LOW QUALITY PICTURE ALERT…It’s all I could get this year, but I still wanted to share it! Next year, I will replace these pictures with some that have all that fancy pants quality to them. Until then…..
My mom has raised 4 children who are grown, with me being her youngest at 33. Now my mom is in the middle of raising 4 children she adopted later in life. For all 8 of us, she has saved the holiday crafts we have made through the years and it has become my favorite holiday decor. Using twine and clothespins, she strings up all of the crafts we have made through the years. It is such a personal and a neat way to decorate!. You hate to throw away all of their sweet hard work and this way, you can keep the work from ANY holiday and always have the best kind of decorations. It is neat to see the growth in the work through the years too. I’m starting my collections now! Isn’t this the sweetest?
Hang them over doorways, mantles, windows or banisters! So many cute ways to hang these little treasures.
All wreaths are handmade by me with the affordable, ever flexible felt. With a trusty pair of fabric scissors, I cut and imagine to my hearts content. I never really know what a wreath will look like going into it. I just start and figure out what works as I’m working.
Here are some of my simple, holiday creations. I hope you find some inspiration!
Scallop cut felt pieces wrapped on a wreath with an over sized, funky felt flower with spiky holly leaves.
Off beat winter wreath with icy/snowy colors.
Almost all fabric wreath with handmade pleated flowers with button centers.
These are two gifts for under 10 dollars that you can grab on the fly just because you are thinking of a friend. Most people don’t know that every year at this time, for just 7 dollars, you can buy a Chic Fil A calendar card that gives you free food once a month for a year! Free nuggets, free sandwiches, free milkshakes, free chicken biscuits…these guys are the cheapest, a ton of bang for your buck, and who doesn’t love the heck outta some Chic Fil A? Perfect for anyone from a college student to the mom who always lives at this fast food joint.
The next item is a shopping cart bag sold at Aldi and if you Adli, they are a dream come true!!!!! DREAM! BUT, no fear, they fit any standard shopping cart. Forget all of the plastic bags and have just this one sturdy little guy who folds up, holds 30 lbs, has an insulated compartment and zipper pouch for coins, and two handles for carrying the bag to your car. LOVE THESE and they sell out any time they are carried and you never know when or if that will be.
I will give both of these items away to one lucky party animal who likes to give and receive helpful just because gifts! To enter, follow herpartypants on Facebook, share this post, and tag herpartypants in that post! I’ll announce the winner Friday.
Some people don’t like giving gift cards because they think they are impersonal. I’m definitely not in that category because nothing gets me going like guilt free money to burn in a store I love!
If you want to add a creative touch or personalize a gift card, why not package it in a really cute way? Enter mason jars for gift card packaging! I used the same materials to make my DIY Mason Jar Snow Globes but instead, ditched the glitter and water and affixed a gift card inside. Using a little hot glue, I lined the bottom edge of a gift card and snuggled it in between craft pine trees. I put both of the teacher gift-gift card jars side-by-side in a wire basket and personalized each card with a chip board letter that I painted red to match. My little girl dictated the message inside to her teachers with awesome things like, “Merry Christmas. I love you. You look like a candy cane.”
The gift cards were small, but cute and practical and who wouldn’t love to get a gift in something like this? The crafter in me would re-use all of the components if I were to get this gift. Actually, I think I’ll keep it because I love it. Just kidding… Or….Okay, I’ll give it to them.
If you are really fun, you can actually make the jars into the snow globe with the gift card inside. Snow globe gift card packaging? I might choke on a candy cane I’m so excited about that idea.
Put anything you want in a mason jar to make this packaging party, season, or person specific. The possibilities are endless! Here’s to hoping that two pre-school teachers like this gift as much as I do!
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In my dreams, I have that pillow-y fake snow in the bottom of this basket. In my dreams I also don’t take blog images with my cell phone so I guess, we can’t all be winners.
Alone, it’s simple and may need a little pizazz but when packaged with the wire basket and cards, it’s ballin’ out of control. If only the fake snow…..
Cute for a lumberjack theme, camping, woodland creature, adventure, or any outdoor-esk party! All you need to do is make or buy some chocolate buttercream, ice the cake (imperfections make no difference with this cake), let the icing harden in the fridge, and then use a toothpick, wiping frequently, to doodle in a wood grain. Easy!
I LOVE naked cakes. Fill the layers with icing in between and faintly ice the outter edges. Cover it in fruit or flowers or use a pre-made/homemade topper like above. As an ex-cake decorator, this idea is like a dream of easy!They can sophisticated or even playful!
Edible Images On A Store Bought Cake (Yes, they are the easiest thing to do.)
