Is it too late for Valentines?

My daughter loves any and ALL holidays. She thinks she needs to have a new outfit or some kind of party for like every day of the year!! So I know this is kind of old... But these would be great for birthday parties or even St. Patty's day coming up. This year for Valentines me and my little girly girl stayed up late poking holes in gum balls and stringing them up for her class room Valentines. I think they turned out absolutely darling!!! So easy and so fun! I got the idea from tip junkie and when I saw them I knew I would be making them. You can buy gum balls in bulk or by certain colors at different party stores. We lucked out and just raided Grandmas gum ball machine! Easy enough free and free!!!

The boys got blue green and yellow ones and the girls got the girly ones. The arrows were big tootsie roll cupid arrows for my Max man's joy school group.

Nothing like a new skirt from grandma to help celebrate the day of love! The necklace just made the whole outfit right??

Maximus The Great!

See this cute little dude! Yes, he's mine!! All MINE! and today he turned 3!!! Holy Cow! I have a big boy! Anyways with his birthday today I have been thinking about party themes... Lets chat shall we??? How do you celebrate your child's birthday? Any fun traditions? Any cool ideas that I NEED to know about so that my child is not missing out? Birthdays have always been pretty special around here, so throwing a party isn't usually something I complain about it, It's actually something I love to do and I have so much fun with it! (kind of funny though because this year little max isn't really having a P-A-R-T-Y) But I still love throwing them! So this post is all about birthday ideas what have you done or seen done that is just mind blowing and something that we all must know about! Either leave a comment with your stories or share a link for us to all visit!!

This was Mr. Max's first Birthday party. You gotta have a toga party if your name is Maximus. TOGA!! TOGA!! TOGA!! We had everyone dress up and we played some olympic games. The winners got an olive branch and gold metals. It was one of my most favorite parties that we have done.

This was my daughter's 5th birthday. She loves to sew, bake, and create kind of like her mama (oh wait I suck at baking!) But she wanted to have a cooking party and bake cupcakes. So we made a bunch of aprons and little chef hats. When the girls got there we made cupcakes,decorated cupcakes,decorated their chef hats, and made homemade icecream in a bag! (here's the recipe) The girl's all loved it! Such a fun memorable party that only costed pennies to put on.

lastly check this girl out! This is a tea party that this awesome mama put on for her daughters and neices! You really need to visit this blog post! All of the little details just really completed this party! It was too cute!

Ok... so what have you got for me?? I want to hear!

oh man my mr linky is not working for some reason!! I guess you will just have to post your address in a comment if you really want to share!

Helllllooooo 2010!

Yes, Yes, I am alive!! BARELY!! Just Kidding! Christmas was so much fun!! Too much fun especially when you have three little kiddies who are just so dang excited and so dang cute! After my last post I kind of got lost in the excitement of the holidays and enjoying my family and our warm home a little too much! We got to hang out with our families, eat, play games and just enjoy each other! Right after Christmas of course comes the New Year celebrations and also my sweet little Mia's Birthday! Just as soon as we got all of that celebrated I became sick with Strep and it WAS NOT FUN!!! But hopefully I am back! and hopefully the sewing bug will bite me soon and give me some new ideas!! But I wanted to share one quick idea with ya now.

So awhile back I posted about a girl's night out of refashioning clothing. My cute friend DESTRY made this birthday shirt for her little gal with some of my scraps and I JUST had to have one! I figured sense she used my scraps I get to use her creative brains!! So within 20 min I made my little dolly a birthday onesie. I thought it was adorable. I used three different sized rectangles, a piece of Ric rack, and a little piece of yellow. I used wonder under and ironed them to the onesie first and then I stitched around the cake as well. So cute and so fun. It will definitely be placed in her special box.

Another Birthday idea I used was the infamous birthday banners. I REALLY REALLY wanted to make a fabric one but again crazy time of year so I stuck with scrapbook paper and hot glue!! SO MUCH EASIER AND QUICKER!! I LOVE the way it turned out! It measures about 6 1/2 feet long. Each triangle was a bout 6 1/2 inches wide and 9 inches long. The fun of this project is that you get to use your creativity a little! ANYTHING will do! I think my Hubby thought I was a little off my rocker when he saw me putting the time and effort into this, but when I explained to him that it can be used over and over again for various birthdays the light came on!! Eventually I want to make each one of my bambinos a fabric birthday banner that will be hung each year on their birthdays and that they can take with them when they get married, but It just didn't happen this year for Mia. Our next birthday is in April so maybe then!!!

Embellishing is the fun part! GO CRAZY!!

I know the picture kind of stinks!!! And how fun would these be for Valentines, Easter, Babies ETC ETC!!