Travel Chalkboard Cases

Travel Chalkboard Cases

I made mini travel chalkboard cases 

for the kids in Joelle's class.  They 

are perfect to throw in your purse and

pull out when you need to keep

kids (little and big) occupied.

My plan was to paint an Altoid

tin but I found these gingerbread

tins and Target for only 60 cents!

And the bonus was we got to eat

13 gingerbread cookies instead of a

bunch of spicy Altoids.

I spray painted the top white then

added red ric rac around the sides.

I painted chalkboard paint on the

bottom of the tin then added 

chalk and a cut sponge.

Joelle's Second Birthday

Under The Sea

We went to the Roswell Splash Park this summer and Joelle had the best time.  When I found out you could have parties there I knew that was the perfect place for her second birthday!

The morning of her party it was raining pretty hard.  I had to cancel by 9:30 a.m. in order to get a refund.  I decided to risk it and it paid off.  We had perfect weather all through the party and as soon as we pulled away the skies opened up!

The color scheme was turquoise and pink and I kept it fairly simple because we were only given 45 minutes to set up.  I made these whimsical jelly fish by painting paper plates and attaching a dowel rod through the center.  I glued different turquoise ribbon to the bottom of the plate and placed sand in buckets to hold them up.

I found this cute whale at TJ Maxx and thought it worked perfectly!

I dipped these marshmallows in melted chocolate then immediately in crushed graham crackers. I used melted chocolate to "glue" on the goldfish and added a candy pearl.

I used the same concept on homemade cupcakes.

Blue Kool-aid Ocean Water

Fish Food (nerds) served as a party favor.  I forgot to take a picture of the movies but each child went home with a copy of Shark Tale.

The birthday girl!  

The party guests!

Gingerbread Party

Joelle's gymnastics class celebrated the season with a Gingerbread House Decorating Party and Gift Exchange.

Since they are all girls, I thought pink and green was a fitting color scheme.  I premade the houses using graham crackers and royal icing.  It was much easier than I would have thought!

I found aprons at Hobby Lobby for $5.00 and had them monogrammed (thank you Mandy Crawford).  I then added ric rac to the top and bottom to jazz them up even more!  Luckily, I found an old shower curtain rod to hang them up.

The girls played, decorated the houses, ate snacks, then opened presents.  They each drew names and brought a gift for that friend.

I think they had a great time!