Frozen Celebration

well as every parent knows of little girls right now, Frozen is all the rage and our girls are no different than all the rest. wren turned four today and willow turned two on saturday, so we had their parties together over the weekend. with of course - a Frozen theme. i absolutely love a good party, especially if it is one for our kids and one that i get to host. i also really enjoy cake decorating, so birthdays are especially fun for me. 

elsa crowns and sven antlers to decorate

anna and elsa even made it all the way from Arendale!

i think everyone had a blast - especially the birthday girls!

just for fun....

willow on the left, two years old                                       wren on the right, two years old

Custom Invitations by little bit creations

It's been awhile since we talked about invitations, so I thought it was time we revisited that topic. After all, it is one of the main reasons I started blogging in the first place. Although my etsy shop is no longer running I still do invitations by request. I absolutely love doing them, but I could not keep up with the demand of my shop once baby #2 arrived. Here are some samples of my work, but the options are endless and my most favorite jobs are custom and unique to your event!

I also offer calligraphy services:)

Please email me for a quote or for more information!

Birthday

Wedding

Baby Shower

A New Beginning

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - Allen Saunders

I have been trapped in the hustle and bustle of my life as an employee, mother, wife, and daughter and have gotten a little okay a lot, off track. So here I am, here I am writing my first blog entry for 6 months - can you believe it - 6 MONTHS! I have thought about it every day and every day I have either felt too busy or that I didn't have anything worth blogging about. Granted I was too busy (I still am), but I definitely had things worth blogging about, but the question I asked, was it worth reading about? I don't know, I still don't, but yet here I am....blogging.

So much has happened over the last 6 months, and now I am at a place where I have too much to blog about, which is equally as overwhelming. You have missed a lot. So I think I will take a stab at it, a little at a time.

January:

-Happy New Year

-Willow starts walking

-Mailed out Birthday Invitations

February:

-Valentine's Day

-Photos of the girls

March:

-Happy 1st Birthday Willow

-Happy 3rd Birthday Wren

I will leave you with March for now:)

dora fiesta party

wren's second birthday is rapidly approaching!  she turns 2 the day before my due date, oye!  due to her birthday falling so close to my due date and my husband and i's extremely large families, we have decided to keep things super small this year and we are having the party at our house.  we are also having it early so i hopefully do not have to worry about going into labor during the party and do not have to worry about planning and setting up of a birthday party with a toddler and newborn.  

wren of course, has requested a dora party.  

i have been pinning away, and this is the inspiration behind the dora fiesta garden party:)

 mustaches

 garden flowers

 of course food, YUM

 cake

oh boy, so exciting!

post 26 of 30: cake decorating

well the week is here, the week of our daughters 1st birthday.  i never thought that the day would come.  months of preparation are all coming together quite nicely.  i have been planning the party for what seems like an eternity.  when it is over i will not know what to do with myself during nap time, as nap time has currently been crunch time.  i started planning a long time ago because i was super excited and because i did not want to be doing everything at the last minute.  the only things left to do now are to paint this owl pitcher,

make water bottle labels,

whip up a salad, and bake!

Baking....that is where you come in to play.  This is definitely my first time attempting anything like this and I need your advice.  I found this wonderful Lemon Blueberry Cake Recipe on www.bluebirdkisses.com.  Wren is obsessed with blueberries.  That is all she would eat if I let her, so when I saw this cake recipe, I knew it was the one!

I am doing a two tier cake.  The bottom tier will be 8" round, and the top tier will be 6" round.  I will probably do three/four layers per tier and I am filling in between the layers with blueberry jam. 

Now for the design....  I have so many ideas for the design and I can not narrow it down.  The cake will be an aqua/seafoam color, and I am not opposed to an ombre effect.

here are my ideas.

( the cake topper is VERY similar to the one below) see post here.

so what do you think?  as a first timer which do you think will be the easiest?  which do you think is the prettiest?

i am also making a smash cake that will be very similar to this.

post 8 of 30: hooty hoo

as you are well aware, wren's 1st birthday is coming up.  this weekend i set out to make her birthday outfit.  YAY!  the party is an owl theme, so we needed a little owl:)  want to make an owl outfit of your own? 

what you will need:

-2 yards of flannel or felt (i used flannel, and i used 2 different colors, so a yard of each)

-scissors

-hot glue gun

-10 small glue sticks/5 large glue sticks

-onesie

1. Cut your fabric into 3" strips.  if you are using more than one color, you will want to cut equal amounts of both.  how much you will need will depend on the size of your onesie.

2.  cut your fabric to look like feathers.  it is basically a triangle with a rounded point.  do not worry about being perfect here.  flannel/felt is very forgiving and with the way these are laid out you will not see small mistakes once they are applied to the onesie.  after cutting, you can always go back and tweak your cuts to make them smoother.  leave about a 1" strip at the top, do not take your triangle to the very top of the fabric.

3.  lay your strips out on your onesie and cut them at the nearest feather that is a little longer than the onesie.  do not cut any feathers in half.  this is where you can see if you have cut enough strips to cover your onesie, if not, cut more.

4.  you will have some small peices, that were extra at the end of the strip, keep those.

5.  start the hot glue gun!  start at the bottom of your onesie, just above the snaps and work your way up.  start with a small strip of two feathers.  i started with a pink strip.  run a bead of hot glue at the top of your two feathers and glue.  then run a bead of hot glue just above that row of feathers, directly on the shirt.  then i took another small strip of two feathers in navy and stuck it on.  then i went to three feathers, still rotating from pink to navy, and so on.  remember you want to cover the whole onesie so you do not see any white.  two or three feather may not work for you, adjust so you the strips are as wide as your onesie.  continue all the way to the top.

note:  i put a peice of cardboard in between so i did not glue my shirt together.

6.  when you get to the top you will need to cut a custom peice to finish it off.  just use your shirt as they guide.  i cut a large square, the width of the onesie, laid it down and then laid the onesie on top.  from the top i cut the u shape of the neck out of the flannel.  along the other end i cut my feathers.  then i ran a bead of hot glue along the neck and tightly pushed my flannel up against it. 

7.  trim along the side of the onesie any extra fabric.  i trimmed along the seam.  glue down an extra bits hanging off.  smooth out any imperfections you see with your scissors.

8.  cut your wings.  i cut mine using three different shapes.  shap 1 and 3 were in navy, and shape 2 was in pink.  i folded my fabric in half to ensure the wings would be identical.  i really just "winged" it.  you can cut whatever shape you want.  i would measure your little one so you know how tall you want your wings.  then cut the other peices to fit inside.

9.  glue the wings to the top of your onesie.

note:  be sure not to close/or glue the flap shut as you will need this to easily slip the onesie over their head.

i also put a dot of glue at the top of the sleeve on the front and back side for more wing support.

and wah-la, one little adorable :) owl