Easter Crafts

I am one of the party moms for my daughters Preschool class and for their Easter party, I have to come up with some crafts for the class. After much research and thought, I have come up with two crafts that are going to be fun and easy. The egg carton Easter basket, a pretty bonnet for the girls and bunny ear hats for the boys.



Supper easy vintage Bonnet




Fun and simple Bunny Ears Hat

Easy and affordable way to perk up a spring dinner table

Valentine day table setting and treat ideas

We have three,well two and a half, girly girls in the house ( My older one is part tomboy),
Valentines day is bound to be a big thing so here are my ideas for this year.This is
our 10th anniversary year, and my girls are blossoming lil flowers, so My theme is
LOVE BLOSSOMS.

My Cupcake bouquet(details in the last post) serves as the centerpiece and I used small pots with heart lolipops,marshmallows as individual bouquets.I will be serving chocolate fondue and the marshmallows are for dipping.



For treats I am serving jello baskets

These are actually going to serve as my daughters preschool class treats.
All kids love jello.

Another treat is the Strawberry cream cheese sandwich.



HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO YOU

Diya Cupcakes for Diwali

Diwali the festival of lights is nearly here.As my daughters grow older, I feel the need to make it
a special celebration for them, so as they grow up they can value and cherish the festival as I do.
Its hard for them to feel the excitement, as most other children around them dont share the celebrations. I have made it a point to have a Diwali party every year were we do a gift exchange with other children(which they really enjoy).
We love baking cupcakes. Here are some Diya cupcakes we baked over the weekend.
I made the Flame with fondant and a leaf shaped cookie cutter & orange food coloring.
The gold cupcake liners give the cupcakes a diya look.

Home made Cup cake stand

I love cupcakes, who dosen't ? So I made a easy cupcake stand for our "King Of the Castle"
Themed B'day party for my husband

Three Cake boards (one smaller than the other two)

Golden Doilies (2 Sizes to fit the cake boards)

ribbon

Glue

Two Cardboard ribbon spools

Heres how its going to look with the cupcakes

A Special Birthday Gift.

My Sister-in-law's birthday is coming up. Its 15 Aug actually, but since my parents were heading over there. We decided to send her gift early.I usually stick to gift cards as it does away with having to recycle gifts & being fake polite.How many bath & body sets does a person need!!!

But earlier this year we had bought these beautiful pair of earrings from zihuatanejo.



The girls kinda felt left out, they wanted to send something too. So we baked a batch of our fav cupcakes

Rhea had fun icing it.

Rhea's gift was ready.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISHITA

Tea with Daddy

We moms work very hard, and ever so often we get appreciation from kids and others around us, there are magazines,TV shows, internet sites and so much more that reaffirm the importance of what we do.Dare I say that the dads on the other hand do not get as much acknowledgment for what they do for their family?? So My first post is about celebrating dad. My three old hosted a tea party for dad after he came home from work(He has a cup of tea, every evening & we just made it a special celebration).We started with a hand made card and flowers(from our backyard for dad.

The Tea menu consisted of simple snacks available in the pantry.Cookies,caramel popcorn,crackers,fruit trifle,egg sandwiches,cucumber & hummus sandwiches,tea & juice.

The Fruit trifle was very easy to put together.

Pound cake,Tapioca pudding or any other kind of pudding,Your choice of fruits( jello,& whipping cream can also be added).
We had two kinds of sandwiches- egg sandwiches,cucumber & hummus sandwiches.


Tea ofcourse!!!and juice

A nice table cloth, flowers and napkins with dads initials( I picked them up at Micheal's) and the table was set for a special celebration just for dad.