I was that crazy lady in Walmart today +Free Gifting Printable

I was going to write this blog post...

about my crazy day.

About how I took a trip to walmart because we had NO diapers.. and NO Toilet Paper.

It was a must trip. So I loaded up all three kiddos by myself and headed there.

only to end up being a shoppers' attraction with both girls in the cart, micah strapped to me, racing through the aisles to the bathroom because

sophie was screaming in pain from her stomach hurting and dry heaving

(she is super sensitive and was gagging from her tummy hurting. insane. I know)

I thought she wasn't going to make it and throw up all over the walmart floor...

so we ran for one of those recycle box/trash can things. yup. classy.

when I thought she looked better and wasn't going to throw up,

we made our dash to the bathroom....alllllll while the

LONG line of people for returns stared on horrified.

 LOVE hanging out in a public bathroom with 3 kids. it's super fun and not gross at all.

Plus loud automatic toilets are known to be LOVED by small babies.........not.

Poor thing though.. as soon as I got sophie to feel a little better we grabbed the toilet paper/diapers and she started sobbing again.. race to the bathroom!! AGAIN.

We finally ended up checking out. and if one more person told me I

had my hands full I was going to flip. flip or cry. one or the other. haha.

And what do you do when you have new toilet paper in the house....

Play with it of course!!

Later came across this and realized a certain toddler

was trying to cover her tracks..... ::cough:: sienna ::cough::

I was going to write this blog post about how some days

I feel like I'm running in circles..

Sophia came up to me wanting me to check out her hair

"I'm making it not crazy"..................

She thought it was my hair product that I put in my hair to smooth it out.

nope.

my face wash.

Oh and Micah was rocking a hand me down christmas outfit because it

was the first thing I saw that he fit in. grabbed it. he didn't leave the house like this..

I don't want to look tooooo crazy out in public.

But tonight, while snuggling with sienna before bed,

I started thinking how I don't want to post just about how hard my day was.

Of course I want moms to see that we all have hard days...

I want my readers to leave my blog relating to me..but also feeling uplifted!

I kept thinking about when someone dropped off this gift basket for us when we moved in..how I seriously wanted to cry I was so thankful for their kindness.

I feel a connection with you as my readers...

and I wish so badly we could all just do one big play date! ;)

That we could drop off meals for each other when we knew someone was having a hard day.

I kept thinking how important community is as moms.

It made me want to reach out more to my mom friends...

to not just think about my hard days, but to think about them and lift them up!

If you feel like me... and want to celebrate motherhood

and lift up your fellow mamas...

I just made up this printable for you to download and use when dropping

off something to show you care!

I asked on my blog's facebook page:

"If a fellow mama did something to show she cared,

by dropping something off,..what would you be SO HAPPY to receive?"

(click here to read the facebook status,

read what other mamas said and leave your choice!)

FREE "CELEBRATE MOTHERHOOD- LIFT UP YOUR

MOM FRIENDS" - PRINTABLE DOWNLOAD

I'm also offering, by request of a blog reader via facebook, the same design but
with my blog and 'celebrate motherhood' tiny at the bottom of each tag!
Would love for you to share our little community with other moms.
Maybe it'll be the connection that mom needs to feel a boost!
DOWNLOAD that version HERE

AND, since a lot of my readers say Mum instead of Mom..
I made up a british version as well. :)
Download the MUM Printable HERE.
and the MUM Printable with my Blog HERE.

Motherhood is hard...

and so very beautiful.

Sisters.

Please Pin, Tweet and Share the printable!

We all need to bless our fellow mamas more.

We know how some days are hard..and we aren't alone in

feeling 'happily' exhausted while taking care of our sweet babies.

So let's reach out and love on each other a little more!

I would seriously cry if someone dropped off a case of diet dr. pepper at my door.

That's all it would take! haha.

sophie update: she feels better! an hour after we got home she was back

to her normal self. must have been gas bubbles. poor little thing.

FREE PRINTABLE- Movie Themed Teacher Gift Tag

Most of my popular printables this time of year... are ones for teachers!

I sell a variety in my shop. But I thought it might be fun to offer a FREE one that I just created for a client. She planned a whole week to celebrate the teachers at their

school. It was a Hollywood Theme based off of one of the printables she saw in my shop already. LOVEDD IT! We need to celebrate our teachers more often.

I hope that this post inspires you to do the same at your school.

Even if it's just one of the days!

Here's the flyer we made up to put in all the teachers' boxes:

 Here's my free teacher printable for you!

Please Go make your teachers feel special!

FREE MOVIE THEME TEACHER TAG PRINTABLE-

Winner of a PICTURE PEFECT YEAR

(Ten tags on your printable PDF)

Click the above link to download the full page pdf. Print, cut and attach to a gift.

You could do a movie theatre gift card or a bag of popcorn/candy!

I also offer a customized one...

