March 21st is a perfect birthday...

...or at least this little girl thought so.

Sorry the blog has been neglected this week. I've just been enjoying pinching little cheeks and cooing at this little face.

I'll be back to regular life soon!

easter table decorations

Check out my fun DIY crafts to create an adorable easter table over at One Charming Party -

Chair Wreath

Monogrammed Egg

Tree Centerpiece

easy DIY cake stand ruffle

Looking for a way to add a little fancy to your party? Or maybe looking for a way to make your traditional cake stand look a little different for this party? This easy cake stand ruffle is a great way to add some color and fun to a cheap (cough, cough... very cheap) grocery store cake stand.

First, pull out that crepe paper left overs, or any crepe paper streamer and sew a stitch through it about a third of the way from one side to gather your crepe paper.

Next, all I did was used double sided clear tape to easily just tape the crepe paper around the edge of my cake stand. The double sided tape makes for an easy clean up, and won't harm your cake stand - hooray!

You can leave your cake stand as is, or you can add some ribbon around the edges. I found that adding the ribbon helped straighten my crepe paper out (it was kind of uneven left alone) and added a fun two toned color combination! Have fun!

cute easter ideas...

hop on over to One Charming Party and check out these adorable posts I contributed -

Easter Egg Cake Balls

Easy Easter Egg Designs

Easter Basket DIY

color inspiration - blue, peach and yellow

main inspiration picture - foodie bride

1 - LBC paper

2 - Confetti Sunshine

3 - Merry Go Round HANDMADE

4 - Confetti Sunshine

5 - Confetti Sunshine

6 - Candy Warehouse

Ice Cream Social - Printables

I hope you've enjoyed our Ice Cream Social party this week!

Click on the banner above to download the free printables, which include:

5x7 invitation

4 ice cream cone wraps

food flags

3 ice cream cup wraps

4 food labels

ice cream recipe card

Ice Cream Social - Favor

Finish up your Ice Cream Social with this sweet little favor... a build-your-own ice cream set!

Easily pack a favor bag with all the little goodies needed for the kids to go home and make their own special ice cream cone - just add ice cream!

you can easily include:

an ice cream cone

pretty cone wrapper (available for free on friday!)

wooden tester spoon

your favorite ice cream toppings

finish the favor bag off with a cute little printable label

Dip your wooden tester spoons in some melted white chocolate, and then roll in sprinkles to add a little pop of fun and color to your favor bag.

be sure and come back tomorrow for the free Ice Cream Social printables!

Ice Cream Social - Menu

This party is an easy one to plan a menu around. You can just pick your favorite Ice Cream treats to serve!

Here we have:

Chocolate Milk or Milk Shakes

Ice Cream Sandwich cookies

Ice Cream Sundae

Let the kids put together their ice cream recipe creations (found here) for a tasty treat they are sure to enjoy! I used the Ice Cream cups, Wooden Taster Spoons, and Red Striped Straws - all found at Confetti Sunshine.

Remember to come back on Friday for the free Ice Cream Social printables!

included will be the adorable straw flags and cute ice cream cup wraps

Ice Cream Social - Games

Games are so important to any child's party! Sometimes they are hard to come up with, and easy to overlook. I've come up with two activities that should help bring some fun into your Ice Cream party.

Ice Cream Cone Relay

Place a ball (aka "ice cream scoop") on top of an ice cream cone. Just like in an egg on the spoon relay, have the kids line up in to two teams. They then race each other to see which team can have each team member quickly carry their scoop of "ice cream" down the race course and back to their team without dropping their "ice cream scoop". If someone does drop their "ice cream", they must go back to the start of the relay and try again. 

Ice Cream Recipe

Let the kids get creative with this activity! Prep all your ingredients before hand, but then let the kids write out their own ice cream flavor recipe. There is bound to be some funny combinations, and tasty ideas thought of. Let the kids name their creations and take the recipe card home their new favorite sundae recipe to share.

Ice Cream Social Printables will be available on the blog on Friday

come back all week for more Ice Cream Social inspiration

Ice Cream Social - Invitation

This week, I am featuring an Ice Cream Social party!

All the planning included.

First, I am starting off our week with featuring the invitation. The Ice Cream Social printable will be available to download for free at the end of the week. But instead of just having a printable, I decided to add a fun playful element to the invitation.

You print off the invitation on regular cardstock. You will also need to print out the template page, but you print that on a vellum or transparent paper. Cut out the template ice cream scoop. 

Next, top your invitation ice cream with the toppings.  I used red glitter, white confetti, and little silver scrapbooking embellishments. Place all your toppings in the center of your ice cream scoop on your invitation.

You then glue the vellum/transparent ice cream scoop on top of your invitation. Be sure to only glue along the outside edges, and do not shake or move your invitation until your glue has dried.

The end result is a pocket full of toppings on top of your ice cream invitation! The kids will love it!

DIY paper pom poms

These fun paper pom poms are a great way to accent your more expensive or elaborate party decorations. They go together very easily and add a lot of detail to your event!

What you will need:

5 circles of the same size cut from cardstock

string

stapler

How to:

First, stack your circles and lay the string down across the top. Staple in the middle of your paper, over the string as well as through all 5 layers of cardstock. Secure your string by double knotting it over the staple.

Then, you easily just fan out your cardstock - some of the circles bent up, and some bent down. Play around with it a little until it looks just right.

This is a great way to add some color, volume, and height to your decorations. They would also look great with some Tissue Balls from Confetti Sunshine!

Are you going to SNAP?

I would love to meet up with everyone who is going! It is going to be a lot of fun!!

Also - I am speaking at SNAP!

It is going to be SO MUCH FUN! We are talking party party party! You know you want to be there.

Let me know if you are coming...

DIY cake topper idea

What you will need:

Lollipop Sticks from Confetti Sunshine

1 inch circle punch

colorful paper that coordinates with your party

sewing machine

How to:

Punch 1 inch circles out of  your colorful paper. Sew your little circles together, leaving a little bit of stitching in between each circle. Tie the ends of your circle banner to the lollipop sticks. Stick your cake topper in your cake for an easy and fast decoration!

Party Trend - banners

1 - Martha Stewart

2 - Urban Outfitters

3 - House 8810

4 - Confetti Sunshine

5 - Papermash

6 - Project Wedding

more St. Patrick's Day...

...over at One Charming Party!

Go check out my posts for this week - including a sweet little lucky charm game.



...and... I don't know why I keep on having problems with my printable checklists. Its driving me crazy. Sorry if you tried to download it yesterday unsuccessfully! It should be fixed now...