Opportunities!

Last week I shared my excitement with you that Bakerella was coming to the Cake and Cupcake Camp! I was excited to attend her cakepop class, but now instead of attending the class I will be setting up shop! My very first time as a vendor! I am busily working on my display. I have pulled out all my Halloween decor and I am excited to put it all together. It amazes me how much I can find around my house for a beautiful table display. I have also been working on my Halloween Designs. Here is a sneak peak!

I will share photos as the week goes on. If you are going to be at the event please stop by and say hi :)

Oh and YES,  I am still hoping to meet Bakerella!!!

So Excited!

I opened my email this morning and discovered that I am going to have the chance to meet Bakerella! Yes, I stood up and did the happy dance. In fact, I am still dancing around so excited! Not only am I going to meet her, but I am going to take a cake pop class from her. Yes, you read that right! Bakerella is coming to Oregon and to the Oregon Coast Cake and Cupcake Camp! Along with the class, getting to meet Bakerella and many more fabulous cake and cupcake designers, I am also going to receive the new book by Bakerella "Cake Pops".

I am just thrilled! This is just in time... just in time to be able to make those cute little owl pops for an owl baby shower I am planning and some fun cake pops for the holidays!

YIPPEEE!!!

Back to School Bookworm Party! {PLUS Free Printables}

With all good intentions and school fast approaching my two little party planning helpers and I sat out to design a back to school party!

We had most of the work and planning done, when just as we were ready to hand out the invites, my little man came down with the stomach flu. Having been through this before... I knew with a family of four, we could count on someone else coming down with the flu too. I didn't know the magic number of days that it would happen, but I knew it would likely happen! I decided not to hand out the invites, as I didn't want to have to cancel if another member of our brood was to be sick.

I looked at the calendar, and just couldn't come up with another date that would work for our family, or the friends and neighbors we would invite. Sadly, I decided to postpone indefinitely the Bookworm Party.

I snapped a few pictures of what we had all ready for the party.

BookWorm Favor Tags!

You can download these bookworm tags here!

These little tags can be used is so many ways! As treat toppers, favor tags, to tie around jars as decoration (pictured above), to make napkin rings, to fancy up the ordinary paper cups, as cupcake toppers, etc, the possibilities are endless :)

BookWorm BookMarks!

The BookWorm BookMarks can be downloaded here!

To make these bookmarks special, I laminated the entire sheet, trimmed them, punched a whole in the top and ran a ribbon through the hole. I had my munchkins string beads on the ribbon to personalize them to their liking!

I intended this to be a craft for the party. I would have the ribbon strung and the kids could then string the beads!

These bookmarks would be fun to hand out to your child's class, or better yet as a healthy alternative for the little tricker treaters that will soon be knocking on the door!

I would love to see pictures of your creations with the BookMarks and Favor Tags!

 Enjoy!

Back to Blogging!

I am Excited to be back!

School has started, schedules are set and a routine is hopefully to follow...

I look forward to updating the blog with recent party designs.

I enlisted the talents of Marina from Penny Lane Designs to design a new blog look!

 A fresh design for fall!

Brown, pink and orange are my favorite colors right now.

Kylie and I recently redid her room and she chose this color combination.

She loved the colors so much that she also chose them for her 7th birthday party.

 I will post the entire party soon! 

Happy Fall!

Halloween Wrap Up!

It was a wonderful and fun Halloween season! My little trick-or-treaters had a blast going door to door last night with their friends. It was also a busy time for me as I had a few parties that I had the pleasure of making invitations, thank you's, tags, signs etc.

These were the invites to our sweet friend Ian's Birthday Party! I created invites, address labels and envelope seals.

 The Smore bags for each child's smore building ingredients.

And the Thank You's with the return address labels.

Halloween Party Invites!

To wrap up this sweet holiday here is a picture of our pirate family!

Happy November!

Halloween Printables!

I stumbled across a few really cute free printables! These cupcake toppers can be downloaded at Accent the Party.

These printable invitations are really a great idea! The sweet people at whisker graphics allow you to customize the invitation too!

Find them here.

Celebrate Fall With An Apple Party!

A fun way to celebrate fall is to have an apple party! Here are the apple invites I designed for a festive fall party.

The apple tags can be used in many ways...such as tags on gift bags, tied to caramel apples, or use them as cupcake decorations.

Wedding Invitations!

I worked on some wedding invitations this past month and here they are, all finished and ready to be mailed. I am giggling as I write this thinking of when I was pasting them all together. I needed some time to glue the 4 layers together, so I sat out some paint for my 3 year old to use on the same table I was using. I think any bride would cringe at the sight of a 3 year old with finger paints just inches from her beautiful invitations! We managed and the invites turned out beautiful!

Thinking about Halloween

I am having a Halloween day! I am busy making a couple invitation proofs for a Halloween Birthday Party for a sweet "almost 7 year old" boy. He has requested skeletons, ghosts and pumpkins. I am having a great time playing with some ideas. I will post some pictures soon. For now here are a few pictures from last year's Halloween Party.

Here is Mr. Batty Bat

(I think that is what the kids were calling this little creature)

An easy little craft to do with kids. We used styrofoam balls and painted them. We also added stiff craft foam for the wings, ears and teeth.

I decorated a paint can from the craft store so that Batty had a place to sit!

The Favor Bags

I loved this stamp from Stampin Up!

 I adore the products from Stampin Up. If you are looking for a demonstrator to order from let me know. I know a great one and she has fantastic ideas too!

Spiders!