Okay so it seriously isnt in this direction on my pics, but for some reason I can't rotate... oh well, it still came out cute ;)
Friday, February 22, 2013
Maddie's Birthday Banner
Okay, here's another banner. Instructions were its at a skating place and colors of the cake were red, white and pink... Red (not so much, but pink and white were cute)
Okay so it seriously isnt in this direction on my pics, but for some reason I can't rotate... oh well, it still came out cute ;)
Okay so it seriously isnt in this direction on my pics, but for some reason I can't rotate... oh well, it still came out cute ;)
Ah-Ha: jello
I love all the "Ah-Ha" uses on Pinterest so I thought I'd give back a little:
SO, I hate it when I make Jello and put it in the fridge to set only to find a jello mess all over the fridge shelf hours later. I used Gracie's little snack bowls with lids to put jello in and put the lid on. kill two birds with one stone (don't know where that saying comes from, but you catch my drift). No mess and perfect size portions for the kids. no fuss, no wasted time scooping and cleaning = happy me!
SO, I hate it when I make Jello and put it in the fridge to set only to find a jello mess all over the fridge shelf hours later. I used Gracie's little snack bowls with lids to put jello in and put the lid on. kill two birds with one stone (don't know where that saying comes from, but you catch my drift). No mess and perfect size portions for the kids. no fuss, no wasted time scooping and cleaning = happy me!
Pokemon Valentine's
The Pokemon obsession is far from over... thus, I made Cole Pokemon Valentine's, he was so happy and a lot of kids really enjoyed them!
I used the same website www.mypokecard.com and Anime picture i drew for Cole's birthday invitation, to create the actual Valentine "card" i wrote something cheesy, like "I Choose you to have an Awesome Valentine's Day!" and used the blanks I had already created for the birthday party. printed it all on white cardstock. Once those were cut, i messed around with the cricut making circles until I had a big enough size to fit the cards. I cut red and white cardstock circles and cut them in half. and cut a black circle (about an inch) and a smaller white circle (about 3/4 inches). i used leftover scraps of Black cardstock i had and cut it into strips the length of the large circles (about 1/2 inch high.
Now to assembly, it was kinda a pain at first but once i did a few and got the hang of it, i was knocking them out pretty fast. so I first hot glued a black strip along the edge of the white half circle, then glued a red half circle on top to make a full circle (poke-ball) with a black strip down the center. (that's the back) next i hot glued the other white half circle along with the one that was aleady part of the poke-ball alon the edge to form pocket. then i hot glued another black strip along the top of the white half circle (and hot glued the smaller black and white circles to make the "button". I then hot glued the red half circle on top of the outer edge of the red one already connected to the poke-ball just at the top about two inches long.
Now you're done, just tuck the cards in the (white part) pocket (i did two blanks and one with Cole) and tuck in the top flap of the red half circle...
Our class required each name be put on the Valentine to ensure no one is left out, so I made cute sticker labels saying "Pokemon Trainer: X" as you can see. I found the font online (google free pokemon font)
I used the same website www.mypokecard.com and Anime picture i drew for Cole's birthday invitation, to create the actual Valentine "card" i wrote something cheesy, like "I Choose you to have an Awesome Valentine's Day!" and used the blanks I had already created for the birthday party. printed it all on white cardstock. Once those were cut, i messed around with the cricut making circles until I had a big enough size to fit the cards. I cut red and white cardstock circles and cut them in half. and cut a black circle (about an inch) and a smaller white circle (about 3/4 inches). i used leftover scraps of Black cardstock i had and cut it into strips the length of the large circles (about 1/2 inch high.
Now to assembly, it was kinda a pain at first but once i did a few and got the hang of it, i was knocking them out pretty fast. so I first hot glued a black strip along the edge of the white half circle, then glued a red half circle on top to make a full circle (poke-ball) with a black strip down the center. (that's the back) next i hot glued the other white half circle along with the one that was aleady part of the poke-ball alon the edge to form pocket. then i hot glued another black strip along the top of the white half circle (and hot glued the smaller black and white circles to make the "button". I then hot glued the red half circle on top of the outer edge of the red one already connected to the poke-ball just at the top about two inches long.
