Last week I had my second and final baby shower before our munchkin makes his debut. For those of you who are interested I'm 37 weeks 2 days and my doc thinks the baby will be late...thanks doc. Its OK though because once he's out, he's out for good! No going back. :o)

The shower had a "Little Man" theme. My sister organized it with help from several of my lovely friends. Here are some of the details.


 Beautiful cake made by my sister's friend.
 Manly snacks. Notice the napkins are folded like bow ties.
 Favors. Cute boxes came from Zurchers.
 Mustache photo booth.
 Loved this idea by my friend Court: a fingerprint tree with guests names written on their fingerprint "leaves" to frame or put in the baby book.
 Food was a cookies and milk theme so we had chocolate and regular milk and my sister took mason jars and made bow ties out of scrapbook paper and then my friend got mustache straws. So cute.

 Beautiful fruit.
 Real men eat dessert! Found these print outs on Etsy.
 Lots of fun guests. Sisters!

 Notice the awesome "Little Man" banner made by my sister with paper ties, each decorated differently and strung with twine.

The drink bar.

For a look at the cute invite my sister got on Etsy go to my sister's blog here.

Stay tuned for posts on some of my recent projects getting ready for baby! Lots of nesting happening over here.

Last night, my friend Katie and I had the pleasure of throwing a baby shower for one of our dear friends Brittany. She is due with a girl 4 weeks before me. It was really fun for Katie and I to be able to have fun with all the pink girly stuff since I'm having a boy and Katie just had a boy 2 months ago.
 I spent the day baking the treats for the shower and also the bread for the soup. These three recipes are tried and true pins that I have loved and will continue to use over and over. See this post for the cookie recipe. Here for the Texas Sheet Cake and here for the amazing (and very easy) artisan bread. I swear by these recipes. I would run, not walk to pin these recipes. Winners.
 Katie used the Cricut to make this cute sign. The Cricut is so easy to use and becomes addicting after you figure out how to use it!
 For the food, Katie made tomato basil soup, also a BIG hit, artisan bread, fresh strawberry lemonade, chocolate dipped strawberries and pretzels and the goodies I showed earlier.
 Katie found the idea for the cute puff balls on pinterest here and had the idea to make it into a cute little garland to hang. The best part? We got the tissue at the dollar store and they really didn't take all that long to make.
 More puff balls!

I was in charge of favors, the best part? All from the dollar store! Katie found some awesome nail polishes ($1 each) and I got the files (4 for $1), Jolly Rancher Pops (whole bag for $1) and bags (pack of 30 for $1) at Honks.

And here we are with the guest(s) of honor.

Here's my 2 cents about the dollar store...or I guess maybe its at least worth a dollar ;o). Think twice before you buy things at the regular store before you check the dollar store.

I wandered in to Honks on Tuesday to look for some things for the shower and found out that the first Tuesday of every month is 88 cent Tuesday at Honks. As I went down the aisles, I found TONS of painting supplies for a house painting project we had coming up: I got trays, roller covers, tape, drop cloths, brushes, scrapers, masks, school supplies for my sister, shower items including game stuff, tissue paper, bags, favor stuff, cleaning supplies and a few other goodies for only $36! (That's more than 40 items) Can you believe it?!

You would be surprised what you can find at the dollar store and how much money you can save. Sure, I value the opinion that there are some things you just need to pay full-price for, but for a lot of the little things, the dollar store is just the ticket. My two favorites are Honks and Family Dollar.

I posted this during Christmas of 2012 and thought it would be fun to post on my craft blog!

My two friends in my ward and I got have been planning for a couple weeks now to do some long-overdue crafting. When we were finally done with finals we hit JoAnn's and crafted for a whole weekend pretty much.
 Here we are working on various crafts at Courtney's table. I fear we invaded her house with hot glue and fabric, poor Eric.
 This is the wreath we made. Isn't it cute!? We bought various colors and patterns of fabric, a wire wreath frame, cut the fabric into strips and tied the strips onto the frame. I'm so excited to hang this next season~
We got some cute mini ornaments and glued them together into trees and then tied some bows and glued them on. Court and Alison made three each and I plan to make one more that is a little bigger. Another craft that is still in the making are our blocks that we will be spelling santa with a decorating with paper and embellishments. We had quite the adventure at home depot getting the blocks cut! But we did it and were very proud of ourselves. I think one of our most proud moments was finding that we had saved $66.00 at JoAnn's and only spent $21.00 each for all of our darling crafts!