Wild About You Toddler Valentines

This year I have two little ones to prepare Valentines for! My newest daughter Cassandra is only 6 months old and gets to participate in the ritual of passing out Valentines to her music class! I was inspired by a friend of Carolyn's who passed out little finger puppets at her first Valentine's Day, we still have the little piggy finger puppet and she still plays with it!

Valentines Day Bubble Gift

I'm so excited to get to make little valentines for my daughter to pass out to her friends in her classes. We actually get to pass them out twice, once in her pre-preschool class and again in her music class. And seeing as she's my first child I get to do this for I'm over the moon delighted, I'm sure one day the novelty will wear off. But for now I'm all about that crafting!

I want to pass out a non-candy goody for the kids so this year I chose bubbles! Then I designed this simple little tag that I could tie to the top of the bubble wand, I love that the tag won't fall off while my daughter passes them out.

My New Classroom Decorated for Autumn & Fall Leaf Writing Template

I mentioned earlier that I have a new job, I'm working as a Temp. Specialist in a local school.  It's a step up from being a substitute and I couldn't be more excited!  I'm treated as a real staff member and even have my own classroom!  (of course I'm still paid like a sub and am not even eligible for BITSA- a teacher induction program I need desperately!)  But onto the good stuff, my new room!

Fall Favorites Printable

After viewing all the beautiful fall subway art printables I decided my fall decorating would not be complete until I had one in our home too.  This began the quest to find the perfect one. Unfortunately it did not yet exist. Thank goodness I'm married to an awesome graphic designer, because in just a few minutes he whipped this up for me!

Gourmet Cookie Favors Recipe

When you have a coed party it is difficult to find a suitable coed favor/gift for everyone.  Enter the chocolate chip cookie.  Who doesn't love a tasty, gourmet cookie?  I've served these before at the Italian Bridal Shower and because they were such a big hit I knew I needed to serve them again for the Volunteer Appreciation Dinner.

Italian Restaurant Themed Bridal Shower

A while back I helped plan a co-ed bridal shower for my dear friends who will be getting married in a few short weeks.  The original theme was "Under the Tuscan Sun," but with the party moving from day to night and becoming co-ed, it became "Fine Italian Restaurant" themed.

Fall Decorations

I LOVE FALL!!!!  I have been waiting anxiously to decorate and now we are finally in fall hooray, let the decorating begin!!!!  And just in case you forgot what season it is, I have a banner to remind you (made courtesy of Ben).

More Wedding Printables

Being crafty people, we wanted to make sure our wedding had enough DIY present.  Therefore homemade coloring books and scrapbook pages for our guest book were a must have!

Guestbook Scrapbook
I found this scrapbook at Homegoods for around $15, looks nice and weddingy to me without the wedding price tag!  We put out the scrapbook pages with cups of markers and pens and our guests went crazy!

Wedding Printables

After featuring the insides of my wedding binder I wanted to share with you printables so that you could make your own binder!

Planning Timeline:

Here is a time order list of everything I felt was important to accomplish based off of many other guides I had found out there (this is a 2 page document).

Click Here to Print

Puppy Party Hats

If you're going to party like a dog, then you need a good party hat!  For my friend's birthday we made just that!  Graphic Designer Husband (GDH) for the win again!  He quickly whipped these out on Adobe Illustrator, and made them into PDF's for easy printing for the rest of us...

They are available on my Printables page.