Bowling Ball Cupcake Toppers

At this house, most of us have fall birthdays, and the weather is pretty unpredictable!  Bowling is the perfect fall or winter party idea, and these marbled bowling ball cupcake toppers would be adorable in any color scheme.  If you want to make your own, check out the tutorial on Handmade Charlotte! 

Manly Man Birthday

What says "manly" more than pine trees, deer heads, and wood slices?!  We celebrated Bennett's 3rd birthday over the weekend, and I still don't know how to classify the party.  It was going to be a lumberjack theme, but I would say it ended up being kind of "woodsy", and maybe even "hunter-ish" with the deer heads...which is fitting, since our last name happens to be Hunter!  

Anyway, I chose to simplify the prep-work on this one.  The biggest project, if you can even call it that, was the faux cross stitch deer bags.  I bought little trees for cake toppers, and ordered the birch paper straws from Hey Yo Yo.  My mom offered to make the cookies, so I just had to clean my house, make dinner, and bake the cake!  Not too shabby, ehh?!  I felt super relaxed, and really enjoyed the party since I didn't stress too much about the details (for once).  I was pretty happy with the outcome, and more importantly, Bennett thought it was the "BEST.  PARTY.  EVER!!!" 

Sources:

Birch Paper Straws - Hey Yo Yo
Cake trees - Hobby Lobby
Cookie recipe - Pixel Whisk
Glassine Bags - Confetti Sunshine

DIY Faux Cross Stitch Deer Bags



Creativity takes time, my friends...and it has been a BUSY month!  It feels like we just hosted Kalia's kitty party, and this coming weekend, we are having family in town for Bennett's 3rd Birthday.  Whew!  I didn't leave myself very much time to plan for poor little Bennett, so I decided to re-invent some old ideas.  This was going to be a lumberjack party, but it kind of morphed into a woodsy, "hunter" type theme -- which is fitting, since our last name is Hunter!  Sooo...these little faux cross stitch deer bags came about.  If you would like to make your own, please visit my tutorial for some DIY foxy faux cross stitch bags over at Confetti Sunshine. 

I used this deer, and pasted him into Word to shrink him down to the size I needed for the bags.  I think these would be cute for a Thanksgiving or Christmas party too!  I'm planning to put a handful of trail mix in each little bag.  Wish me luck!