Pretty Ribbons

I've been working on organizing my "crafts" so they all have a place in hopes that they will stop trying to take over our house. 

I moved a shelf into the dining room and got a few boxes to start.  My biggest struggle was trying to figure out how to handle the 100's of ribbons that I have.  Then I came across a fantastic idea HERE.

I wasted no time getting my ribbons wound up and into their pretty jars!

This is not all of the ribbon, I have three shoe boxes full of ribbons waiting.

I had to order more clothes pegs from the store!

So far the pinks and oranges are pretty...

...the blues and browns are pretty...

...and half of the reds and purples are looking good as well.  I will have to update you when the whole collection is done.  I think I'll need to pick up two more of those candy jars as well.

 Does this make you as happy as it makes me?  Do you have a creative space that you love?  Tell me about it!  Share your photos and ideas!

Winter Wonderland Party

My daughter's Winter Wonderland Crafts 10th birthday was a huge success!  Here are a few of my favorite details....

I let my children cut out tons of snowflakes to create an entire wall of "snowing flakes".  The wall is dark gray so the flakes looked really great against it.

I wrapped plain canvases with silver ribbon.  Easy peasy!  I'd like to do this everyday, it was great to have the TV hiding!!!  I saw this idea online a while ago and cannot remember where?

I made stockings for each girl out of felt.  One of the crafts was decorating the stockings.  I supplied the girls with 100's of rhinestones, plenty of silvery ribbons and pearls and puff paint.  The stockings turned out beautiful and they served as the "goody bags"  to hold all their treats at the end of the party.  The stockings were easy: cut out stocking shape, sew around edge, add ribbon...wa-la!

I try not to over-do the sugar.  One of my solutions is no juice.  Instead, I make their water bottles appealing!  I used all sorts of textured papers in silver and white.  Then I puff painted the initials in the middle.  So pretty!

I love doing this to my dining room light every Christmas!  This year I took it further and used the same concept at Thanksgiving with fall leaves.  Too fun!

Craft parties are so fun once the kids are old enough to handle most of the steps themselves.  We did 6 crafts and it went really smoothly.  The girls enjoyed themselves immensely and I was glad to not be throwing ANOTHER bowling party or swimming party!!

I asked my younger sister to come over and give the girls sparkly silvery make overs.  They loved this!

Kinda reminds me of the mask Drew Barrymore wore in Ever After! Beautiful!  In the invitation we had asked the girls to come dressed in white.  For the most part, everyone did.  Look how cute they are as a group!

One of the crafts was making knotty yarn scarves.  I bumped into one of the girls' moms at the mall last weekend and the MOM was wearing the scarf!  A true sign of a super cute and successful project!!

Here is my birthday girl blinging her picture frame.  We kept the frames after the party and added photos to them and wrapped them.  We handed them out at school the next week so the girls could give them to their moms for Christmas.  What picture did we use?  Glad you asked! 

Each girl had a little angel photo shoot:)  This was my daughter's idea.  She's a clever girl, that one!

The girls' eyes got really big when they saw the craft supplies!  See those silvery cylinders?  I save my hot chocolate canisters and all other cylindrical(sounds pretty smart, hey?  I had to look this word up!) cardboard containers and cover them with pretty paper or fabric to coordinate with the party theme.  They always come in handy!

The ladies "trimming the tree".  This is my favorite photo from the party.  I love to force a few cute posed pictures to have on hand for future graduation or wedding slide shows:)