Planning the Cookie Party

Morgan's 3rd birthday is quickly approaching. Like, really close. Like I really need to get my butt in gear. This year we've decided on a cookie decorating party. I was trying to decide what theme to go with, and Mike suggested food, because she loves her Dora kitchen & play food. But then I remembered how much she loved decorating cookies at Christmas time, and the idea was born. It's not a cookies & milk party, so I did not want to go with the typical pink & brown or blue & brown color combo. I wanted something fun and bright that I had not used before, so I'm going with aqua & orange.

It's so hard to find orange stuff! Aqua hasn't been too hard since Easter is coming. But I could not find any orange wrapping paper. I did grab these orange bows and aqua & orange curling ribbon at Dollar General. The candle came from Target.

These adorable aqua bowls came from Target as well. They also had pink & yellow. I got the striped baskets on clearance awhile back from Dollar General.

I plan on using these for several different treats.

The tulle and two of the fat quarters came from Joanns, the other two fabrics from Walmart. I am hoping to make her an apron to wear (I'd consider making one for all the kids, but honestly, most of the kids will be older boys and I'm pretty sure they don't care). I also need to make a banner or bunting of some sort.

I found this little foam M at Michaels. It may or may not go on the cake. Not totally sure yet. The nut cups came from Hey YoYo on Etsy. The mini muffin cups I found at Walmart and the paper straws are from Pick Your Plum.

Of course I plan on making tissue paper pom poms and I think I'm going to try and make my own fans. I found these tissue packs at Walmart, but have been unable to find any orange yet. Boo. The wrapping paper was on clearance at Target (huge clearance in the party aisle right now!) and I ordered the balloons from Amazon.

I don't really have anything made for the party yet, except the invitations, but I plan on getting a lot done quickly! More to come. :)

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Garlic Biscuit Bites

The other night we had spagetti for dinner and were wanting some garlic bread or breadsticks. Sadly, we didn't have any. But we did have four cans of Grands biscuits that I had bought on sale. So I decided to try something new. I'm calling them Garlic Biscuit Bites (I don't claim to have created this idea, but it's new to us).

You will need:
1 can of Grands biscuits
garlic (we like 3 cloves, but you can change this to suit your taste)
1 1/2 sticks of butter or margarine

Preheat your oven to 350°. Spray a round or square baking dish with cooking spray. Then peel the garlic (ignore my well used cutting board!).

And dice. I like to use my Pampered Chef chopper for this.

Slice your butter/margarine so it melts faster. Then add the butter & garlic to a saucepan and set to medium heat.

While the butter is melting, separate the biscuits and cut each one into four pieces.

And place in your baking dish.

By now your butter should be nice and melted.

Coat your biscuits generously with the garlic butter mixture. Don't use it all though, reserve some to add when they come out of the oven. Pop them into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown and done in the center.

Here they are fresh out of the oven.

And now finish them off with the rest of the garlic butter mixture and enjoy!

They are light and fluffy and full of flavor, without being a greasy, soggy mess. We all love them and have eaten them at least three times in the past two weeks.

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Valentine's Round Up

I've seen a lot of people posting round-ups of their previous Valentine's Day posts, so I thought I'd do the same. I haven't done too many in the past, but here they are.

First up, my Valentine's decorations for this year.

My most recent project, the love yarn wreath.

Juice Pouch Valentine's make a nice alternative to all that candy.

This little hair clip was quick and easy. It would be great as a pin, too.

This banner was very inexpensive and easy to make.

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Valentine's Decor 2012

It's almost Valentine's day, and I don't see myself making anything else this year, so I'm going to go ahead and share our Valentine's decorations for this year. Of course we have the wreath that I just posted about. It's hanging on our front door.

I have an old window hanging in our hallway, so I hung up a small bunting I won in a giveaway a few years ago.

I apologize for the lighting in these pictures, it's really hard to get good light in there. I stuck some of those gel clings to the mirrors in the hall.

In the living room I added a heart card I got free from Tiny Prints a couple years ago.

This is a shelf in our living room. I made this heart banner a few years ago from pages out of magazines.

Another free card. This time from Cardstore.com.

I made these wooden glitter hearts previously but couldn't find a branch, so I hung them from the embroidery hoops in the living room.

This is on top of the tv.

More glitter hearts.

And a leftover Lego snowman! (He's not for V-Day, not sure why my daughter stuck him there!)

But I did add this Lego heart a few days ago.

And this little guy came from Hallmark. There is also a pink dragon and they both sing. Morgan loves them!

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