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Jul

2012

Pink Party Time

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Party Platters: Glue the base of a glass to the bottom of a decorative plate with glass adhesive – I used ‘Liquid Nails: Glass & Tile Adhesive’. Once the glue has dried, spray paint the bottom of the platter. I bought all the plates and glasses from the Op Shop (Thrift Store) for 50c each.

Mini Cupcakes with pink butter cream frosting and decorated with a Mini Oreo, white chocolate and sprinkles.

Pink Snowballs. Marshmallows coated in white chocolate and rolled in pink dessicated coconut.

Marshmallow and Mini M&M mushrooms.

Wobbly Presents

White Chocolate Butterfly Cupcakes

Decorate the chairs with inexpensive plastic table cloths. Cut them into strips and tie around the back of the chairs.

Decorated Pop Tops. Pink balloon, crepe paper, feather string and a butterfly.

White Chocolate Winged Butterflys

More of my party foods:

Peacock Cake

Flower Pot Cakes

Mini Party Cups

Tags: cupcakes, decorating, food, girls, ideas, party, Pink
Posted in Animals, Arty Parties, Edible Craft, Flowers, Holidays and Special Occasions, Home Decor, Party Food | 2 Comments »

Jun

2012

Parasol Party Lights

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You will need: Low temperature, LED Christmas lights, cocktail umbrellas and small cable ties. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)

You might also like:

Mosaic Solar Lights

Solar Fairy House

Flashing Xmas Dress

Tags: fairy, kid's, lights, parasol, party, party decorations, umbrella
Posted in Arty Parties, Holidays and Special Occasions, Home Decor, Uncategorized | 25 Comments »

Apr

2012

Hot Chocolate Dippers

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Try these easy hot chocolate dipping spoons for deliciously gooey treat. Choose your favourite sweet or mini chocolate to place in the chocolate. Pictured below is a Mini Oreo. Scroll down for more ideas.

Spoon a dollop of melted white chocolate onto a teaspoon. Place a small treat into the chocolate and chill to set.

Dip the spoon into milk or dark chocolate, covering half the treat (or all if you prefer). Scrape the bottom of the spoon to remove any excess. Chill to set.

Dip the spoon into a hot drink to make it melty and wonderful.

Teds in Bed: Give a Tiny Teddy and yummy blanket of milk chocolate and sprinkles. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)

Marshmallow:

Soft centred jubes:

More of my edible crafts:

Easter Dipping Spoons

Strawberry Stars

Tropical Island Trifle

Tags: chocolate, dip, hot, spoon
Posted in Edible Craft, Holidays and Special Occasions, Homemade Gifts, Mothers Day, Party Food, Uncategorized | 37 Comments »

Mar

2012

Easter Cookies

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Ingredients: Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (or any oval shaped cookie), white icing, white marshmallows, pink sprinkles, lollies/candy and black writing icing. To make the ears, cut a marshmallow in half and dip the sticky centre into the pink sprinkles.

Ingredients: Milk Arrowroot Biscuits (or any oval shaped cookie), Sour Strap lollies, Mini M&Ms, icing tinted with food colouring.

More of my Easter crafts:

Easter Dipping Spoons

Plastic Bottle Basket

Easter Foam Eggs

Tags: bunny, cookie, craft, easter, egg, make, recipe
Posted in Animals, Arty Parties, Easter, Edible Craft, Holidays and Special Occasions, Party Food | 9 Comments »

Mar

2012

Easter Egg Hot Chocolate Dippers

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Click here for full instructions (Pdf)

More of my party foods:

Mini Party Cups

Party Spoons

Coconut Xmas Tree

Tags: easter, egg, ideas, kid's, recipe
Posted in Easter, Edible Craft, Holidays and Special Occasions, Mothers Day, Party Food | 25 Comments »

Mar

2012

Easter Baskets

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Easter seems to have crept up on me this year. Suddenly I have too many projects and too little time to post them. So here are 2 projects crammed into one.
The first is a basket made out of a plastic soft drink bottle. An adult will need to assist in this project as it requires some fairly heavy duty cutting and a burning candle flame. I used the flame to heat the petals of the flower basket in order to keep them in place. This isn’t as difficult or dangerous as it sounds! You simply bend back the petal and slowly bring the folded part closer to the flame until it slightly buckles and stays in place. I then covered the basket with tissue paper and PVA, but you could also spray paint it for a faster finish.
Click here for full instructions (Pdf)

The next project is a quick and easy Easter Bunny face that doubles as a treat bag to store your eggs.

