Bridal Shower on a Budget :)

Wow I've been behind!!! My best friend is getting married this Saturday and I've been caught up in all that jazz :) I helped throw her a bridal shower back in April, and I was in charge of decorations. We had it at a country club and since those prices were so steep I knew I needed to make whatever I could and as cheap as possible!!!

I made these super cute centerpieces out of a large green bean can and about a 1/4th roll of navy yarn and my super, duper hot glue gun...

I pretty much just took the yarn and wrapped and hot glued and wrapped and hot glued and wrapped and hot glued and well you get the point..... and I continued to do so until I got to this point...

I then took some white ribbon and hot glued it around the middle of the can.. like so..

and finished it off with the bride-to-be's soon to be last initial... and pasted onto fuchsia card stock

and a close up of the flowers because that last picture didnt do them justice!!

for favors I bought these cute little bags from the dollar tree (12 in a pack) and pretty much just hot glued and pasted like I did the centerpiece.. sorry no tutorial but its pretty much self explanatory and cheap, cheap, cheap :)

they were used for our miniature candy buffet....

I bought these super cute frames at the dollar store and just spray painted them blue and the others I just left white, they turned out cute and I put their engagements pictures in as well as framing her shower invitation... I got a great deal on the invitations at Michael's, they were normally $30, but I used a half off coupon, and got 30 invites for $15... it also came with thank you notes for the bride to use..... here are some close ups..

the votives I got at walmart for .50 each and just hot glued the ribbon and tied a bow..

These badboys came from Sams Club.... let me tell you they are the BEST cupcakes ever and you can get 30 for $13!! I added the pink sprinkles and I got the cupcake liners off of Etsy.

The wonderful food...

here is her gift from me.. I bought a bunch of offs and ends of her registry and wrapped it in the basket.. then went to the dollar store and bought the white frame and put the scrapbook paper I used for another project below in the frame and hot glued the tongs and wrapped with ribbon and I found the B monogram at Michael's for $1... it was bright orange so I spray painted it, I think it will be super cute in their kitchen maybe on their window.. or a key hook...

I found this idea on marthastewart.com, and went to hobby lobby and bought 12 x 12 scrapbook paper and trimmed them down to fit into my printer.. and I printed off these cute little "words of wisdom" for the guest to write for the bride... super easy, super cheap!!

I know this was like the worlds longest blog... but I was so excited to share everything with you, stay tuned for next week!!! I am planning my father-in-laws 60th birthday, and we are throwing him a surprise luau and I have sooo many great ideas!!!!

Easter Weekend Winddown...

Another holiday has come and gone... somehow this year I just let Easter creep up on me and before I knew it there was only two days left to decorate before the Holiday was here!! Ohhh Boy!! The things I get myself into...I used the norm. moss bunny on a stick and then attempted to make my own speckled eggs that I've seen everywhere on blogtown and I think next time I will buy the eggs :) Heres a few pics of the decorations I threw up and then had to take back down not even a week later ha I did learn my lesson.. better late than never right??

Heres my eggs before I speckled them..

and after the speckling (remind me to not attempt to do this at 2am again :))

Check out CraftySisters and see the right way to make beautiful eggs

I bought this wreath not to long ago on Clearance at Micheals and I just felt it needed something a little more

Im all about some big wreaths so....

Grapevine wreath to the rescue!! I think it looked so much better and all I did was take a small piece of twine and tied the two wreathers together...

These were my very quick (oops I forgot to decorate) table settings

Along with the table centerpiece and my speckled eggs..

as for the living room I just threw eggs wherever I could fit them... on the coffee table

and in the Apothecary Jars...

and last but not least we cant forget

The moss bunnies on a stick

(these were all the rave last year ;)

oh theres another one :)

and last but not lease I thought I'd share with you this little cutie, my niece Gabby

She's such a good sport, and by now she knows that when she comes to her aunties house, she will have something ridiculous on her head and lots of pictures taken :)

Hope you all had a FABULOUS Easter!!

http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/125/BA510B75390D6C4365E04A58CBE23B50.png

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Birthday Celebration Wreath

Heres my first shot as a giveaway (wish me luck) I lovee crafts! I mean Im a craft junkie! So when it came time for my little nieces 6th birthday party I just knew I needed something to spruce up the front door of my brothers house.. so my mind went to spinning and I decided on a birthday wreath.... not out of the ribbon like I've seen on some blogs but out of BALLOONS!! (Boy am I a genius :)


I started off with a dollar tree styrofoam wreath and cut it so I could wrap rubberbands around the entire wreath (I used around 40 rubberbands) ... after the rubberbands were placed I hotglued the wreath back together and started my transformation with balloons (150 to be exact)







I took the balloons in groups of 4 random colors and placed them under a rubberband and continued to do so until the wreath was full...





After attachin all the ballons I took the pipecleaners and wrapped them around the wreath once and twisted it tight and took the rest of the cleaner and wrapped it around my finger to make a spiral design and did this randomly around the wreath (I thought it looked super cute like this)



Next I simply decorated with party favors and birthday stickers and the rest is history.. I want to make several more with maybe a little more favors added, however, my time was very limited and the favors and stickers I used I just had on hand...and a little ribbon up top and you have yourself a very adorable wreath!

Now hope on over to Just A Girl for show & share... :), and V and Co for her link me party
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Lets give this a try :)

So after months & months of stalking in the blogworld .. I thought I would give it a try myself :) I have fallen in love with sooo many blogs out there I can hardly keep track of them all now.. so hopefully I will stay devoted to this and continue to keep everyone up with our daily journies, craftiness and my loving family :)

Stephanie (Now I need to learn how to make one of those swanky signatures everyone out there uses ;)