Well 28 days into the new year and I am finally getting to my new year's resolution of reigniting my poor poor blog. I missed her. I missed sharing ideas with people. I missed rambling.

I guess the fact that my tardiness is due to getting back on track after a super busy end to last year, means things are a good busy. Already this year promises many new products, new party themes, new inspiring customers and hopefully a new exciting venture.

In the lead up to Christmas I offered some free printable 'Reindeer Feed' bag toppers and instructions (here), and after emailing out over 100 copies to customers, I was so happy to hear that they bought so much happiness to so many families. The many messages of thanks I received were so lovely, and were what spurred me on to get back on the blogging bandwagon (that coupled with the fact I can now blog from my phone in the car, doing a middle of the night feed or while making dinner, sure does help when you don't have to be in front of the computer!).

Many of you said that my projects and posts inspire you to try new things and give new recipes, craft ideas and party ideas a go. I love and live DIY, and am throwing myself into up-cycling at the moment. Thats a whole other post though.

SO... with a busy couple of weeks ahead (3 parties this weekend, butterfly/garden party next weekend, balloon party the weekend after that, then Molly's 4th party to organise and then a couple of weeks later Archie's 1st birthday to get my head around) I am kicking of this exciting time with the {Inspiration Board} for the butterfly/garden party next weekend.

Its a 1st birthday to be held in a park, with lots of kids of all ages and a pretty fun theme to work with!
I had a lot of fun with the invitations, which can be viewed here.
Hope you enjoy it, and hope you have recovered from the shock of this old lass being fired up again.

Till next time, take care,
Rebecca ox

As promised, the FREE printable Halloween Cupcake Topper file- print, cut and cupcake till your heart's delight!

Well this little blog has been terribly neglected, but its the best place to give you access ot the free files for the AFL Grand Final Cupcake Toppers!
Here is the PDF of the COLLINGWOOD one:

and the GEELONG one:

You can either use a scalloped punch or a rounded punch or just cut them up as squares, stick on to toothpics and voila!
Go Geelong!!!

DIY elements of the Pony Party

Following on from my post about the Pony Party yesterday, I thought I would follow up today with some of the DIY elements of the day. I had lots of fun playing around with the beautiful fabrics I found and different things form all over the world (thanks to my best mate etsy :) ).

The fabric backdrop turned into a labour of love, cutting fabric strips and tying them onto a piece of dowel. Very simple and very effective. I really loved how it turned out and now want to hang it in Molly's room!

To match the fabric backdrop I also made a 'scrap' wreath for the front door...

To further tie in with the fabric backdrop I made some cake bunting out of just one of the fabrics to adorn the cake...

Finally I covered a 'M' with the same fabric as the bunting to add a personalised touch to the table. Again this is heading straight to her room!

To personalise the hobby horse party favours, I ordered some initial badges from etsy and attached them to some rosettes I made out of scrap fabric, lace and buttons...

The Happy 3rd Birthday sign hanging from the dessert table was another easy DIY using doilies (soon available to buy at Little Spunky Monkey) and printed card, pegged onto jupe with mini clothes pegs...

I had sooo much fun making all of these little elements for the party and am so happy that they all tied in together so well. So many of them can be used as either decoration around our home or in Molly's bedroom.

I hope I have inspired some of you to have a go at making similar pieces for your upcoming parties- please do not hesitate to contact me for any further informatio on any of the above mentioned ideas.

Rebeca
ox

Sorry its been so long...

... since I posted- its hard trying to keep up with blogging, facebooking, madeiting, websiting and, well, living! I have 5 weeks to go until out 3rd baby is due so it has been all a crazy couple of weeks (with more to come I am SURE!).


We have just had a party extravaganza weekend with Molly's 3rd birthday on the Saturday and then her party on the Sunday. Molly has been talking about having a pony party since Ned's party back in July last year. She never swayed from the theme in that time, so collecting little bits and pieces for the party has been going on for months!

I wanted to create a vintage/cowgirl-feel to the desesrt table and selected foods that fit the theme.

They included rustic apple and rhubarb and pear pies...

... peanut butter cups (Molly is peanut butter MAD!)...

the recipe can be found here
I cheated on the ginger kisses and donuts and bought them...

the chocolate bars were wrapped in printables from the Hobby Horse Party Printable Pack (available soon)...

... the sultana and oat cookies were fun to make with the kids and tasted great too...

grab the recipe from here.

The scrumptions cupcakes were from Lulu's Cupcakes- they always look too good to eat!!! (but taste delicious :) )

Alexis matched the colours in my fabric choices perfectly- I was so happy with them.

Then there was the cake!!! Mum baked the 3 layered cake for me and dad lovingly iced it- they kind of work in a tag-team and are the unofficial birthday cake makers in the family! We gave Molly the horse figurine for her birthday and I made the bunting on top- overall I was so terribly happy with it- exactly like what Molly and I wanted :)

Overall I was deleriously happy with how it all turned out- could not be happier.
Tomorrow I will do a post on all of the DIY elements to the party - so easy and so effective.

Rebecca
ox

Step 1: the are in!

Ok so the bedroom Relocation Relocatio is going well in a practical sense- the kids are loving it and are sleeping perfectly. There is lots of cahher upon going to bed, but it dies down soon enough and they are asleep in not too much time at all.
Here is a pic of the 2 beds in together- the space works really well and the room still seems big and bright and airy...

There is still all of Molly's wall decorations so they are next to go, and then trying to work with the many decorating ideas that I have in my head and savd in my favourites.

So step one is complete, with step 2 being de-girlifying the bedroom and working on the Nursery (which has become the dumping ground for all of the left over things from the kids bedrooms that now dont fit- wont show you that picture!).

Rebecca ox

Can it be done?

Of course it can be done- a boy and a girl sharing a bedroom. But with a mother that has to have every room designed to the very last inch of its life?

(www.thedesignfile.net)

And the only reason I want them to share is so I can have a nursery for a baby that wont even sleep in it, but I can then decorate it. AND as we dont know the gender, I can decorate a pre-baby neutral room, and then have a boy and a girl deisgn waiting int he wings to be fully put into action as soon as we arive home from hospital :)

So come with me on this journey of 4 rooms in total to decorate, the hardest one being that of Ned and Molly's shared room. Masking tape down the middle anyone?

Rebecca ox