Candy "Cake"

I have seen so many super cool candy tiered "cakes" on Pinterest, for my favorites I've pinned find them on my board "My Kind of Party!"

My husband LOVES, I mean LOVES candy, and he doesn't eat it often because he has self control and we don't eat a ton of "junk" in the hope our kids learn from us and will continue healthy eating habits long after they're out of our home.

But, come on a birthday is a special day, and now he has a good stash to last him the year!

Step one- buy a cart load of the gift receivers most favorite candy. (Be sure to show the cashier the picture on Pinterest so she doesn't judge you and think you're big pregnant self if wolfing this all down yourself)

Step two- find some boxes, and/or some cake cardboards, and sit and arrange and re-arrange and get frustrated over how you are gong to make all this candy stack up properly to not look like a glued on mess, then just get to it and stop stressing out!

Step three- add some pretty ribbon & some candles & then hide it in a cool place until party day! (If this cake was for anyone other than my husband I probably would have wrapped every tier in ribbon and made it look a lot fancier)

Step four- surprise Husband at the party and let all the party goers marvel at your tower of teeth ruining junk!

Woohoo one more Pinterest pin completed! Can't wait to make another one, think I'm gonna go with a solid one candy "cake" for the next one!
Do you have candy lovers in the family? Try this and let me know how it goes!

Easy Valentine Bags!

Yep, still only posting pictures with my iPhone it's the easiest way to put them on here for now! But anyway, here's a group shot of all our Valentine bags we gave out this year!

Ella Bug is trying so hard with her letters! She is doing so well for a three year old! Plus we're going to like calling Ben, "Bem" now! The girls wrote out all their own Valentines, Lyla Bear scribbled more on her hands than the cards but no one cared they loved her one year old chicken scratch!

We bought a few different bags of candy and used ziplock bags and embroidery thread to split them up for each gift.

Then I looked up different quotes on Pinterest & personalized each persons Valentine bag using scrapbook paper, Sharpie paint pens and a regular black Sharpie!

I am also getting really addicted to using puff paint on things! For some reason I just love the way it adds a little something extra! We had to use a big bag for Gramy and Grampys, our little clear treat bags weren't gonna cut it for our number one fans.

Everyone loved their gifts and they were so much cheaper to put together ourselves than buying the same-ole same-ole overpriced valentines baskets for all our closest friends and family!

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My SMASH Holiday & Vacation Book introduction! The 365 Folio

So, I used to be a scrapbooker. Used to be, as in before I had children or a house and the time to sit and play with paper all day.

And, I used to be a face booker. Used to be, as in before I was tired of everyone telling me every time they took a crap or waited in a fast food line too long.

I still needed some way to record daily things and my old-school pen and paper ways could not get the hang of any fancy pants app I got on my ipad for journaling. Plus I wanted something physical, something that was a hard copy of our life events.

Enter the SMASH book by K&Company. I bought the 365 Folio & the Pretty Pink gift pack.

The reviews I read of the 365 Folio pegged it as a Holiday journal so that's what I intended to use it for. Family vacations and Holidays! Which was pretty perfect since we were about to embark on our first vacation of the year it would give me the perfect opportunity to start my SMASHING. The pretty pink one will be my daily family write-whatever-the-heck-I-want book.

Here's my first Vacation page in the 365 Folio!

For a detailed explanation of what a SMASH book is read this blog post, she does not leave anything out and where I got the idea to use to tape as tabs for pictures!

Keep checking back for more information and pictures as we SMASH our way through 2013!