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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Frozen Party Ideas {with Invitation Printable}

Unless you live under a rock, with or without kids, you have heard about the Disney movie "Frozen". Even before the movie came out my girls and myself were waiting for the awesomeness. And for my birthday, we went to see it. I was in love. My girls were in love. I've read all the articles about the meanings and the money....blah blah blah. We love it for the great songs and how I see it the story of love between two sisters.

Fast forward two months after the movie came out and one soundtrack later and it's almost all we listen to in the car and you know what? I don't mind. I love signing them too. They are kinda catchy. I know I WILL get sick of them but I'm not there yet. We got the movie in the mail yesterday and they have already watched it twice. Not too bad considering.

It was no big shocker when K asked for a "Frozen" themed party for her 6th birthday. I was thinking ok, no big deal. I'll go get a few themed things from the party store and then do some homemade/Pinterest things to round it out. Well, holy moly, there was nothing at 7 different stores by my house and even online, things were limited or out of stock for a long time.

Now the invite....again non to be found at any store and even online, very hard to find and kinda blah when i did. So me being me and my pension for homemade cards. I went to work. Disney's main website had some great high res clipart/wallpaper that I used to create the invite.

She loved it and printing it out was super cheap. Here's the link so you can use it yourself for PERSONAL use. I hope it helps you out for your party planning. The font I used was GEronto Bis regular.

Next it was on to the goody bags...

I wanted to find snowflake bags but because it was already the end of February, I was outta luck. The next choice was to get plain white craft bags and stamp some blue stamps on them. The girls were happy to help with that. I couldn't find any single snowflake stamps but this one was on clearance for .56 cents so it worked for me.

I found glittery pencils at Michaels in the dollar section in the perfect colors.

I wanted to make some crowns for the girls and I saw THIS on Pinterest for making a foam Elsa crown. I bought the stuff and tried to make it work but K said it kept slipping on her forehead. The glitter foam has a paper backing because it is sticky. Big bummer. I tried to find it without being sticky and had no luck.

Then I saw THIS other pin with an store bought crown but the link didn't go to a place where I could find out more about it. Big Bummer! Until I went to JoAnn's fabric store to look for elastic for the foam crowns. And look what I found for a $1 a piece. Woo Hoo!! They had them in every color but most importantly the teal blue and pink for Anna and Elsa.

I did borrow the idea for the snowflake on the foam crown and added it to this crown. I bought the snowflakes at Micheals as well. They were over by the foam sticker section, hanging up in a baggy. It comes with two different size snowflakes. I used the larger.

K got a pink crown so she could be Anna (you can see it at the top of the photo below) since she was the birthday girl. S who like blue anyway was happy to be Elsa.

I was at Target in the dollar section and found this 5x7" notepads for $1 too. Score!

I really wanted to include some actual Frozen stuff in the bags so I went to Birthday Direct and bought cupcake rings and Olaf stickers. I couldn't find anything in the stores by me like I said before. And they were even out of stock for a few weeks, it was a question if I would even get the stuff in time. I also got the balloons, napkins, and plates through them.

I threw foam princess stickers in for fun and something extra. I found them in a giant container at Hobby Lobby. My girls are constantly crafting and making art . What little girl isn't really? Everyone got a pretty large handful.

And then I was thinking about general party/wall decor..., for the pottery party we took her friends to there wasn't a whole lot we needed or wanted to do. I thought about posters because then they could be used after the party as well. I got the big cast poster from Amazon for $10 and the poster of Anna and Elsa at Walmart , of all places, who would have thought? The giant foam snowflakes were my mom's from a zillion years ago and they worked really well.

The final thing I wanted to make were these adorable hair clips that a friend had on her Facebook page. She sent me the link and away I went. They really were easy to cut just took some time. All the felt was bought at Micheals as well even the glitter felt that was more sturdy. The little gems were at Micheals too. Gotta love Micheals!!

I hope this helps you plan your Frozen party and makes it easier. And remember if it all doesn't turn out like you thought......let it go!!!! ;)

Monday
What is the Gunny Sack -Making the world Cuter -DIY Show Off
-I should be mopping the Floor

Tuesday
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia -The Kurtz Corner
Sugar Bee - Romance On A Dime -The Winthrop Chronicles

Wednesday
Someday Crafts - Sew Much Ado
-SNAP

Thursday
Beyond the Picket Fence - Somewhat Simple - Live Laugh Rowe
- The Shabby Cottage The Taylor House- House of Hepworths Bloom Designs

Friday
Naptime Crafters - Young and Crafty - My Turn(ForUs)
Delicate Construction
Serenity Now

Saturday

Six Sister's Stuff

Cheerios and Lattes

Monday, January 27, 2014

How we will NOT spend $100 everytime we go to Target

Ok.... so when you all go to Target you walk out with around $100 worth of stuff too , right? I know I can't be the only one. Right? And only 1 out of every 10 times did we actually intend on spending that much money.

