lizard & ladybug: New Year's Eve

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fab Finds Friday (NYE inspiration)

I can't believe this will be my last post in 2011!!

Where has this year gone?

Today's finds are all about New Year's Eve...and last minute party ideas.

Whether your celebration is HUGE or low-key (like ours),

I hope you find a little inspiration today.

Plus I'm sharing my own little NYE kit :)

If you're still looking for decorations, Piggy Bank Parties has 3 great collections!!

They are a deal, only $5.00!!

If you're not stalking Oink! The Blog of Piggy Bank Parties...you really should be!

It's one of my FAVES!

Looking for a fun, festive dessert?

These New Year's Eve Midnight cupcake from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen are perfect!

How adorable are these?

Click here for the recipe & instructions.

Looking for something fun to do with the kids?

Mique of 30 handmade days is sharing this great resolution activity printable.

Click here to get yours.

I've already printed some for our NYE!

Another great activity for the kids comes from The Idea Room.

New Year's Eve Countdown Activity Bags.

Click here for the instructions (and free printables) along with Amy's activity ideas.

Here's my contribution.

A NYE kit for the kids.

Borrowing this idea from One Charming Party.

I got a few aluminum pans w/lids from Dollar Tree.

The graphic is from Graphics Fairy - enlarged to (sorta) fit the pan.*

You could use any color paper and hand draw a clock too :)

I'm filling the pan with candy, noise makers, masks &

anything else that will keep the kids entertained.

If you wanted, you could add clock hands and have the kids countdown to midnight.

Lots of ways to use this simple NYE kit.

I wish you all a very very Happy New Year!!

New Year's Eve (flashback)

I plan to share lots of great 'new' New Year's finds tomorrow...

but in the meantime, here's another look at our NYE party from last year!!

Here are some of the highlights.

The table before the 'real' food.

I had a branch (already painted from Halloween) that I added black and white poms to (thanks to Kristy - The Purple Pug for that idea). I used a cake stand to hold the paper fortune cookies we made (got that idea from Home Confetti).

Oreos baked inside brownies = Black and White brownies

My 'countdown' cupcakes. I used black card stock and metallic pen.

Dipped a marshmallow in clear sprinkles (for the sparkly effect)

and added it all to a lollipop stick.

The cupcakes are Funfetti (of course)!

Champagne 'bubbles' (donut holes) - thanks to Kim - Party Frosting!

I used my New Year's printable (attached to card stock & a dowel) as centerpieces.

They are standing in jars of black eyed peas:)

A can of Rotel and black eyed peas became our 'lucky' salsa.

The pasta was festive because I used bowties and curly noodles. haha

A little bubbly. I punched 2" circles of silver card stock then used a 1" punch.

The glasses ~~cheapo plastic~~ came apart so I could add the 'bling'.

I can't have people leave without something.

Some reNEWing hand scrub for the girls, chocolate bars for the guys

and some snazzy sunglasses (since we were whooping it up during the day)

The kids LOVED counting down and yelling 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.

They loved it even more when the saw their bubbly :)

Kiddie Cocktails (cherry Caprisuns with a few cherries)

Everyone had a fun time. The weather was great..the company was great & it was early enough for everyone to get the heck out so I could get to bed early :)

Cheers to a fabulous 2011!!

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I hope you're all having a great last week of 2011!!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Day 4 of my BiRThdAy WeEK GivEaWay ExTRaVaGanZa

Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

I wanted to share some of our New Year's Eve (during the day) party.

I chose the theme 'black, white and daylight'.

Pretty simple.

Here are some of the highlights.

The table before the 'real' food.

Oreos baked inside brownies = Black and White brownies

My 'countdown' cupcakes. I used black card stock and metallic pen.

Dipped a marshmallow in clear sprinkles (for the sparkly effect)

and added it all to a lollipop stick.

The cupcakes are Funfetti (of course)!

Champagne 'bubbles' (donut holes) - thanks to Kim - Party Frosting!

I used my New Year's printable (attached to card stock & a dowel) as centerpieces.

They are standing in jars of black eyed peas:)

A can of Rotel and black eyed peas became our 'lucky' salsa.

The pasta was festive because I used bowties and curly noodles. haha

A little bubbly. I punched 2" circles of silver card stock then used a 1" punch.

The glasses ~~cheapo plastic~~ came apart so I could add the 'bling'.

I can't have people leave without something.

Some reNEWing hand scrub for the girls, chocolate bars for the guys

and some snazzy sunglasses (since we were whooping it up during the day)

The kids LOVED counting down and yelling 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.

They loved it even more when the saw their bubbly :)

Kiddie Cocktails (cherry Caprisuns with a few cherries)

Everyone had a fun time. The weather was great..the company was great & it was early enough for everyone to get the heck out so I could get to bed early :)

Cheers to a fabulous 2011!!

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Last minute ideas for a New Year's Eve party

Here are some ideas...perfect if you want to plan a last minute NYE party.

Family Fun has tons of great ideas for having a kid-friendly party.

How cute are those party hats?

Of course Martha Stewart has plenty of great ideas..

I love the look of silver and gold (with a matching adult beverage)

There's still time to plan a little get together..or you can be like me, celebrate during the day and plan to be sound asleep when 2011 rolls around :)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

A Re'NEW'ing kind of gift

ok..corny title but just go with it.

I saw this great tutorial on greenbean crafterole a while back.

fyi - Carrie's blog it so full of great ideas, it's ridiculous!

Anyhoo. I put her 'garden scrub' on my list of projects.

Cut to -- me picking up diapers and milk at Wal Mart yesterday (jealous?)

I saw Dawn Hand Renewal dish soap on sale (2/$4.something).

I grabbed it and came up with my clever 'reNEWing' hand scrub favor idea :)

I had several jars left over from the pumpkin scrub I made for Thanksgiving.

I knew I had enough sugar, so these would be very inexpensive take-aways.

Here's how it went

dump in the sugar (almost to the top)...add soap

Mix it together. *use a knife to mix (makes it so much easier)

You may need to add more sugar/soap to get the consistency you want.

I ended up with a pale pink color

(which makes me think this would be perfect for Valentine's teacher gifts)

Plus it has a great, light scent.

Of course, now I need something extra. I found a great clock face image from

The Graphics Fairy. I resized it and added my cutesy name.

Tied it to the jar with a simple black ribbon.

If you'd like your own tag, here it is with the cutesy name.

Here is it without the name.

{it's cut with a 3" circle punch}

Enjoy!

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Countdown to 2011

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend.

Enough of the nice-y nice....

let's talk New Year's parties!!

Last year's party was a "Red, White and Blue New Year's" in honor of my dad beginning his deployment. This year's party will be "black, white and daylight" since we've planned our NYE party during the day.

I've been working on decorations, goodies and favors.

I'll share some with you during the week.

For now, I'll show you a simple little printable I made.