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Latest Presentation Box-I am loving crepe paper fringe!  I can’t stop making…but I must put it aside and dust today.  And vaccuum, finish the laundry and maybe even feed my children breakfast.  They won’t stop asking for food. Every morning it’s the same thing.  “We’re hungry.  We want breakfast.  Feed us.”

Don’t they know I am crafting?  Jeesh!

I had a custom request for some french frou frou trees to go with a Paris 1st Birthday Theme. What a cute idea. Pink, Black, Poodles and frills. She is using these adorable Paris Poodle Plates from www.birthdayexpress.com.  I tried to match the plates and invitations with pink and white polka-dots, stripes and the black  scrolling  line. Tulle and pom poms and a hint of aqua set it off and give it the made to match look.

Little Girls are just wonderful and PINK!

The marshmallow pops are finished!  We based ours on the cute design found at Hostess with the Mostess.  They are very easy and I was a little disappointed that the children didn’t need my help!  I melted the pink chocolate wafers in the microwave and they did the rest!  They were so proud and honestly, they looked great!  I couldn’t have done better myself!

They stuck them into a recycled piece of Styrofoam to dry.   It took about 10 minutes for them to set up completely, and then we wrapped them in small, clear treat bags and tied with polkadot ribbons.

Just about finished here and very proud of ourselves!  I had a pink, metal bucket ready to display them.  I thought it would be cute to carry in to school and easy to pass around to classmates.  However,  Elle insisted on making a special carrier.  I don’t know where she gets it.  I had things to do so I left her on her own and she came up with the cutest idea.  She drew a bakery complete with an awning mustache.  She called  it “Papa’s Bakery” because the mustache reminded her of her dear Papa, my wonderful father.

The little cupcake/marshmallow pops went into paper cups glued to the bottom that looked like little cupcake bushes.  I was very impressed with her work!  This was the first project she has ever done completely on her own!

It’s FREEZING outside!  I even saw a few snow flurries fluttering by! Homeschool work is finished for the day, bible study completed and the only thing left to do is 1) clean the house 2) curl up with a book (my fireplace mantel makes me want to read thick, English Lit type of books, or at least the cliff notes so I can sound like I read them. Do old, antique volumes, mixed in with deer and tiny teapots do that to you too?) and 3) help Ellery craft Valentine’s for the big exchange tomorrow.  I choose #2, but I am afraid that #3 will win and by then, it will be so late in the day that I will have no choice but to do #1 and then #2 will have to wait.  Again.

Anyway,  we have decide to make the ubiquitious MARSHMALLOW POPS!  And it is probably about time!  They have been on my to do list for awhile and it will be a true accomplishment to actually be able to cross something off of it.  I am going to sit in my big, comfy chair and drink the last cup of coffee in the pot while I contemplate our design choices.

Holiday Marshmallow Pops from Chickens in the Road

These marshamallow pops are chocolate dipped in crushed peppermint from Suzanne at Chickens in the Road.  A possibility-we have oodles of candy canes left over from Christmas, but I may save this idea for next Christmas when I am back in Peppermint Mode.

Grace Violet

These are Adorable with a capital A!  Definitely what my tween had in mind for a Valentine’s Day give away.  Grace Violet has a tutorial on her blog on how to make these.  But, look what’s coming up next:

The Decorated Cookie I heart you

I love, love, love these!  But…I don’t like fondant.  Ok, I have never tried fondant, but I am almost positive that I can’t stand it.  I don’t like anything that wants to compete with butter-cream frosting.  I am very loyal.  Butter-cream, I will never leave you for another.  I promise.

And then, there are these fabulous wonders:

Yes, please.  I think these will do.  They are from Hostess with the Mostess, which is one of my very favorite party sites.    These cupcake pops are based on Bakerella’s cupcake pops.  How clever!  WHAT?? You don’t know Bakerella?  You must leave here and go quickly to her site and discover her.  Just come back when your done.  Ok?

This poster of Valentine’s Golfers falling in love was made for Brookstone Golf and Country Club.  I did a series of Holiday Posters and this one was based on an antique Valentine by Raphael Tuck.   I used acrylics on a Mat board 32×40.

