St Patrick's Day!

Yup, it's official...I'm pretty bad at this blogging thing.  I doubt waiting months/years between posts is what it's intended for.  But I keep trying anyway. With St. Patrick's day coming up, and my baby's 2nd birthday I thought I would share some of last year's party.  Especially - 'How I made a leprechaun cake'!

But first, the cupcakes. A little too orange on the skin coloring but they turned out so cute I got over it!


For the 1st Birthday Party I went all out St. Patrick's Day theme (and will probably continue to do so for as long as I can - I can't resist a built in theme).  I used the Wilton 3D bear pan for the leprechaun and 2 sizes of brownie pans for the 'hill' he sat on.  Pound cake works best for the bear. After everything was stacked I very carefully removed (and if I remember correctly ate) the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

To make things easy I used tip 18 to decorate most of the leprechaun and 'hill'. 

An overfilled cupcake made the perfect hat - attached upside down with a skewer. 

The hat removed very easily and worked out perfectly as the smash cake.

Some gold coins for fun and he is all done!

Added lots of sorted rainbow candy (and fruit). As many green decorations as I could find and create.  But in the end it was a beautiful day so all of my hard work decorating every room of the house with leprechauns, balloons, banners and shamrocks was mostly missed for the fire and playground outside.

I hope someone finds something here useful for their own St. Patrick's day party! Oh my goodness I almost forgot the best part - the adult 'green' drink was this amazing green sangria recipe I found here. It was gone within an hour of everyone arriving!  I wish I had a picture of it but it was gone before I was settled enough to start capturing everything.  


(Hm, that wasn't too hard maybe I'll be back before next year to share some more! Thanks for being patient and coming back.)

Sesame St meets Mickey Mouse!

My niece's 2nd birthday party was this weekend.  I had a great time taking on my 2nd BIG sewing project by sewing a house for Minnie Mouse as her birthday present.  I also got to make her birthday cupcakes with all the faces of the Sesame Street characters!  I think they came out pretty awesome.  Oscar was definitely my personal favorite...

My very first sewing project (after the tutorial my mom gave me on making a pillow with the sewing machine) was a double sided superhero cape for my 4 year old.  I'm pretty proud of that cape considering I had no pattern and was very new to sewing.  I'll have to post that soon.  But I'm even more proud of my 2nd big sewing project, again with no pattern!!

Through pinterest I found myself here.  UKlass is amazing and her instructions definitely helped me through the process.  I loved this little house SO much I had to make one and my nieces birthday seemed like the perfect opportunity!  Of course both boys loved it too so I'll be making a barn for the baby and an auto shop for the 4 year old soon!

Minnie's house turned out pretty well!  Minnie loves her hand made rug and window and of course her mirror (lol).  I love her flower garden and hand embroidered fish pond.  Hopefully my niece loves all of it!