Vintage Frames and Letter Garlands

One of our most popular items in our shop is our letter garlands! They are so versatile and can be used for so many occasions from birthday parties to weddings and they come in any color combination you can dream of! We love creating them for our customers. They are really special because after they are used for an event they can be hung in a child's room or kept as a special keepsake!

We LOVE estate sales and thrift shops where we search for vintage items that we can use for our business and our homes! Last year we came across these awesome vintage frames...they only had two so we made a deal and each snagged one!! We thought about making them into trays or chalkboard frames. But, Kellie came up with the cutest idea...she made one of our letter garlands with her daughter's name and hung it in the frame! We loved the way it looked! She is going to use it as part of the decor for Leela's birthday party and then display in it her room when the party is over! We thought we would share some photos with you of how it turned out!

No gluing or sewing festive fall paper flag bunting

So with Halloween being Monday...we thought we would share one more fun and festive DIY project with you! Buntings are so popular and so darn cute!! This bunting is so easy to create, no gluing, no sewing...what else could you ask for!?!
Materials:
Decorative holiday paper
Ribbon
Brads
Triangle template (create your own size)

We created the triangle template on the computer and decided we wanted the size to be 3½ x 4½. (You can use whatever size you want) Using the template cut out the triangles on the decorative paper. Once you have the desired amount of triangles cut out attached them to your ribbon using the brads. They are sharp enough that they will pierce the paper and ribbon, so there is no need to punch or cut a hole!





Voila....you have a festive fall bunting without gluing or sewing!!
Have a happy weekend!

Invisible Pops

We have to say sugar work is one of the hardest things to master in the pastry world, but also one of the most rewarding to accomplish! Starting out can be a little bit frustrating, but here is a great project to get you started! We love these "invisible pops" from Martha Stewart! You can add pretty much anything to them, candy, seeds, nuts....how about some edible glitter!?! Its amazing what some corn syrup and sugar can create!

To check out the "how to" go here!

Ghostly Cupcake Toppers

Can you believe Halloween is only one week away...where did October go!?! Well, we thought we would share one more Halloween inspired DIY project with you. These little ghosts will add a "spooky" touch to your cupcakes! Your little ones will love them and best of all...they are so easy to make its "scary"!

Materials:
small Styrofoam balls
lollipop sticks
4" square of tulle
4" square of lace
thin black ribbon
gems for eyes and mouth
(glue gun and scissors)


Just take your little Styrofoam ball and stick one of your lollipop sticks in it. If you need to add a little dab of glue to secure it you can.
Place your lace square over your tulle square and lay it over top of the Styrofoam ball, tie with your black ribbon. Then you can trim around the lace and tulle to get it to the length desired.
Next just hot glue two small gems for eyes and a larger one for a mouth and your little ghost is complete! How easy is that!?!

Monster Bash

I used to work at the sweetest little bakery in our downtown area, the owner was so creative, and we would always make these super cute "monster cookies"! The kids just loved them, we sold them as fast as we could make them! They are so much fun for Halloween or a monster themed birthday party! They are great because you can really get the kids involved! You could even have your little ones make these themselves at a birthday or Halloween party! You can use any color sprinkle you want so they can be "boy" or "girl" monsters too!

Materials:
Chocolate chip or sugar cookies
Sprinkles (color of your choice)
Frosting
M&Ms

Just fill one side of your cookie with frosting (adding a little bit more toward the front). Set your other cookie on top, press the back slightly harder to create an open mouth look. Cover the frosting with your sprinkles and add a swirl of frosting to create two eyes and one for a nose. Simply press two M&Ms into the swirled frosting to create an eye color and you are done!! Super easy right!?! The kids will love these and you will have so much fun making them!!

Glittered Pumpkins

We just love autumn...the crisp, chilly air, the colorful leaves swirling around on the ground and of course all of the comfort foods that keep our bellies full! And what is autumn, without pumpkins!?! It is is so much fun taking the kids to pumpkin farm and seeing their eyes light up as they get to pick out their very own pumpkins. Of course it is great to carve silly faces on them and roast the seeds! But, as girls who incorporate glitter into their daily lives, we have to say we are love the look of glittered pumpkins! They are so pretty and perfect for a Halloween or Thanksgiving centerpieces! Did you know they are so easy to make too..maybe even easier than carving them!! All you need to do is coat them with a thin layer of acrylic craft paint or glue and cover them in your favorite glitter!






images via: afieldjournal.blogspot.com, tinywhitedaisies.tumblr.com, twigandthistle.com, mysweetsavannah.blogspot.com, sandrakleist.blogspot.com, With Style and Grace

"Sprinkled with Love" Donut Baby Shower

If you read our blog regularly, you know we have a slight obsession with donuts! So of course we had to come up with a donut illustration and we had the perfect occasion to do so! Our sweet friend Katie is pregnant with her second baby girl and we really wanted to do something special for her...so we decided to throw her a little baby shower. Baby showers for second babies are called "sprinkles", so we wanted to play off of the theme “sprinkled with Love”! We also wanted the shower to include Siena, Katie’s daughter, to help get her excited about being a big sister!

We thought it would be really fun to have a donut tasting bar. We set out plain and flavored donut holes from a local bakery on a long white plate. On each side of the donuts we set up jars with homemade caramel and hot fudge sauces and apothecary jars with chocolate chips and toasted coconut. We created a little “donut bar” sign to set on the table as well. We also set up a three-tiered pedestal with graham crackers, pretzels, marshmallows and strawberries so that people could use the sauces as fondu if they wanted to.



We also made mini cupcakes with pink buttercream and a mini donut on top! At the ends of the table we set up “donut” shaped cookies that were pink with white sprinkles, we placed them next to pink bags that we glued doilies onto, so that everyone could take one home...(or eat it there if they wanted.) As another take home gift we made mini jars filled with caramel and hot fudge sauces with one of our “sprinkled donut” tags that read, “thank you for sprinkling Katie and Siena with much love”. We also created a “Sprinkled with Love” letter garland to hang across the front of the table.






We made fabric covered embroidery hoops in the color scheme of Katie’s nursery to create a backdrop for the table. (We let her take them home after the shower so she could hang them in the nursery) We also used some of the fabric as a runner on the table to offset the white table cloth and used the rest of the fabric to cover the mini sauce jars that everyone took home. We used lace and pink ribbon to tie around mason jars with pink and white polka dot straws filled with pink lemonade for the kids. We also got disposable coffee cups and tied an elastic ruffle ribbon around them and put a donut circle tag on them for the adults to have their coffee out of.



We served really simple plates of fresh vegetables and assorted cheeses, crackers and candied nuts.

We made Katie a corsage to wear out of paper flowers so that she could save it in her baby book!
Katie’s sister, Becky was recently married and Katie created the most gorgeous ruffle garland backdrop for a photo booth at her wedding. So Becky brought the gorgeous backdrop with her and a chalkboard. We all took turns writing a note to the baby on the chalkboard and Becky took photos of us so that Katie could save the photos for her baby book! It was such a fun idea and great way to remember that special day!




Pink bags and pink and white polka dot straws: Sweet Lulu
Mini donuts on to pof cupcakes: Dough a Deer
Paper coffee cups: Think Garnish
Paper party goods: Icing Designs
Photography: Becky Hill Photography and Icing Designs