December is here!

 easy advent calendar by martha stewart

It's December 1st tomorrow and I couldn't be more happier. If you don't have a countdown to Christmas calendar planned, then you better get crackin'. You have one day left.

We like to do Christmas activities for our Advent calendar. Here is our list for this year (in no particular order)...

1. Set Pandora station to Christmas 24/7
2. Make chocolate dipped gingersnap cookies (recipe + dip in melted chocolate)
3. Ward Christmas party
4. Walk the city lights
5. Christmas town parade
6. Make sugar cookies and decorate
7. Pearl Harbor lights tour
8. Send off Christmas gifts and Cards
9. Ice Skating
10. Make snowflakes
11. Decorate gingerbread houses
12. Make hot cocoa/mint tea
13. Ride the local mall holiday train
14. Read a CHRISTmas book
15. Donate canned goods
16. Christmas ornament exchange
17. Bake treats for neighbors and friends
18. Progressive dinner party/White elephant exchange with friends
19. Make reindeer food
20. Family Christmas party
21. Christmas movie and popcorn night
22.  Check out Christmas books at the library
23. Go Christmas shopping as a family
24. Build a "Sand"man on the beach
25. Christmas breakfast

Have a wonderful countdown!!!!

Thanksgiving and Christmas favors

 

Printable Holiday Chocolate Wrappers are in the shop!

Get them now before the holidays sneak up and pass you by. 

Halloween wrappers

You know those Hershey Nugget chocolates... the ones with the toffee chips and almond bites in them?...  don't tell my daughter that I scan her Halloween candy loot and confiscate them before she even knows about it... Well, they are my favorite and they look even better with these fun personalized wrappers on them. You can get them here to dress up your Halloween candy or Halloween party favors. 

Favorite Things / Hot Hula Baby Shower

This is well over due. There is this thing called Hot Hula Fitness. It's a work out routine, it involves dance, and movements of the Polynesian islands. If you haven't heard of it or tried it I suggest you DO. IT. NOW! haha (see video here). Anyways, I am instructor and one of my friends, Crystal, is as well. Actually all of us instructors here are really tight and came together to throw Crystal a baby shower.
The theme was "These are a few of my favorite things". We came up with a list of Crystal's top 10 food cravings (which have been chocolate and sweets), and ate them all with her (along with some other healthy stuff).

Some of her cravings... rice krispie treats, cocoa rice, nutella, candy, banana bread, cake, hot chocolate, chocolate chip cookes.... basically anything that has chocolate in it or any baked good. Oh, and sushi. ha!

The adorable cupcakes with a little hot hula baby!

 

They day also involved an impromptu Hot Hula session in the back yard. See those golfers in the distance..?.. upper left hand corner? 

Yeah, they are from Japan and gave us a round of applause afterward. haha!!

I'm happy to say that Crystal had a healthy baby girl (in her van on the way to the hospital!) and she is adorable. 

Back to school!!!

The moment I saw this cute little pencil treats on Pinterest, I knew I was going to make it. Well, today was the day. My little KaiKai will be hopping off to preschool tomorrow with these in hand for her teachers. She I am so excited.

Because what teacher wouldn't want a little chocolate on the first day of school. 

Bonus points for my daughter too!

Here is the tutorial on the pencils from thriftyandthriving

Dinosaurs and Monsters

My little boy is officially a two year old. (sniff, sniff).

He is loving scary things lately, and loves to RAWR at everyone so I thought it was fitting

to have a dinosaur and monster themed party for him. 

It was simple and fun and most importantly, the birthday boy loved it. 

The minute he saw the cake, he wanted to snatch that dino off of it. 

We had to hold him back until after the happy birthday song. 

Happy Birthday, to my little dinosaur.

Red, White, and Blue

 

Summer time is here and the 4th of July is quickly coming up. 

I just added the perfect detail to your picnic party 

in the shop.... Red, White, and Blue Chevron Printed Party Hats!!!

In actuality, you can have them made in any color combo you prefer, but I love them in red, white, and blue. 

Happy Summer Festivities!!!!!

Pinterest challenge

It's been a while since my last Pinterest challenge post.
So here are the latest ones from the past couple months....

Biko! It's a yummy Filipino dessert. If you like mochi and coconut, you'll like this easy dessert. 

These pizza quesadillas were delish!

These Parmesan knots were a hit too. 

 And I finally made one of these.

Parenting Magazine shout out

Let me gloat for a little while here.... Because I'm SO excited that Parenting Magazine decided they wanted to feature one of my little party hats in their May issue. Its out as of a few days ago, so go grab one and look at page 1 and page 80 for the little beauty. You can also read the online version with Zinio. Tip: you don't have to sign up for a few peeks. They let you read a few pages as a trial.

Can you spot it?

 Here is a close up

Page 80

Close up

Flower-letts // table confetti

This just in!
Available in pretty much any color!
They are called 'flower-letts' and they make me happy.
It's a perfect touch of detail that will make your next party/event extra special.