowers for the pots but look what I got? URGH!
The wreath is a styrofoam wreath which I tied black tulle around and hot glued a yellow marabou boa. If you want a tutorial...I can do! This is such a easy project that you can do in any colors to match your team or party colors!

Beach Cupcakes

As I told you on Facebook, I got some really sweet treats from Wrigley. This weekend Madison and I got to playing with all of the goodies. I am longing to go to our beach condo but it seems our weekends have been too busy so I'm bringing the beach to me!
As you know I am NOT a pretty baker. Everything I ever try comes out looking pitiful! However, using candy makes it so super easy and quick! I just made cupcakes or you can buy from any bakery at grocery store ~ get them unfrosted. I frosted half the cupcake with blue icing. I tried to make it look like waves. The other half in either white or beige frosting then cover with crumbled graham crackers (sand).

The beach chair is a Wrigley's stick of Juicy Fruit Juicy Secret (sugar free) gum and the inflatable beach tube is a Life Savers Gummies Collisions. To finish simply stuck a umbrella party pick for some shade!
These beach cupcakes would be great for any summer, beach or pool party! (BTW, the Life Savers Gummies Collisions are so yummy!! )

*disclosure~I received free products courtesy of Wrigley, but it did not influence any opinions expressed in my post.

Marshmallow Placecards or Favors

I love these sugar lettered marshmallows! Great for a unique place card, favor or just a sweet treat!
Cut a marshmallow in half and put the initial on the sticky side then dip in colored sugar.
Then remove cut-out letter.
What a sweet treat! I may have to do this for Valentine's as well! With all the colored sugars available ~ you can custom match any party!

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Sweetheart Cookie Box

I am making conversation heart cookies for Valentines and I ran across this adorable Sweetheart Cookie Box from Zakka Life! Love! Now I have a great way to store and give them out!
I love free templates!
I never thought of thought of taking a box like the one above and turning it inside out, re-glue and use it! Pure genius!!! Window already done as well!
You can either paint or use cardstock to cover the plain cardboard. Painting is faster but the cardstock would be prettier. Whichever you choose it will simply be amazing.

I took a TON of pictures from the Operation Shower event that I participated in. I started posting many of them on Facebook and I will also do a post hopefully tomorrow as well.

New Superhero Valentine's

I know that most of you have seen these Superhero Valentines that were all the rage last Valentines from here.

But have you seen the Superhero "specific" Valentine pops?? These are too cute!

Can you tell I'm still stuck on the whole Superhero theme!??

You can find the free printable tags over at Little Bit Funky. I will be posting pics behind the scenes pics all day tomorrow from Operation Shower Sunshine Safari design event on Facebook. I better get some sleep but this is the second time I've ever left Madison so I'm really missing my baby!

DIY Heart Chair Backer

I LOVE this heart chair backer by Pottery Barn Kids!! I mean ....LOVE!!!!
So this was the muse for me when I spotted this pretty heart foam while in Dollar Tree one day.
I bought an additional piece of foam and traced the heart shape and cut it out. I hot glued around the edges to put the 2 pieces together. I glued red ribbon to the back to attach it to a chair. So simple and took less than 5 minutes!
Viola...my DIY Heart Chair Backer! I think it is adorable and it cost me less than $2!

It has a nice size pocket so you can put in all your Valentine's and goodies!
Now, I'm thinking I really need to have a Valentine's playdate for Madison's BFF's! I'm always looking for reasons for a party and to make my little one's day just a little extra special!

Superhero Party Ideas

I haven't given up on my Superhero theme party yet! I keep finding awesome muses to feed into my wanting this party theme!! Found this wedding over at Green Shoes Weddings! A wedding~yes, how cool must this couple be! Above is their place card table but what I'm loving is the backdrop on chalkboard so easy to recreate for a kiddos party!! Chalkboard paint makes it EASY PEASY!
How about personalizing straws and Superhero Pez dispensers! LOVE!!
However, my favorite is the CEREAL buffet. (You know I did this after a night of camping in the backyard with Maddy and her besties here)
Every Superhero party must have capes! A must have photo booth accessory! So I have figured out how I can get to do my theme after all!! Madison starts kindergarten in the Fall so guess what???? PARTY for all of the "superheroes" going to Kindergarten! YIPPEE!!!!

