Well I did, and I think it came out absolutely adorable!

• I went to Lowes and got a HUGE plastic flower pot. I (yes, me!) drilled holes in it and threaded big ribbon to make suspenders.
• I handmade each of the big purple and turqouis flowers by using this tutorial here.
• I arranged the handmade flowers and additional silk florals I purchased from Michaels.
• Then I used both hot glue and duct tape to stuff and secure the flowers in the pot.
• I hot glued a felt mini vase to a headband and used a mini watering can as a purse for the added sweetness.
• VIOLA! A cute halloween costume as a flower pot!
• If you wanted to do a couples costume, your other half could be a gardener!

Hope everyone can stay safe during this halloween…

<3 Kelly

It’s been a LONG TIME! Man things have been pretty crazy. I do have a lot of pictures of things to share with everyone, but that will wait for another day. Today I wanted to share with you these lovely pictures of Danielle’s baby shower. Her mom Louise was so excited to give her a beautiful shower but was SICK OF BALLOONS! So she contacted me and this is how things turned out. So much prettier than basic balloons and so unique people won’t forget them!

Enjoy! I hope this inspires someone out there to put a unique and pretty spin on whatever it is you may be planning. <3

So this last week or so I haven’t been involved too heavily in any parties or tablescapes, but I wanted to show you all a few fun ideas for all the summer celebrations. In May I was invited to a 30th birthday party, an engagement/ graduation party and a bridal shower. I wanted to share with you guys some fun and creative ways to make an ordinary gift a bit more sassy!

Hope these ideas will inspire someone to be a little more clever than just a bag and some tissue paper!

I have this habit (my husband calls it an addiction) whenever someone close to me gets engaged, or finds out their pregnant, or whatever the event might be, if there is a celebration at some point you can bet your bottom dollar that I am making a basket. I spend months collecting and planning.

The first thing I do it figure out what type of theme I want to do. In this case (like last week’s post stated) Lauren is having a beach theme wedding so the type of wrapping was easy, as for what goes inside– that’s another issue.  After thinking about it and weighing all my options I decided that Lauren has quickly become the hostess of the group, so I figured she will LOVE some backyard BBQ things. Click here for some close-ups of some of the knick knacks I got her…

The bucket itself can be used for drinks, ice or even use it as a planter! All the other things are either for a BBQ or just hosting in general. The wrapping was something I decided right off the bat, I went to Michaels and bought a fishermen’s net and I attached seashells with raffia. As for the card, I wrote oa poem on scrapbook paper and put it inside a bottle and set it up as a message in a bottle! This was so much fun to do! It is unique, special, fun and really sweet! Usually they are quite the hit, I hope you enjoy the pictures and if this inspires anyone let me know how it turns out!

Happy Monday all!

Yesterday we celebrated  one of my closest and dearest friend’s bridal shower. Me, being the crafty and neurotic creature that I am, wanted to help by creating the centerpieces. Lauren is having a beach wedding, so I wanted to bring that feeling into the shower. I’ve been collecting bottles and ideas for months and I was so excited to see it all come together. I had so much fun doing this, and it is always a treat when it’s someone close. The rest of the bridal party and the mother of the bride were amazingly helpful and I was so grateful that they all, pretty much, gave me artistic license. It’s nice when people trust in your judgement. Hopefully these ideas can help make another bride happy… ENJOY!

Here is my quick craft for the weekend….

Now don’t get me wrong I still love ballons, but I feel as if people have really been steering away from the basic balloon and crepe paper streamers. I still love crepe paper and I think there is tons to do with balloons, but when someone requests a centerpiece that they want to look different I jump all over it. I try to think “outside fo the box” (as you can see below, literally ‘outside of the box’ )

I was sort of stuck because I am so used to doing decorations for my nieces or my girlfriends who all have little baby girls. So I was out of my comfort zone for boy decorations and for a communion (my first!) So I did what I had to do as any good blogger-I combed the internet and pintrest looking for communion ideas. I came up empty handed. I couldn’t really find anything other than the basic party store decorations. So I had to come up with another idea. I found these boxes at Michaels, and I obviously I love scrap paper, and I went to town. I tried bigger crosses at first but it looked so top heavy and with a collabroation between myself, my husband and of course the customer I ended up deciding on a 12″ cross.

I’m hoping that maybe this will give someone else an idea if they get “stuck” decorating for a communion. This was a little more challenging since the theme is set and all the usual sites I go to had fairly limited inspiration for me. I hope you like them. I enjoyed making them…

As I mentioned yesterday, today is my sister’s birthday! So since today is special I decided to have second post this week.

My sister, Kristen, is always baking. She is always the one that gets that phone call “Hey we are throwing a party can you just whip up some cupcakes?” And this year, I decided to be the one that bakes her an amazing cake, since she always goes out of her way for our family and her husband’s family.

I bought this pan (I think) 2 years ago with my mom, I have never used until Friday. I think the cake was spectacular and, although time and pateince are needed, it was well worth it! It was absolutely delicious and spectacular! Lemon, honey, not too sweet- just right. ONE QUICK TIP: if you would like to try this, try to level it while it is still in the pan. I think I lost a little bit more cake than I had to.  See recipe here.

My beautiful and amazing sister’s birthday is tomorrow and we all know how hard it is to celebrate a family birthday during the work week. We decided to have it this passed Saturday, it was a little chilly but a beautifully sunny day. I decided to decorate my Mom’s backyard a little bit to give it a little more of a celebratory feel.

I keep seeing all these great ideas on Pintrest with mason jars so I decided to give it a try. (Who doesn’t dream of one day using all those great ideas!) I think it came out really nice, everyone loved it. Unfortunately when the sun went down when you could really appreciate the candlelight the my pictures just didn’t come out the way I wanted them to. I think you can get the idea though. All I did was take some wire twist it around the jar mouth and hung them all around.

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary. To help celebrate I thought it would be nice to set up our dining room table with some wedding accents. I know it is tradition to keep your cake topper and eat it on your first anniversary, well I’m not going to lie when I took that cake out of the freezer to defrost it, I was not excited. It surprisingly looked a lot better than I thought it would– but it still was NOT something I was looking forward to eating. I’m glad I kept it for the tablescape, not for a midnight snack.

I made a shadow box with some pictures, scrapbook paper flowers (yes I made those too) and I added our wedding invitation. I wanted to use our program but I ran out of room.

Everything else was either purchased or some things I’ve had around, just placed in such a way that makes me smile when I walk into the dining room.

I hope you enjoy it…