"Thanks for a PICTURE PERFECT Year! Love, _____"

One of my top teacher themed sellers. I add your text.

I also have a (write in your own name) immediate download version of that one too.

Here are some more of the tags my

client is gifting to her teachers each day!

Pair these tags with STARBURSTS for a cute gift!

Immediate Download - $5

(Ten tags on your printable PDF)

I think a single soda or a cute 6 pack of mini sodas

would be perfect with this tag!

IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD- $5

(Ten tags on your printable PDF)

These would be cute attached to a container or bag of popcorn!

You could make it fancy with white chocolate or

go real crazy by gifting a variety of flavors! ;)

IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD - $5

(Ten tags on your printable PDF)

I did a fun post on yummy popcorn recipes while

I was doing party prep for my girls' Vintage Circus Birthday Party

I originally created all of these for teacher gifts...

but they would be perfect for a Movie themed party,

movie night with friends or an Oscars Party!

Baby Shower for my Sister-In-Law

While I was in Atlanta, I teamed up with my Sister, Valerie(of BLANQI), and My Sister-In-Law, Mary, to throw a Baby Shower Brunch for my little brother's wife Shanna!

I was so thankful to be able to come into town to help throw the shower for her!

It is Shanna's first baby and we wanted to make it extra special for her.

Mary and I had so much fun shopping at target and the grocery store to pull

everything together the day before! Valerie hosted the party at her

house and had made an Aldi's run the day before.

We all worked to make it come together!

left photo: Mary and I in Target.:)

right photo: Micah in his pj's the morning of the shower...

wake up sleepy head..time to celebrate a mama!

We had the Baby Shower Brunch at 10:30 am on a Saturday.

We might have "taste tested" some a lot of the donuts the day before the shower...

(my mom made those cute baby booties below!! eek. adorable.)

Mary used a pack of tissue paper of each color (from target) to make the pom poms!

I found flowers at the grocery store and the colors were too pretty to pass up.

On the table we used linens my mom brought with her from Charlotte.

Some of them were family heirlooms that we were so excited to actually use!

I made up favors and we were lucky enough to have the easter candy

at target match our colors perfectly!

It was fun seeing everything come together. :)

We served some yummy sweet and savory options at the party.

We had donuts, cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, prosciutto wrapped cantaloupe, nutella croissants and a few other yummy treats. I love the little toppers my sister had found at marshalls..little animals! they ended up matching the colors of the party perfectly.

If you want to make the most amazing Sausage and Egg Strata of your life this is it!

It disappears every time I make it. (We have it every year for Christmas Morning.)

We offered juice, coffee, milk and ice water.

One of my favorite touches on the table-----the parfaits!

(all from aldi's.. yogurt, granola cereal and strawberries)

We used cute mason jars leftover from Mary's Wedding.

everything tastes yummier in a mason jar ;)

I couldn't resist making up some treat bag tags as favors!

If you would like to use these at your Baby Shower I added a listing to my shop. I can customize them with your mama(or couples) name and date of the baby shower.

"Thanks for Popping By!" Treat Bag Tag - Printable PDF

A Baby Shower can't be complete without some cut throat baby shower games!

I created a printable with a fun 'Baby Animal' Game...

and also a 'Prayers for Baby' Card.

If you would like to buy my baby shower printable you can get them in my shop!

The listing includes both of the above printables. Print as many as you need!

Baby Shower Game & Activity - Printable PDF

We played a game during the present time as well...

We had everyone write on the back of their 'baby animal' game

card 5 baby things shanna might get!

We had a handful of prizes to give..most of them candles. (everyone loves candles.)

I love babies and baby showers. :)

Weekend Printable Sale! 25% OFF ALL Treat Bag Tags

Happy Friday everyone!

So a lot of people have been grabbing up

Easter Treat Bag Tags in my shop. Already!

So I wanted to offer a WEEKEND SALE...

25% Off ALL Treat Bag Tags.

Use CODE: WEEKEND25

Here's some of my popular treat bag tags

this time of the year! links below.

 

Happy Easter - Little Chicks.

Happy Easter.

Favorite Peeps.

Jesus is Risen!

Lucky.

Rainbow Seeds.

St. Patrick's Day Party - DIY Details

The wee bit of Irish in me loves this post!!

I made up a fun DIY backdrop idea and

printables for a St. Patrick's Day Celebration!

We took these photos in their play room one morning after they woke up.

My girls of course loved the idea of a taking pictures

and eating cupcakes and skittles for breakfast.

I'm excited to share some easy DIY touches for a St. Patrick's Day party..

(or a rainbow themed party!)

All the fun Details and links to printables are below!

I wanted to make up a new St. Patrick's Day Treat Bag Tag this

year to gift to our friends and family!

Rainbow Seeds! Fill snack size bags with skittles, staple tag to top

and you have a fun themed goodie bag.

