Merry Christmas!

An epic Minecraft party.

The set up! The food is so much fun for this party!

Food tent cards from https://www.etsy.com/people/michcmo 

This is for a pdf file you can then print and cut out as many as needed.

I made the boys Creeper t-shirts and rolled them and 

secured them with some minecraft bracelets I found on Ebay.

Put the tees in Creeper and Enderman bags I made along with 

some snack bags with the extra candy treats from the party.

Gold foil boxes, blue diamonds, brick background paper

and grass tablecloth found on Amazon.

All tin and plastic buckets are from The Dollar Tree

and the poster is from Walmart.

Potion bottle wrappers from https://www.etsy.com/people/whimzycmo

This is for a pdf file you can then print and cut out as many as needed.

Keep calm and Minecraft on.

Pdf file can be bought here 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MapleSyrupDesign

You get 2 sizes, print as many as you'd like.

I laminated ours so it now is on his bedroom door. 

I also got a pdf file for Minecraft image circles that

you can use to make cupcake toppers 

or a number of other things. I printed them 

on sticker paper and use them on the baggies 

I added to their treat bags.

Minecraft heads were from the boys Halloween

costumes this year. Ours were bought at the beach over 

the summer but they can be found at Target along

 with the foam sword.

Paper crafts were found online for free. Pick which 

ones you want and how many then print on cardstock. 

The kids can then cut, fold and make their own blocks.

Invites are from 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LvLUpLoot

I love these! You buy the personalized pdf file and 

print as many as you need on cardstock. 

Cut, fold, glue...a perfect invite.

One very happy 12 year old had an 

amazing party!

Be calm and Minecraft on.

Foods we used:

• Water, blue Jello 
• Dirt Grass, Chocolate Rice Krispies with green frosting
• Watermelon, Watermelon sour patch candies
• Redstone, Red Hots
• Emeralds, green Mike and Ikes
• Fish, Swedish Fish
• Sticks, pretzels
• Diamonds, Rock candy
• Gold, Hershey Nuggets
• Coal, Chocolate candy coal 
• Cookies, homemade cookies
• Golden Apples, apple slices
• Carrots, baby carrots
• TNT, red and black licorice
• Cake, homemade cake

What children need most...

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. 

And, most importantly, cookies.

 ~Rudolph Giuliani

Happy Grandparent's Day!

When I was 5 years old...

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." ~John Lennon.

You are 5 years old. Kindergarten. Class of 2026. 

The future is yours. Be Happy.

My plan is to take a photo of you in this t-shirt every year at the beginning of school. I'll add a little money to each picture and put it in a book for you to give you at graduation in 2026. It seems so far away but I know I will blink and you will be 18. 

Time is flying by so quickly. Be Happy. 

This was last years photo, 4K (preschool), still a favorite.

And the winners are...

Thanks everyone for entering!

Here our the lucky winners:

Bookworm t-shirts: Bonnie Greenhalgh Finch (claimed), Ashley Leonard, and Vanessa Vazquez (claimed)

Munchler lunch bag, tiger: Ashley Stephenson Barnett (claimed)

Munchler lunch bag, bunny: Stacy Waters Warden (claimed)

School supplies, red group: Briar Moon (claimed)

School supplies, blue group: Ashley Rock (claimed)

Kate Spade clutch (your choice red or black): Christin Alonzo (claimed)

You have 48 hours to contact me and claim your prize!!!

Please message me on facebook to claim your prize. T-shirt winners please leave the size you would like in the t-shirt and I will get back to you with what colors I have available to choose from. Prizes will ship this week. Thanks again for being here and CONGRATS to all the lucky winners.

 Happy Monday! 

Happy Back to School! Have a great week!

~Alison

Back to School Giveaway Time

I gotta go back, back, back to school again...

August 12-19th

I'm giving away a few things to make the transition back a bit easier...

3 of my new little Bookworm t-shirts...

                                      

2 Munchlers lunch bags, 1 tiger and 1 bunny...

2 groups of back to school basics supplies....

and 1 Kate Spade pebbled ace of spades clutch in your choice of red or black.

...and here's how and where you enter:

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/b7d1824/

Stop back and see if you are one of the lucky winners on August 19th!

Good luck! and Happy Back to School!

~Alison

Happy Father's Day!

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” – Theodore Hesburgh