Get Well Basket

How do you put together a get well basket for a Grandpa whose had knee surgery?

It's not the easiest, but this is what we came up with.

Item list:

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  742-Dine gift certificate to call in food orders to participating restaurants
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  John Wayne DVD collection
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  Movie popcorn
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  sugar free candies (diabetic)
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  Starbucks ground coffee
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  Bailey's to add to coffee

It turned out pretty cute and the patient gave 2 thumbs up!!

A&J

Vintage Desk

Finally!!!!

That's right, I read all the fun crafty blogs and get so jealous of their nifty little furniture finds. Like oh, Look at me, I just found this fabulous piece of furniture on the side of the road for FREE. Really?!? Like how does this happen to so many people so often, but never me. So now it's finally my turn...yipee!!!
Ok. So I must confess....I didn't actually find this on the side of the road and it wasn't exactly Free. But I did find it on Craig's List and it was only $60. So that's close enough right.

I'm tossing around color options with my partner in crime as I type this.  hhhmmm.  What will I pick. 

More to come later.

A&J

Bumble Bee Birthday Party

What a fun theme for a little girl's 1st birthday party. We have a crafty little friend that often inspires us with her own awesome ideas. Here are a few pics from her daughter's party.

The Cake Table...

Party Favors...

Party Hat for the Birthday Bee...

Wings and antennas for the guests to wear...

Such fun ideas!!!

A&J

Gift Idea

Tickle Monster Kit

As many birthday parties we have to attend these days it gets so hard to come up with the perfect gift everytime and as obsessive as I am I'm always on the hunt for the cutest gift.  AND since our "Spoilt Littles" get so many gifts these days, I love to find unique things that I know they won't already have.  So while searching through all my favorite blogs I stumbled across this.

It's a tickle monster Kit complete with book and tickle monster gloves.  So darn cute!  I love giving and getting books for gifts.  I'm already thinking through how many little ones I can order this for.  If you want one too, you can find it here.

A&J

Ice Cream Birthday Party

Ice Cream parties are the best!!

This party was so much fun to put together and who doesn't LOVE ice cream.  That would simply be

un -American.

Here's the build your own Sundae table....

I loved the cone jars....

The local bakery decided to take the week of the party off for vacation.  Can you believe the nerve.  Never fret....I googled ice cream cone cupcakes and as you can imagine, thankfully and expectantly, there were numerous tutorials on how to make your own.  I was very skeptical at first and did come up with my own version and voila.  I have to say I am quite proud of my simple rendition. :)

The party favors. 

I found the ice cream cups at our local $1 store and the bubbles at Walmart for $1.  Filled them with ice cream cone bubbles also found at the $1 store and some yummy candy.  Topped with white paper topping, a cherry sour and of course a pixie stick straw.  To be fair I included the same candy attached to the big bubbles.  I gave the cups to the girls and the big bubbles to the boys.  Everyone seemed pleased.

And this is why I spend hours putting it all together.

A&J

Drive In Movie Ideas

We made a summer bucket list and one of the items were to take the kids to their first Drive In.  We are lucky enough to live in Tulsa and able to still go to the famous Drive In where the Outsiders was filmed.  How neat to be a part of that history.  Anyway, to get back on track, I made the kiddos these fun popcorn buckets to enjoy during the movie.  Simple but fun.

See, how much they loved it!!

Twilight: Eclipse Party Ideas

First off, for those of you non-Twilighters, just look away....

For those avid Twilight fans, we just wanted to share a few ideas for the upcoming release of the new movie in the saga, Eclipse.

Last year several of us girls got together for a fun night out to watch New Moon. Yes there were many teens there, but we weren't the oldest in line by FAR. We all had so much fun, we vowed to do it again for the next one.

For the New Moon release we had found Sweethearts with Team Jacob and Team Edward on them. We all picked sides and it was just fun! So for this movie release I struggled to find little party favors out on the market that were "Eclipse" related. Couldn't find anything I liked in my area, so I had to get creative.

Anyway, enough of my rambling....

Below are a few little treats I put together for our group of gals.

Eclipse gum: "Fire and Ice" 

Pick your team... :) 

 And little treat bags stuffed with twizzlers

and theme-labeled.

The awesome labels are actually drink labels I downloaded from here.

(note: I cut the twizzlers in half for these bags)

Don't forget that Burger King has also teamed up with Summit

and has all sorts of Eclipse merchandise.

We will be joining in on the Movie fun on release day,

stopping in at BK for eats before the movie,

and rooting for Team Jacob!!!

A&J

T Shirt Halter Dress

What a fun little dress this was to make.  NOT.  I quickly found out that I am not very skilled at sewing.  However, once I figured out I had to slow down and take my time, things went a lot better.  Sewing with thin T shirt material that wants to curl was enough to drive me mad.  In fact, at the beginning of this project I was saying things like, I will never make another of these, EVER.  But, by the end I was already thinking through the other cute little shirts we have that I could use to make more.

My little super model claimed this as a very comfy dress. You can find the tutorial here.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/lilblueboo

A&J