Now you're done, just tuck the cards in the (white part) pocket (i did two blanks and one with Cole) and tuck in the top flap of the red half circle...
Our class required each name be put on the Valentine to ensure no one is left out, so I made cute sticker labels saying "Pokemon Trainer: X" as you can see. I found the font online (google free pokemon font)
Rener's Recipes: B+L+T-L+M+E = YUMMMMMM
Okay, weird title, I know... I was starting off with the traditional BLT, then a Pinterest recipe with poached eggs caught my eye... already planning on BLT with the fixin's but wasn't about to let my poached egg craving go on standby... so here's a little creativity that worked out AMAZING!!! New family fave and totally making this when visitors come....(hint, hint...)
Ingredients:
- {B} bacon (you already know this recipe is NOT on the Dr. Oz thumbs up list, but hey totally worth the calories.. I promise (just run a few laps afterward, you'll be good ;o)
- {T} Tomato (sliced thin, sandwich style)
- {M} Sliced Mushrooms
- {E} Poached eggs
other ingredients (important, however not worthy of making the title acronym)
- Wheat buns
- Mayo (not nasty miracle whip)
- Dried basil
Recipe (READ whole recipe prior to cooking as you may have to overlap steps in order to time correctly):
1) Cook and drain bacon set aside when done (pref in micro to keep warm) DO NOT CLEAN or wipe out pan, just drain excess fat but leave whatever is stuck to pan...
2) Use hot greasy pan to fry mushrooms
3) When bacon is almost done boil water for poached eggs. Once boiled poach eggs while cooking mushrooms, (runny poached eggs are best so try to time accordingly)
4) When eggs are almost done toast burger buns
5) Spread mayo on toasted buns, lay a slice of tomato on the bun, line up a few pieces of bacon, place a scoop of fried mushrooms on bacon put poached egg on top and sprinkle dried basil on that sandwich it up slice and enjoy!
Ingredients: - {B} bacon (you already know this recipe is NOT on the Dr. Oz thumbs up list, but hey totally worth the calories.. I promise (just run a few laps afterward, you'll be good ;o)
- {T} Tomato (sliced thin, sandwich style)
- {M} Sliced Mushrooms
- {E} Poached eggs
other ingredients (important, however not worthy of making the title acronym)
- Wheat buns
- Mayo (not nasty miracle whip)
- Dried basil
Recipe (READ whole recipe prior to cooking as you may have to overlap steps in order to time correctly):
1) Cook and drain bacon set aside when done (pref in micro to keep warm) DO NOT CLEAN or wipe out pan, just drain excess fat but leave whatever is stuck to pan...
2) Use hot greasy pan to fry mushrooms
3) When bacon is almost done boil water for poached eggs. Once boiled poach eggs while cooking mushrooms, (runny poached eggs are best so try to time accordingly)
4) When eggs are almost done toast burger buns
5) Spread mayo on toasted buns, lay a slice of tomato on the bun, line up a few pieces of bacon, place a scoop of fried mushrooms on bacon put poached egg on top and sprinkle dried basil on that sandwich it up slice and enjoy!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Cole's Pokemon Birthday
Obsessed is an understatement with how my son feels about Pokemon right now... thus makes the perfect theme for his 9th Birthday!
First off the invites. I googled anime and watched a few youtube tutorials. I did my best at creating cole the old fashioned way with paper and pencil. I then scanned the pic I drew, then uploaded to photoshop and added the color. I wanted it to look like a trainer card to the best of my ability. turned out okay. I found a website that you can create your own pokemon card: http://www.mypokecard.com/en/ All you do is upload the pics (evolve option in left corner) and fill in the rest. super easy! for the back i just printed out what the back of a pokemon card looks like in the same size as this and glued it (you can scan an actual card or just search online).
