halloween games for kids: Haziran 2012

27 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba

Pinwhirls Themed Party Papers

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Whether you're planning a sophisticated spring birthday or an elegant summer wedding, we've got some gorgeous papers in the Pinwhirls shop to inspire your event's decor. Use these papers do design custom pinwheels, banners, invitations, thank you cards and more at Pinwhirls.com.

The Breeze Set

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This collection contains twenty light and pretty designs you can mix and match for the perfect color combination.

Suggested Uses:

Sweet 16 Birthdays
Bridal Showers
Wedding Showers
Weddings
Engagement Parties
Baby Showers

The Nautical Set
If you're looking for something cute and fun but less feminine, the Nautical set features bolder summer colors and fun prints including anchors, whales, and waves.

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Suggested Uses:

Graduation Parties
Retirement Parties
Baby Showers
Engagement Parties
Weddings
Going Away Parties

The Mod Set

Another bright and colorful collection, the Mod set features bold patterns with a retro feel and even contains custom prints for a very special first birthday party.

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Suggested Uses:

Boys' Birthdays
First Birthdays
School Parties
Parties with a Retro Theme

Valentine's Day Wedding Tips & Ideas

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Valentine's Day is popular day to get married. And why not? A day already filled with love and romance is the perfect time to start the rest of your lives together. If you're looking for ways to plan a Valentine's Day wedding while keeping the event fun and fresh and not too cliche, we've got some great wedding planning tips for you!

Use Red or Pink as an Accent Color

Instead of using red and pink together as your main color, try black and white with small accents of either red or pink for your attire and wedding decor. Overdoing it on the red and pink can look kitschy and old fashioned. If you're look for a modern classic, try grey, white and burgundy or grey, white, and petal pink.

Use Floral Centerpieces

Valentine's Day and flowers go hand-in-hand. For your centerpieces, try a floral arrangement or even a single flower in a crystal vase. Roses are classic, but stargazer lilies and daisies are also great choices. It al depends on the mood you want to set for your reception.

Avoid Using Too Many Hearts

Yes, it's a Valentine's Day wedding, but that doesn't mean you have to bombard your guests with hearts galore. For something more subtle try heart necklaces for the bridesmaids, wedding favors (like our Pinwhirls made with Heart Day Papers) with a heart-shaped pattern, or a single heart on the place cards. Just avoid the temptation to put them everywhere.

Use Valentines for Invitations or Place Cards

We love the idea of invitations and place cards that look like retro Valentine's Day cards. Depending on your personal preferences, you may want to choose something lacy and Victorian. Or if your style is more casual and fun, bring back your Valentine's Day cards from when you were a kid with well-known characters and gobs of bright colors.

Give Away Sweet Wedding Favors

Homemade conversations hearts, Godiva chocolates, sachets of personalized M&Ms. There are lots of different ways to sweeten up your guests' wedding favors.

Did you have a Valentine's Day wedding? How did you incorporate the holiday into your special event?

6 Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day as a Family

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Because St. Patrick's Day is coming up next weekend, we wanted to give you some family friendly ideas for celebrating on March 17. Because let's face it: green beer and pub crawls just aren't for everyone.

Wear Green: This should go without saying. However, if green doesn't make regular appearances in your wardrobe, finding the right outfit might require some planning. Fun printed Tees are always a favorite. But if you don't feel like buying a shirt you can only wear once a year, there are plenty of options. Go for some fun (and cheap!) plastic shamrock sunglasses, an emerald cardigan, or go for the mismatch with some bold green socks.

Make Green Treats: Shamrock shakes are always a hit, but you can make most anything green with a few drops of food coloring. Try green cupcakes, frosting, cream cheese, milk, and even mashed potatoes!

Irish Cupcakes: Nigella's Guinness cake (can be make into cupcakes) makes a great dessert for St. Patrick's Day. Although it's made with a little bit of beer, the cake is moist, sweet, and very chocolatey. We highly recommend it.

Irish Decor: Drop some Lucky Charms on a green tablecloth or fill a large pot with gold foil covered chocolate coins and set the pot at the end of your own rainbow. You can make the rainbow by hanging streamers from a door frame in color order or drawing one with sidewalk chalk if you plan to party outdoors. You can also search all Pinwhirls papers tagged "green" in our Flickr gallery!

Make a Replica Blarney Stone: The Blarney Stone resides at Blarney Castle in Ireland, and according to old legends kissing the stone will give you the gift of eloquent speech. If you've got a large landscaping stone--perfect! If not, you can always create one out of papier-mÃ¢chÃ©, poster board or styrofoam.

Serve Corned Beef and Cabbage: Corned beef and cabbage is a favorite on St. Patrick's Day. Foodnetwork.com has a great recipe compilation for making this Irish dish inventive. There are even recipes for corned beef and cabbage rolls and pizza. Yum!

How do you plan to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

25 Graduation Gifts that Won't Break the Bank

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Last week, we talked about graduation party tips for those anticipating a little party planning this coming May. But what if you've been invited to a graduation party?

It's common to get a gift for any graduate, but especially for a high school graduate as many will be preparing to live away from home for the first time. So leave the fancy cars and European vacations for those independently wealthy relatives of the grad, and consider these thoughtful but affordable graduation gifts:

25 Affordable Graduation Gifts

Books
Rolled quarters (for the laundry facilities on campus!)
Sheet sets
Hot plate
Small microwave oven
Photo album or digital photo frame
iTunes or Phone card
Briefcase
Desk calendar or monthly planner
Space-saving storage accessories
MP3 player
Printer or ink refills
Charging station for electronics
Compact tool kit
Lunch tote
Shower caddy with supplies
Jump drive
College themed T-shirt or sweatshirt
30-minute recipes or Bento recipes cookbook
School supplies
Headphones or earbuds
Watch
Customized survival kit (think coffee, favorite snacks, mini sewing kit, etc.)
Personalized diploma frame
Restaurant gift cards

If you're still having trouble coming up with the right graduation gift, think back to your own graduation. What items were the most useful or the most loved?

