Happy Heart Day!

These easy to make bags greeted my little hearts this morning. I've been collecting a few things to stuff into their new Valentine bags so they had one hanging on the back of their chairs when they came down for breakfast. 

I got the idea for the dotted heart bags from V and Co.

I purchased a 3 pack of plain bags from Walmart for a few dollars. Used the eraser end of a pencil and some fabric paint. I cut a heart out of wax paper for my stencil and went to town. Super easy and I admit I now want to make one for myself.

My little man's mustache heart idea came from a T shirt design I saw on Etsy. Just needed two left over sheets of felt and some hot glue. Super easy and adorable!

With all the inspiration I gather from Pinterest we had some fun ideas for Valentines this year.

The kid's teachers got this "Survival Kit". I bought a clear tackle box from Walmart and bought lots of pink and red Valentine candy and gum to fill it with. I cut a piece of Scrapbook paper to put on the top to make it festive. The note that the girls later attached said:

Survival Kit

For those days when you 

could use a little extra love.

I think everyone could use one of these!

Happy Heart Day!!!

Brave Birthday Party

If you have little girls in your house you've probably seen Disney Pixar's movie Brave. The princess in the movie (Merida) is a spunky spit fire of a girl with curly hair and blue eyes. My Anna  fits that description (minus the red hair) and declared she was Merida. The birthday planning began.

I garnered many ideas from Pinterest and the web for inspiration. 

Quotes from the movie.

These were printed and stuck into a dollar store frame.

Goody bags included: Stickers, Play-dough, "Triplet cookies" (chocolate Teddy Grahams), an arrow pencil, a wisp Tootsie Roll lollipop, and "Fate Serum" soap.

Girls received the Merida soap and boys the Triplet soap.

Each child had a bulls eye painted bag and the birthday girl had Merida's family crest painted on her  bag.

Anna does not care for cake so she requested a big cookie cake. I asked my local grocery store to have 3 non-decorated large cookies ready for me the day before the party and I added the decorations at home.

The Lintz cookies I found at Costco looked just like the cakes eaten in the movie.

We had blue raspberry meringues to represent wisps and the blueberries to represent the berries eaten in the movie. Soft pretzels were added to the table to represent Celtic knots. 

Kid's played pin the tail on Angus. (Merida's horse)

Kid's also made their own crowns.

Of course we had the Merida costume left over from Halloween and it was declared early in the planning process that the costume would be worn.

The wig did not survive the party.

Always my wild and free girl.