Flower Pot Dessert

"Every Mother Is a Working Woman!"

I love this Mary Englebriet piece of art. I have the magnet and my kids gave me the resin one year for Mother's Day.

This year for a fun different Mother's Day gift we made this yummy treat. I also made them for the Mother Daughter Activity Day Luncheon. Our Kitchen and freezer were filled with fake dirt, flowers and ice cream. Yummy combination!!!

I first saw this idea on The Pioneer Woman and couldn't wait to try it. I made a few revisions of my own and then we gave these to our Grandma's, visiting teaching lady's, and favorite mom's in town. There are a few widows in town the girls have adopted and we delivered to them as well. (they always get our best goodies!)
                         You will need:

Pots - I got my pots at the dollar store 4/$1.00.

Small chocolate donuts

vanilla ice cream (or any flavor you choose)

generic brand cream filled cookies (oreos)

straws (cut a bit shorter than the pot)

fresh flowers (I got a bundle of about 40 blooms at Fresh Market for $4.00)

Place a donut in the bottom of each pot and a straw in the middle of each donut.

Fill with ice cream leaving the straws sticking out and then put in freezer overnight or for a few hours prior to serving.

 Place cookies in a Ziploc baggie and crush into dirt.

Just before serving fill pot with dirt. Because I had so many to make for our activity I put most of the dirt in them and then put them in the freezer. Just before serving I put another spoonful or so of the dirt to cover the straw.

TaDa! They are almost to pretty to eat - but really too delicious to resist!!!

Happy Spring!

I, of course, am always on the look out for pretty, fun, gifty things we can make super inexpensively that we can also make someones day with. This month I found just the thing! I went to Walmart and they had tulips and daffodils that had bloomed in 4" pots for .50 a piece. This was also the after Easter sale time so they had Easter gift bags for 50% off which ended up being 5 for 1.25 and paper grass for .66 a bag. Here is a little sample of what I ended up with. (I did wrap the pots with tinfoil before I put them in the bags.)

Hitty's Tiny Easter

 We had so much fun for Easter we musn't forget the Hitty's tiny Easter. They had fun too!



Our Easter Bunny left extra tiny gift bags to give to our friends and cousins for their "Hitty" dolls. It was fun to fill them with candy and give them away.

Our Hitty's are still waiting for their home to be built so they are living in the book shelf and the books are having a temporary stay beside the shelf stacked in a big stack. Everyone seems comfortable, we haven't had any complaints as of yet. :)

A teeny tiny basket of eggs.

A teeny tiny bag of dinnerware! Our Hitty's can't wait for another tea party - they will be dining in style.

Easter Treats (surprise!)

These darling carrots are filled with prizes and goodies! We made them for our cousins and friends this year for an Easter treat. I saw the idea in a magazine somewhere and then did my own thing with stuff we had.

First we gathered small prizes and candies, plastic rings and bracelets, little yoyo's and tops, plastic snakes and lizards all fun things little.

Then we cut yellow and orange tissue in strips. This would have probably worked a little easier to use crete paper because it tightens but we had lots of tissue left over from a few years ago when we made candy filled pumpkins and we are really into using up what we have. :) We also cut green crete paper into carrot tops. We very unprofessionally eyeballed it, I don't think you can go wrong here as long as you have long green grassy type pieces.

Next I started at the top and placed little candies inside and wrapped around them. I put the long skinny toys in the bottom and then the rounder things in the top. I started wrapping around an item and then kept wrapping adding toys and candies into the layers. I tucked the end under a layer of tissue and then glue gunned the green on the top.

They were a HUGE hit! The kids loved breaking them open and finding all the fun treasure.

When You Wish Upon A Star!

Karlie's dream has been to go to the beach. For a few years now she has asked on a weekly basis "When are we going to the beach?" So we were so excited when our friends called up and invited us to go to California. We had a 10 day BLAST!!! I can't believe how much we fit into 10 days!

CALIFORNIA BEACHES!!!

DISNEYLAND!!!

AMERICAN GIRL STORE!!!

We thank our lucky STARS for good friends, and great times!!!

Fairy Tea

What a fabulous invite! We love tea parties, we love fairy's and we love to dress up! We were invited to the Provo Library Fairy Tea Party. Kaity was asked to perform her harp there. It was beautiful and so much fun.

FABULOUS FRIENDS!

FABULOUS FAIRY FOOD!

FABULOUS ENTERTAINMENT!

Enchanted!!!

Tiny Winter Tea

This is our second annual Winter Tea and I love this tradition. It is absolutely lovely and the girls have the best time. There is something in a girl that wants to dress up and be fancy and proper.

This year the girls wanted to invite thier Hitty dolls so we made girl size things and Hitty size things. We made tiny invitations and asked each girl to bring a tiny friend about 6 inches in hieght.

We made regular size treats for the girls and tiny size treats for their "friends".  Our little friends sat at thier own table and had a just right sized tea set for themselves. Notice in the next picture the marshmallow pops for the girls and the tiny ones for the friends. It was fun to see the different friends the girls brought.

We served hot cocoa in the silver tea set with cream and sugar crystals. The highlight of the party were the edible snowflake sugar crystals. You can see them in the sugar bowl and a few are sprinkled around the table.

After our wonderful noon tea and lunch we made tiny fairy dolls who played in the fairy house and had a grand time while we filled miniature candy boxes with miniature candies. For the candies we used the miniature sugar cookies and marshmallow pops, chocolate chips were kisses, tiny little candy hearts I had found and mini m&m's. The boxes were darling and I did not get a picture. I may have to re-create just to show-n-tell. :)

It was a beautiful tea with beautiful girls and adorable friends!