Vintage Ice Cream Parlor

RJ's first birthday party - I did a retro/vintage themed ice cream parlor.  We had a soft serve ice cream machine, and the cutest plastic bowls from the dollar store (they are in the fourth picture in the bottom right corner).  I have a coca-cola straw dispenser that belonged to my great-grandma (whom RJ is named after) that we used with the bottled soda.  The toppings were served with the little metal scoops.  I made the clothes-pin doll on the cake and the banner that matched her invites (third pic).

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Woodsy Baby Blessing/Naming Party

This is the invite for one of the boys, on the other side was the invite for the other nephew.


These were the table toppers.




The stand on the right had yummy brownies on it - of course I didn't get a pic.  Thanks goes to my hubby for finding the birch stump and cutting it up for me!

We had a signing table with this tree silhouette to put a finger print on for leaves and sign your name.  i made this deer head from this tutorial/template.  Moss came from the dollar store.  I used this fox banner and just added a fawn in photoshop.  I'm disappointed in the pics, I forgot my SLR camera - I feel like it looked much cuter than these show, but isn't that how it works?

vintage dresses

i made these for cc and reagan for our

family pictures. they'll have bloomers

underneath.

summer tablescape

maybe if we put more summer stuff out there, there will

actually be a summer!

Summer Fun ideas

We made our summer calendar a week ago, here are some of the things we have on there:
Kids summer movies (check your local movie theaters, ours do $1 kids movies at 10 am on Tuesdays)
Hogal Zoo
Tracy Aviary
Pool
Heritage Park (this is the place)
Dino Park
Nature Center
Thanksgiving Point
Liberty Park
American West Heritage Center
SS shortline train
Library story time
Several events our library is doing for summer reading
Roberts kids crafts
A few camping trips
My oldest is doing a summer program with his preschool for 5 weeks
and plenty of space for spur of the moment stuff.

Do you have any ideas to add?

Reagan's quilt

Here she is....

quilts i made with the babies i made them for....

i'll add some of reagan with hers soon