A Pinterest Baby Shower

Just as the wedding shower was a huge hit, the baby shower was not to be outdone!  "You Are My Sunshine" is the theme of the nursery, so it was the perfect theme for the shower.

The gifts, too, were so unique to each person's abilities.  Baby Boy Lennox is due to come to Darryl and Chelsea around August 8.  We are all so excited from them and know they are going to be 

amazing parents to this precious little baby! We wanted to show them how much we love them and are here for them.

I made a "Watch Me Grow" album.  It has each month (along with special holidays) for the first year for them
to put pictures in to see how he grows.

Allison made a teething necklace for Chelsea to wear.

Erin made this bucket full of personalized items.

Don't know why this is sideways, but Ashley made this monster coloring bag.
Inside she can put coloring books.

Keli made a changing pad (above) and rice bag (below).

Sherry made an Oscar hat for Lennox.

Hannah made felt numbers with beads in them. 

Dana made this "I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!" frame.

Bridget made these burp cloths.

You can see in this picture the "Shhh. . . Baby is Sleeping" sign Ashli made.
She is also in the process of finishing a blanket for Lennox.

We are so excited for Darryl and Chelsea as they prepare for Lennox's arrival.

We are also looking forward to more Pinterest Baby Showers coming up in the future as others are due in the next few months!

The Pinterest Wedding Shower

As mentioned in the previous post, my fellow Pinterest Partiers had a 

"You Are My Sunshine" party for two of our members the other night.

Keli and Kevin have been married for almost two months now and we wanted to celebrate their special day with them Pinterest style!!!!  Everyone made something from Pinterest for the new bride and brought it with them to the party for her to open.  I loved seeing everyone's special talent shine through in their project.  It was so special.  For some reason, I don't have pictures of all the gifts, but you can go here to see all that was brought.

The menu board Hannah made.

The wreath Ashli made.

The drink dispenser I made.

The coffee cups Erin made.

The famous couples sign Dana made.

The sign Chelsea made.

The guest book Allison made.

The Verse of the Week plaque Ashley made.

The "I love you because . . . " frame Sherry made.

It really was one of the best nights we have ever had!!!!

You Are My Sunshine Pinterest Party

For our latest Pinterst party, we had a celebration!!!

Keli had recently gotten married and Chelsea is due with baby boy Lennox in about a month.

So we decided to have a Pinterest Wedding/Baby shower for them.

I volunteered to have it at my house and decided to go with a 

"You Are My Sunshine" theme. 

I felt like that matched both ideas.  Then, come to find out that is the theme of Lennox's nursery!

We added the blue to bring in a color from Keli's wedding!

It turned out just perfect!

I made the banner with the help of LB using my Plantin Schoolbook cartridge as well as Celebrations. 

The blue Mason jars were a perfect touch for us to use as cups for the party. 

Kristen brought homemade Cherry Limeade which was delicious!!!!

Our honorees dipping into the amazing food everyone brought!

Kristen had the brilliant idea of creating a Pinterest board for everyone to pin their ideas, so you can go here to see all the recipes and gift ideas (see the next posts).

Keli, Me and Chelsea

The crew minus Ashli

We always have such a great time!! Come back to see posts on the gifts that were brought for the ladies!

Ornament Pinterest Party

I LOVE Pinterest.  I have a ton of boards for everything under the sun.  One of the things I was afraid of as I started Pinterest was I would be a pinner and not a doer.  I am very good about doing things for school that I have pinned, and my college kids have help me responsible for recipes I have pinned.  It's the craft ideas that I was afraid I would not do.  So, when Kristen decided to start Pinterest parties, I was ALL in!  We had a great one in October with wonderful food and fun crafting.  We all were looking forward to the one in December where we would bring an ornament we had made to exchange.  Sherry was our gracious host for the evening.  We started by making our first ornament - an owl.  You can use this recipe to make the dough for the owl and then follow this pin to see the steps it takes to make the owl.  It was super cute and super easy!!!!

Allison and Bonnie getting their dough ready

My owl

Then, we ate some WONDERFUL food!!! OH. MY. STARS!  It was amazing!

I am going to have do to another post just on the food - once I find all the recipes!!

When we sat down to eat, Sherry had a little baggie with everything we needed to make another ornament that again was super cute and super easy!!!  It made an angel.  You can follow the instructions at this website to help you.  I am going to do this with my class at school next year. I think they would love it!

My angel

Then, we played a nice version of dirty Santa with the ornaments we had each made.  It was so neat to see everyone's "first" ornament they had made.  We all had so much fun!

Sandy got Sherry's owl she had made

Sherry also made each of us one of these precious little mittens with a Euro in each one.

Sherry got Chelsea's Melted Snowman ornament

Bonnie got Sasha's snowflake ornament

Allison got Bonnie's snowman ornament

Kelli got Bridget's spool ornament

I got Dana's owl and Santa's Belly ornament

Chelsea got Kelli's gift tag PERSONALIZED ornament (which could also be used as a gift card holder)!!

Sasha got my cardinal ornament that I made with the Winter Wonderland cartridge and stickles!

Ashley got Kristen's ornament - I think this is the link to what she did!

Kristen got Sandy's ornament

Dana got Ashley's owl (Owls were big this year!)

Bridget got Allison's peppermint ornament

All the girls!

Next year, we have decided to make 12 (gulp) ornaments each.  Each one of us will do one of the 12 Days of Christmas so at the end, we will have one ornament for each of the days.  Mine is "3 French Hens," so if you have any ideas, I would LOVE to hear them!

Thursday Night Thanks to Pinterest

I enjoyed being able to do some crafty projects over Fall Break - not as many as I had hoped, but hey! I have not crafted in so long and I just missed being "crafty."  I made this banner for our mantle using the Billionaire and Mini Monsters cricut cartridges.  I thought it turned out pretty cute for my first banner.

Thursday night, some of my friends and I got together for a Pinterest Autumn party.  It was so much fun.  Everyone brought a food (recipe found from Pinterest, of course) and a pumpkin to decorate (idea found from Pinterest, of course).  We had a blast!

Deviled Egg Spiders

King Hawaiian Baked Ham and Swiss Sliders

Buffalo Chicken Soup, Pumpkin Humus and Smores Dip

Pinterest Party Menu

(The rest of the items)

Dessert Wontons

Pumpkin Creme Pies

Cream Cheese Jalapeno Poppers

Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Quick Cheesy Biscuits

Harvest Pumpkin Soup

We enjoyed a lovely meal with fabulous fellowship around gorgeous fall themed tables decorated by Kristen.

Then, we got busy.  It was so fun to see all the different ideas and supplies used to make the pumpkins.

A Child's Year cartridge inspired this pumpkin

Mod Podge and real leaves on a painted pumpkin

glitter and paint added to these pumpkins . . .

Chelsea was brave and made a Chevron pumpkin

Sasha's first work with vinyl

MY pumpkin!

I love that I did this on a fake pumpkin so I can bring it out every year!

I used the Storybook cartridge to create my pumpkin

Plans are under way for another night with food, friends and PINTEREST!