A Perfect Pair

What is it when a long awaited baby turns out to be not just one- but two?  A perfect pair!  Neutral hues, burlap, mercury glass, pears, candles, and a few lace accents keep the theme light and just right for both boy and girl.

Cute As A Button

favors

Decor:
~ blush and aqua color scheme
~ buttons and vintage sewing notions everywhere
~ tulle and white lights

Menu:
~ tortilla rollups
~ strawberry spinach salad
~ mint fruit salad
~ shortbread button cookies
~ chocolate cupcakes with salted buttercream frosting and fondant buttons
~ grapefruit spritzers
~ lemon herb water

Soundtrack:
~ Edward's Lullaby- Twilight soundtrack
~ Brahm's Lullaby
~ Lullaby- Dixie Chicks
~ Safe and Sound- Taylor Swift
~ Enchanted- Taylor Swift
~ Baby Mine- Allison Krauss
~ When You Say Nothing At All- Allison Krauss
~ Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star- Jewel
~ Don't Wait Too Long- Madeleine Peyroux
~ Blackbird- Sarah McLachlan
~ Dream a Little Dream of Me- Zooey Deschanel
~ Mushaboom- Feist
~ Capri- Colbie Callait

Free Mother's Day Printable

I needed something for the children's group in my church to do for their mom's on Mother's Day that could be done in 5 minutes and wouldn't break the budget.  I found a cute fill-in-the blank newspaper image on marthastewart.com, but the server was down and I don't know if it's accessible.

So I used the image as inspiration for my own.  Right click on the image to save to your computer for printing.

Illuminated Manuscript Invitation

Weird Science

 

Invitation:

~ experiment written out in scientific method steps, delivered in a petri dish

Decor:

~ green and orange color scheme

~ modern science class based decorations as opposed to "mad scientist" scheme

~ "chalkboard" backdrop to buffet table set with different shapes and sizes of flasks with multicolored liquid and dry ice, connected with clear pvc tubing

~ 3 lab tables with activities covered with green tablecloths

Food:

~ fruit molecules (clementines and grapes with toothpick hydrogen bonds)

~ bunsen burner bagel bites

~ orange jell-o agar

~ sprite with food color mixing station served in test tubes(the kids went a little overboard creating their own compounds!)

~ brain cake, which later when dissected, showed to have a white cake interior with orange and green sprinkles

Activities:

~ 2 different slippery slimes

~ microscope viewing

~ make your own snow

~ after gift opening, the grand finale was a diet coke and mentos geyser

Favors:

~ lab coats

~ goggles

~ i.d. badges custom made for each child

~ a  test tube of mentos to take home and do their own coke experiment (or eat!)