Monday, January 20, 2014

VALENTINE'S DAY PROJECT FOR THE LITTLES

Ari and Amara looooved this Valentine's Day candy necklace project! They both got into it and surprisingly only ate the treats after their necklaces were finished. We loved how hard the kids concentrated stringing on the cereal and candy. This is a great play date activity - fine motor skills trump sugar, right? Candy necklaces taste best served with pink strawberry milk. Have fun! 

We found it was easiest to tape one end of the string to the table. 
Take a much deserved strawberry milk break.
Eat your beautiful creations before this happens...
Cheers!

Friday, January 17, 2014

VALENTINE'S DAY LUNCH

Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to go nuts with pink and red. Those are probably not favorite colors of the special man in your life, so we thought a girls lunch (break) would be a fun way to kick off the month of February. We found these amazing vintage stamps which sparked the idea for the theme "signed, sealed, delivered". Also, due to Leah's hoarder tendencies, we still had a few of these gable boxes on hand to pack the lunches. This would be a perfect, easy get together to host during the week as a "lunch break" party during the work hours!


Wednesday, January 15, 2014

BALLOON VALENTINES FOR KIDS (FREE PRINTABLE)

My three-year-old, Ari, loves balloons. We play catch with them (really good practice for spazzy toddler coordination), we draw funny faces on them, whenever there's a holiday we have tons and tons of balloons, so I thought it would be fun for him to hand them out to his little friends at preschool this year. After I designed this I thought... does this make sense? You make my heart pop? Whatever, the kids will just be excited about the balloon, right? And hopefully not be too disappointed that it's another non-candy Valentine's Day card like this one I did last year! I printed my cards on kraft paper, but you could certainly print it on white or red paper. Click here for the free printable. 

Do you know how hard it is to photograph a toddler and a balloon? Exercise for the week day- check.

For our other Class Valentines, click below titles for the links:












-L

Monday, January 13, 2014

STICKER VALENTINES FOR KIDS (FREE PRINTABLE)

Yippee! A free printable for your littles on Valentine's Day. Ari gave his friends at preschool these packets of stickers last year- all kids love stickers! Click HERE to download the free printable. 
 Found these great foam stickers at Target
Ooooh I love when Ari writes his name! I helped on the "r" but he did the rest himself!

Download our previous designs below by clicking on the titles:


Hope your littles have fun with these goodies!
-L

Friday, January 10, 2014

A "TRIP AROUND THE WORLD" THEMED BABY SHOWER


We are going on a little "trip around the world" on this lovely Friday! We wanted to share a sweet shower that is just too cute to keep to ourselves. We love big over the top celebrations just as much as the next party enthusiast, but honestly swoon over small, charming celebrations such as this one. All of the little details are so perfect and sentimental. 

Sara is awaiting the arrival of her baby boy, and her sister, Beth, was the creative mind behind all of this perfection. Even her home is stunning and full of charming details.

Beth's blurb:
It took me a while to come up with a theme for the shower.  I didn't want to use cheesy baby blue bottles and the generic "it's a boy" banner.  Sara was obsessed with maps growing up and I think still is, and I knew she was using a globe in her nursery, so I thought it would be a fitting theme.  It all fit - Welcoming baby into the world, had Sara's personality, prepping baby for all the travels and experiences he'll have in life, and it wasn't a cheesy landscape.  So, with the globe idea, I scoured pinterest for ideas.  I found a cardstock book of travel theme scrapbooking paper and went to work! I made bunting with leftover twine and my hot glue gun.  I had extra old wooden boxes left over from my wedding, so I used those for different levels of display.  The wreath and framed welcome sign were made from paper of an atlas and I just freehanded the words in silver sharpie, and outlined them with black sharpie. My husband made most of the food, with the exception of the cake pops.  Those were a trial and error process as they were the first ones I had made.  I used blue candy melts from Joanns and gold sprinkles to give them a "globe" look and stuck them in styrofoam for stability and covered it with white rocks to continue the travel/world theme. Everything else just kinda fell together.  All of the little touches were completed last minute by things I had laying around my house.  The birds, books, extra globes, etc. were just extra items I use in my everyday decor. 











Sara's blurb:
I loved that beth tied items I love into the decor - maps, vintage plates, globes for the decor. In one of the wood crates on the mantle, she had vintage Nebraska and Pennsylvania state plates - the states my husband, Brad, and I were born in.  I also loved that she had the Dr. Suess "oh, the places you will go" book and used it as a guest book. it fit the theme perfectly and I'll treasure that with the written notes inside from my girls!

Thank you SO much Sara and Beth for sharing your photos with us!! Enjoy your weekend friends! When we are not posting here, we are Instagramming..... keep up with us here!
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