Its VEDA Time...

I am jumping on the VEDA bandwagon and am kind of excited about it! Its definitely a challenge for myself! I kicked it off today with a short video on the super budge friendly Spring or Easter party favor gift basket I put together.

VEDA stands for Video Everyday In April. If you are participating please be sure to leave the link to your channel below!

Happy April everyone!

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DIY Baby Name Banner...

I recently made a sort of rambly video on my DIY Budget friendly name banner I did for a Welcome Baby party I was hosting. It was super easy to create, super fun to create and easy on the wallet.

You can see here I used it behind my sweets table as a main focal point. I will be posting a more detailed blog of the party with pictures sometime this week. Instead of doing a baby shower since it was her second baby, we decided to throw a party after the baby was born as a way for friends to come and meet the new little one. I decided on the theme of  "Welcome the New Little Sweetie", thus the prolific sweets table.

More to follow.

Cupcake Carousel Display

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A Pinterest Story: Ode to the Pumpkin

 October is the spotlight month for pumpkins. Any other time of the year and they are just a large orange-y fleshed fruit with an unsightly rind. But 3 months before Christmas, the Pumpkin takes on a whole new meaning. They shine, glisten, sparkle, spook and conjure up the imagination of adults and children alike. Rows upon rows of pumpkins in every shape and size take a hold of October and claim it their time to dress up and take charge.

 The spray painted pumpkins (doubles as a house marker).

 The Initials (glowing).

 The Art Deco.

 The Glam.

 The Bedazzled and Bejeweled.

The Preppy.

The Apartment Complex.

The Sparkles (doubles as a centerpiece).

 And last but certainly not least the Au Naturale.

So their it was...the Ode to the Pumpkin. Thank you Pinterest for allowing the pumpkin its rightful spotlight (all pictures taken from Pinterest).

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Sweet Shoppe Series Part 2: DIY Candy Initial

Candy Button Initial

Supplies

With Baby Z's Sweet Shoppe fastly approaching (next Saturday, YIKES) I have been crafting sweet projects all weekend long. I dont think I have ever been so surrounded by sweet things that I cannot eat. An easy project that I did last evening was this candy button initial for the mantel piece. It is so inexpensive and easy to make! 

I purchased all the items from Michaels. The wooden letter was $2.99 and they come in all different sizes.  The Martha Stewart Glitter Paint was just under $3.00 and the paint brush was $0.50.  The candy button package was $2.99 and I have plenty of them left over after gluing them to a pretty large letter. 

Martha Stewart Glitter Paint

The glitter paint is very thin and glittery. It took about 4 coats to get the consistency that I was looking for. Once your coats dry it is a really lovely sparkly finish. This paint comes in so many different colors so your possibilities with this craft are endless.

Candy Buttons

These are all the leftover candy buttons I had after finishing the craft. I didn't end up using the yellow ones as I thought they might not show up properly against the yellow paint.

I also picked up this photo/plate stand to prop my finished letter on. I think this also was just under $3.00. You could use candy hearts for this project as well. You could do the first and last initial or even all three initials. Its one of those projects that looks like it was harder to make than it actually was. You could use this on your dessert/sweet or gift table or use it to decorate a mantle piece as I am. 

On to the next craft!

View Part 1 of my Sweet Shoppe Birthday Series here!