Monday, June 20, 2011

Treat Toppers

Candy Bars are all the rave right now. Of course I had to do one as well. Who could pass that up? I made these fun little toothpick pennants for the "so delicious they were gone so fast" peanut butter balls. I almost wish we had some of those left over...YUM!!!



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Graduation Cupcake Toppers

I really love how these turned out! I made 150 toppers with a tooth on one side and "Class of 2011" on the other. All the teeth were hand cut which took a lot of time but it was well worth it in the end. They added a little extra to the party!

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Congratulations Class of 2011!

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Surprise Graduation Party Invites With Video

Here are the surprise party invites for my husband's surprise graduation party for dental school. These were not easy to make but I managed to put together 89 of them. 
 Check out the video to see how they work.

Here is what the invite says on the inside.
 

Press Play!!
 

This is how the invites started out.

Here is how they end up. 89 Cubes in all!

 The details.

Love the little teeth! I cut them all out by hand so I am biased. =)
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All ready to be stuffed into their envelopes.

I loved hearing about everyone's reactions when they opened these up. Anyone who opened them put them all back together and had other people open them! Too much fun!!!

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Surprise Dental Graduation Party - The Story


I have been waiting FOREVER to show you all what I will be posting very soon.  As you all know, my husband just graduated dental school. He didn't have an undergrad graduation party so I decided to do a surprise graduation party for him when he received his doctorate. He worked so hard to achieve this great accomplishment and I wanted to do something awesome to show him how proud I am of him. I started this project in February of 2011. My husband is very nosy and asks a lot of random questions. I knew this was going to be difficult to pull off. I can't even buy him a birthday or Christmas gift without him knowing...he is no fun!! 

So, I went into cahoots with my mother-in law and she had a great idea of how to elude him. We disguised the party as a sweet-sixteen birthday party in July for a friend of hers. I told my husband that I was doing this sweet-sixteen party for cost of materials because it was his mom's good friend. Almost all purchases were made by his mother. He took the bait and we ran with it. I made everything, for the most part, right in front of him. I even showed him some stuff and asked his opinion. He of course would say things along the lines of, "Yeah, looks good." I was dying inside of laughter. 

We deemed the week before his party the "Week of Lies" otherwise known as WOL. I even had to break into my own house with my mother-in-law to get stuff while he was gone (we only have one car and he had dropped me off at his parent's house that same morning). I ended up pulling one of the curtain rods out of the wall on accident while climbing in...oops! How on earth could I explain that if I wasn't even at home?!? As soon as he and I got home that evening, I pretended to trip and fall towards the window, thereby grabbing the curtain and pulling it out of the wall. I could not believe that he bought it! But who cares, he did! 

It is so extremely hard to lie. I was exhausted!

It was a lot of work putting it all together but it was also a lot of fun! 

Stay tuned to check out all the goodies from his party!






Sunday, June 5, 2011

Fabric Flower Baby Headband & Matching Onesie

One of my friend's and her husband are expecting their first child. They are having a baby girl and her baby shower was this weekend. It was the first time seeing her since we have moved back home. The shower was adorable and so was the mother-to-be! The invite said to bring a plain, white onesie or bib to decorate. Isn't that a cute idea?!? I went equipped with my glue gun and pre-made fabric flowers! I am crazy, I know. =) 

I made the headband before the shower and...
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made the onesie at the Shower.
 

Here is the matching set!! 
I hope she likes it!!
Hurry up Baby T so you can wear it!=)

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Painted Flower Pot

We are finally settled in...sort of. =) 
It has been a while since my last post and, as you can see, this is nothing special. However, I have been so busy with some other big projects that I needed a small project to do. This was perfect! The recent storm we had blew over my last painted flower pot and it shattered. My poor little flowers. =(
So...
What a great excuse to get out in this (finally) beautiful weather and enjoy some sun and some paint!!! I just used acrylic paint and then sealed it with some amazing concoction of glue everyone likes to call Mod Podge (matte)! I just hope my little flowers perk up soon!