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GI Joe Cake Topper

GI Joe Cake Topper

Brittany Payne
Parties, Crafts

For Brad’s birthday, Melody wanted to do a GI Joe themed birthday. I was torn on how to handle his cake since you cannot really find old school GI Joe cakes at Publix. I honestly am not even sure if the newer GI Joe movies are even represented at Publix. But we wanted old school 100%. So after some research, I noticed they had a camo cake. It was not exactly how I wanted, but after some talking with the bakery, they were able to do exactly what I wanted. A round camouflaged cake with nothing extra about it. Then I made a topper using cardstock. The topper was three levels. Each level looked like the GI Joe logo and read Happy, Birthday, Daddy. I used toothpicks and wooden skewers taped to the back to keep it in place. It was perfect!

Bridal Shower Food Labels

Bridal Shower Food Labels

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties

For my cousin’s bridal shower, the theme itself was miss to mrs. In addition we were doing a chip and did charcuterie style food setup. With that, they wanted the food to all be labeled. And I was in charge of making said labels. I wanted to do something using chalkboards because I thought that would be nice. I did some searching at Hobby Lobby and Michael’s as well as online with Amazon.

DIY Backdrop

DIY Backdrop

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties

We had Melody’s 6th birthday party at a local gymnastics/cheer gym. I wasn’t entirely sure how I could really decorate the walls or how much time I would have to decorate them and also look pretty. I had seen a fellow local mom who made a backdrop to help with her decor at the same location. So I decided to make my own myself. I don’t love it, but it works for now. I plan to make it out of thicker PVC pipe in the future. It is just a little bit too floppy for me.

miss to mrs bridal shower

miss to mrs bridal shower

Brittany Payne
Parties, Crafts

Last weekend, I helped host a bridal shower for my cousin, Ashley. She is getting married in November, and I love hosting a good event! Her maid of honor and mom help with all the ideas, but I wanted to share how adorable everything turned out. I plan to post more details later about different parts of the shower! But the general theme was “miss to mrs”.

Doc McStuffins Birthday Shirt

Doc McStuffins Birthday Shirt

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties

For Melody’s 6th birthday party, I originally bought her an adorable Doc McStuffins dress to wear. However, they only had it in a size 7, and I was really hoping it would work. But it did not. It was just way too big. Especially since we were having her party at a very active place. So last minute, I opted to make her a shirt. I happened to have a blank purple shirt of hers along with some pink vinyl. I think used the tracing tool in Silhouette to trace the characters from Doc McStuffins. Then I added her name to it. I decided to keep her age off of it so that she could wear it anytime!

Doc McStuffins Cupcake Toppers

Doc McStuffins Cupcake Toppers

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties

Instead of doing a cake for Melody’s birthday party, I did cupcakes. I did this for a few reasons. One, I do not have to cut a cake this way. It is one less thing I have to plan for. Two, even before COVID, it made me feel better to have her blow out a candle on a single cupcake vs an entire cake that people will be eating. Three, it is generally cheaper. And four, it makes it easier to give out cupcakes (or this time around we already had plates made), rather than cut pieces of cake to hand out. I always pick colors that match the theme of the party, but I also add some form of cupcake toppers. I decided to make easy ones this time around.

Nora Fleming Mini Case

Nora Fleming Mini Case

Brittany Payne
Crafts

I have many Nora Fleming minis. I have several for every holiday as I have several dishes I keep out year round. The big problem I have is storing them. I was storing them in the boxes we would receive them in when ordering online. Many problems came from this. You can’t see what minis are in the box, some are too big and bulky for the boxes, the boxes are different sizes making it hard to store, etc. They make boxes for them, but they are really expensive, and I thought I could make something better myself.

2/22/22

2/22/22

Brittany Payne
Kids, Crafts

So until Melody brought home her weekly newsletter that mentioned celebrating “2” day, it really had not crossed my mind that 2/22/22 fell on a Tuesday making it TWOSDAY.

DIY Pigeon Costume

DIY Pigeon Costume

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Kids

During Red Ribbon Week, Melody wanted to dress up as Pigeon as her favorite book character. I did some researching, and I opted to go the blue jacket route. It seemed the simplest. The hardest part for me was finding the right colored blue jacket locally. But thankfully I found one at Target that seemed to work. I had black and yellow felt on hand, and I bought some white felt.

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon Week

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Kids

Melody’s elementary school celebrated Red Ribbon Week back in October along with most of our state (maybe nation, I don’t know much about how far it extends beyond Alabama). While I love dress up days, I do hate that it landed the week of Halloween when I was already working on our Butterbean Costumes. But we managed to come up with all the outfits for the week after a run to Walmart and Hobby Lobby!

Butterbean Costumes

Butterbean Costumes

Brittany Payne
Kids, Household, Crafts

For Halloween, Melody wanted to go as characters from Butterbean’s Cafe. She wanted to be Butterbean, Brad went as Jasper, and I went as Poppy. This was definitely one of the more DIY Halloweens, so I thought I would share most of what I did to make our costumes.

WellieWisher Doll Beds

WellieWisher Doll Beds

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Kids

Many months ago, Melody and Brad came up with the idea to make beds for her WellieWisher dolls. This actually became a thought before Christmas last year as a potential gift idea. After much trial and error and brainstorming, we finally finished it a few weeks ago.

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