60 years and going strong!

My MIL turned 60!  We threw her a surprise party and invited friends and family to the event.  She is also a cancer survivor and wanted to throw herself a survivor party, so we tied it all in together.   We had pink décor and all!  What a fun night honoring a great woman. 

Here’s the birthday girl!  We served pulled meat on buns with salads and chips.  We had a chocolate fountain for the dessert.Guests were invited to take home a bag of goodies from all of the tables. 

The entry area had a darling sign made by grandson Garrett and it also had a scrapbook from the last 5 years of her cancer survival made by her daughter Kristel.  I put together a framed word-art of 60 reasons we love her from all her children and grandchildren.

We took those 60 reasons we love her and attached them to the balloon centerpieces on each table. 

Granddaughters Evie & Jackie waiting for the party to begin!

Happy Spring!

My boutique this spring will happen after Easter, and so I haven’t been doing a lot of Easter crafts – I’ve actually doing a lot of 4th of July!!  But, I did make a couple of these tulle wreaths and decided I really love the look of it on my front door.  Very fresh & spring-y feeling!  Happy Easter & Happy Spring!  They are made by cutting about an 8 inch strip of tulle of different colors, combine 3 strips and tie in a knot all together.  Repeat this all around the wire.  Then I glued on some sparkly easter eggs.  fluff and trim and enjoy!  (oh, below it is the vinyl I’ve put on my door for the season). 

Full of Blarney!

Today for St. Patrick’s day, Justin made us breakfast.  He created green eggs, (regular) bacon, & green pancakes.  As I sat down, and commented on the pancakes, he said, they are even shamrocks!  And, they were!  He is adorable to do that!  There must be some Irish in that man after all! 

Evie especially loved the milk magically turned green!

We had a st. patrick’s party with Justin’s family.  I took pictures of the centerpiece I was putting together, but never took an actual picture of it on the table!!  UGH!

Anyway, I took glass jars, applied mod podge and rolled them in gold glitter.  I then snipped greenery from my front yard and put it in the glass jars.  I also have ivy growing in my front yard, and so I placed the jars on a white tray and wrapped the ivy around the base of the jars. 

I used a total of 5 jars for the centerpiece.

New Vinyl wood signs!

Here are some new additions to my wood crafts.  As always, they can be done in any size, and for your shelf or hanging. 

(shelf or wall-hanging example)(Perfect for Mother’s day)

Warm before the storm

Last weekend we went to St. George while Justin has some meetings.  Evie and I had a nice time during a beautiful day!  We went to the St. George Temple grounds and, of course, the pizza factory for dinner.  It was a fun getaway! 

After seeing and playing on the stairs, we have to make stairs on our blocks/Legos temple now.  every time.

The week we came home, it stormed a few times.  We were able to make some snowmen.  (er, women/girl).   One night, this is what Justin and Evie made.  It’s a little Evie snowgirl! 

 

Natural History Museum

We had such a good time at the Natural History Museum.  Evie was still a little young, but it’s always good to get her familiar with museums.  If anything, she and Justin were adorable next to the dinosaurs! 

While there, Evie got to go for a dinosaur dig.  Maybe we have a Paleontologist on our hands!

Make-your-own-monster

Evie’s cousin Jackie spent the night.  We went swimming and watched a movie and they made their own paper plate monster.  They really had a lot of fun with this and lasted longer then I thought a 3 & 4 year old would doing this project. 

I placed bowls of items from my pantry and craft cupboard on the table, gave each girl a paint brush and a small bowl of mod podge and off they went!  Some plates turned out to be more monster-like than another, but overall, they loved creating their own art!

We had dry noodles, chow mein noodles, nibs, nilla wafers, m&M’s, chipboard pieces, marshmallows.  I just pulled from what I had on hand. 

Evie had so much fun creating her pictures, that when she ran out of paper plates, she picked up one of our dinner/salad plates (stoneware!) and started creating on that.  She had no idea that you don’t do that.  (hilarious) & I didn’t realize what she had done until she was this far along:  (I did find her more paper plates after that!)