Crafts, Parties and More

As I’ve said before, I’m an excellent baker but not very good at cake decorating! I love to make my kids birthday cakes but am constantly looking for what I know I can pull off with my limited skill set. When planning a Trolls themed birthday party, I saw lots of beautiful Trolls cakes, but they all required more piping skills than I have, or a lot more fondant work than I was comfortable with. I found a set of Trolls Figurines that could be used a cake toppers, but didn’t like the idea of just throwing them on top of...

We were hosting a Grinchmas party at our house this year and I really wanted to deck the halls in proper Who fashion. We were spending a bunch on food and party supplies so I didn’t want to buy a bunch of new Christmas wall decor, and I didn’t want to have to store even more Christmas decorations after the holidays were over. I decided I would wrap all the artwork in our house and hang the wrapped artwork back on the walls. The presents hanging all over the house instantly gave our walls a Christmas makeover and it cost...

Our favorite Easter tradition is to dye deviled eggs! Dying eggs is fun, but it usually creates waste at our house since we don’t eat all the dyed hard boiled eggs after Easter. So instead of dying egg shells, we started dying the deviled eggs themselves, and deviled eggs always get eaten at my house!  These eggs are super easy to make and always leave our friends and family saying, “Wow, how did you do that?” To start you make a large batch of hard boiled eggs, my favorite way to make hard boiled eggs is to throw a bunch...

For my youngest daughter’s 6th Birthday she requested a Luau pool party. I’m a very good baker but I’ve never been great at cake decorating. When brainstorming cake ideas I thought I could make, without it looking like it belonged on “Nailed It”, I remembered I had success making a doll cake in the past with a textured skirt. I decided I could make a hula girl doll cake and all I would have to do for the grass skirt was a bunch of lines of green frosting. I knew my daughter had a Barbie wearing a bikini and I...

Ruffle Crepe paper streamers are one of my favorite easy DIY party decorations! They are quick and easy to make and very inexpensive. You can make them in any color or combination of colors. For my daughter’s recent Luau party I used 2 shades of green to make them and used them for a photo booth backdrop and some extras to decorate my DIY Tiki piñata and DIY tiki buckets. To make your own you will need: 2 rolls of crepe paper streamers in 1-2 colors pencil or wooden dowel Sewing machine Thread  Take 2 rolls of crepe paper streamers...