Rapunzel Birthday

I had so much fun planning this birthday party! It was a lot of work, but so worth the look on my daughters face when she woke up the morning of her birthday! If you know me you know I don't like to just buy the store printed table clothes and call it good for decorations. I wanted the sun banners and lanterns everywhere. There was a very helpful blog I came across with ideas that I liked and she even included some printouts!

*If you would like printable versions of the coloring pages (found in google search), sun bunting (found here), lanterns, Flynn Rider wanted poster (found in google search) and frying pans I'd be happy to email them to you. Please contact me at lilpinkpocket@gmail.com.

Now lets get to the party!

I designed her invitations using paint.net and an image I found online

I made the sun buntings by stringing them on yarn and adding fabric scraps in between each one.

I made lanterns by printing the design on vellum and put battery operated candles inside. The hanging lanterns have the candles attached by fishing line.

The "hair" is made from crape paper. I cut 9 strands 23 feet long, braided 3 sets and then braided those three together...yes it was time consuming, but once I got my groove it went by a little bit quicker!

The cake turned out to be my favorite part! If you know my you know I'm horrible at cakes so this was a very proud moment for me! I saw this tower using ice cream cones and I can't find where it is! I used a glass platter for the base and put the first layer of frosted cupcakes. Add the next layer of frosted cupcakes (about 8) The actual tower is 2 regular cones hooked together with skewers, a cupcake and a frosted waffle cone on top. Then add the green frosting to look like leaves and vines up the tower. Then add the flowers (from the dollar store) and that's it!

 

My little Rapunzel all dressed up and so excited for the party!

We had and assortment of food that was geared towards the movie as well. Braided bread sticks, yellow twizzlers and jello and orange boats.

 

For entertainment at the party I had coloring pages for when people started getting there, we played pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider and painted pillow cases. It was so much fun and a huge hit with my 4 year old!

*If you would like printable versions of the coloring pages, sun bunting, lanterns, Flynn Rider wanted poster and frying pans I'd be happy to email them to you. Please contact me at lilpinkpocket@gmail.com.

Enjoy!

 

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake

My little girl turned 2 this year and we celebrated the day with a Minnie Mouse birthday party! We had a Minnie Mouse birthday party last year for my other daughter and you can check out my decorations here. The one thing I added this year was a Minnie Mouse cake. If you know me you know I struggle with cakes...I can  barely frost a cupcake. This year for the girls birthdays I did both cakes and I'm super proud of myself! This Minnie Mouse cake was super easy! Make a round cake, use cupcakes for the ears and the easiest part was the frosting in a can (like the kind of can you get whipped cream in) Cover the top and sides and add a tulle bow and your done! Super cute and super easy!

 

Children's Rocking Chair Makeover

Hello there! As promised here's the children's rocking chair for my girls room! If you didn't see my post about the inspiration and colors I'm using you can check it out here.

Now lets refresh our memories of what the chair looked like before.

And after removing over 100 staples, filling the holes in the seat, a little bit of sanding, a solid coat of Kilz spray primer and Krylon Raspberry spray paint here's what she looks like now:

What do you think? I still need to make the pillow for it, but that will be done with the sewing projects. First things first...I will be stenciling this weekend and am so excited about it and can't wait to show you!

Enjoy!

Girl's Room Color Inspiration

Hello all! Hope you've had a fabulous week! Just wanted to share my color inspiration for my girls room.

Better Home's and Garden March 2012 issue pg 48

Better Home's and Garden March 2012 issue pg50

Sherwin Williams

So what do you think? I'm so excited and can't wait for it to come together. I'll keep you all updated as I complete it piece by piece! Have a great weekend!

Fabric Scraps Wipes

Do you have a busy little one that loves to empty the wipes container? My littlest is a busy little one and can have a full wipe container emptied in 15 seconds flat! This super simple easy quick project will be something your little one will enjoy! Take an empty wipe container and fill with fabric scraps and you're done! Your little one can now empty it as many times as they want and they even have fun putting the fabric scrap wipes back in again!

Tulle Christmas Skirts

Hello my friends! Are you surprised to see me?! It's about time I know! I've been busy working on Christmas gifts...one in particular that is being done on the computer and long story short my computer is acting up and is lucky it hasn't gone through the window yet! :)

I finished my girls Christmas skirts a few weeks ago and we made it to see Santa last week so I thought I'd share the tutorial with you. I apologize for the horrible photos! I saw this tulle skirt and knew it would be so cute for Christmas! I'm all about the puffy skirts for little girls!

