Summer gift wrapping ideas

Tie your next box up with a jump rope for an extra little gift. 

Get more gift wrapping ideas from REAL SIMPLE

Homemade Reeces peanut butter snacks

Thanks to my mom and this recipe, this is what happens to the extra peanut butter in the house. 

sorry, I didn't snap a photo of the latest ones I made. 

They were consumed way too fast

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Homemade Reeces peanut butter balls:


1- 18oz jar of peanut butter (whatever kind you like: natural, reduced fat, extra crunchy, etc.)
1 stick of melted butter or margarine
1 lbs bag or box of powdered sugar
melted chocolate


Mix peanut butter and melted butter together with spoon in a bowl. Add sugar and knead with hands until well blended. Roll into tablespoon sized balls and dip in melted chocolate. Eat. Enjoy. Store in fridge. Eat more.

tip: you can add other yummy extras if you want: shredded coconut, raisins, pecans, M&Ms, etc.

extra tip: this is a great edible play dough recipe too. Just be sure to keep it stored in the fridge.

A heads up for Ladybug fans

 Ladybug themed party hats and favor tags are now available here for all you red and black bug fans.

Mothers Day cupcake ideas

I went on a cyber-hunt for some good cupcake decorating ideas for Mother's Day. I'm not making cupcakes this weekend for my mother or mother-in-law, we're making sugar cookies instead. BUT, since cupcakes are all the rave right now, there are a lot more photos and ideas to choose from. We'll just copy them onto the cookie. Here are a few of my favorites:

Sprinkles cupcakes

Teacake bake shop

Enjoy life and prosper

(I'm thinking how yummy these will be on a sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting!)

Hello frosting

Two Sugar Babies

 HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 

to all you moms who are reading this!

Children's Day

This post is probably a little late, since TODAY is Children's Day,

but I wanted to share these adorable Koi Treat favors from Shop Toast

They've got all kinds of cheerful treats, stationary, and accessories on their site too. 

Shop Toast (click)

Practical Gift Bags

Last week my daughter went to a friends birthday party. I decided to lay off the gift bag and wrap the gift in something more useful... a BEACH BUCKET. We bought this inexpensive pail at the dollar store and found it was actually cheaper than buying the gift bag! Score. 

We stuffed it with a swimsuit and some sunglasses for the birthday girl.

DIY dinner invitations

A simple way of creating a unique 

dinner invitation on Once Wed

The concept is beautiful and is such a great way to 

show what your guests can expect at the party. 

Imagine the other possibilities for party invites:

-baby shower

-birthday party

-ANY party

The wheels are turning in my head right now

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

In honor of my birthday today (woohoo!) I'll be offering FREE SHIPPING on anything in the shop over the weekend from the 29th-May 2nd. Just make any purchase between those dates and I'll adjust the pricing so the shipping is on us!

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Japanese happy tape

The Japanese couldn't make tape any cuter.

I'm glad Hawaii has their fair share of Japanese 

because I can find washi tape pretty easily, and inexpensive too. 

If you don't any sources near you, have no fear,

its all over the web.

Happy Tape for example.

I love these simple examples of using it:

mint

satsuma press

patrick ng

cumbersome 

images from oh, hello friend

scissors.paper.cake

After discovering imprintables a few weeks ago, it has led me to the creative inspiration of scissors.paper.cake. (a collaboration between hello naomi and imprintables).

Talk about "perfectly styled parties".

Everything is P.E.R.F.E.C.T.- to the T

(well, perfect in my eyes, that is)

i'm in love. party love

go here. NOW. it will make you smile.