Patriotic First Birthday - The Details

Hi! I know I promised I would be back with an update on which projects we were going to do for the party, but I got caught up in actually doing the projects that I didn't have time. I thought I would at least share with you a teaser post of all the details we did for Miss Emma's Patriotic First Birthday Bash. Mind you I will come back with an updated post detailing the day! I made a ton of crafty/treats and it was just perfect!

Here we go:

Streamers // Homemade Banner // G.G. Made Apple and Cherry Pies // Rice Crispies // Chocolate Dipped Oreo's // Jello Cookies

Cake Inspiration

 

Painted wood pallet

Firecracker Centerpieces with peanuts!

Tin can bowling, the kiddo's loved this!

Gigantic bunting decor

Corn Hole!

 Sack Races, with flag guides and handmade sacks

Miss Emma enjoying her homemade smash cake!
Banner inspiration here and here

More banners and balloons!

Asking the Godparents

When miss Emma came into our world it completely changed the dynamic. We weren't just a couple anymore, but a family. We needed to make the decision on whether or not we were going to baptize her in a faith. We come from similar but different backgrounds as a couple and it wasn't ever an issue until now when we needed to decide which faith to baptize her in and who should be her godparents.

It was a long discussion that has consumed us for many months and we finally made the decision, gotten all the paperwork submitted and the date booked for her actual baptism! Whew! I wanted it to be as far away from her first birthday an I could, but her Godmother wont be confirmed until May so we needed to wait. At least it gave me a little time to plan out an invite, more on that later, and to create these cute little cards.

If you have been reading for any amount of time, you know I don't do anything the simple way. It has to be cute, or creative in some way or another so onto the internet I went to find some verbage that I liked to create cards from Emma asking her godparents to take on the roll. I then glued them to cardstock and added some ribbon trims and some buttons to dress it up. I of course made them too large and they wouldn't fit in a traditional envelope but they were a hit regardless.

The verbage says:

"I need an extra pair of hands

to help me learn and grow.

I think that yours

would be the best

'cause Mom and Dad told me so.

Will you be my Godmother/father?"

Her godmother is going to be my baby cousin who was our flower girl at our wedding, since my cousin's are my siblings. Her Godfather is going to be D's brother who just loves his niece to pieces. I think we picked the people who will take on the role without question and will help guide her to be the best person she can be!

Can't wait for the actual day!

A craft blast from the past!

I know, it seems like this is becoming a craft blog. I assure you its not. I am just trying to go through and document all of the crafting I have done in the past two years, plus the quilts that I had done previous to blogging. Although my life isn't all about crafting, it is something that I truly love to do! The hubs may have been a little frustrated with it at first, now he understands my need to stay busy, and I think truly appreciates all the things that I create! While updating my All Things Crafty tab up top I realized that I missed some really cute and fun quilts that I had made some years ago, as well as a camera strap cover that I did last year, and a Bachelorette party menu also! While the quilts and the menu don't have a tutorial to go with them, I still thought that I would share them with you to see some of the other things I have done. Also I will post a link for the camera strap to the tutorial that I used! Enjoy!

This is the one and only quilt I have made for myself. It came as a kit that I bought at a quilt show with my mom in Ontario. We went for the day and perused all the fabrics that were to be seen. I also got fabrics for the first quilt I ever made for our dear friends The Anthony's wedding in April of 2008. Since then there has been a little disaster with this quilt as our puppy, when she was a puppy thought that it was a chew toy and gnawed a nice hole in the borders. It's really fun and funky with little kittens riding scooters and Eiffle Towers with brown and pink graphic prints! I still love it. Hopefully I can fix it! My mom also made me a tote bag out of the left over fabrics too! Oh and those little tootsies at the bottom are D's!

This quilt was made for our other dear friends the Roben's for their wedding in June of 2009. It's a little throw quilt and it was made entirely out of scrap fabric. I made it in one day with my mom's help and when it was done it had a little Americana feel to it! Again the toes belong to D! Haha

This one is another wedding quilt. For our friends the Ransdall's in May of 2010. This one was also made out of scrap fabrics and it went really well in their Tuscan inspired home with the warm reds and golds!

Please excuse the poor photo. I took this with my blackberry, when I had one, since my nice camera was the subject of the photo! I made this really cute camera strap cover. Priddy Creations had a wonderful tutorial on how to make this simple slip cover for your camera strap to show it a little personality. There was some errors in cutting that made me have to create more than one of these babies, but it was still fun and super simple! Not the most masculine of fabrics as the hubby uses this camera too, but he doesn't mind!

And finally something not sewing related. For a friends bachelorette party I whipped up some cute menu's in Photoshop, glued them to some black card stock and added a little bling bling! The idea was to make all the names be wedding related. These babies went on the table at the restaurant where we ate in San Luis Obispo. We had a great weekend dressed in purple attire, ate great food, wine tasted and all around shenanigans were had!!

It's all in the details.....Invitations

With another wedding rapidly approaching we had to get on board with all the details for the bridal shower quickly. Once we decided on our theme and they layout of the invitations was "approved" I went to work rearranging them in Photoshop, printing and assembling them. Each teal "dot," which represented hanging lights, got a little glitter. I mean c'mon lets face it every girl deserves a little sparkle, even on her shower invitations. Then I had to tie raffia bows and hot glue them once they were attached to the cardstock.

I love crafting and being creative! It makes me feel good! Stay tuned for other details and the party photos!

A Side Business?

Because I was so stressed out over the house buying I decided to do a little stress relief and do what I do best. Create. My good friend Hope is getting married in October so I thought I would put my Photoshop skills to good use and come up with some invitation designs. After trying for a couple of hours, I finally got the hang of the set up and was able to come up with a couple of designs for her and her Fiance to review. I also made up one for my sister-in-laws bridal shower that is coming up. Darin took one look at them and said "You have a side business!" Well I don't know if I would go that far, but I did have fun with them and would like the opportunity to try and make some from start to finish. Maybe I will do some mock-ups with ribbon and such. Hey, its worth a shot right? Let me know what you think. (Pertinent information has been removed from all three mock ups for privacy reasons)