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My friend, Melissa and I hosted a baby shower for our friend Brooke over the weekend. I made this dip from my Southern Living Cookbook that turned out delicious. I left out the pine nut (honestly because I burned them trying to toast) but I don't think they were missed. I also made peach melba mimosas that turned out well. And one of our guests made this awesome cake...the entire thing was edible except the pearls. It was delicious and impressive! And our guest of honor....

My sweet niece, Alice, turned one last week and her party was over the weekend. My sister, Anne Hunter, is an interior designer with a great sense of style so the decorations were too cute! The theme was scarecrows. Here is the invitation that we received in the mail. Invite source is Libbie & Winston . She is local to Richmond but can ship anywhere. On the big day, two scarecrows greeted us at the front door. Here is the sleepy party girl watching her guest arrive. It is hard to nap with all the excitement of a first birthday bash. The menu was chili & sour cream corn muffins with a few apps to get us started. More scarcrows in the dining room. Cake table display with rice krispie treats made in pumpkin shapes and chex mix in bags for favors. Oh and I can't forget the scarecrow cake based on the invitiation. It was so cute and delicious. The smash cake was a pumpkin! Outside more harvest decorations.... Tables with mum centerpieces and burlap covers. Scarecrow shirt i...

I was inspired to make a "wedding cake" for a shower centerpiece for my cousin from an image found here . You will find more specific instructions if you follow the link but here are some pictures of mine in the making. I used cereal and cracker boxes to make the mold. Then covered with dishtowels. I glue gunned ribbon around the cake. I tried not to get the glue on the actual dishtowels and just the ribbon. Then I glued scrapbooking letters onto the ribbon. It was pretty easy and definitely took less than 1 hour. I added flowers for the shower and did you notice that the orange whisk is missing?! Yes, we went without that for the shower and I just found it under the couch. Oh well...that is what happens when you live with a 2 and 4 year old.

Camille insisted on having her 4th birthday party at Kangaroo Jacs . For those of you not familiar, it is a warehouse full of inflatables. I wasn't sure what to do for the invitation so I put Kangaroo in the search line on Etsy and found  this cute birthday card with a striped kangaroo in a party hat. I emailed Ryan from MAN vs GEORGE  and an invitation and stickers were designed based on this kangaroo. I am so happy with how it turned out and Ryan was awesome! From there, I decided to use this invitation as inspiration for the party. I found cute vinyl table clothes on sale from the summer line at  Target from $1 to $2.50. I bought the plates and napkins there as well. Then I found cute striped goodie bags to match the napkins and a banner from Target as well. I cut tags from cardstock and added the stickers. Inside the goodie bags, I added  a color your own cutout from the Dollar Tree as well as two pixie sticks, a lollipop and a...

Have you heard of Pinterest? I just discovered it myself. And instead of trying to describe it myself, I will quote the Pinterest website..... "Think Pinterest as a virtual pinboard — a place where you can create collections of things you love and "follow" collections created by people with great taste. People use Pinterest to collect and share all sorts of things -- wedding inspiration, favorite T-shirts, DJ equipment. You name it, people are pinning it." Anyway...it is great. I often find pictures on websites that I want to save as inspiration and just bookmark it but then the favorites list gets so long and sometimes when I go back the link it doesn't work. This way it is all in one place and can be organized. If you are already a member...follow me here . And if you want to be a member, they have a waiting list but it only take 2 or 3 days to get an invite.

Clyde turned 2 on Sunday. He LOVES Mickey Mouse so it seemed the obvious choice for a party theme. We keep the party on a small scale and invited only immediate family. I created these wheels and circles out of poster board from the dollar store. I used this as a table decoration and placed the serving trays on top.    I saw this picture on Hip Hip Hooray blog. And decided to do something similar with Mickey Mouse ears. I cut, pasted and enlarged a bunch of pictures of Clyde in Microsoft Word then printed and cut out. I (well Michael helped) then made a template for the Mickey Mouse hats then traced  them on to black cardstock and cut.   I used the same template to create Mouse ears for the party hats.   I found these cute bowls at Marshalls. I also got a plate for the birthday boy to use. I made really large paper flowers similar to the ones from Camille's birthday last year . I really wanted to hang...