Tiki Bar

I want to have the island in my kitchen as the bar for our annual party.  Since we are having a summer theme, I thought Tiki Bar!  I made this Tiki Bar top to hang from the ceiling over the kitchen island.  I used a cardboard box, some wrapping paper and grass skirts.  TFL

Party Banners

As I posted earlier, my husband and I are hosting our annual holiday party in December (Summer in December Party).  I made six banners over the weekend for the food tables and front door.  Here is the one I made for the Salad Bar.  The others are the same design, but say Welcome to Paradise, Starters, Meat & Potatoes, Sweets & Treats and Tiki Bar.  I used several different cartridges including Art Philosophy, Accent Essentials, Lifes a Beach and Celebrations.  I strung each letter together with ribbon.  I also finally used my Peachy Keen stamps on the sun.  TFL

Quick Gift Card Holder

Happy Monday!  My son was invited to a classmate's birthday party over the weekend.  He wanted to give the boy a gift card as his gift.  Since he plays football, I thought it would be nice to use the football textured paper to cut a pillow box and tie some football ribbon around it.  I used one of my $1 stamp sents for the sentiment.  We went to Modells to buy him a football designed gift card, but all they had was baseball.  I couldn't put a baseball gift card into a football themed gift card holder so we ended up with a Target gift card.  TFL

Summer in December Party

Every year, my husband and I host a holiday party at our house for friends and family.  I try each year to come up with a theme (which is getting harder each year).  This year, since we love summer so much, we (or maybe I) decided that the theme will be Summer in December.  The first thing for me to do is get the invitations out.  Here is what I came up with by searching on the internet.  The details for the party are on the shovel that pulls out of the bucket.  It was a lot of work, but I think it was all worth it.  I have so many ideas for decorations and will post them as I create!  TFL

Trick or Treats

Happy day after Halloween!  We attended a family Halloween Party last night.  I made some special treats for my son's friends.  Sour cream containers filled with m-and-m's and pillow boxes filled with smarties and a pencil.  Driving home yesterday, I got the idea to stick the pencils into a piece of styrofoam and layer the sour cream containers around the outside.  Turned out nice.  TFL

Happy Halloween Party

Wow!  It has been a while since my last post.  I will try and do better!  My super talented friend Deb hosted a Halloween Party at her house over the weekend.  Since my son is 13, I don't really have young-uns to create treats for, but there were so many cute Halloween ideas that I had to make something.  We started creating a bunch of treats over a month ago so I had to finish.  I made these pillow boxes filled with a candy bar for the kiddies and I made the notepad covers for the moms.  TFL

What a nice surprise!

My super-crafty friend Debbie left this adorable thank you card and St. Patty's Day treat on my windshield this morning.  I crocheted sheep for her son's class so the thank you card was for those.  So cute!  It is taking much will power not to open up the St. Patty's Day treat because I know there is chocolate in there.  After lunch I will have to indulge.  Thanks Deb!