To make this bag, you will need 3 x paper plates, ribbon or string, a stapler and items to decorate the face. Click here for full instructions

More of my Easter crafts:

Easter Suncatcher

Easter Foam Eggs

Paper Plate Basket

Tags: basket, bunny, craft, easter, kid's, rabbit
Posted in Animals, Easter, Holidays and Special Occasions, Papercraft, Uncategorized | 27 Comments »

Dec

2011

My Twinkly Christmas Dress

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When it comes to Christmas dresses, I’ve found the choices to be rather slim – or brief, to be exact. Last year I needed something festive to wear to a children’s Christmas Party. The only festive outfits I could find were of the skimpy/after hours/in-private variety. Hardly appropriate! (“Mummy, why can I see Mrs Claus’ undies?”) SO, I found a second hand red dress, pictured on the left, and transformed it into the dress on the right:

It even lights up!

This is how I did it:

1. Stitched white fur trim to the collar, pockets and hemline.

2. Replaced the buttons with gold bells

3. Unpicked an opening in the hem and threaded plastic garden reticulation hose all the way around, inside the hem.

4. Decorated a pair of red shoes with bells and plastic holly.

5. Fortunately the dress had an extra lining skirt underneath. To this I safety pinned 5 novelty flashing Christmas necklaces.

And there you have it; a Christmas Dress that flashes in a child friendly/G-Rated kinda way…

More of my Christmas Crafts:

Santa Treat Bag

Santa Marionette

Christmas Cookies

Tags: christmas, Dress, make, outfit, Wear
Posted in Christmas, Dress Ups, Holidays and Special Occasions | 24 Comments »

Dec

2011

More Christmas Baubles

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This is my last post about baubles. Really. Here is a simple way to make a plain Christmas bauble into something special with round glass pebbles. These pebbles are normally available in small bags at discount or craft stores. The string used to hang the baubles will need to be replaced with fishing line, as the pebbles make the bauble considerably heavier. Due to their weight, the baubles are not suitable for hanging on a Christmas Tree. I attached the pebbles with a hot glue gun. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)

Before

After

Green glass pebbles

Adhesive Crystals on each pebble

Before

After

More of my glass crafts:

Sea Glass Lamp

Homemade Kaleidoscope

Stained Glass Snowflakes

Tags: Bauble, christmas, craft, decorate
Posted in Christmas, Holidays and Special Occasions, Homemade Gifts | 2 Comments »

Jul

2011

Flower Pot Cakes

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Tomorrow my daughter will take cupcakes to pre-primary for her birthday. This is what we spent this afternoon making. Well, she spent about 4 minutes before it became too monotonous and she left to dig holes in the garden. Leaving me to finish the last 38 flower pots….
To make these little flower pots you need iced chocolate cake for the ‘dirt’. I bought a ready made one and mashed it together then spooned it into the mini shot cups. The flower is made of 5 regular sized M&M’s around 1 Mini M&M. They are fixed to the spoon with a dot of melted white chocolate. For the leaves I cut a Spearmint Leaf lolly in half. Once the children eat the flower they can use the spoon to eat the pot of cake. I’m hoping they get a kick out of eating ‘dirt’. Click here for the full recipe and instructions(Pdf)

Thanks for looking!

*Tragic postscript: On the way to school this morning she dropped the entire tray of 40 flowers…For a moment we could only stare, in mute horror, at the mangled mess. As the tears began welling in her eyes, I found my voice and said “Oh well, at least they’ll still taste great!” She happily agreed and we salvaged what we could. My fault for letting her carry it…*

Tags: cake, flower, food, kid's, party, pot
Posted in Arty Parties, Edible Craft, Flowers, Holidays and Special Occasions, Party Food | 16 Comments »

Jun

2011

Mini Party Cups

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Disposable mini shot cups can be found at party supply stores or discount shops such as ‘Red Dot’. They are obviously growing in popularity as more and more places seem to be stocking them. Which is peculiar as I have never seen them used for actual alcoholic drinks. Though, perhaps that is more a reflection of the kind of parties I now go to. I can’t remember the last party I went to that didn’t have a pinata or round of pass the parcel.

These cups are perfect for serving kids party food. The cups measure only 40mm in height. The sweet foods are not only super cute to look at, they make smaller, healthier portion sizes. The best part is all the ingredients are ready made – no cooking required. All cups featured use cream spray on the top. This can be found in the chilled dairy section. The spray needs to be applied just before serving as it collapses quickly. Also, some recipes use ‘Yogo’. For non-Australians, this is a flavoured pudding found in the dairy section. (If anyone has a brand local to their area please add it to my comments!)