Rainbow Seeds Printable PDF - $10

DIY CLOUD AND RAINBOW BACKDROP

I wanted to do a rainbow backdrop for our little St. Patrick's Day party table...

I used the batting material clouds I made for their Storybook princess party.

I picked out my rainbow colored fabrics at Joanns.

I bought 6 inches of each and then cut and ripped each in half.

I then tied them to a leftover curtain rod I had. (and hung it on the wall by resting it on two nails.)

I made up a batch of cookie bars...

used a little store bought bag of frosting to pipe a design

and added some sprinkles!

Easy homemade treat. I enjoyed eating this photo prop...

I used a handful of little shamrock foam stickers to sprinkle around the table!

I made up a St. Patrick's Day Print to frame in one of my IKEA Frames.

I'll probably move it to the girls shelf in their play area.

I love the idea of switching out prints for each Holiday.

Right now they have the Valentine's Day ones I made up on their shelf!

Happy St. Patrick's Day Print - Printable PDF $8

I love garlands and banners!
So I of course I had to make up a St. Patrick's Day one!
I like to string them up across our piano..or our mantel.
Happy St. Patrick's Day Banner - Printable PDF $8

Cupcakes!
Bake or pick up a batch from your bakery and top with these cute Toppers!
My girls always love cupcake toppers... We made up some cute glittery shamrock toppers by using a handful of foam shamrock stickers from Joanns.
(the kind with the paper you peel off on the back) 
St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Toppers - Printable PDF $10

pretty, festive and fun!

Sienna was being so patient as I took photos of the cupcakes.

torture for a toddler. ;)

Sienna loves skittles.
Like her mama.
I teach her to eat them slow and one at a time.
We count them. :)
(The little yellow bowls are from Marshalls! It was a 4 pack for $7 or so.)

Yum.

Love cookie bars....

LOVE my girls and their silly poses. ;)

Hope you got some ideas for your own St. Patrick's Day!

My sophie's new year resolution was "to celebrate more"....

so we are going all out on each holiday in our house. ;)

Valentine's Day - Our DIY Details

With Valentine's Day just around the corner..

I wanted to share some fun

and easy DIY Details that you can use to

decorate your home or a party!

Mini Powdered Sugar Donuts might have

been used as bribery for this photo shoot...

Here's a Summary of my DIY DETAILS.

I'll explain more on each throughout the post!

--Dollar Store Heart Doily Garland

--Dollar Store Heart Balloons

--'XO' Gold Spray Painted Letters

--2 IKEA Frames filled with Valentine's Day Themed Printables

--Thrift Store 'Donut Stand' Spray Painted Gold

--Gold Sparkly Heart Toppers

--Flower Crowns (Tutorial later this week!)

--Tulle Tutus

I found this cute little stand at good will one day..and knew it had potential!

I spray painted it gold (the metallic kind) and loaded it up with pretty little donuts!

The toppers were made from leftover gold sparkly card stock that I cut out with my heart craft punch(JoAnns) and taped to some candy sticks(JoAnns)

I made the GOLD 'XO' LETTERS using

Metallic Gold Spray Paint and Letters from JoAnns.

We used them on the table display but they could be cute as photo props!

I used a white IKEA storage box(from my office area) upside down

to give some height to my table. 

 I made up in Photoshop a couple VALENTINE'S DAY PRINTS

to put in frames as part of our Decorations!

The girls really loved this one with the cute little bumble bees. :)

You can get the Printable for yourself in my Etsy Shop.

I think they would be cute for your home decor but even for a valentine's day party!

Or printing up a bunch and framing as gifts... a fun little DIY you can use each year.

BE MINE PRINTABLE - $8 

   KEEP CALM and EAT CANDY PRINTABLE - $8

LOCATION: I took these photos in the corner of the Girls' Room...

moved their beds to the side. The Table and heart rugs are from IKEA.

OUTFITS: They are wearing basic white tops from Target...

and their Tulle Tutus I made them last year. (no sew SUPER easy.)

The girls were all about this super girly photo shoot.

It didn't take much convincing for them to participate

once I said tutus and donuts were involved...

DOILY HEART GARLAND

I grabbed 2 packs of heart doilies from the Dollar Store.

Took some Clothes pins I already had, painted one side with mod podge and dipped them in Gold Glitter from JoAnn's (bought big size and used coupon)

I used fishing line that I already had to string them up! For something even more sturdy you could use ribbon. We moved this garland to our mantle! :)

This is what happens when powdered sugar donuts are involved in photos...

Sugar high. ;) goofy girls.

Hope you found some inspiration in this post to make

your Valentine's Day extra special for your sweeties!

I am trying to help Sophia fulfill her new years resolution of "celebrate more"...

I thought that was a good resolution. ;)

I'll be sharing the Flower Crown Tutorial later this week!

or weekend...depending on life.

I seriously have been pooped/peed on every day this week

and our humongous laundry pile is proof of that.