75 Valentine's Day FREE Printables!

I am constantly blown away by all of the creative people I find on the Internet! Craftionary has compiled an amazing array of Valentine's Day cards, Tags, coupons, Subway Art and FREE printables! So many of these I had never seen and I'm so excited to use! Click HERE to view and share the love!

Barbie Party

So if you follow me on Facebook then you know my little one has chosen My Little Pony for theme for her birthday party. As much as I tried to persuade her she is not changing her mind so the days of me picking the theme has truly come to an end! I was hoping for one more year! She also informed me that she wants a princess party! WHAT???? My business does princess theme parties at least 2-3 times a month. Then I realized that she has never had a princess party and she watches me prepare for them all the time. So I promised her to do a princess theme Easter party this year. Of course, I don't want to do my package party because I want to step outside the box. As I was looking for some inspiration for her party, I ran across this really cute Barbie theme party by Cupcake Express.

Ashley found this cute trunk at Ross for $10 and used it to hold her candy kabobs...to cute!

What little girl would not love this cake? The great thing is that you can get them made at most grocery stores to save you some mula!

Ashley had these wafer papers custom created. I love using wafer papers because I cannot make beautiful baked goods but wafer papers make decorating cookies custom and gorgeous! Plus they are cheaper than custom cookies.

Love all the crepe paper medallions and the gable boxes with the favors! If you are using paper plates~ it's cute to double like having a charger!

Operation Shower Sunshine Safari

I am very excited to announce that I will be participating in the next Operation Shower event in San Diego in a couple of weeks. Operation Shower is such a wonderful organization and having served in the military for 21 years~I'm so happy to finally be able to participate in some way! Operation Shower is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide joyful baby showers for military families to ease the burden of deployment. Ten party bloggers/designers have been chosen to participate in a designer tablescape event sponsored by Pottery Barn Kids. We will be using products from Pottery Barn Kids as well as designs by paper and cake. I am very excited to be a part of this event as well as meeting all of the talented designers. I will be sharing more information and pictures before, during and after the event.

I was reading that some of my party peeps have enlisted the help of talented vendors to help with their vision..I'm going solo with my DIY projects....so hopefully I won't embarrass myself being around such talented and amazing party peeps!

NOTE~ Please excuse my blog for the next few days as I undergo some changes to design.

Not Your Store Bought Valentine's Cards!

With so many cute and personalized Valentine's cards....I can't see myself buying a box of store bought ones...evah!! These Valentine's are too funny and cute from Funky Polkadot Giraffe.

I used to LOVE Pop Rocks when I was a kiddo. Even though I really believed that your stomach would explode if you ate Pop Rocks while drinking a soda! Cute Valentine by A Small Snippet with free printable tag.

Another cute one by LeAna.

Valentine Love

I always love to see what inspires people or one's "muse" come to fruition! I get inspired by things everyday and love to see all of the talented and creative people's point of view. Case in point~Valentine Sweet Heart by Kikki K was the muse for the talented mom Leoni of Just Call Me Martha.

I am in total love with her use of envelopes as the backdrop for her dessert table. They are so inexpensive to use and can be used over again. Let's face it what is more romantic than love letters!

I am in seriously swooning over this cake!! I love the bunting! It's actually edible paper hearts.

Sugar cookies wrapped like love letters with edible paper stamp.....EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!!

Leoni used stickers from the collection to create the cupcake toppers.

Favors had chocolate hearts inside white take out boxes.

Love that one red envelope on backdrop....such attention to detail!

Did you get any Valentine's muses from this gorgeous display??? I sure did!

Penguins & Polar Bears Winter Onederland Party

For my first party feature of the new year I could not have picked a more perfect and ADORABLE one. Mariah from Giggles Galore created this amazing Penguins & Polar Bears Winter Onederland for her nephew. Mariah always has such wonderful parties with attention to detail that is impeccable.

Loving these cookies and the cool color scheme.

Did you know penguins are all the rage this season? Yep....it's the "it" theme right now! Last year it was owls.....oh I wish I could predict what it will be next year so I could be a trend-setter!

Mariah's mom made the cake! Wow!

The penguins are fishing....bananas! (I watched Rachel Zoe...it's my new word of the day.)

Cocoa bar ~ did you see the snowballs for 5 cents?

Her sister made the outside decor.....talent runs throughout Mariah's family! So I wanted to post more photos because they are all magazine worthy pics but thought it best to leave some so you could go check out Mariah's blog. You MUST see the penguin bean bag toss game and penguin bowling.....I die~ (too much watching Rachel Zoe)