Cricut Craft: advent calendar

Advent Calendars. You HAVE to have them during the Holiday season. But, instead of loading the kids up with candy, candy, CANDY… I decided to use this calendar as a way of loading them up with Holiday activities! We partnered up with Cricut to create this quick and easy advent calendar craft with our Cricut Mini. Here’s how we did it.

P&C real life party: Rock Star Birthday

My sweet daughter turned 10 in February, and wanted to celebrate with her friends by rocking out to some of her favorite tunes and singing Karaoke – and decorate with some crazy wild Rock Star birthday decorations! I was able to transform the living room, by lining the walls with zebra print wrapping paper and purple and black netting, into a club atmosphere complete with a stage and a space for the audience to sit or stand and rock out. We used our karaoke machine with an ipod to play a wide variety of tweeny bopper music and printed out...

DIY No Carve Pumpkin Glamour

Forget your traditional Jack ‘O Lantern… Pumpkin decorating has taken a new form. I love carving pumpkins and will always do it with the kids, but being a crafty girl that has had an entire year of rounding out my Halloween Pinterest board– I had to do something a little different. Whether its bedazzling, painting, or glittering that gets you going, the possibilities are endless! Here’s a little treat with a couple of tricks on how to create some fabulous looking pumpkins!

P&C real life party: Jack’s Firetruck Birthday!

When I first heard about Company 77 Mobile Pizza Unit, I knew I had to have it for my son, Jack’s 7th birthday… I mean HE knew he had to have it. Company 77 is a real fire engine that serves as a mobile catering unit. They offer unbelievable gourmet pizzas and tons of fun gadgets for the kiddies to play with. We had the fire truck, now we needed a real life fire truck party to go with it!   . .Company 77 catered the party. Gourmet Pizza + photo booth + tons of fun gadgets for the kiddos...