My Mother's Day Gift & PrintRunner 100 Postcard Giveaway

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Guess what I got for Mother's Day?! I feel like the luckiest gal ever! My first DSLR camera! I know...I know..it's so fancy and not frugal!

It's gonna be so great for taking pics of my family and for the blog though!! Yay.....

I took a few practice pics of my daughter while we were at my son's baseball game. I love it! 

So now that I'm practicing some serious wanna be photography skills I'm gonna need some quality & inexpensive printing services! Would you like to win 100 color 5x7 photo postcards? Thanks PrintRunner for sponsoring this online postcard printing giveaway.( I will be receiving 100 cards for hosting).

"PrintRunner.com was established with little more than a small press and a dream. Ten years later our company became one of the foremost quality printers in Southern California. Our commitment to provide the best value and high quality full color printing at affordable price made our company grow.  PrintRunner is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California."-PrintRuner

Details of the giveaway prize: Postcards

Postcard Size: Postcards 5x7

 Quantity: 100

Colors: 4/0 Front Only Printing

Paper: 14 PT. UV Coating on Front,

 Rounded Corners: Yes

Proof: None

 Ready to Ship In: 4 Business Days

 *Giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above.

TO ENTER: Leave a comment below..Say hi or tell me how would you use your photo postcards? Thank Yous, Birth Announcements, Business Ads, Invites, ect.

I will pick a winner by random.org on Sunday May 20th. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope everyone had a beautiful Mother's Day weekend!! xo

DIY Instagram Magnets

My personal Facebook friends would agree with the statement that I am completely hooked on the brilliant photo ap Instagram. (Ha sorry FB peeps!) But I can't help it. They turn out so darn cute. Instead of having them only live in my phone I turned them into homemade magnets and am giving some to my mom and mom in law for Mother's Day gifts.
They are so easy no pics required! All I did was print a 4x6 of 1 inch instagram photos on my printer with photo paper. I used Mod Podge on black heavy card stock paper to make them thick. After they dried I cut em up. Then I used clear packing tape over the front of each one individually. Use adhesive magnets on the back. 


Now I have cute magnets for my thrift store magnetic primer board!

I wish you all a beautiful Mother's Day Weekend. Yesterday I spent an hour in my daughter's preschool painting and playing as part of their Mommy Celebration. I sure do cherish these memories...with an Instagram of course! :)

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4th Of July Trifle Recipe

Good Morning! See this little yummy trifle? I added it to the very end of a post last summer about canning jam and how I made it for the 4th of July. Well it got a huge response from Pinterest. And since I've received some questions as to an exact recipe, here it goes! It's so easy.

*Pint of Strawberries

*Pint of Blueberries

*Loaf of Sara Lee Pound Cake

*Star cookie cutter

*Whip Cream

All I did was cut out stars with the cookie cutter and arranged it pretty :) My trifle dish is from Pier 1. And yes it tastes just as great as it looks!! I WILL be making it again this year.

Do you love trifle desserts? What's your fav?

xoxo

A Very Rainbow 4th Birthday Party

I've been a little bit MIA lately on the blog and this is why! This party consumed my life for the last week, and then editing all these pics was a whole different task!...But I got it all done so get ready for a long 4th birthday rainbow part post. When my daughter said she wanted a rainbow party I was so excited! I envisioned a girly frilly and fun colorful party.

Lets start with the invites,..I made a simple colorful invitation on PicMonkey and then hand delivered with balloons. The girls were thrilled!

My table and backdrop turned out pretty great I think.

Hanging is a large piece of blue fabric from Goodwill ($1), and yep those are pool noodles turned rainbow! The clouds are tissue paper poms. Colorful streamers complete the look from above.

This is the outfit I made for my daughter. I embellished a plain tank top with ribbon and buttons.

I made a bunch of these hair clippies and turned them into party favors.

To make them cut a 3 inch piece of rainbow ribbon (from Michael's). Hot glue one end to the back of the lined clip and the other end to the front.. Finish wiith small white poms from the craft store. So easy and cute. I made a little printable for the Rain"bow" favors..

I made 8 little tutus by tying rainbow colored tulle to elastic. A tip I learned from the nice lady at Hobby Lobby was to roll up a large piece of tulle like wrapping paper and then make 6 inch cuts with scissors. They come out perfect! I hung mine with clothespins by my dessert table as decor. At the end I managed to get a cute group pic of the girls in their tutus.

Of course I had to paint rainbows on her toes :0

My felt rainbow wreath looked great on the table. See the tutorial here.

So lets talk about the sweets! The cake was from Fry's grocery, I piped the rainbow sugar cookies. I made rainbow colored pudding with instant vanilla and food coloring. Those flavored licorice & Rolos are very fun inspired by Pinterest specifically this one by Our Best Bites.

These rainbow cupcakes were my favorite! I bought a bunch of these kits from Target at 75% off after Easter. And I knew to look for them after seeing Lilluna"s version for St. Patty's Day. I iced with blue frosting, and then placed the rainbows, then added white for clouds.

Yay for cute rainbow colored food!

The kids and I had fun painting rainbows on paper plates and hanging them outside for the party. Those are Target Dollar bin bracelets on a painted thrift store mug holder.

Rainbow bubbles from the dollar store. And these were free printable hats via Paper Glitter are awesome. They have a whole set of free rainbow printables. I added red poms at the top.

I set up a snow cone station and the kids LOVED it so much..Well the adults did too!

I plan to share more details about this snow cone set up in a future post :)

What a wonderful memory for my kids. My daughter felt super special and loved by all our friends and family. I can't believe she's four though! :)

Thanks for stopping by the rainbow party!! xo

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