You can get great graduation party invites, banners and more printed on custom papers that match your grad's school colors at Pinwhirls.com!

Slumber Party Tips

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So your daughter wants to have a slumber party for her next birthday. Now what?

If you're going to host a slumber party, you might be a little anxious--but never fear! There are a few things that will help you get through the night unscathed. Here's what to do:

Set a Guest Limit and Stick to It

Your best bet is to keep the guest list to eight or fewer. You might need to whittle the list down to six or less if space is limited in your home. Remember: all those sleeping bags are going to have to fit somewhere! Send out your invitations and include a contact information sheet with your RSVP. Everyone will feel better knowing that parents can be easily reached -- just in case.

Set Arrival and Departure Times

Make it clear when the party starts and ends, and ask parents to bring the children after they've had an evening meal. You'll likely be serving cake or other treats, but preparing dinner for an army of your child's friends might be a little too much to ask--especially with all the party decorating and planning you'll have to do. Keep breakfast the next morning simple with individual serving cereal boxes, fruits, and a choice of water, juice or milk. It's a good idea to ask parents to pick their children up by noon.

Schedule Activities

Whether you play birthday games, outdoor games, or do movies and popcorn, it's a good idea to give structure to the evening for the kids. Let them know what they can expect, and you'll help calm any worries or anxiety that first-time sleepover guests will have about being away from home overnight.

Set a Bed Time

A half-hour before it's time for bed, dim the lights and start a quiet time for the partygoers to wind down. Some of the children will probably be a little chatty, even after lights out, but you shouldn't have any reason to stress about it. It is a party after all.

25 Haziran 2012 Pazartesi

what i'm doing (another random post)

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you know...i feel like this should be a weekly thing...cause sometimes..you just have to post nothing.

I mean..this stuff isn't nothing. it's something (awesome somethings.) but it's just a hod podge of awesome nothing somethings.
stuff i want to tell you about...and i usually do on facebook...but i don't think you all follow me there *lucky you who don't..i've been going instagram crazy.

so here it is...much ado about craft nothingness....

pick your plum has the cutest flowers

when hair crap week comes around i'm going to have get me some leather!

and while we are on daily deal websites...lovin these yo yos from groopdealz

SOOOO excited for this series to start. you know i love me some color......

umm..it's try outs for sytyc...

but if you want to know the truth....i really liked all 12! it's going to be a great season!

project run and play is doing a great thing called SKIRTING the ISSUE were they are trying to get 100 skirts donated to foster homes for cute little girls that need cute little skirts! i'll be guest posting a tutorial for some skirt that hasn't been born in my brain yet (in july) but i wanted to give you a heads up cause it's a great cause and skirts are something that are pretty darn easy to make! so get sewing!

i am momma has come up with a fantastic idea to give back

read about it HERE

Paper Coterie has lowered their Father's Day Books (father's day is a week from Sunday, so you still have time to order) and now the bigger book is only $12 - use the code "DADSDAY" at checkout.

um...i shopping for a new swimsuit...love the bottoms on this one....(kmart)
but i don't do bikinis...cause...well, i'm a mom...and mom's need coverage. (like along the lines of picking kids up..or kids holding onto your tops...i've flashed many a lifeguards this way)this one is cute from old navy...wondering if it would match the red bottoms...

(oldnavy)
and love this one from downeast....but one piece?

i think i was in middle school last time i wore a one piece
and i found this: which is great..it links up to some great websites that sell modest swimuits....i love all of these places

especially kohls...
cause they do this...

i'm also trying to decide which color tunic shirt i want to buy from modcloth

suggestions? how about STOP online shopping?

oh..and i got my hair thinned out and my bangs trimmed...finally. my bangs were long!

(i finally got ready this summer vacation...thought i had better get a picture to prove it in case it doesn't happen again....)
just wanted to say thank you to my awesome sister in law!

Kimbo

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limber kimber

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you know...when it rains..it pours..for example: the day my water heater went out (like i found a mini swimming pool in my laundry room (luckily i rent...so no harm to me..)
except when i went to move all my craft crap out of the way and dropped my gallon of kitchen paint on the floor (i had already used it so it was half gone luckily) i literally got my hands in and scooped it up as FAST as possible..

and when it was all cleaned up...
i looked down and found...

paint pants. on my most favoritest yoga pants.

and no i don't do yoga. limber kimber became a nickname more for the reason that it rhymed than anything else.

but i did go to the gym in them...and they were awesome and didn't shrink into high waters when washed..and they made my bum look bumalicious. (old navy)

so i was bummed (Not licious...just bummed)

AND I thought to myself. be resourceful....

so i grabbed my freezer paper.

and got on my cameo...and made a stencil and fancied them up a bit...

(let me tell you how bad i wanted to put agaagg down the side...SO BAD) but i didn't want to be vain...and i didn't want to get stopped by people at the gym asking what the crap agaagg was...to which i would reply, "the sound i make when i throw up after i work out to hard at the gym)

ironed it on(break: if you have never tried freezer paper stencil...you are missing out. its easy..and super fun....kids would love it.you just take freezer paper...cut out a design (free hand if you want) and iron it shiny side down on the chosen article of clothing. then iron makes it stick...basically like a big sticker. you paint in your design and then peel off the paper when done!)
i used tulip fabric paint....it's the best..it will make it feel unstiff

mixed it with white and went to town...i wanted it a bit distressed so it's darker in some and lighter in some...then i splattered it with more blue paint (to match the already splattered marks)