Saturday, April 30, 2011

Lemonade Stand Grand Opening

Lemonade Day


Follow the link for details!!!
Thanks!



Friday, April 29, 2011

`Royal Tea Party`

Welcome to our Tea Party celebrating the marriage of Prince William and
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.





All of our lovely guests arrived in their fanciest wedding attire and enjoyed afternoon tea...







Did you notice their pinkies??



We played "Who Will Kiss the Prince" (where the girls had to change their voice to an English accent, answer the question and others had to guess who it was.)
And "Royal Ball" ( a crepe paper ball filled with rings, mini tiaras and flower barrettes.)
Followed by "Where's My Engagement Ring?"


Our very own Kate found it much to the disappointment of the other ladies in waiting!


A toast to the new Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge




The ladies spent the rest of the afternoon giggling!!
Perfect!!!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Lemonade Day Coming Soon

On May 1st kids all over will be setting up Lemonade Stands. Please support them! They have worked hard on starting their own businesses. Here is CJ's
Lemonade Day blog

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Easter Treats 2011

All packaged up and ready to deliver to some of our "favorite Peeps."



One more school day then
ready to spend 10 days at home with my darling daughters.


CD wants a photo shoot, both girls have a Royal Tea Party planned, CJ is getting things all organized for Lemonade Day and I have my fingers crossed for warm weather and a play date with some friends.



Give-Away

With Target on it's way here my kind generous friend is giving away a $50 gift card on her blog. Pop by, check out all her amazing accomplishments, tutorials and the best cupcakes in Western Canada!!
Say hi and enter to win!

Saucy's Sprinkles
you'll wish you lived close enough to smell the cupcakes baking!!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

And the Winner Is

Sweet Sassy
Congratulations!
Hope you and the Sprout enjoy baking some yummy spring cookies together!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spring Give-away

Just in time for baking Easter sugar cookies...
Leave a comment by Sunday, April 17th
for a chance to win this set
of 4 spring cookie cutters
.


With no sign of spring weather (snow in the forecast), you'll want to turn on your oven to warm up.
Good Luck. We'll post the lucky winner
early Monday morning.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Chocolate Dipped Bunny Peeps

Just a quick little project for the girls today.

Yesterday was 15 C outside and perfect for playing in the yard, today extremely windy and -2 C with a chance of snow. Yuck!!

Chocolate Dipped Bunny Peeps

Instructions by CD:



Take a bunny.
Dip a bunny.



Sprinkle a bunny.


Eat a bunny.




Repeat.


Enjoy!!

Only 7 more school days until our Easter Break!!
What do you have planned?

We'll have a give-away in the next couple of days!!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Crafty Kids



One of our Christmas gifts took a long time to create....
the girls went to a local ceramics shop and picked out just the right pieces that they wanted to work on. The hardest part about this whole process was the wait time. First they picked their pieces and had to wait until they were fired.
(We went in in mid November hoping to have it finished in time for Christmas, unfortunately we just missed a load to be fired and had to wait until mid January.)

They each decided they'd like to decorate a mug for Auntie Viki. Because she's our earthy friend the girls picked a blue and green glaze.




Once they saw how much fun sponging on glaze could be they moved on to a larger bowl (also for Auntie Viki).


AND a few pieces for themselves.






More waiting ....





Two more months!!!!

It's ready!!!

Look at how gorgeous the finished art is!!!:


And how proud my little artists are!

To make the piece even more personal, the girls added their hand prints inside in a very subtle grey colour.



I mentioned to Moto-Moto how much fun it was and then asked him if we could get a kiln so we could create all the time because a box of clay is cheap!!
He promptly told us NO!

Lucky for us a new pottery shop is due to open this month!!
The best part is that all pieces are already bisque and ready to glaze!!
We are already planning ahead to a Christmas craft party for the girls and their friends. (Psst, save the date for sometime early in November. This means you MKM, B, F, S and S!!)