(I also used that website, as noted below, to create blank pokemon cards for each "type" so the kids could create their own pokemon cards.)
You'll notice there's no address on this invitation card. If you've ever played pokemon or been dragged into watching your kid play, you'll notice they have maps that they walk around before they get into "battles". I wanted to be creative and use the "map" idea and actually found websites that have all the little figures (like houses, trees, and gym's) but it was way too time consuming so i did my best with what I could do without spending too much more time. for the map I found a picture (not photo) of a Nintendo DS and photoshopped in our address and map to our place so it looks like the DS has the map... I just used mapquest to get a map of our neighborhood and did a close up on the top. (Main streets panned out map on the bottom and closer one on the top) i did use one of the pokemon houses for ours. i found a cute font that looked like the font on the actual game and put Rener City Gym: our address.....
for the outside labels we put each kids name reading "Pokemon Trainer Johnny" and so forth. i downloaded a pokemon font.
Decorations: of course we stuck with the red black and white pokeballs
as the theme color scheme.
I used my wonderful cricut just circles to create the pokeballs banner. I found a pokemon font online and downloaded then printed 9th and Cole in that font on Yellow paper then cut it out as shown. I found some of my sons fav pokemon to create the mobile hanging from the chandelier. I copied and pasted on word (two of the same images for each) and flipped the second one to create a "mirror image" so I could cut and glue them back to back with the string through the middle. I created several pokeballs in different sizes (making sure I had two of each, to glue those back to back as we'll with the string in the middle. Since we knew we only had about ten kids I set the kids up in their own room (formal dining room) so I used our normal table placed a square table on the end to elongate it and put my daughters princess table on the end so the little ones could be a part of he party. I covered the tables in red white and black plastic table cloths and placed a large black ad white circle in the middle to look like a large pokeball.
Food: what's better for nine year olds than pizza. I made fondant in red black and white to make the round cake look like a pokeball. It's a lot easier than you think. Just use a LOT more powdered sugar and food coloring than recipe calls for. Here's the recipe:
I also attempted to do pokeball cake pops. I think big I had more time it would have worked out but I tried to rush it and used too much frosting. I also made cupcakes and used the rest of te infant to make them look like pokeballs. I also used the pics i had for the mobile and printed several pokemon laterally on a few sheets of cardstock and glued that as a strip on my cake plate. Overall it was really cute!
Activities: bingo cards are one of my favs you can be super creative with them too. Cole can recognize pretty much all the pokemon so input the pics on each square I downloaded a pokemon font that each letter is a different character se are duplicated so be careful:
I went through Coles pokemon book and randomly called off pokemon for the kids to place markers. I printed out pokemon coloring pages i found online to put on the tables for the kids to color with cups of colors on the table. I found a website that does block paper figurines of pretty much everything you could think of and of course they had Ash and pikachu and several other pokemon I printed those out one for each kid and put them down on the table with kid scissors and glue sticks the website is www.cubeecraft.com for some reason my computer is super slow right now, I tried to find it with my iphone i think the link is www.cubeecraft.com/cubee/pokeball they have a ton of pokemon so you can just do google or yahoo images and put in cubeecraft pokemon to find them that way. (I'm seriously going to use this website for EVERY party or rainy day! super fun!!)
Take home/favor: You'll hear me say this a LOT. I really DON'T like the cheapy party store take-homes that break within 20 mins of your kid playing with them so I've always tried to make the favor/take-home something the kids will actually use and appreciate... I had a ton of red black and white felt (brownie points for using stuff I already have). I made color pencil rolls for each kid with a larger side that will fit pokemon cards. I used the same website for the invite to create black pokemon cards that the kids could create their own and printed them on card stock. And placed them in that pouch along with several actual pokemon cards (I bought a ton on eBay). I also had a bunch of little rectangle notebooks that were coincidentally the same size as the pokemon cards leftover from my son's Phineas and Ferb birthday party a couple years ago (I'll get that one up too soon). so i printed out sticker labels with a thank you note to put on the cover of the notebooks and slid those in as well. I have to say this is perfect for going out to a restaraunt or somewhere your child could use some entertainment without busting out electronics... good ol' fashioned art! Cole loves his color-pencil roll and has created so many of his own Pokemon cards.