Here's what you'll need:
base fabric for skirt - I had mine on hand. It's satin silver
Tulle - I used about 4 yards for my 3 1/2 yr old skirt and 3 yards for 19 month old skirt
elastic for waist band
matching thread

1. Take measurements and double the waist and add 3" to the length. So for my oldest it was 20x11 so I cut my fabric to 40x14.
2. Cut tulle 6"x the width of the fabric cut in half. Lay tulle out (I had mine cut into 1 yard increments so it was easier to handle) cut along folded edge so you have 2 layers on top of each other. Then cut 6" wide strips.
3. Press and hem bottom edge of skirt.

 

     4. Fold tulle strip in half and in half again and bunch together about an inch from the top (will look like a sack) and pin to skirt. I let the bottom of the tulle hang over the edge a little bit (I just eyeballed it...I knew I would need three rows for the bigger skirt and two for the smaller so I just centered them. I also decided after I took the pictures that the tulle bunches needed to be closer together and made them overlap the bunch next to it about an inch.

Tulle bunch (don't mind the lunch spot on my sleeve) :)

     5. Using sewing machine sew bottom row of tulle bunches on. Repeat steps for the next 1 or 2 rows.

Sewing second row on

Sewing second row on

      6. Fold over and pin top to make pocket for elastic.

      7. Pin ends of skirt together.

     8. Sew side seams together first. Then hem waist seam. Make sure to leave an opening to thread the elastic through.

Don't mind the head shadow...I didn't notice until after the fact! Oops!

     9. Sew ends of elastic together and sew up the opening and and you're done! Hooray!

And here's a little something extra to make you smile! Enjoy!

Baby Boots

I'm so excited to share these little baby boots with you! I came across a pattern for these found here. I've been in the crocheting mood since making my cowl for the crochet along. My cute neighbor is pregnant with her third (she's got the most adorable twin boys just a few months younger than my oldest) and she's having a girl in about a month. Once I saw these I knew I wanted to give them a try! I'll be honest while making the first pair I got frustrated and undid it to many times to count and I almost gave up on them. I haven't crocheted since I was a young teenager and I just wasn't making the connection of what I was supposed to do so I made some adjustments to the pattern and they turned out exactly how I imagined in my head. I'm so proud of myself and at how cute they turned out! Now I'm off to figure out how to make a bigger pair for my 18 month old! Enjoy!

*UPDATE* I purchased the pattern here If you get the pattern and want to know the changes I made email me at lilpinkpocket{at}gmail{dot}com. I'm also working on my own pattern and once I get it figured out I'll share it!

Hand Print Pumpkins

Every year during General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all the girl's and kiddos in my husbands family get together to eat dinner and decorate pumpkins. My oldest daughter is now old enough to pretty much decorate her own pumpkin with some help with glue. Her first Halloween she was six months old and obviously wasn't old enough to decorate a pumpkin, but I still wanted to get her involved. That's when I came up with hand print pumpkins. Here's a picture of her in 2008.

Are you dying over that face? I know I'm her mom, but seriously how cute is she!

Here she is with her pumpkin she decorated this year.

This year my little one is 17 months old and couldn't decorate her own pumpkin so I decided to do both of my girls hand prints. It really is so easy and I wouldn't normally explain, except I have a trick to not make a mess with the glitter!

 

First trace hands onto pumpkin.

Glitter can be extremely messy and a pain in the butt to use. It gets everywhere and you can never get rid of it! So here's the trick to mess free glitter. Mix the glitter in your clear drying craft glue and apply to pumpkin or any other project.

Add rhinestones and ribbon and your done!

Enjoy!

Women's Sweater to Little Girl Dress

Hello friends! Can you tell I've been in the sewing mood? Or maybe it's clothing mood. I've been trying to hit the sales and stock up for my growing 3 year old. You can see the skirts I've made her from old button up shirts here and here. Why pay money if you can re purpose something for just a little bit of your time. I've had this sweater sitting in my closet for years. It shrunk up and has always been to short for my liking and so it's rarely been worn. Well I finally moved it to my DI box (Utah's version of Goodwill) I pulled it back out and decided to try and make a dress for my daughter. Here's what I did.

Start out with an old sweater

Cut the arms off at the shoulder

Decide how long you want the sleeves to be and use the cuff part of the arm. Make sure to cut it at an angle so the arm piece flows nicely into the shoulder. I laid the arm on the sweater (photo above) and cut.

Put new arm piece right side out inside your sweater and line up edges, pin and sew around the arm to attach the new arm piece and down the side of the sweater to close up the old arm opening.

Since this sweater had the long "v" in the front I stitched that together on each edge leaving just enough space to have the dress fit over her head.

So what do you think? It was definitely a learning experience and this sweater was hard to work with and I had a lot of fraying and unravelling, but it has held up in the wash. I think it turned out super cute and looks even cuter on...my daughter was having a 3 year old moment wouldn't let me take a picture of her in it. The flower is one of their hair clips I made a few years ago and I just clipped it on. Hopefully I'll be able to get a picture of her in it and share it with you soon! Enjoy!