Banners for party

 These are the banners from the party today.  We had such a great time.  I’ll have to post more pictures over the next few days.  Tonight I am soooo tired and just want to lay on the couch and do nothing.  But I can’t because I have to clean for the open house tomorrow.  But [...]

THE Mad Hatter Cake

This is THE Mad Hatter cake that we came up with for the Mad Hatter Tea Party.  I won’t lie.  It took me a while to decorate this.  First, Ms. Carol, a dear friend of ours, baked 4 round white cakes for this.  Then she froze them and layered them on wax paper.  The next [...]

Mad Hatter Tea Party Prep

If you’ve been reading our family blog then you know we’re having a Mad Hatter Tea Party for Grace’s 5th birthday and the whole family is excited and getting involved in the preparations.   It’s such a great theme (Grace picked it) and you can do so much with it.  There are just so many ideas [...]

Six Chairs, Zero Dollars

Look at these amazing chairs!  I know they look a little rough right now but after some cleaning up and paint… they will be amazing.  They are all sturdy and in basically good condition.  I have been looking for some just like this for at least a year.  I didn’t want to pay a lot [...]

The front porch

I am going to miss this house when we are gone.  Of course, I loved our house in Alabama and dreaded leaving it.  Then we moved here and found this little adorable house and now I am dreading leaving it.  I have put a lot of work into it though.  The biggest project was the [...]

My little fashionista

Well, I haven’t been doing much crafting lately, but someone around our house has.  Here’s Gracie working on a new  princess outfit.  This was actually the lining out of a wool blazer that I bought to use the wool felt for some other projects.  She got creative with the lining.  No actual sewing was involved.  [...]

blogworm

It’s March!  What?  Where has this year gone?  Grace is turning 5 in a few weeks and I haven’t even started planning her birthday.  Not to mention who knows if we will even be here in this house for her birthday and then I think where will we have it?  And what have I been [...]