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!

Scripture bags

 Wow this has been a very busy fun filled week! I am pretty proud of myself for getting it all on the blog! I just couldn't miss the opportunity to show these beautiful scripture bags we made during activity days this week. It was so fun to see the girls bring them to church today. The ones hanging on the shelf above are my girls bags. The green one is from a placemat and the brown one we made from fabric and iron on batting. I just made a rectangle the same size as the placemats and then followed the instructions for the placemat bags.

Kaity hand sewed some detailing aroung her flower that we sewed on to the bag as well as the handles.

I found the best instructions here - Scripture Bags We didn't get this fancy but it is fun to know you could!

Here are some of the girls with thier bags. They all turned out unique and different and beautiful. the girls loved them. It was a great activity and I loved spending time with them.

Cutest Valentine Cards Ever!

This year we made the most fun ever valentines! We had a few valentines parties this year and we had to make about 150 valentines!

I couldn't remember where my inspiration came from and then my sister in law said she thought something like that had been in Family Fun magazine last year and that could be it because I love that magazine.

These cost 9 cents to print at Walmart and the marshmallow pops were probably about 5 to 10 cents a piece. We had most of the items we needed on hand so I could be under or over estimating. Anyway here is our version and it turned out fabulous!!!

Took the pictures pretending to hold a popscisle. Then made awesome backgrounds.

The red background I made from Kaity's jacket. The green and pastel were digital scrapbook downloads I have had for years. If you really want to know I will figure out where I got them.

Then we made tons of marshmallow pops. We felt like chocolatiers, especially when Karlie started dipping, well, pretty much everything! For the sticks we used shish-kabob sticks and cut them into 3 sections which ended up being about 4" long. For the chocolate we used chocolate bark for dipping and then sprinkles. We also used strawberry flavored marshmallows as well as the white. It was fun to have the color on valentines.

 To let the chocolate set you can see that we poked holes in egg cartons and let them sit. Then we wrapped them with plastic wrap and tied paper ribbon to hold the wrap on.
We cut slits in our pictures and poked the stick through and it held great. I thought we would have to tape the back but we did not and they did not fall out.

They were a huge hit - the kids loved them. It was fun to have a picture of thier friend and they loved the pops as well. I loved that we added thier names on and didn't have to write names 75 times each! They were personal and original. I already have my idea for next year! :) This just a little better. I hope I remember it. Of course I may have 25 more between now and then!