Super Superbowl party

I started out with a football field table cloth. I just got a green plastic table cloth from the dollar store and used medical tape to make the stripes. Make sure you put the right amount of lines... they will count.


All of the paper print outs I got on the site Paper and Cake. I have a link under my blog list. Its really cool because they have all the stuff you need to make an awesome themed party and you can print it off your computer. So the napkin rings below I printed off of that.

And the TOUCHDOWN banner
I got this great football bowl at Target for a dollar. It tied things together nice. The oreos on the end had football pictures on them. I was excited to find those.
This was my favorite thing. We had diet root beer vs. regular root beer. I used the carrying cases they come in and cover the sides with paper printed the helmets from pictures online. Then I put the drink tags on them but put the teams symbols on them instead of leaving them plain. I also love the referee napkins.

This was another idea that came with my party package on the Paper and Cake download. they are burger holders. Well I made protein burgers because everyone was on a low carb diet.
I have been trying out different cupckes and frosting decorating things so I used my piping tip that makes "grass" and then make cake pops ( *see Bakerella.com) into little foot balls

Now for me the Superbowl is all about the commercials, since I could care less about the game so I made a commercial Bingo game. Good Times!

My Great Grandma's Dresser

Before: This was part of a whole set and this is the only piece I have left. It's from the 1940s. It even still has old newspaper ads in one of the drawers. Look at the home prices advertised!

There are 5 bedroom homes listed here for 7,000-10,000 dollars. Pretty cool. BUT the problem was, was that it just didnt fit my style. So, I decided to paint it and get new handles for it. Just a little face lift.
After: I bought black paint intending to just make it black since I didn't want to have to sand the whole thing and stain it. When I went to paint it the finish on it made the paint look like a stain so I just went with it. I was thrilled with how it turned out. It's better in person but here's the pictures

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Cookie monster Cupcakes

 

I am bringing dinner to a woman in our ward that just had her baby and she has two other little kids at home so I thought it would be fun for them to make cool cupcakes. It also gave me a chance to use my new decorating stuff.

I used two cupcakes and cut the bottom of one and glued it to the other with frosting. Then frosted them together to give me the shape I wanted.

Then I used my "grass" tip to make blue fur.

The eyes I used the cake bottoms and squished them into little balls.

 

Then I just added white frosting for the eyes and put the little balls in the center and put a cookie in his mouth. I saw another cookie monster cupcake on line but they had a bunch of fancy stuff on it so I made my own. It's not perfect but little kids won't care. :)

YW Birthday gifts

Here is what we are doing for the Young Women for there birthdays. I got this pan that make giant cupcakes. They loved it and the primary kids in the hall just about died! Never mind the fact that I made this tag and the girl's name is Emily! Her sister who looks like her twin has the name Chelsea and I couldnt believe that I did that. I always mix there names up. As soon as I saw her walk in I realized what I had done. I quickly pulled out the tag but it was too late, she had already seen it. I hope she will forgive me.

Parker's Penguin birthday

Parker's birthday this year was really fun. We made it a penguin theme because he loves penguin's! So here are some of the things I did.



Yeah for penguin cupcakes. All the penguin cupcakes I found online were really lame so I made my own.I just did white frosting and piped on the black and the eyes with those ready to go icings you find at the store. The mouth and feet are fondant and stuck in with toothpicks.
I made "icicles" out of icy blue paper and I made " falling snow " using a thread and those little round labels you find in the office supply section. I just stuck them together back to back so that they stayed on the thread. Everyone kept asking if they were glow in the dark or something because they look really cool. when the light hits them the actually look like they are sparkling. Very pretty. those were all over not just on the window.
I love these penguins from Madagascar. So we printed pictures of them and placed them around the table. I also mad those "Ice blocks" you see them standing on by wrapping a bunch of boxes from around the house in white paper. Those were also stacked all over the house.
This was the most popular item. Candy sushi! The wrapping on the outside was fruit roll ups and the inside was Rice Krispy treats. I used Swedish fish as the fish and I used colored Twizzlers and gummy worms for the sushi roll filling.

I couldnt resist buying these fish bowl looking jars! I love them! All of the side dishes we served were penguin colored so black, white and orange. What a fun night. Of course we ordered a huge amount of real sushi, being that penguins eat raw fish. ( I also got sandwiches for people like me who cant stand sushi! ) Oh, ya I forgot to get a picture but the sandwich picks I replaced with little penguins I printed off line and put on toothpicks

Christmas Ideas...

I know these are maybe a little late but maybe not. The tag above is a tag that will go on Muddy Buddies (Best treat ever!) You can find the recipe on the back of the Chex cereal box.
My silly mantel. I always want to do something homemade So this year I made a couple of Penguins and the letters JOY. And then I just put together these large tags and hung them by our stockings.
Merry Christmas and happy crafting for the rest of the season!