A Party Fit for a Princess

Have you checked out Pinterest yet?  I have and let me tell you..there are some amazing ideas for creating just about anything!  For my nieces 4th birthday party my amazing sister put together a party fit for the princess she is.

Now first and foremost I must say this:  The creative juices and elbow grease that went into planning and creating the projects shown go entirely to my sister, Angi.  She spent hours finding ideas on pinterest (although most of the time I say...I'm going to check pinterest quick and find myself still surfing hours later) plus she spent countless more hours making every single aspect that went into this party; now my assistance came much later...during the actual fun parts.  Second I must say sorry for the long post. I wanted to share with everyone the fun I had, plus as most of you know I love taking pictures..and may have went a bit overboard on that aspect.



Chocolate Cups

These chocolate cups were the funnest part of the party.  You really had to wait to get the melted chocolate to just the right temperature or the balloon would burst spraying everything in a close vicinity with chocolate.  As you can see from the picture if you look close...there are a few pieces of burst balloon down there!  Once the chocolate is fully hardened you pop the balloon and pull the pieces out.  Then the chocolate is the bowl for the ice cream! It was fantastic..nothing says fun like eating the bowl too!!! 

Inspired by this pin on pinterest:  http://media-cdn4.pinterest.com/upload/157344580701205504_PubFWmf7_b.jpg

  

Pretty Pink Princess Cupcakes

Adorable cupcakes with bright pink frosting and adorable crown cupcake wraps.  The cupcake wraps were cut out using a Cricut machine.  The cupcake frog pics where cut out using the same cartridge with the Cricut.

Cupcake Stands and Princess Hats






  

With just a few items from you local craft show, and some white paint you can create an adorable little cupcake stands like these.

 Inspired by this Pin on Pinterest:  http://modernmomentsdesigns.com/2010/12/09/mini-cupcake-stand-diy-tutorial/



Princess hats inspired by Tangled, with their long flowing ribbons and embellished with pretty princess crowns.  All paper embellishments are cut using the Cricut.

Oreo Pops

Oreo pops! What a fantastic creation.  Double stuffed oreos on a stick (which would have been great all alone) dip them in white chocolate and they are a doubly good sweet treat! Inspired by this pin: http://media-cdn6.pinterest.com/upload/183732859767603199_A8lMA6XL_b.jpg

Princess tutu's for the special little princesses, handmade and simply adorable.  We had to cut one down for the littlest princess though. 

The four little special princesses got their very own table and all of their goodies to wear for the party.  The faces on those little girls was priceless. 

As I said before a few of these projects were inspired by posts on pinterest..so if you haven't checked it out you should! 

A HUGE thank you to my amazing sister for letting me share with you her creative ideas.  She looked at me like I was crazy when I told her I wanted to blog about her party!

As always have a great day!

Oh What a Crafty Day

My final project from our Snow-cation. 

I was not sold on the colors of this jewelry set, but ended up LOVING it once it was finished. 

This particular project came in a kit from Ben Franklin crafts.  It was a gift that I received from Santa this year.  I just love it when Santa shops at my favorite craft store!!!

I got two beautiful necklaces out of the items in the kit as well as 3 pairs of earrings, one bracelet, and a mini bracelet for my daughter.  I plan on taking this look and making a few more like it in different colors.

I Love the chunky look!

I was not very happy with the quality of the pearls in the kit, although I didn't really expect to much (some of those kits are just not very high quality I'm afraid).  When I make some more I will buy a better quality pearl and some good quality chain. 

I love the little bows.  I am thinking I could take this style and add my own steampunk flair to it...just need to find some fun steampunk charms!  I LOVE Steampunk.

It's been a while since I've made jewelry and I have to get back in to practice...but overall not bad.  I dug through my craft bins and was happy to find I still had some lime green glass pearls that would be awesome!

As always Have a great day! 

I have a soap project up my sleeve...hoping to work on that project soon!



Snowed in Craft Day #2

Adventures from our snow week continued.  On the second day of no school week we...painted practically everything we could find!!!

I found a very inspiring pin on Pinterest about painting glass to give it a more cohesive look.  I had these ugly 80's dark green vases, you know the ones that don't match anything and sit under your sink forever.  I use vases all summer as I have a large flower garden and constantly pick bouquets for my neighbors and such.  I try to have enough vases so that if I don't get one back it's no big deal. 

But these were just ugly.  So I thought I would spruce them up.

I used 2 coats of acrylic paint on each vase and they will still need a matte finish clear coat, but I LOVE how they turned out! 

And of course my son had to paint with me..and then we just had to keep painting whatever we could find to paint because we were having such fun!

My son received these paintable plastic animal figures from Santa this year, and has been dying to paint them, he's a very colorful kid! We had also made some fun clay stuff a few weeks ago he wanted to paint as well. 

Another Pinterest find: using hot glue to write on the jar then paint over that.  This experiment showed me that my hot glue gun is not so good, and strings to much for this project, next time I will use puffy paint to get a better look. 

All in all an extremely fun day in the kitchen. 

If you would like to see the Pinterest pin on these ideas you can follow me on Pinterest, they are pinned on my Craft Ideas Board.  Or here is the link to the blog from the pin.

http://mrspriss.com/tag/mason-jar-crafts/

As always have a great day, and thanks!

Snowed in Craft Day #1

Instead of just a snow day...we had a whole snow week! To help keep me and the kids stay sain..(we still ended up with a bit of cabin fever) we decided to each do a craft project of some sort every single day!

It was a ton of fun!

Glass tile pendants.  I was at my favorite craft store (Ben Franklin's) a while back and saw a ton of really pretty pendants made from a variety of materials.  I've seen these floating around the blog sphere and online...so I thought they would make a fun little project. 

I bought the glass square tiles at Ben Franklin, and the paper is recycled from my pile of leftover scraps.  I have been hoarding my Bo Bunny Olivia collection paper scraps because I LOVED that paper collection so much and I refused to throw one tiny piece away..people had thoughts about my sanity...but look at that I got to use them!!!

I used mod podge to glue the paper to the tile, but next time will probably use an additional resin or glaze for further protection. 

I only had two glue on bails for the pendant part..will have to get some more of those, but I Love how they turned out.  They are the smallest of the square glass tiles so I think they will be perfect in a necklace alone or with a few other things clustered together. 

It was a super easy project...and really fun.  I had so much fun doing this project that I was sad when I ran out of glass tiles...but then I dug through my craft bins and found some polymer clay..ooh that could work! Stay tuned for that project!

As always thanks for following my snow week fun!

"Do something crafty every day"

Have a happy crafty day!!!