An ice skating birthday party deserves an ice skating gift!  Off Ellery went today to join a friend in celebrating her 10th birthday.  We recreated the often used clothespin doll into a Winter Princess on top of a box.  This holds a small present inside, but the box itself is a great gift and would look adorable sitting on a shelf or a nightstand.

She wears a gown of white felt decorated with glittered polka dots and fur trim on her collar and hem.  She carries her ice skates, complete with blades and pink laces, as she travels through the snowflake forest.

The lid comes off  and the box holds a small present…

Earrings from Justice!  After all, this was a gift for a “tween” girl.  You know, you have to carefully cross back and forth between cute and cool at this age and even my daughter approved of this gift-which is saying a lot!  I am finding that as my children have gotten out of the lower elementary years, it is harder and harder to find or make hand made gifts that are relevant.  Any ideas you’d like to share?

I thought I would take some photographs of my dining room, while it is still dressed for winter.  It is cold today and snowing not too far from here, but I am already thinking of spring.  Sailboats, ticking stripes, lemon and gray.  I am getting down all of my spring magazines from years past and pondering the changes I want to make this March.  I love this Iron Table, my mom purchased for me from my favorite little French store, Cote Soleil.  She is the most generous mother a girl, who really likes pretty things, could have.  And yes, I try not to like “things”, but I do anyway.  Working on that one…

The wooden spoons are from Pottery Barn and were a Christmas gift to me, from my lovely mother, last year.  They are in a temporary spot along this wall.  I have other plans, including open shelving for this wall.  Maybe I will get to it this year??

This is my chandelier.  Really it’s the  awful, builder installed lighting fixture in the dining room.  But I dressed it up with a sculpture I made from grapevine, twigs and vines.  The bird’s nests and red birds reside here in the winter.   I can’t remember what I did last spring, but I am thinking of butterflies this year.

Hot Pink and Lime Green Frou Frou Feather Topiary.

This is my latest order from Etsy!  Custom orders available in almost any color scheme!

Wouldn’t this be cute in red and pink and given in leu of flowers on Valentine’s Day!

It would look adorable as a special surprise on a teachers desk…or your sweetie’s or left on your BFF’s doorstep!

Cupcake Doll Box by Beau Rabbit

I think birthday season is here.  Just as I put away the last of the Christmas wrappings, I had to  replenish my stock of pinks and polka-dots.  The little doll box, above, is a gift I made for little friend who just turned 10 years old.  It is a paper mache box that has been decoupaged with aqua and dots paper and bright yellow gingham.  The little cupcake doll on top is made from clothespins and acrylics and she has a fabric daisy in her hair.  Paper flowers cover the lid and then the entire thing was rolled in glitter.  The box ope ns up and this particular one holds earrings as a surprise.  This is available in my Etsy shop in an assortment of colors.

A cake box full of….CAKE

These are birthday cupcakes that went out to a grown up friend.  I would tell you how old she was, but you wouldn’t believe me anyway! They are vanilla cake with butter cream and a heavy sprinkling of pink sugar.  I cut out little flags from scrapbook paper and glued them to sticks.  Scraps of ribbon finish it off.  The felt circles with buttons are an idea that I saw somewhere else…but I can’t remember where.  I will update when I run across the link again!  If that was your tutorial, let me know so I can update here!

And this is the top of the cake box lid.  I love these two little girls playing dress up.  The image is from an antique book of French Nursery rhymes and you may have seen it on some of my other projects-It’s one I keep coming back to!

I have a new crush and I admit that I am completly smitten! With…Sock Monkeys!  How can you not love these adorable little guys?  Our Keepers of the Home recently got together to provide the girls an opportunity to earn their sewing badges.  Sock monkeys were the theme and to celebrate these cute little guys, I made sock monkey cupcakes!  I am going to post a tutorial on how I did it soon, so stay posted.

I think doing a Sock Monkey Birthday Party would be so adorable and there are so many great Sock Monkey products and ideas out there! Is it so wrong to want another baby in order to do another 1st Birthday Party?

First, I would dress the part and wear this dress.  I know!  Right?  Amazing.  And yes, I would really wear this, even though my husband would probably never speak to me again.

I absolutely love these hats by Silver Spoon Scraps.

silver spoon scraps

silver spoon scraps