Judy Moody Party Favor

Are you having a Judy Moody birthday party?  Or do you have a Judy Moody enthusiast?  Just made these for the sweetest customer and so I'm adding them to my Etsy shop. You can get yours here.

St. Patrick's Day - Green Noodles

We love the holidays.  For St. Patrick's Day I made green spaghetti!

 Apparently, it was very good.  I also made green rice crispies too.

The baby slurping up all the green noodles. 

Winter Wonderland in Virginia!

 

My girls loved all the snow we got this winter. I think we are the only one's in Virginia that loved this winter! We aren't accustomed to getting 8 inch average snow falls every few weeks.

Hand Stamped Napkins

Here are some paw hand stamped napkins I did for an upcoming dog party I was throwing.  I know.....I'm crazy! But when I have a vision there is no stopping me and now with Pinterest it is a dangerous world I live in.  I saw these napkins first here and knew I had to do them. I bought a regular o'l ink pad but it didn't give me the look I was going after.  I wanted it dark (saturated). I then tried regular craft paint that you can get at the local craft store.  It looked more like I was envisioning but I had only had dark grey and I wanted black.  Again, I've got issues but that is a whole other story. Lol. I've got a bunch of craft crap stuff so I went looking through it and found some screen printing ink that I had bought and it was black so I gave it a go and it was just right.  Let me warn you if you try this it is messy.  I did mine in my storage room on the concrete floor so if it go messy I could clean it up.

Here they are all layed out drying.

Cat Poop Cake

Ok, so for the upcoming dog party I made a cat poop cake.  Why?  Because every dog I've had loves to eat cat poop.  It is SO gross!  But since dog's really don't know it's their birthday I wanted to gear this party towards the kids. The dog's owner has two young boys. Boys love anything gross, apparently.  I wouldn't know but am learning since I have two girls.  I found this from here and she gives great instructions so I didn't feel like repeating them. By the way I copied her's exactly. You can get all the details there. I don't think she gave the cost of the litter pan and scooper (bought at Wal-mart). I paid $3.00 for the litter pan and $1.00 for the scooper = $4.00 for great presentation.  It's all about the looks, right?

St. Patrick's Day School Treats

Every class needs a clover sucker lollipop garden for St. Patrick's Day, right?  Well at least my daughter's class will have one.  Her sweet little teacher likes the water bottles I do and I can't just do one thing so..... I made these too.  The original creator here used Charms Blow Pop suckers and I wanted to but Wal-mart was out and then when I went to CVS to try and find them I figured out that they are blow pops (with gum). Duh. I knew that hence the name blow pops.  No gum at school.  So it worked out better that I used dum dums they are smaller and worked out perfect, with no gum.

With Glittering Eyes has a very detailed tutorial if you are wanting to do this too.  The only thing I did different was use dum dum suckers, put my styrofoam blocks in a square since I had two, use hot glue to put on the fence and grass, and use my own files but it's pretty much the exact same.

Here are the files if you have a Silhouette and would like to make one too:)

Clover Lollipop Garden - Silhouette Files

Here are the St. Patrick's Day water bottles I did for Payton's class.  I really don't believe in reinventing the wheel if you don't have to, but I never can just leave the original as is. So I made the clover bigger, added the teacher's name with a heart and added a dotted border. Oh, and they were originally toppers too.

Dog Party Invitation & Dog Cake!

Well I can't believe a year has already passed and so that means it's dog party time - again.  Our sweet friends love their dog. I mean really l.o.v.e. their dog.  Well at least the wife and kids do. The jury is still out for the husband.  I only say that because he thinks it is absolutely ludicrous to throw a dog a birthday party.  And while I agree it is a little outlandish I too have been known to throw my own dog a birthday party and she has also been known to get presents under the tree at Christmas just like the really babies do.  We call her our fur baby so I understand that's why I enable help her:)

Here are the invitations I came up with this year.  I used the same Weimaraner silhouette I used last year because I still think it is adorable and really the "dog" doesn't know.

Cat Rings Tell Bell To Be Let Out!

Ok so I have used the bells on the ribbon before. Yes, they did work as intended but my dog refused to use her nose and would hit them with her paw and scratch up my door. Me no likey! So back to the drawing board.  I went online searching for something and came across something called "Tell Bell." Sounded easy enough it is like an old fashioned bell that you used to see on desks to alert someone you were there "waiting."

I bought it. My dog does use it. But it came with two bells but almost always just use the one I trained her to which was the front door bell.  My great plan was to train her to use the front door for "potty" and the back door for "play." Yeah, she not that smart.  I still leave the back door one out and she will occasionally ring it.

So to the original point of this story. Me and Payton were sitting in the living room where you cannot see the bell and heard it ding.  Say what? We knew it wasn't the dog because she was laying in front of the fireplace passed out baking. We both said, "Was that, Rascal, the cat?" I told my husband who pretends to hate the cat and swore he couldn't ring the bell, that he wasn't "smart enough." So he had me being skeptical since we had never actually "seen" the cat ring the bell - only heard him. I thought maybe he accidentally had been stepping on it since he does go to the door when he wants out and prances around and meows. 

Then my daughter, Payton decided to record him in the act.  Here he is ringing the Tell Bell to be let out.  He is an indoor/outdoor cat. He goes out during the day but comes in at night.  He goes into his own room at night so he doesn't get to the Tell Bell during the night or would probably drive us crazy ringing it to be let out! Can you believe the dog trained the cat to use the bell?

Excuse the length of the video it is taken by a 7 year old.  I will have to post a longer one soon.

Banana Bread - Neighbor Thank You Gift

I gave banana bread to our neighbor as a thank you gift for snow blowing our driveway.  He is the sweetest thing ever! He comes over EVERY time it snows and does our drive way.   I always try and give him something to show my appreciation. This is what I gave him last year, well that one was for our previous neighbors, but it was basically the same thing.  That's the great thing about moving you can recycle the ideas you used on your previous neighbors.

This year I gave him banana bread.  I love giving banana bread as you can see here and here!  It is really easy to make and I had some mini bread loaf pans left over from Christmas.  Remember I bought more of them so I could use them through out the year.  What can you really buy for $1 anymore?  Not much I tell ya.  I printed these cute little labels off a while back to use and this made for the perfect presentation. Packing says a lot so make it look pretty!