Carson is 4

Time surely does fly. I look forward to my kids milestones, to see them grow and flourish.  He didn't really want to take a lot of pictures, he just wanted to play.

We had an impromptu/last minute birthday dinner for him. :) We went with a fun black and white (not formal) theme. Super easy.

Amanda's Woodland Baby Shower

Amanda decided to go with the woodland theme for her baby shower! It was a lot of fun to plan. We DIY'd everything. I love working with burlap and got the chance to make a lot of banners! My favorite things to make included the raindrop cloud, hedgehog watermelon, acorn/hedgehog cheeseballs (not pictured) and the banners!

There literally was not an empty chair at her shower!!! She was surely blessed with gifts and celebration for her pregnancy.

Here's to hoping that the rest of her pregnancy and her delivery goes smoothly!

Tune back for DIY posts on burlap banners and that cloud!

With love,
Jenni

Carson's Lego Birthday

Here I am posting a little late about Carson's Birthday.
It was pretty good. Super stressful, but worth it in the end.

Plates on the wall: Party City, taped together

Streamers: Party City

Cupcakes: Me

Lego Heads on Cupcakes: Melted Wilton yellow chocolate on mini pretzel sticks

Bunting: Walmart or you can convo MaddiandAddiBowtique.etsy.com and have me make you a fabric one that you can hang on your kid's wall after!

 

Part of the goody bags included these handmade lego notepads that Jeanine basically made for me. I also had the party hats as part because they are a lot to do, and are really special. Big Candy bars were also involved. I didn't have enough time to get legos and bag those up, too. BOO to that.

Kayt decorated the sugar cutout cookies. I ate them all.

 

Keep in mind that I am NOT a photographer and I have is a phone camera.

Birthday boy!

 

 

 

He's already 2!

How To Make Lego Invitations

 

My little boy is turning 2 on September 18! I'm pretty excited and boy does time fly. 

We are having a lego party for him because let's face it: *I* love legos. We were thinking about Thomas the Tank but we really just don't like the message the show sends to kids.

I used the cricut to make these. I bought the primary color card-stock paper at Walmart.
 Since he is 2, we are making the little "2" brick for invitations. 

I  don't have the shapes cartridge (actually everything is borrowed, cricut and a ton of cartridges), so I used the "Jasmine" cartridge for the rectangle, and I set it to 6". I was able to get 3 rectangles per sheet, if the sheet and machine cooperated together...

I flipped the paper and put in the "Accent Essentials" cartridge and pushed shift and one of the extravagant little circles, making it a plain old circle. I set those to 2 1/2" and got 8 out of the leftover paper. THEN, I was like "oh, these look like big legos" and was able to use the hole-y side for decorations! 

I hot-glued those circles down on the same color rectangle to give it a raised effect, and BOOM, a lego invitation. 

I still have to print off the details, but I'm just going to glue that to the back.

I looked for simple "lego" stickers, but was unable to find them. If I had, I was going to stick them to the tops of the circles to make them look legitimate.

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AND there you have it! EASY DIY lego invitations!

Tutu Baby Shower Invitations

So, the long awaited post on the invitations for my baby shower, a year ago.
Don't judge me.

The invitations were made with glittery card stock, a onsie cookie cutter, and a printer.
The extra stuff included satin for the tutu, hot glue & gun, sticky rhinestones, pearls on a string and some flower appliques. Not to mention a lot of time.

My friend figure out how many invitations could be printed out on one page through a lot of trial and error. We cut them up and glued the tutus on, the pearls, and flowers.

Then we added some fluff! We had a huge variety of different looking invitations and a little variety of thank you notes.

 Feel free to ask me questions! I love them!

Tutu Baby Shower

Welcome to my tutu baby shower! Everything was handmade by my friend and it was so cute and very well done!  The original tutu idea came from pinterest, we are a dance family, so it fits us.

I'll post pictures of the invitations and thank you notes in another post!