Happy New Year

Wish you a happy and safe New Years!

Picture from Family Fun

NYE Ball Drop Cupcakes

How adorable (and cleaver) are these cupcakes from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen?
Head over to her blog to find out all the details on how she made them.
Happy New Year!

Mom Cave!

For the longest time I've wanted to create a special space just for me! A place to be on the computer, a space for all my party stuff, and a place for me to create and design! Mom Cave is the word. I've had it in my mind that I would turn the computer room upstairs into my Cave. Cute, small room with one side filled of wall shelving. Then, after the kids had all their toys in our basement and NEVER went down there to play with them, I realized all their stuff was going to waste and we need to do something about it. Have of the basement is finished, half isn't, so for some reason they didn't like it down there. So, long story short- I turned their playroom into the computer room. Mom Cave- GONE. (Poor me, but now their playroom is adorable and they love it) After I was downstairs last night going through my party boxes in their old playroom, I thought- Perfect, this should be my mom gave. Tile Floors, white walls, heat, peace & quiet, away from everyone. I should have thought of this earlier! I don't' mind being down there, so why not! Now that's it's been on my mind since last night, I searched for some ideas and inspiration on what I'd like it too look like.

Does any have or want a mom cave?

I really like this color palette.

Snowmen Galore

With all this snow around, I keep thinking of snowmen. Here are a few snowmen activities and treats!

Snowman Cupcake from Martha Stewart
This cupcake looks so easy to do, and of course looks extremely yummy!

Instructions: This snowman wears a fine winter hat: a chocolate-covered mint beret. His plump figure is two marshmallows -- cut a slice off the top one and squish to make it smaller. Dabs of icing hold parts together. His eyes are chocolate sprinkles (poke holes first with a wet toothpick), and his nose is cut from a gummy fish


Whimsical Snowman
How cute is this whimsical snowman craft from Family Fun I've been seeing this trend as a craft, cupcakes, and even cookies.

Materials:
White and colored felt
Tacky glue
White pom-pom
Black puffy paint
Craft foam (for nose)
Twigs (for arms)

Instructions
Cut a puddle shape from white felt and use tacky glue to attach a white pom-pom to the top.

With black puffy paint, add eyes, a mouth, and buttons. Glue on a craft foam nose and twig arms.

Wrap a felt scarf around Melty's neck and glue it in place.

Snowman Milk
This milk is so adorable. I love the doughnut hole for his head.

From Better Homes and Garden
Instructions: A glass of milk takes on new deliciousness with doughnut-hole snowmen heads. Outfit powdered doughnut holes with eyes and a nose made of edible food clay. Pierce a hole through the center of the doughnut using a skewer and fit in a straw. Make a miniature scarf for the glass from orange yarn and trim it with scrapbook brads in the shape of snowflakes.

Rosie Cheek Snowman from Martha Stewart
I wish I did this to the snowmen we made the other night! (They didn't make it through the night with the Blizzard winds, or I totally would have gone out and added it. Red food coloring around the cheeks completes the look for this snowman. I love it!

Barnyard Inspiration

My nephew Peter is turning two in April. (yes, I'm already starting to plan) Here are a few things I've found that are giving me inspiration and ideas. My sister will have a four week old newborn, so the planning falls on me. (which of course- I love!)

The Celebration Shoppe has a great Barnyard Printable Collection.

I'm totally going to use this egg carton as a favor. It's an easy way to save money and it's fits the theme!

I love the Overalls Giggledust Parties uses for their barnyard party.


I love the haystacks for seating with his table.


These silver pails are perfect for the theme


Other ideas I'm thinking are sunflowers in glass jars, milk in bottles, cowboy hats, horse pony sticks, and creating landscapes out of cardboard boxes. The possibilities are endless!!

Boston Blizzard Fun

The fam went outside to do a little shoveling, night sledding, and lastly created ourselves in snowmen. It was a great time. Sorry for the poor quality picture.

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New Years Eve Inspiration

Hosting a New Years Eve Party? Here is some inspiration to help you plan..


Lindi from Love The Day is giving these FREE printables away for Operation Smile. Operation Smile is a nonprofit organization that hosts baby showers for military wives while their husbands are deployed. Click here to download these printables.
Also- Click here for Operations Smiles Website.



Courtney from Pizzazzerie styled this gorgeous navy and gold New Years Dinner Party.


Head over to Courtney's website to see many more pictures and inspiration.

Chris from Celebrations at Home created this black and white Holiday Dessert table, but I think it would also be perfect for a New Years Eve Party.





I hope you found some inspiration for your party!

New Layout

Thanks to my Sister at Chocolate Reasoning, I learned how to add a new layout from Aqua Poppy Designs to my blog. Thanks Nicole!

My Christmas Gift

Chris got me the galaxy for Christmas. I love it so much and I'm blogging from it right now. It has built in 3G, a camera, a video camera and endless apps. It does everything the ipad does, just smaller. Perfect for my train commute everyday. I don't think I'm ever going to get off it. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a great day filled with family, food, and gifts. Today, we are expecting a foot of snow. Sledding..here we come..

Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone- Sorry I've had lack of posts this past week. I've been VERY busy getting everything ready for Christmas. I'm hosting Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so the planning has been busy. I've been taking pictures, so I will post later! Until then.. I'm going to attempt to make some Christmas tree cake pops, bake some pies, cookies and two dinners- Oh and wrap TONS of gifts for the kids! Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Bakerella does it again.....

How adorable are these Santas and Elves that Bakerella made. She used an Ice Cream cone cookie cutter... She is a.m.a.z.i.n.g!




Click here for a step by step tutorial on how she does it...

Dear Santa....

All I want for Christmas is:






Is that too much? I'll keep wishing! ;)

Christmas Party

Here are the pictures from our Christmas party we hosted this weekend. I hope you enjoy the pictures!


This was the dessert table for the party. I wrapped boxes up with red wrapping paper to add some height in different areas around the table. I used red and silver trees on each end of the tables to create a balance. I used a white backdrop and hung down a green wreath and added some mini silver balls to it. At the top I hung green, silver and red ornamnets.





Chocolate covered oreos and Pretzels dipped in chocolate with crushed candy cane


I ordered the cupcakes from Jenna Cakes in Pembroke



Here is the bar area I created for the party





This basket was given to me by my friend Mary. She put so much thought into creating a basket for me to use for my next party! I love it so much.

Lola's Princess Party

Lola's Princess party I hosted in April was the party of the day over at Catch My Party! You can find any party you are looking for on their site. It's a MUST Go-To site when looking for inpiration!

Another Blog Feature

I'm so excited that Amanda from Shindig Parties to go featured my party that I styled using her printables. Amanda was such a pleasure to work with, and I'm happy she showcased my party today! The collection she designed has been showcased on so many blogs in the recent weeks. Her work is AMAZING!

I've been very busy working on our holiday party this weekend. I can't wait to show you the pictures. Think traditional Christmas colors- Red, Green & White!

Mickey Mouse Cake

Here is a Mickey Mouse Cake I did for my niece's first Birthday. Gwen loves Mickey Mouse clubhouse, so I volunteered to make her cake. My sister loved how it turned out! I used chocolate & vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. I topped it with fondant and Mickey Mouse characters from the Disney Store. Below is the birthday girl- I just LOVE her!

SOMEONE PINCH ME!

Today, my cookie decorating playdate was featured by Chris Nease from Celebrations at Home. I look at her blog EVERY day. I always thought it would be so great to be featured on her site. I'm so inspired by all the work Chris does. I've only had my blog up for a few weeks and I'm still getting used to how to be a "blogger," so this is such a BIG deal for me.