Pic's of course:
First off the invites. I googled anime and watched a few youtube tutorials. I did my best at creating cole the old fashioned way with paper and pencil. I then scanned the pic I drew, then uploaded to photoshop and added the color. I wanted it to look like a trainer card to the best of my ability. turned out okay. I found a website that you can create your own pokemon card: http://www.mypokecard.com/en/ All you do is upload the pics (evolve option in left corner) and fill in the rest. super easy! for the back i just printed out what the back of a pokemon card looks like in the same size as this and glued it (you can scan an actual card or just search online).
(I also used that website, as noted below, to create blank pokemon cards for each "type" so the kids could create their own pokemon cards.)
You'll notice there's no address on this invitation card. If you've ever played pokemon or been dragged into watching your kid play, you'll notice they have maps that they walk around before they get into "battles". I wanted to be creative and use the "map" idea and actually found websites that have all the little figures (like houses, trees, and gym's) but it was way too time consuming so i did my best with what I could do without spending too much more time. for the map I found a picture (not photo) of a Nintendo DS and photoshopped in our address and map to our place so it looks like the DS has the map... I just used mapquest to get a map of our neighborhood and did a close up on the top. (Main streets panned out map on the bottom and closer one on the top) i did use one of the pokemon houses for ours. i found a cute font that looked like the font on the actual game and put Rener City Gym: our address.....
for the outside labels we put each kids name reading "Pokemon Trainer Johnny" and so forth. i downloaded a pokemon font.
Decorations: of course we stuck with the red black and white pokeballs
as the theme color scheme. I used my wonderful cricut just circles to create the pokeballs banner. I found a pokemon font online and downloaded then printed 9th and Cole in that font on Yellow paper then cut it out as shown. I found some of my sons fav pokemon to create the mobile hanging from the chandelier. I copied and pasted on word (two of the same images for each) and flipped the second one to create a "mirror image" so I could cut and glue them back to back with the string through the middle. I created several pokeballs in different sizes (making sure I had two of each, to glue those back to back as we'll with the string in the middle. Since we knew we only had about ten kids I set the kids up in their own room (formal dining room) so I used our normal table placed a square table on the end to elongate it and put my daughters princess table on the end so the little ones could be a part of he party. I covered the tables in red white and black plastic table cloths and placed a large black ad white circle in the middle to look like a large pokeball.
Food: what's better for nine year olds than pizza. I made fondant in red black and white to make the round cake look like a pokeball. It's a lot easier than you think. Just use a LOT more powdered sugar and food coloring than recipe calls for. Here's the recipe:
I also attempted to do pokeball cake pops. I think big I had more time it would have worked out but I tried to rush it and used too much frosting. I also made cupcakes and used the rest of te infant to make them look like pokeballs. I also used the pics i had for the mobile and printed several pokemon laterally on a few sheets of cardstock and glued that as a strip on my cake plate. Overall it was really cute!
Activities: bingo cards are one of my favs you can be super creative with them too. Cole can recognize pretty much all the pokemon so input the pics on each square I downloaded a pokemon font that each letter is a different character se are duplicated so be careful:
I went through Coles pokemon book and randomly called off pokemon for the kids to place markers. I printed out pokemon coloring pages i found online to put on the tables for the kids to color with cups of colors on the table. I found a website that does block paper figurines of pretty much everything you could think of and of course they had Ash and pikachu and several other pokemon I printed those out one for each kid and put them down on the table with kid scissors and glue sticks the website is www.cubeecraft.com for some reason my computer is super slow right now, I tried to find it with my iphone i think the link is www.cubeecraft.com/cubee/pokeball they have a ton of pokemon so you can just do google or yahoo images and put in cubeecraft pokemon to find them that way. (I'm seriously going to use this website for EVERY party or rainy day! super fun!!)
