Mismatchy is in right?!

Okay, so I did the funniest/silliest thing of my life yesterday. About 11:00am somebody came in my office and commented on my clothing, so I stood up to model my pants, and I look down, AND I HAD TWO DIFFERENT SHOES ON!!! Literally, I had on one black boot, and one brown boot!! I didn't even notice!!!

So, the back story: when I am getting dressed I don't put my glasses on, so when I'm looking through the floor of my closet for my shoes I can usually tell the difference without my glasses, but apparently yesterday I could not! And secondly, I didn't turn the overhead light on yesterday, I only turned on my nightstand light. So, as a note......I made very sure that I had on matching shoes today!!!!

Grandma's......

I was reading a post today about "a Grandma by any name is still a Grandma", and it began me thinking....my kids have all kinds of Grandma's...
1. Grandma (Maternal Grandma, or we refer to her on here at the Queen Grandma)
2. Grandma Tami (Paternal Grandma, or we do call her Grandma and Mama Tami)
3. Grandma Delores (Maternal Great-Grandma)
4. Grandma Bobbie (Maternal Great-Grandma)
5. G.G. (Paternal Great-Grandma)
6. Grandma King (Paternal Great-Grandma)
7. Nana (Paternal Step-Grandma)
8. and one other than we haven't quite decided what her title will be....maybe we'll just call her by her name (Paternal Step-Step-you get the idea)!

I am thankful for each one of these women for their role in my children's lives. My Mom is the funnest, adventure seeking, playing in the dirt kind of Grandma, and it doesn't bother her one bit! My late Mother-in-law was amazing for me and my Son; she was always up for whatever we had in mind, and just giggled when I had an idea that was out there.

I just wanted to thank my Mom for being so fun! Easton loves to come to your house! And I wish I could have spent more time with my Mother-in-law, and I hope she can see the kids from Heaven!

The Blessed Nest is hosting a link party - Please check it out!

This Blessed Nest is hosting a link party, and I included my silhouettes! Please check her site out, and give me some feedback on what you would do with a custom silhouette!

Simple as that giveaway!

I was just over at simple as that, and they are having a giveaway that I would love, love, love to win!!!! The giveaway is for Sweet Suite Photoshop Actions by Life.Camera.Actions.! I already posted it on my facebook, but everyone should enter, and everyone should take a look at how great your photos could look!!!

Crisol's Alice in Wonderland Party

A customer of mine, Crisol, was kind enough to lend me her photos she took of her Daughter's birthday party. Crisol did an amazing job, and she used my blue and pink Alice in Wonderland Party Collection (you can view here).

Look at this amazing cake.......what a perfect cake for this theme!!!

And her tower of cupcakes looks amazing!!!!!!!!

Crisol's Daughter Emily is "Alice", and look how cute the two girls look....

Each placesetting looked like this:

And this:

And you can see the cupcake toppers added to the muffins, and the banner circles in the background.

Muffins and little tea cakes look super cute with the toppers in them.

And lastly, the adorable birthday girl, Emily! Happy 6th Birthday sweet girl! I hope you had a great birthday party! I was honored to help design the paper products for your tea party!

Halloween Fans by Lil' Luna on eighteen25

Over on eighteen25's blog, they are are filling their site with cute DIY decorations for Halloween! You can find the tutorial here for Lil' Luna's paper fan decorations....I, for one, LOVE them!!! I may just have to make a few wreaths covered in these for my doors!

Photo courtesy of eighteen25

Ripping and Tearing Fabric for Backdrops

Okay, so I was just perusing my usual daily reads and cam accross Celebrations at Home's blog. I thought to myself OMG!!!! They are writing about hanging stuff like lace and fabric to create backdrops. My Mom did this last year!!! Do you all remember seeing the pictures of Roxanne's vintage green wedding? I feel like we were ahead of the curve!!! And let me tell you, this entire wedding was a DIY. We had like 4 hours before the wedding to have it ready!!! Luckily, the Queen Grandma, Grandpa, my King Husband, and my 2 kids were on hand to help tear fabric for the table cloths. And you must do the "rrrrrrrrrrip" sound when you are tearing the seams. Please see my post about this beautiful wedding! I so enjoyed helping with this one!

You know what my most favorite part of the decor for this wedding was?

It was most definately the vegan cupcakes sitting atop the tree trunks....aren't they cute?! EEEEEEEEEE!!! I hope you are all having a great Tuesday!

Jones Design Company - Audrey's Nursery

I was searching around today, and found this beautiful nursery! I love everything about it....and I mean everything. You can find Jones Design Company here .
I love this ruffle pillow, and especially.....the crown print hanging behind it. Where do I find that?!!!!!!

Above is the changing table, with a print of vintage sweets...I love everything in this nursery is so non-Babies R Us.

I love the mossy green, and that bed is just too cute. My Mom bought and has stored a bed very similar to this one in white with tall four posts.....I almost can't wait for London to go into a big girl bed, and that's only because I get to re-decorate!

And lastly, I think this Mom of 4 is amazing, she owns her own company and is raising 3 boys and only 1 girl. She deserves some serious credit!!! AND then she blogs about it!!!

DIYCupcake Decoration by Icing Design

I was on Icing Design's blog yesterday, and they had a great idea for decorations that can be made ahead of time. Oh the possibilities are endless here! To see their blog and directions go here .

{images courtesy of Icing Design}


And voila! Super cute little cupcakes that could be expanded on to fit any event you are having.

How to make White Chocolate Cake Balls

So, if you follow my blog you have already seen the desert spread we set up for my Daughter's first birthday party. I had lollipops, cupcakes, oreo pops, caramel apples, and cake balls.

And here is an upclose picture of the jar filled with red velvet, cream cheese and white chocolate cake balls.

First, you need to bake your cake and let it cool completely. Once cool you need to mash it up until it looks very crumbly like below.

Then you want to mix room temperature cream cheese frosting in with the cake until it makes a mushy mess. When it is wet enough to form it, but dry enough to still be cake-ish. Then you will form the cake mix into small balls and place on wax paper.

I then put these formed balls into the freezer and let sit for about 15 to 20 minutes. It helps the frosting set up, and then you can really roll the balls into nice round balls. **(This would be the point in which you insert your lollipop stick. If you do this part, dip the end of the stick into your melted white chocolate and then put into the cake ball. Then put back in the freezer for a few minutes. This helps your lollipop stick stay in place better when dipping in white chocolate)**

I then rolled the balls to make then into nicer circles, and then dipped them in melted white chocolate.

I always melt my chocolate chips in the microwave. I microwave on high for 30 second intervals. If your chocolate isn't runny enough add a little vegetable oil to it and stir, stir, stir! Make sure you get all of your chips mixed together. I then dip the bottom of the ball into the white chocolate, then place on a fork. I then pour the white chocolate over the top of the ball and tap the fork until the excess chocolate drops off. Then move the ball back to the wax paper and sprinkle with pretties!! I used hot pink sugar sprinkles (bought locally at Michael's).

Here is an up close picture of the cake balls before refrigerating. I made these fun-fetti cake balls for a very special friend's baby shower, and there was not one left!! That is always a good sign!

And here is your finished product right before displaying.

I would love to see your version of these cake balls. Please email them to me!!

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