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!

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!

Homemade Christmas

So this Christmas we were going to have an all homemade Christmas, at least the gifts to each other. It worked out half way. We improvised on the rest. The homemade part did work out totally amazing. We were busy, busy, busy!

First we baked some neighbor gifts. We love our neighbors!

The Barn Papa made for Kaity is in the background. Kaity gets to design the inside stalls and they are
finishing it with a loft together. She has had a great time designing the inside.

Hitty Emma is swinging on the swing of the Fairy House Mom made for Karlie. It is sooo awesome.



The pictures don't do it justice. It is awesome and beautiful. It has fun interactive parts like a hollow log with a lid on it and a rock covered bathtub. There are little charms and a crystal that can hang on hooks in the ceiling or around the outside. The best part is the fairies LOVE it! They actually visit and leave little presents and fairy dust. :) (Notice the little toadstools, Kaity made them and they can move around and be used for stools or just add to the decor.



The roof comes off. This is a view looking down into the top floor.

 I made the girls dresses for their Hitty dolls and they made each other adorable little presents. We will have to share all of that in the next post along with the details of our "Tiny Winter Tea Party"!  The brothers didn't get any homemade gifts. I am not that good at making electronics. :) The girls and I do have a few ideas for next year and we decided this time we are going to get all of our homemade Christmas gifts made in the summer. We should be busy.

Hitty Dolls!

A few years ago, a wonderful friend who enlightens me on fun books and lots of other great things, told me about a neat book to read to my girls called Hitty, Her First Hundred Years.

We read the book and fell in love with the little doll. The girls and I wanted our own Hitty dolls so we could take them on adventures with us and write about her next hundred years. Well at least start the next hundred. I looked for Hitty dolls to purchase only to find that they are a little pricey and I didn't really love the way they looked. So of course I thought "I will make them myself." I have never carved before but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the way they turned out. They are beautiful and personal to the girls. They love them. We have had so much fun with them and I have been working on them for a while. I was determined to finish the girls's Hitty dolls before Christmas. I did and it made Christmas with the dolls sooo much fun!

Here they are in progress. Introducing Hitty Belle and Hitty Emma.