Homemade Lego Candle Holders for a Birthday Cake
My son is absolutely obsessed with Legos, so for his fifth birthday I wanted to add a little lego touch to his cake. His favorite cake – the one he always asks for – is my Raspberry Lime pound cake, which has just a…
The Ultimate Birthday Song Playlist
Ever since my daughter’s first birthday I’ve made a custom playlist for her party, and later for each of her little brother’s parties as well. I try to fit in as many birthday songs as possible and then fill in between the songs with…
Happy Birthday Baby Girl!
Today my baby girl turns five, and we made this cake for her party with her family tonight: Its surely a candidate for Cake Wrecks (although that’s professional cakes) but we had a lot of fun decorating it. Princesses courtesy of Vivi (FYI the…
Bunting Night Four – All Done!
I finished the bunting! Yay! It turned out really cute. I used 5/8-inch polyester ribbon and sewed each triangle onto the ribbon. I just estimated the spacing so its not always entirely even but that helps its sweet folksy look. I decided to divide…
Bunting Night Three
Tonight is night number three for party bunting, in which I dye the fabric triangles in three lots: pink, green and orange. I used a few galvanized pails I had handy and set up my dye station out on the patio. Now its getting…
Bunting Night Two
Tonight I sewed all the triangles for the bunting and turned them right side out. The fabric is pretty subdued so I’m thinking I might dye it a few different colors.
Bunting!
We’ve got a party coming up this weekend and I’m making bunting to decorate the patio. My stepmom gave me a big bolt of fabric left over from a 20 year old decorating project, so I decided to use that for the bunting. Step…
Needlepoint Gift
I was working tonight on a little gift for someone special in our lives:
Birthday Karaoke
We had a little birthday karaoke session tonight – some of the songs we sang were real ones with backing tracks, some were made up on the spot. Here’s a partial list, see if you can tell which ones are which: Happy Birthday, Something…
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