Who knew one night of camping could produce so much dirt…
Since I spent Sunday resting after our little camping trip, I didn’t make it to the grocery store. So tonight’s dinner will be nutritionally lacking, but the boys will be happy.
We camped with a bunch of friends and a camp ground really close to home. Some of them went up Friday night, but we decided to just go up Sat morning.
The boys had so much fun. I couldn’t keep shoes on Sid. They got a real good soaking when we got home. And they ate so much junk food this weekend. ahh…good times.
I can make anything with paper, but vinyl still scares me.
What about you? Do you vinyl?
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T-Ball is over, which makes me a little sad. This year I volunteered to be the parent that took care of getting a thank you gift for our coaches.
I collected money and went out and purchased gift certificates for a self-serve frozen yogurt store. I used sketch pens in my Silhouette Cameo to write the sentiment and dollar amount on the gift certificate.
Looks way better than my own hand writing! I of course had to make envelopes out of fun baseball paper to hold the certificates.
I used my Cameo to cut out the envelopes and I also cut out “Thanks Coach” and glued it to the front of the envelope.
Of course being the over-achieving-silhouette-owner that I am, that just wasn’t enough.
I recently talked about my new love of glass etching and thought how awesome it would be to etch a picture frame with the word “Coach” and have a spot for the team picture and a spot with some baseball subway art.
I made up the subway art in a horizontal 5×7″ size, as our team pictures were also 5×7″. I thought I could find a frame with two horizontal 5×7″ spots, but in a vertical orientation.
Boy was I wrong! All the pre-cut mats for horizontal pictures were horizontal, making a long picture. That just would look good with what I had in mind.
I found these (buy one get one free!) frames that had a horizontal 5×7 and lots of blank space. And I realized I could do the subway art with vinyl!
I used vinyl as a stencil to etch the word “coach” in the glass. Vinyl is such a great etching stencil, it gives nice clean edges so none of the etching cream leaks under the stencil.
I had to do an offset of the text, to get the look I wanted. I etched it on the inside of the glass, so the outside is all smooth.
The colors of our baseball organization are blue and yellow, so I used blue vinyl for the subway art. It was so easy to apply, and it gives it a look that says “this is the way I purchased them at the store.”
I forget how easy vinyl is to work with, my mind always first goes to paper. What can I make out of paper? Maybe now I will ask “Can I make that out of vinyl?”
I can’t over how easy this project was! Although, if you notice in the bottom left corner it just says “base” with a blank space before it, I did have some difficulty with fonts. It really says “1st, 2nd, 3rd” but the font was too thin, so I had to redo it in a different font. But that was just a minor flaw, and was quick to fix.
I also made some cupcake toppers for our end of the season party, to go on the cupcakes my sister made. (but they are made from paper)
The frosting on the cupcakes looks like grass, cause you know, that’s what the field is.
Ian and his trophy at the end of the T-Ball season
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I love hosting baby showers and birthday’s and well any party really. I don’t want to toot my own horn (OK, yes I do), but my sister and I throw some amazing parties.
One of my cousins, Bailey was expecting her first baby this month. Our other cousin Darcy wanted to throw Bailey a shower, with the help of my sister and me.
A little background information for you, I have a boat load of cousins. And it can kinda get confusing, as there are two that I am going to talk about, but they are not sisters, they are also cousins.
The three of us started brainstorming about themes, my sister and Darcy throwing down some great 80’s cartoon themes. When Darcy says ‘Oh, I know! Rainbow Brite!’
A little side note: when Bailey found out they were having a girl she said “…she will wear and use anything that she is given but if you have color choices, go easy on the pink please we like the whole rainbow” so a rainbow theme was just perfect for her. Plus there was a whole ton of Rainbow Brite playing going on whilst growing up.
So to work I went on the invitations. I had less than a week to design, cut and send them out, so I went with a simple design. We also kept the theme secret from the Mom-to-be. That was really fun. I of course use my Silhouette Cameo to make the invitations and other decorations.
I cut out different colored circles in various sizes and sewed them together. This was my first time sewing paper, and I am now hooked!
We really wanted some tissue paper pom-poms and decided to make some ourselves. We got some tissue paper packs from the dollar store, instead of separating the tissue paper by color we decided to make them rainbows too.
I think we bought two or three packs, and made about nine small ones and four large ones. More than a dozen pom-poms for $3!
They look great all clustered together.
Of course I also had to make some rosettes, my other favorite party decoration. I used plain colored card-stock and matched each of the Color Kids to the color of the rosette. On the other side of the rosette the circle is the Sprite that matched the Color Kid.
For the banner I cut out onesies and rainbow letters that “Welcome Baby” as the parents had not decided on a name yet. For the banner spacers I used images of a few Rainbow Brite characters on the onesies.
At the last shower we threw (for a different cousin) we gave these Cookie-in-a-Jar gifts, and everyone said they made wonderful cookies. So we decided to do it again. We made 40 of them….
Luckily my mom had tons of rainbow-colored fabric to use on the lids. We decided to use mini M&M‘s, instead of chocolate chips, because they were the most rainbow like candy. The tags I made using my Silhouette and I was able to print on both sides of the tags. The back has the instructions for baking.
My most favorite decoration was the rainbow backdrop on the food table.
I still love looking at pictures of the backdrop.
Remember all those circles I sewed together? This is where they ended up. Looks great huh?
We tried to stick to the rainbow theme with the food as well.
Luckily Mother Nature loves colors as much as we do. The two bowls of marshmallows are the clouds that border the fruit rainbow. And of course there is a bowl of Skittles on the table.
We wanted to make a diaper cake, and just in time, SVG Cuts came out with this Tiny Miracle kit that had a diaper castle. Rainbow Brite’s castle was yellow and had rounded tops, not pointed ones. If I had more time, I might have tried to adjust the tops, but the castle still looked great as it was.
Although I didn’t take pictures of the food tent labels, they also matched the rainbow theme.
My sister made these wonderful rainbow cupcakes. To which I added the cupcake toppers with all the characters.
I also made the mom-to-be a souvenir invitation and framed it for her. My mom had a couple of dolls, that belonged to my nieces, so we added them to the decor.
My sister made some gluten-free chocolate cupcakes and some that were rainbow inside.
Oh, so yummy!
And of course here is my cousin in all her pregnant glow!
The guests played present bingo, when mom-to-be opens a present, you get to mark in on a Bingo card. It is a fun way to get everyone involved in the presents and we play it at all our showers.
My cousin was just thrilled when she came and saw the theme and all the decorations. Her baby girl has since arrived and everyone is doing wonderfully.
I thought it must be a mistake when I typed out the date for this post.
How can June be almost over? It just begun!
Of course this past week completely disappeared for me.
I was able to by pass most major colds this winter, but come summer time I go and get bronchitis (or pneumonia). After coughing non-stop for four days, I went to the doctor. I decided to skip the x-ray to know what I had for sure, but he said it was one or the other. I think I might be getting better, but I still have this horrendous cough, and I am so exhausted.
I mean, my abdominal muscles are sore, like I have been doing a week of crunches, my coughing was so bad.
So I am not really sure what happened last week, it is just kind of a blur for me. (and I am a little delirious right now, so I am not sure how this post will turn out)
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