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chore dice

May 25, 2011

i am currently obsessed with pinterest.com
there are so many great ideas!

i came across this one
for chore dice the other day

i definitely wanted to make some!
i changed up the idea a little bit.
my kids are currently very motivated
to earn money.
so i decided to add that in.
 

 first i bought 3 unfinished wood blocks from the craft store
{my daughter helped paint them}


then i printed out the square labels.
{it's unfortunate that i misspelled vacuum for the millionth time}


once the labels were cut,
it was time to assemble using
modge podge.

my daughters wanted them to be sparkly,
so we also added glitter
{just make sure you do
another layer of modge podge
or else you'll need to add "clean up glitter"
to the chore list}
so far it is working really well!
we made one block "before dinner chores",
the second "after dinner chores" and
the third block has the amount of money
they get for each chore.

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bubble...bubble...bubble

my son is turning two!
when my daughters turned two, i planned their
parties around their current obsession.
the problem with my son is not that
he doesn't have an obsession...
those include the chicago bears,
the chicago blackhawks, the chicago cubs
and taylor swift.  but, since we had a baseball party
last year i wanted to stay away from a sports theme and taylor
doesn't exactly scream 2yr old boy....

luckily he started to watch ONE kid's show.
-the bubble guppies-
if you do not currently have a toddler/preschooler
you have no idea what i'm talking about.
but he thinks they are very funny
and really likes the theme song
"bubble, bubble, bubble.....guppy, guppy, guppy"
{although here it is more like "buppy, buppy, buppy"}

so we are having a bubble guppy party
heavy on the bubble!

the invitations:
for the kids:

i dumped the bubbles out of these containers
(into a larger bubble bottle)
washed them and let them dry.
next i added a wrap with the guests' names.
i rolled the invite up and secured the bubble wand
to it with with orange bakers twine.
 for guests outside our neighborhood,
i actually put their address on the bottle
and mailed it!
it was about $1.50 each
i didn't put a return address on mine,
and my husband ended up having to write
them on at the post office.
i can't really think about how that looked :(

for the adults:

for the adults (grandparents, aunts/uncles)
i just mailed a regular invite.
but i made these cute address labels:


  i can't wait to share all the
bubble fun!








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minnie mouse party

May 19, 2011

i was asked to do a custom 
minnie mouse party
for a cute 2 yr old girl.

we used
black sparkle paper,  bright pink polka dots
& lots of zebra print.

banner:



cupcake toppers:


favor tags


pictures from the big day!



thanks erika & taylor!




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mother's day gift

May 7, 2011


this is an easy,
 kid friendly
gift for grandma.

i got lucky and a local garden center
had these pots
(already painted and including a plant)
for just $1!


i wanted the kids to personalize them for each grandma.
 
 
each kid made a flower and ant body with their
finger print.  (i used acrylic craft paint)


then i added the stem, grass, legs and antennae
 
you can't tell, but the post has 3 flowers and 3 ants.  
one for each kid.

i still want to have them each write their name by their ant/flower.





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