Snick - er - Treat Cones

I wanted to make a little gift to take to some ladies in the neighborhood. I was inspired by this picture from pinterest. With this as my inspiration, here is a tutorial of how I made my Snick - er -Treat Cones!

I gathered all my supplies. What you will need:

8.5 x 11 scrapbook paper

pipe cleaners

hole punch

scissors

tape

craft glue (not shown)

stapler (not shown)

embellishments

I found some cute felt spiders, rick rac, pom poms and pipe cleaners in coordinating colors at Hobby Lobby.

Then you make a cone shape out of your scrapbook paper. Making the opening as big or as little as you like. Once you get your cone, I used one or two staples at the top to keep the shape and used a small piece of tape at the very bottom. Then cut off some of the top so you have a some what straight edge around the top of your cone
Using the hole punch (I used the smallest hole punch I had), punch two holes opposite each other at the top of the cone. Feed your pipe cleaners through and make a handle at the top of the cone.
Once the handle is on, decorate the cone with the embellishments.
I decided to add a label to my cones, so I made one up on my computer, cut them out and added them to the front.

Then I filled them with my FAVORITE fall treat.
I call them Snick - er - Treats because my favorite fall treat is,

Candy Corn

Dry Roasted Peanuts

Chocolate Chips

When you have them all together you get a yummy, can't stop eating treat, that tastes like a Snickers. If you haven't tried it, DO IT!! Now is the time!

Super easy Bunting

Little Miss will be turning 1 next week! I can't believe my little girl has been in our family a whole year already. We sure love having her as part of our family and so to honor her year, I wanted to do something fun. I decided to go with Pinwheels & Polk a Dots! To go along with our theme, I wanted to make a bunting that matched the color scheme.

Luckily I have a mother in law with a whole stock pile of fabric scraps. I dug around and was able to find things in the colors that I wanted. Some of these fabrics are from the 70's!!

Step 1: First I had to make a pattern. I took an 8.5 x 11 sheet of card stock, folded it in half long ways and then used my paper cutter and cut a diagonal to get the size I wanted.

Step 2: Unfolded my pattern and traced it onto my fabric. I cut out all my triangles and put them in a pile.

Step 3: I made sure all the fronts of the fabric were facing me. Then I came up with the pattern I wanted, and put them in order.
Step 4: I got my iron hot and folded down the tops of the triangles about 1/2 inch and ironed it down. I just eye balled the 1/2 inch.
So all my triangles looked like this. As a side note, I am not a fan of ironing. But for this project, it made it go a lot faster.
Step 5: Using my 1/2 inch guide on my sewing machine, I sewed the triangles (with a semi straight stitch) leaving a space to thread my ribbon through at the top. Remember, I am not a pro so don't look too closely at my finished product.
Step 6: After I sewed all my triangles, I was left with some not so pretty ends and threads. I cut them off so they lined up with the front side of the triangles.
So they look like these.
Step 7: Next I put a safety pin on the end of my ribbon and fed it through the tops of the triangles. I used a 3/8 inch ribbon. It fed through like a dream.
Gathered it as I went
Straightened it out and slide it along the ribbon.

Step 8: HANG IT UP!!! I think that I may need to put a stitch or two in the ends so that the bunting doesn't slide off, but it turned out just like I wanted.

When I first started thinking about this project it was a little overwhelming, but it was so easy and took just a few hours. Durning nap time, it goes by really fast! And of course break it up over a couple days.

I think it is going to be perfect for the party! I can't wait to see how the whole thing comes together.

Happy Any Day Garland

I wanted to make something that would be easy and fun for Mr. C. I was inspired by this Happy day Garland that I found on Dana-made-it. She gives a great tutorial and made it seem really easy.

As it turns out, it was really easy! I got some felt scraps from my mother in law, sat down while little miss was taking a nap one afternoon and cut out all my shapes. Although in the tutorial they did stars and circles, I decided to do more shapes. Mr. C is learning colors and shapes so I thought it would be fun for him to point out all the different shapes. As I cut (free hand, hence the wacky stars), he piled all the similar shapes together.

Then I decided how I wanted to put them all together, in some sort of pattern (not really). As I would sew, Mr. C would hold the end as it got longer and longer. When we were all done I decided to hang it up in his room and he loves it! He told me "I can't reach it". All part of the plan.

I think this will be a fun garland to put up at the beginning of every school year to get the kids excited.

Spiderman Birthday Party

The boy turned 3! We planned a fun Spiderman party and invited his friends and cousins.

We had spiderman cupcakes, a pinata and played save the birthday boy from the sand. All the kids got a sticky hand and a picture of the birthday boy buried in the sand. They had a great time trying to pick up their picture with their "Spidey web"!

All the kids wore their Spider-Man shirts and looked great!! I even made a Spider-baby shirt for Little Miss!

It was a great day! I can't believe my boy is getting so big! He sure is a joy to have in our home.

I entered!!

I entered a giveaway at one of my favorite blogs: Somewhat Simple.

I'm hoping to win this amazing photo session! Little miss is almost 1 and Mr. C will be 3 this week! This would be perfect! Now let's all cross our fingers!!

Also, Steph at Somewhat Simple always has amazing link parties! You never know what you are going to find. You should check it out! Even yours truly linked up today!