Their store designers/ marketing/ shelf putter-uppers are geniuses.

To quote the movie, "Twilight"..."Everything about us invites you in...our look, our smell, the way we stock our shelves". Ok, well maybe that last part wasn't from the movie but that's how it feels to me. I'm powerless to stop it.

If we do walk out of there under $100, my husband and I almost give each other a high five. I know I'm all kinds of giddy on the inside.

I started thinking the other day... what I can do to stop the madness? Only get what we NEED, then get out and....wait for it.....only go once a month!!! What??!!! That's crazy talk.

We are in Target every week. I'm not kidding. We are always forgetting that we are out of something and then going back which means there goes another hundred dollars. Bye bye.

All I can think is spreadsheet here we come. I know I'm not the first blogger to make a spreadsheet to go shopping but I haven't seen one about Target yet. I'm going to make a list of things we regularly buy at Target and then we have to stick to the list. We will be able to put some specialty items on the list when before we go that are regular items but again. I know this isn't rocket science but it actually took some thought to come up with this list and I want to share it with you.

If it ain't on the list, me no buy. ( I love to let go of the English language every once and a while) I'll give you an update soon and let you know how it's going.

Here is the list. I did one in Excel and a blank one as a PDF that way you can change all of the items in the list to what you and your family need if you would like. If you want to make your own and like the font, I used a free font called Wisdom Script. To download the font, you have to type in 0 for the cost and just hit download.

And the tiny red boxes are the font Wingdings, the upper case letter Q.

( It doesn't seem that either version I uploaded kept the fonts visually. I'll keep trying to figure that out. Until, then you can download the font above or substitute any old font you like.)

The List (Google Excel Version)

The List (PDF Blank version)

Monday
What is the Gunny Sack -Making the world Cuter -DIY Show Off
-I should be mopping the Floor

Tuesday
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia -The Kurtz Corner
Sugar Bee - Romance On A Dime -The Winthrop Chronicles

Wednesday
Someday Crafts - Sew Much Ado
-SNAP

Thursday
Beyond the Picket Fence - Somewhat Simple - Live Laugh Rowe
- The Shabby Cottage The Taylor House- House of Hepworths Bloom Designs

Friday
Naptime Crafters - Young and Crafty - My Turn(ForUs)
Delicate Construction
Serenity Now

Saturday

Six Sister's Stuff

Cheerios and Lattes

Monday, May 6, 2013

Pressed Penny Books for Disney World ( with Silhouette Files )

So begins my " May: Month of the Mouse" series. There are 6 parts to this series in anticipation of our trip to Walt Disney World. {squeal}

My girls love getting pressed pennies as souvenirs whenever we go to any kind of tourist attraction like our Zoo or Grant's Farm.

When I found out that WDW had then and there were something like over 500 different kinds, I was super stoked. This would keep them busy and maybe distracted from all of the other more expensive stuff there. Don't get me wrong, we're going to let them get a bunch of other stuff too but I wanted to keep it to a minimum.

I saw on Diseystore.com that they had penny books but they were like $20 a piece. Ah....no way. I went to my trusty friend Google and typed in Pressed penny books and up popped Ebay. Normally Ebay and I don't get along. I've had some bad luck but I ordered two of the pressed penny books from
seller tranzcollection for $4.69 a piece and then they discount the shipping when you buy more than one. Pretty sweet, right?

They are 3.5" inches wide and 6.5" inches tall black with 44 openings, 36 pennies and 8 quarters. There is a front that's not too pretty and a back I can decorate... so I will :)

I wanted to keep it simple since it's a small space so not a lot of decor on these. And I wanted to use my Silhouette machine my hubby got me for Christmas and make it with vinyl but I'm sure you could do any and all of this with paper and maybe a little ModgePodge to help it stick on?

K loves green and Mickey Mouse. S loves blue and Tinkerbell. That made my design decisions easy I went online and found some images I liked and imported them into Silhouette deluxe edition to create my cutouts. I also used the font Waltograph since it looks all Disney-like.


screen shot of my window open in Silhouette

After the designs were ready I cut them out and applied them to the books...voila! I did have to double up my vinyl cutouts on the plain green color. It was very kinda transparent. It was Paper Source brand from Hobby Lobby. The price was great but maybe that's what you get . In fact , all of the vinyl used for this was this brand. I thought it cut well and did the job. They have a bunch of colors available and I don't have to order off the internet in a pinch.