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Rainbow Party Favors

We're hosting a my daughter's 5th birthday party this weekend. She's not really interested in gifts but has asked several times for a rainbow birthday. I went to our excellent and cheap local party supply store and picked up some rainbow themed favors and these plain brown pastry bags. The Chickpea and I then sat down with a set of ink pads and decorated them which was fun to see what we could come up with. The adorable rainbow buttons came from buttonsandbadges Etsy store. We'll pick up some rainbow colored balloons and I found some rainbow striped candles at Target. Check, done! We're ready to get our rainbow on! Now if you wanted to go full tilt check out this board.Excellent ideas if you've got oodles of time and sugar.

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Happy Easter!

Have a wonderful Easter filled with inspiring color like these little gems. And of course add in a little candy and lots of family!

Our crafting table cloth is a laminated piece of fabric from Anna Maria Horner and it always makes me happy. Doesn't it makes these eggs come to life!

 

Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments

Despite my lack of posting we've actually had a lot of crafting going on here. With a 17 month old cruzing around the house this year we only put up the non-breakable ornament on the tree. While the little distructor was napping her sister and I made ornaments with salt dough. It was a first for me and the results were really satisfying.

We rolled out several batches to cut up. More than I was really expecting.

After they were baked we painted them with our new glitter paint. Who doesn't like glitter on a tree. I think they are adorable and I'd love to make some garlands out of them next year. There is something satisfying about making decorations that are not meant to be permanent. Try it out, here's the recipe.

 

Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments

Ingredients:

1 cup salt

2 cups flour

1 cup water

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Directions:

Mix salt and flour in a bowl. Stir in water and oil little at a time. Next knead with your hands until you get smooth clay like dough.

Roll your dough about 1/4 inch thick and cut out your shapes with cookie cutter. Poke a hole with a wooden skewer for hanging.

Put your shapes onto an a cookie sheet with parchment and bake at 300 degrees for 1-2 hours until hard. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

Once dry paint with water based paints, glue, glitter etc.

July Birthday Bunting

Here is the birthday bunting I made for Apple's first birthday which is on July 5th. I figured if we were going to have decorations up this time of year they might as well be festive. It's not completely red, white and blue but there are pink, brown, green and orange spots in there too. I think it turned out beautifully and it such a pretty combination of what I already had hanging around. Her older sister was quite the little sewing helper too!

4th Birthday Circus

I'm just wrapping up the last few details for the Chickpea's 4th birthday party this Saturday. Her actual birthday is tomorrow and she is just beside herself with anticipation, even though I've been trying not to build it up. My how time flies, she's such a big girl now.

She didn't have any requests for her party except chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting (can do little one - Mama always has chocolate covered). So I came across this great etsy shop, Hey YoYo. They have adorable vintage inspired party supplies. I now have an instant and afordable party, vagely circus like. We'll be making popcorn, drinking lemonaid, jumping in a boucy house and perhaps grilling some hot dogs if the sun comes out. I'm a big advocate of grown up food and libations for weary parents at kid parties.

I know we'll have fun but here's hoping for sunshine too!

 

 

More Garland Love

More of our water color circles in a garland for Valentine's Day. The little Chickpea painted this wooden heart from the craft store and then dusted it with a mighty hand of sparkles. It looks pretty sweet I must say.

We're using the last of them to make Valentine's Day cards for her pre-school classmates.