More projects

More projects for my MIL. She's announcing her leader that is recently pregnant by hanging this banner at mutual tonight. I used birthday banner printables that I already had, then I just printed off the new letters I needed, and covered up the birthday letters.



From the same printables I used the cupcake toppers and covered up the images with my own. I glued them at different heights on popsicles sticks, and stuck them in glass jars full of split peas. Super cute and easy.


Then, for a 5K the Young Women are doing, my cute MIL wanted to give them a reminder on Sunday. So she wanted to make a cute water bottle label to put around their own bottle.
I had her pick her favorite design again, and this happened to be an easter one. There is a bunny hiding under the label. She gave me all the information and I formated it to fit right in the design. Turned out pretty cute.

Kit Kat cake

I made this kit kat cake for Mother's Day/my daughter's 4th birthday. I saw the idea HERE. I knew I had to try it. It was fairly simple, but for the record you need 11 pkgs. of kit kat's, and at least two bags of M&M's..
I made it with two 9" round cakes stacked...pretty easy.

Mother's Day present

A simple box of cards for my MIL. I picked out papers that reminded me of her and made simple but beautiful cards. She is a card person and always has oodles on hand. A while ago she showed me a sample of this simple card with a coordinating strip around the middle and told me she would pay me to make some for her. I pretended to forget/be busy...and "never got around to it" until now. She loved 'em, and I had fun making them for her.

Mother's Day cards

These are the cards I wipped up for Mothers day.

I love the detail of the embossed writing on the brown.
I think they turned out pretty.

Late Easter

I have been finishing up two Easter projects that I didn't get to until now. I decided that it is indeed less fun to make crafts for a holiday that already happened, so the rest of my ideas will wait 'till next year. I hate putting them away in a box for another year...but I'm glad I finished them.

Cute pinecone looking eggs. My friend and I did, we got the idea HERE. I supplied the pins...well most of them. And she supplied the eggs, and paper. I think I will display them on different height stands...we'll see. But I think they are just beautiful.



And yarn carrots. We found HERE. Super easy and cute. My friend supplied the yarn for these....she's a good friend :) They turned out really cute. I have A LOT more I want to do for Easter...but next year.

Teacher Appreciation

Teacher appreciation starts today. It's a whole week of showing love to those who raise are children while we are not! And I am SO thankful for them. My kids are very much like me, and respond better to outside sources for learning. My Dad attempted to teach us piano when we were little....FAIL. My Mom attempted home school with me in the fifth grade....FAIL. (which btw, if you're reading, I'm sure you did an excellent job...it was me...) So again I am VERY thankful to those who teach, inspire, and help my kids grow. I knew when I saw this idea on Skip to my Lou, that this was the gift I wanted to give Aubree's Pre-school teacher.
I took Aubree to Wal-Mart and had her pick out some flowers. We came home and found this cute pitcher in my "I'm-not-sure-why-I-have-you-but-I-know-I'll-use-you" pile, and viola....a beautiful gift.
I printed out the cute cute tag, from said blog...and used a scallop punch I have to make it extra cute. Hope she likes it.

Lil' Diaper cake

Another request from my MIL. She picked up all the stuff and asked me to assemble it. I had 100 diapers ( I used about 65) A bottle, a pack of wash cloths, a Johnson's to-go kit, and some ribbons. This is what I came up with.
She wanted it cute, but simple. She had already done a bigger gift at the shower, but she wanted all the girls in YW to present this to her. (It's on of her YW's Mom who just had the baby.) She is the cutest President E.V.E.R.


Turned out pretty cute!