Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Sweet Pea Cupcake Toppers and Scrapbook Pages

Sweet Pea Cupcake Toppers and Scrapbook Pages

March 15, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Cupcakes, Featured

Do you have a sweet pea with a birthday coming up soon? My sister came up with a really cute sweet pea design for a scrapbook page she made this weekend and I thought it would make a really cute cupcake design, so I had to give it a try.
Here are the sweet pea cupcake [...]

Friday Giveaway~ Nintendo DS Alvin and The Chipmunks The Squeakquel

Friday Giveaway~ Nintendo DS Alvin and The Chipmunks The Squeakquel

March 12, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Contests/Giveaways, Featured

I have another Friday giveaway for you today. I have a copy of Alvin and The Chipmunks The Squeakquel for Nintendo DS to give away.
We received a copy of the Alvin and The Chipmunks The Squeakquel game for Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS version both at the same time. My son took the Wii [...]

Baked Clay St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Necklace

Baked Clay St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Necklace

March 9, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Featured, Get Crafty, Holidays

I love playing with the baked and air dry clay. It’s so fun to make different things with it, from napkin rings to jewelry, and school projects. It seems like we’re always making something out of clay, but I haven’t shared much of it here.
Today I thought I’d share a simple baked clay shamrock necklace [...]

Fun St. Patrick’s Day Ideas For Kids

Fun St. Patrick’s Day Ideas For Kids

March 8, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Featured, Get Crafty, Holidays

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up fast, so I thought I’d put together a roundup of fun St. Paddy’s Day crafts, cupcakes, and other ideas for kids. It includes some ideas from here at The Kid’s Fun Review, a couple ideas I wrote for Disney’s AmazingMoms, and it also has some fun stuff from some [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Leprechaun Finger Puppet

St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Leprechaun Finger Puppet

March 8, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Featured, Get Crafty, Holidays

I thought it would be fun to make a little leprechaun finger puppet for St. Patrick’s Day, he would be fun for kids to use with a little leprechaun house made from an old shoe box as a stage. He would also make a fun leprechaun pencil topper, to get all your friends talking and [...]

How To Train Your Dragon~Viking Hat Cupcakes

How To Train Your Dragon~Viking Hat Cupcakes

February 20, 2010 by Linette  
Filed under Cupcakes, Featured

I was checking out the How To Train Your Dragon movie trailer with my son, and I thought it would be really fun to make some viking hat cupcakes to go along with the movie. These cupcakes are super easy to make, and they don’t cost much since you’re making the hat with card stock, [...]

Bright and Colorful Polka Dot Party Ideas

Bright and Colorful Polka Dot Party Ideas

November 4, 2009 by Linette  
Filed under Featured, Party Supplies, Party Themes

Polka dots make a really fun party theme, or you can use polka dots to brighten up any kids party theme. I thought I’d put together a list of my favorite polka dot party supplies and ideas.

A polka dot cake or cupcakes are super simple. Just use a round cake decorating tip to put the [...]

How to Make A Pizza Cake

How to Make A Pizza Cake

October 25, 2009 by Linette  
Filed under Birthday Cakes/ Treats, Featured

Pizza parties are great fun for teens and tweens. You can pair it with another theme, or plan the whole party around their favorite food…pizza!
You’ll definitely need a cake. A pizza birthday cake is fairly simple to make, you can make it look like a simple cheese pizza, or go all out and make it [...]

How To Make Bella’s Twilight New Moon Birthday Cake

How To Make Bella’s Twilight New Moon Birthday Cake

September 28, 2009 by Linette  
Filed under Birthday Cakes/ Treats, Featured

Bella’s birthday cake is spectacular! You can recreate it at home with some fondant, three different size cake pans, some buttercream icing, letters, and flowers.

You’ll need to bake three different sizes of round cakes, 2 of each size. Then stack the cakes together with a layer of buttercream icing between each cake. You’ll stack together [...]

Tween Birthday Idea~ A Bowling Party

Tween Birthday Idea~ A Bowling Party

September 9, 2009 by Linette  
Filed under Featured, Party Supplies, Party Themes

Tweens and teens will enjoy a good bowling game, and the upside is you won’t have 10 kids roaming around your house bored with whatever games you came up with to play at a birthday party.

When you take them bowling you’ve got all their energy channeled on the game, and chatting with each other.
The best [...]

How To Make A Guitar Hero Cake

How To Make A Guitar Hero Cake

April 29, 2009 by Linette  
Filed under Birthday Cakes/ Treats, Featured

My son’s birthday party was this last weekend, and he really wanted a Guitar Hero birthday cake. I thought it would be really difficult to make, but it wasn’t too hard so I thought I would share the instructions here.

Add this cake to some rock star/ Guitar Hero party supplies and you have a party!
Here [...]