You can find a million edible image Etsy shops where you can shop by theme or submit an image to have them make you your very own! Below there is a link to a free template you can use to print and order this very image for your own cake! This is basically like a big sticker and you CAN do it!
Cutest play on words I’ve ever seen… The source of this Etsy image is no longer available but you can find tons of Uno Parties on Pinterest and there are loads of good examples to look at there. Shock, shock…
Source items photographed are from Etsy and no longer offered Photo: www.rcphotography.com
Wipe Out Party
Based off the show Wipe Out, this is a fun outdoor, active obstacle course water party!
This might be my favorite and most creative party theme: a year in a flash. Cameras to play on the flash and the idea of time flies in a flash, all in one. Killed it, girl. See the rest of this party here.
This party was for my girls. They have birthdays in April right smack dab around Easter. It’s fun to take a neighboring holiday and turn it into a birthday theme. They loved their double Easter themed party and you can see it all here. Their party favors were the large eggs below and they were hidden in the yard. Since the party was for my 4 and 2 year old, no one could read so these picture tags were made of each child so they knew which egg was theirs when they came upon it.
I have never seen a party like this! Personalized drive-in “car” boxes for each child with food trays for snack on the side. They all “parked” outside and watched a movie on the big screen. I die….
This is so fun for kids and pre-teens alike. This is also a theme that boys can have fun with too if you get them at the right age. Colorful and there are so many party decor items that can play off of this. And, you have to love a party theme that also provides a fun activity, too.
The details of this party are great and you should check out the full photo gallery on the link below. Personalized aprons, everyone decorating their own cakes, cupcake liners used in several ways for decor/accents…. Good job whoever’s mom threw this party.
Why not a party themed with a one year old’s favorite snack? This party paid enough attention to detail by making things with Cheerios that my hands hurt just looking at it!
We signed up to bring drinks to my daughter’s preschool class and it would pain me to just bring in…well…just regular drinks. To flair it up a bit, I turned our drinks into a craft and made little Capri Sun people. You could do a million different themes and variations on these for parties.
Ours were simple. I took some awesome coordinating card stock strength scrapbook paper and two packs of huge googly eyes I found at Kroger. I made little bows for the “girl” Capri Suns and the not so shocking, mustaches for boys. I cut out my own template, stacked the paper and cut four or five bows/mustaches at a time. I dabbed on the hot glue and my girls stuck them on and in about 15 minutes, we were all done!
Cheap, easy and fun for the kiddos. Without further adieu, I present Capri Sun ladies and gents.
Boys, I have none…but I LOVE these rolls of race track tape that come with little cars! With these guys, you can build little roads where ever you please! You can get them in different styles and colors, too. I snagged 2 of these at Cracker Barrel this week for under 6 bucks a piece and many brands are 15 per roll. Score! This a perfect little gift for your car lovin’ little boy.
Do you want one of these? I have three daughters so I will mail them out to any 2 readers who have boys or knows one who would love them! Just follow me on Instagram and comment on the post or if you already follow me, tag a friend on the Instagram post and I will pick someone.
Honk, honk…I’m about to toot my own horn so I went ahead and gave a honking before I began.
I have the most awesome gift idea lists on my blogs with lots of really creative, sentimental, and personal gift choices. You can search gift ideas in the search box to find my 3 posts of gifts.
I came up with this gift idea on one of my lists and decided to do it for my mom for Mother’s Day. All four of my siblings went in on it together.
I found a picture of my mother’s childhood home and had an artist, my friend Blake Parsons, to draw it for her. This is an 8 x 10 inking on high quality paper. He did all of this by making dots with the ink. NO LINES, free hand dots to build each and every line and image. UNBELIEVABLE! It turned out perfect.
My mom adopted four children when we were all older so they never got to meet and spend time with my mom’s parent’s or have the memories from their home like we did. This gift doubles as a house warming gift since they recently moved but even more so, it’s a little piece of her life that can be handed down to my youngest siblings so that they will have a piece of my mom’s childhood with them always.
You could have an artist copy a photo or image of ANY special person, pet, place, or object. I’m in LOVE with all of the things that make a present like this special. We are giving this to her this week (yes, really late) and she will be so surprised. Who would expect a gift like this?
Can you imagine how many dots this took?!!!!!
He added the address to the bottom and the flowers on either side are significant. They are tulip magnolias which are the blooms from the large tree in the front of the house. It’s sort of an inseparable memory of that house and since the house was sold and her parents died, I’ve been back and cut blooms and surprised her with them.
An up-close detail shot. Did I say already that I can’t believe a human being can make this entirely with DOTS!!!!!! So proud of my talented friend. Click his name on the link above if you are interested in giving or receiving a one of kind gift done by an artist.
