Whenever Alex and Eli come over for a night at our house there’s one thing you can be sure about, they will want to watch Toy Story with Pop on their bean bag chairs. In mid January they spent the night and enjoyed time with Pop watching Toy Story with a little box of popcorn and their snuggly blankets!
Whenever I want to make a layout and just can not come up with a style or idea I most often turn to my scrapping hero Gerarda for inspiration. She is also a member of the Shabby Miss Jenn design team. She is one of the most talented layout designers I have ever come across since I began digi scrapping in 2004. Today I found inspiration from her layout named Christmas 2010.
I used all Shabby Miss Jenn Design kits: Dreaming of Santa, Holiday Party, Grandma’s Scrapbook and her the little heart locket from XOXO, her new Valentine’s Day kit.
I’ve created three layouts using Shabby Miss Jenn’s new Valentine’s Day kit and LOVE how its so versatile.
Check out the new products in her store here: SMJDesigns
Here’s a post by my friend Melissa of ALittleLoveliness about her daughter’s cupcake birthday party planning. I created the paper printables for the party. Check it out by clicking on the photo below.
I can not wait to see the rest of Mary Ashley’s party as it unfolds!
(photo collage by Melissa)
Kali has been enjoying her guitar lessons at school. She has become quite the accomplished little guitarist. I’m so proud of her for practicing and how diligently she works at her finger placement. She has great hand eye coordination and will go far if she continues her lessons. Here are a few shots I took of her a during her winter holiday.
Keep up the good work little Miss Kali!
Alex and Eli had a fabulous birthday party on Saturday, so many friends and family came and it was truly special. Here are some photo highlights of their party. Today is their actual birthday and we’re going to celebrate by opening presents from our family this evening and having supper together.
We’re having a party to celebrate Alex and Elijah turning 3 today! Lots of details have been attended to, the cake is fabulous and we’re going to have a wonderful time with family and friends celebrating our favorite boys! There will be loads of goodies to eat and tractor rides with Pop and Daddy! More details to come!
Alex and Eli came over a little early for supper on Sunday so we could make French styled donuts we call beignets. They had a great time and did a very good job. Here are a few photo highlights of the boys at work!
The beignets were delicious, thanks for the help Alex and Eli!
Tonight we’re going to be cooking up some beignets at our house for dessert. I can’t wait for all the little ones to come over so we can work on it together. I bought this adorable little cookie cutter that make the perfect sized beignets. Kali, Alex and Eli will have fun cutting them out of the dough and then we’ll fry them up to a nice golden color and toss them in powdered sugar. Erica made yummy chocolate and French vanilla pudding to dip them in and its going to be a delightful treat. Erica and I made one batch this afternoon for practice and we can’t wait to get started.
Totally easy and totally yummy!
Here’s a fabulous shot by JUSTIN WATT of the fabulous Cafe du Monde. I checked my files and I didn’t have a shot that I liked of the famous NOLA restaurant!
Its super simple to make, I suggest you get some and give it a try sometime soon!
I woke up this morning with the envie to go antiquing. I called Krista and Keisha to see if they wanted to go too and within forty-five minutes we were on our way to Breaux Bridge. We stopped by Chick-Fil-A for a quick lunch in Upper Lafayette then headed down the bayou to Breaux Bridge. Our first stop was Bayou Town Flea Market, one of my favorite shops and I scored a few really awesome items. Keisha spotted this Pyrex dish in my Gooseberry pattern. I already had the white one the same size with the coral pattern on it. This was a fun find!
The last thing I spotted just before heading to the counter to check out was a precious and ornate little grapefruit spoon. There was only one, but that’s perfectly fine because I’m the only one in our home who eats grapefruit.
When I got home I had a little grapefruit snack and this spoon was perfect, it made it so easy to slip right into the grapefruit wedge and pop the meat out. YUM! The thing about antiquing and flea marketing is that you would think a little day trip like this would curb the urge to do it, but it only makes me want to go again… really soon!
I’m sharing links today to two fabulous parties that Melissa of the fabulous blog A Little Loveliness hosted for her children. At both of these parties I was so happy to create custom printable items in her party themes to help take the party to another level. She’s shared beautiful images of her family and their special events.
Click on the images above to see her Christmas pARTy!
