Baby sock bouquet!

Babies! So cute! And the baby showers! Oh so sweet and exciting. A new mama, basking in pregnancy glow.
But one of the things I find hard about baby showers is getting a gift. Sure, you can run to their registered store and pick out a few items, but then you start to wonder. How many baby blankets does the new mama and baby going to get? And sure you can get a cute outfit but its hard to pick a size. You don't want to get the baby something that he could never wear because he already has a mountain of new born clothes. Nor do you want to get something that mama has to keep and store for 6 months to 2 years before he can wear it. So one of things I like giving is baby sock bouquets! Little baby socks rolled up to look like rose, add some fake leaves and you have it made.

I was a new mama once and going to be again at the end of December. The one thing I never had enough of was baby socks. And when I did, I always lost them. And when you are a new mama nursing a tini newborn, who has the time to wash baby socks? much less find and match them! So I liked to have an endless supply of them. So this baby shower gift is nifty, nice on the wallet, and helps a new mama to have an endless sock supply so she doesn't have to sock hunt! She will find them when she does. (Mine almost always where under my bed or in the fridge...don't ask....hormones!)

This one is done in pink, because I have a friend do in October. Hopefully she doesn't read this blog post. :) The socks are just rolled then ajusted a little, before I take tire rap a few time around the bottom for a stem.

I put mine in a mason jar and stuffed green and white sockes at the bottom. Add fake leaves, then place in a cute baby bag or give as is. You can a bow or other greenery if you desire.
You can even add little recieving blanket around the jar like a pretty wrapped pot. That would be cute. Have fun with it.
Anywhoalls, Until another day

Toodles!

March Update on Life and mother's day list!

So it March! Yippie! Spring it in the air! You can feel it in your toes! The Daffodils are blooming and your hair looks like it had wacked up blow job. *keeps brushing hair*

So a brief update on my life! So far I have signed up to run half a marathon on April 15^th. For those who know me, I have never ran a marathon before, much less did running at all. But with God’s grace I can least crawl across the finish line and saw I did 13 miles!! In the end its for a Charity called Run for Her which through the organization called As Our Own.

I’ll post a link bellow and a link if you would like to make donations to sponsor me. I would like to raise 500 dollars for the girl named Ratna in India. Details are the link below.

 https://iwillrun.myetap.org/fundraiser/stlouis/donate.do?sponsor=977.0.272628935

Another thing, is little baby girls is learning to crawl! Has her first tooth. Top teeth are coming in. My last wisdom tooth is coming in and hurting. Hubby Man is doing good, keeping up with 40 push up a day. And over life is normal!

But also planning a 1^st birthday party, themed Lisa Frank style as you can tell from my last post. Hehe, I getting carried away with it, but it should be fun!

Also coming soon is mother’s day! Yippie! I have decided as I was writing this to make a list of ideas, which would be great gifts for those who have no idea how to shop for their mother and where tired of getting ideas from a yahoo article!

First would be my favorite.

A picture charm bracelet. This is sweet and personal. Put a picture of yourself, all your sibs, or grandbabies, whoever. Cute and affordable!

 This one I made myself. I making these to put on etsy. But you can buy one in a store, but to make one yourself is relatively easy as well! :) Supplies can be found at Hobby Lobby :)

Another great idea would be these things called diamond candles. This is 25.00 plus shipping so a bit pricer then most things, but still worth it. It soy candle with great scents you can choose from. And the cool part about is at the bottom of the candle is a diamond ring worth from 10-5000 dollars. I just wanted to try it out so I ordered this Chocolate truffle one to try it out. (No I am not being sponsered to advertise this. Too poor and little blog for that. :) There is a below the picture. And I will post a picture of the ring I get whenever I melt my candle. Don't be tempted to dig an damage your candle. For 25 bucks at least enjoy the smell!

http://www.diamondcandles.com/collections/all/products/chocolate-truffle

Also a great idea, since I am shopping online is this idea called birch box. Again I am not sponsdered for this, but for the make-up guru mom, like mine, this is great. Also easy on the wallet! You pay 10 dollar a month, or just 10 bucks one time to purchase this box, which is delivered to your house with 4-5 high end make-up items you get to try out. And you are not getting this itty-bitty sample. You get a full size or at least enough to try out for a weak. Link is below

https://www.birchbox.com/

Another and always classic gift is flowers. Everyone loves flowers and they are so sweet to receive. I m such a sucker for flowers I got to walmart and purchase those cheap 5 dollar bouquets just for the fun of it. The price is pretty much whatever you can spend. Not to expensive if on a tight budget or you can get really big exotic flower if you have extra to spend. 

In the end, just show your apprectian to your mom on her day. 

The best kind are though homemade cards, drawing, music, etc given from little kiddos! hehe so cute to see them put their hard and soul into their gifts. Anywhoaalls, I know I skipped over Easter, but I am in denile that Easter is coming up.

Until another page. 

Toodles!

Planning a Lisa Frank birthday!

Okay for all those who are my age, college and older, could probably see these from a mile away and know exsactly what these things are. Yes, my friends, from the rainbow spotted dalmatians, to the purple kitten to the ballerina bunnies, we all know these things are Lisa Frank.

Yep, this is the them for my daughter's first birthday, which isn't until May, but I can still plan early and look for crafts to do. As you can see there are many cute ideas for a flash back to the 80's and 90's.

I love these balloon table decorations! Cute for kids party!

My favorite characters were all the dog characters and sadly I could name them all. (Goes to show how pitifully devoted fan I was when I was 8.) Spotty and Dotty where the rainbow spotted Dalmatians, Casey and Camus were there most famous yellow Labs. With Candy coming later to be Casey's girlfriend. You see the two eating a sundae on the beach. Princess Pearl was the lavender long hair Maltese with the strand of rainbow pearls in her mouth.  Violet and Velvet were the purple and white spaniels. They were my favorites before Spotty and Dotty came along. You also have the three St. Bernard they were not seen for very long Rucks, Raider, and Risky. And then this new Husky Dog, I just had her name, then forgot, but I know her best friends are a penguins and polar bear baby!
Anywhoalls, just wanted to share a breif update!
God bless
Until another day

Toodles