I finally finished making these cute reindeer ornaments for Little man's class.(21 of them) The only problem is, is that he has been home sick with croup since yesterday and will not be going to school until after the new year. I had all but 3 finished so I decided to just finish them and let K take them and drop them off to his teacher to hand out.

 Mr K has also been home sick with croup since Sunday. At least it is before Christmas and not on Christmas.

 I have also had a few people in need of embroidery, this is the latest one.

 I did  owls for her 2 nieces

 and this cute bear for her nephew

Party Day

Well today was Little man's party, and he was pretty excited

 Here's the table all set ready for pizza and cake

 I decided this time I was keeping it simple and made cupcakes and toppers (in photoshop) instead of a cake.

 Well I thought I was, but B asked where his smash cake was(she is very much liking the idea of smash cakes for not just one year olds lately) and I said well I didn't make one, but since I had left over batter from the cupcakes I poured it in a pan and made one.

 The problem with making a cake and frosting it too hours before the party, is that it is very crumbly and does not frost well. B said "it's fine mom, it looks like they had a battle"

Apparently I did not take pictures of all the activities so here is a run down of what we did: as the kids came they were issued their gear, a helmet and  a shirt my sister in law screen printed with the word army across the front. Next it was time for sergeant says, B was my sergeant (she even wore an army shirt because we had an extra one, kind of sad that she fits into a 6 year olds shirt)

Next we had physical training which consisted of sit ups, push ups, running in place etc, then it was on to the mess hall then off to basic training camp, where they had to do an army crawl under a net, weave in and out of cones, and up and down the stairs.

We then did target practice using a printable I found HERE and nerf guns.

We did the pinata next.  Little man hitting the pinata as hard as he can

 the candy scramble. The pinata lasted through them all hitting it twice.

Cake time was next. blowing out the candles

 He LOVED the idea of a smash cake and didn't hesitate to dive right in

 Here is the inside of the cupcakes...camoflage

Then it was present time and time for kids to go home.

I really need to do a better job at taking pictures, I apparently didn't get a picture of all of the kids together either.

This year Little man wanted to have an army guy party, he has been slightly obsessed with anything army/camouflage for a while now. I tried to talk him out of it because I already had one for K a few years ago, and do not like to repeat parties, but he was insistent on it and nothing I came up with was good enough, so army party I planned.

Here is his invitation I made using photoshop. Add your last name and base after the Report to. I have to say  even though this doesn't look all that impressive I am pretty impressed with the way it turned out because I learned how to use photoshop brushes and a few other techniques. I don't know how I didn't know how to do this before.

 I made little pockets out of paper and put air heads in them for "air raids" I know the kids will not understand it but I thought it was fun. I made the tags in photoshop.

 Here is a better look

 Here are my "rescue ropes" made out of licorice, I was going to put them in plastic bags and make the topper and then found them individually wrapped and decided to just glue them into the topper instead. The topper was again made in photoshop.

 So I found this awesome idea and tutorial HERE and thought how could I NOT make a paper bag pinata? So I ran to the dollar store in search of crepe paper but was only able to find the light green, so I went to hobby lobby and was able to find the dark green, and also the brown paper bag (you can use any bag)

 I got to work gluing and folding...two layers of dark green and then one layer of light green. On the back I did not "ruffle" it and just glued it down flat. Then I made my sign in photoshop, printed it out and added a ruffle to the back and glued the whole think on. Filled it with candy and stapled the top closed.

 I bought juice boxes and covered them with brown paper(remove the straw before doing this) then let Bricanie decorate them to look like walkie talkies, then taped the straw back on the back to look like an antenna.

Visiting Teaching Gifts

For the ladies that I visit teach and my partner, I made these fun ghost tealight covers for halloween. This is an embroidery design from embroidery garden.

I  put them in a cute halloween cellophane bag and attached a poem I found HERE

Here is a close up of the poem. They put ghost peeps with theirs, but I thought it would be more fun to do the tea light covers.

First Day of school gift

Today was the first day of not only school, but the first day of  me having a middle schooler as well.

 I made these for all the kids in middle school car pool. I found the idea Here.

Projects for Embroidery Club

I am part of a machine embroidery club that meets once a month. We have a short time at the end of club to have a show n tell of things that you have worked on throughout the month, so here is one of the things I have been working on.

I found the note book at the dollar store and was able to carefully peel back the front cover and  embroider a letter on the front cover and then glue it back together. I think this will be used as a teacher gift for the end of the school year. I bought 6 of them so now that I know it will work you may be seeing more of them in the near future. I am now wishing I would have bought more.

I am also taking Princess B's "game day" outfit and the yellow dress with the flowers on it to show as part of my show n tell.

A wedding shower gift.

My cousin is getting married next month and I was invited to go to her wedding shower. I will admit I have not been to a wedding shower in F.O.R.E.V.E.R. and was not sure what to buy. Then I remembered an idea that I pinned (I love pinterest)

it was a cute basket for a date night from Darling doodles blog and to make it even more perfect...she had a printable with a cute poem ready for you to download.

 I loved the cute little poem she had but thought the font was too hard to read so I made my own with some clip art that I had from doing a movie night birthday party for B. 

I went to walmart to get all of my stuff  I got a plastic bowl instead of a basket to putt it all in. Here is what I put in mine:

A movie- mine happened to be Princess Bride(which I know she loves and doesn't own)
A couple bottles of Root beer (the ones in the glass bottles, because I thought it would look cuter)
Some bags of microwave popcorn
Red vine licorice
and some boxes of theater candy-sweedish fish, junior mints,recess pieces,mike and ikes, skittles, and one other that I can't remember.

When I had all my stuff I ran over to the dollar store to get a roll of cellophane and a cute bow and went home and assembled the whole thing.

I crumpled up tissue paper and put it in the bottom of the bowl and arranged everything on top of that.Then I wrapped the whole bowl in cellophane and a red curling ribbon bow and tied the tag on.

The whole gift including wrapping cost me 27.00 not bad right?

Check back next month for the wedding gift.