Take home/favor: You'll hear me say this a LOT. I really DON'T like the cheapy party store take-homes that break within 20 mins of your kid playing with them so I've always tried to make the favor/take-home something the kids will actually use and appreciate... I had a ton of red black and white felt (brownie points for using stuff I already have). I made color pencil rolls for each kid with a larger side that will fit pokemon cards. I used the same website for the invite to create black pokemon cards that the kids could create their own and printed them on card stock. And placed them in that pouch along with several actual pokemon cards (I bought a ton on eBay). I also had a bunch of little rectangle notebooks that were coincidentally the same size as the pokemon cards leftover from my son's Phineas and Ferb birthday party a couple years ago (I'll get that one up too soon). so i printed out sticker labels with a thank you note to put on the cover of the notebooks and slid those in as well. I have to say this is perfect for going out to a restaraunt or somewhere your child could use some entertainment without busting out electronics... good ol' fashioned art! Cole loves his color-pencil roll and has created so many of his own Pokemon cards.
Pic's of course:
Friday, February 1, 2013
Evee's Snow White Apron (and dolly one)
Just thought I'd get some of the stuff that I've made up here...
One of my BFF's back home, who I miss VERY dearly has the most adorable butterball little girl with dark dark hair, light pretty skin and bright red cheeks and lips...does that sound like someone familiar... well, if you had a little girl that was obsessed with Princess' you'd know...
SO... of course I couldnt help but make a Snow White themed gift. Everly's birthday is just before Christmas so I sent her a toddler Snow White doll and got busy on her Christmas gift, a little apron perfect for a busy two-year-old and one for her little Snow White dolly...
One of my BFF's back home, who I miss VERY dearly has the most adorable butterball little girl with dark dark hair, light pretty skin and bright red cheeks and lips...does that sound like someone familiar... well, if you had a little girl that was obsessed with Princess' you'd know...
SO... of course I couldnt help but make a Snow White themed gift. Everly's birthday is just before Christmas so I sent her a toddler Snow White doll and got busy on her Christmas gift, a little apron perfect for a busy two-year-old and one for her little Snow White dolly...
Emma's Paris birthday banner
So, just finished last night and sold this morning my VERY FIRST special order!!! This is a momentus occasion for me!!! Whoo-hoo!
I am so grateful that (1) God has blessed me to be able to earn $$$ doing something I enjoy (2) to be for a lady that I hope to build a new friendship with, such a neat person we spent an hour talking AND to be a part of the joy brought to her little miracle (literally... Emma wasnt supposed to be here to celebrate her 8th birthday; GOD is truly amazing if you heard her story!!! and seriously DONT doubt the power of prayer!!!)
Anyways, here's the final product. I try to put love into everything I make as if it was for my own family and friends... and match it to the persons personality and theme. I hope Emma loves it! (no last names please ;o)
It has blank places, as you can see for posting 4x6 photos...
Here'swith a little Vintique prettyfying...
These are for the cupcake and candy bar...
Can't figure out how to rotate here... sorry guys... use your imaginations..
I am so grateful that (1) God has blessed me to be able to earn $$$ doing something I enjoy (2) to be for a lady that I hope to build a new friendship with, such a neat person we spent an hour talking AND to be a part of the joy brought to her little miracle (literally... Emma wasnt supposed to be here to celebrate her 8th birthday; GOD is truly amazing if you heard her story!!! and seriously DONT doubt the power of prayer!!!)
Anyways, here's the final product. I try to put love into everything I make as if it was for my own family and friends... and match it to the persons personality and theme. I hope Emma loves it! (no last names please ;o)
It has blank places, as you can see for posting 4x6 photos...
Here'swith a little Vintique prettyfying...
These are for the cupcake and candy bar...
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