Daughter/Son of a King Digital Download $5

So a few weeks ago my friend the lovely Amy asked me to create this quote as a printable for her daughters baptism and blessing. It turned out so cute. I've had so much response to it I decided to sell it as a digital file for those that are interested. It prints out very large on a 24x36 engineering print (it costs $3.59 to print...so affordable!) The actual lettering is about a 19x27 inch size. It has a large chalkboard border so you can cut it to fit the frame you choose. Ikea has one that fits it perfectly.

To purchase the Daughter/Son of a King Digital Download:
1- Go ahead and pay $5 via paypal
PLEASE SPECIFY IF YOU WANT THE "DAUGHTER" OR "SON" VERSION

2- I will email you with a specific link for you to download the file
3- You can print anywhere you like, but Staples will print it as an engineering file for $3.59. Just go online to Staples Engineering Prints page and upload the file. Then you can pick it up at your local staples store.
4- It has a large chalkboard border around it so you can cut it to fit a standard frame. Ikea sells one that is about 19x27 inches and it fits perfectly.

Amy was kind enough to share these photos (below) of the finished print. And are you dying how cute Gretas room is! You can see a tour here

Hope you enjoy this print...feel free to send friends here that want one as well! No file-sharing please...

thanks
Heather

And the original idea of these chalkboard prints as large engineering prints came from caravanshoppe...a darling online printables shop. Check it out for more great prints.

Trailmix

In the church I belong to we have a camp for the teenage girls in our area. We had about 78 girls and 38 leaders and I wanted to do a unique and fun treat for them during our service project activity. I saw a similar idea on pinterest (or course) and created my own printables for a Build your own Trailmix bar. Everyone loved it. I included all the usual fixings and a few random things (gummy bears) to keep the teenagers happy. It was a big success.

I hope you enjoy these free printables! Please respect the work I've done and do not share this print with others via email etc. Simply direct them to this page and let them download it for free. If you post photos etc. of this on your blog please link back...thank you!
Download the 24x36 Poster (print it as an engineering print at Staples) here
Download the bag labels here

For the bags I purchased small (I think they are 4x6) flat cellophane bags with a self-adhesive strip at my local party supply store (Zurchers). 100 bags for $3.95. I then printed the bag labels on regular paper, used a punch to punch them and applied them with a gluestick. You could also print on sticker paper but it would be more expensive. I recommend using flat cellophane bags (rather than gusseted ones that open up large) because it takes less to fill them.

Have fun with your trailmix bar! This one was a hit with both the adults and teenagers too!

Source Ideas:
Baskets: Look at your local thrift store. I got all these baskets for around 25-50cents a piece.
Basket liners: Purchased in the Target dollar spot by the BBQ stuff they recently had.
Table cloth roll: purchased at a local food supply store. You can find these at any party store etc.
Tiny Bottlebrush trees: Lemax village trees...I got mine here 
Washi Tape: I used red gingham washi tape under the words "Build" and "Trailmix"

Also - the idea for these a large chalkboard printable printed as engineering prints originally came from Caravan Shoppe...an amazing design and prints website. Check them out for great printables of all kinds.

xoxo
Heather

new space for the kiddos

Our two littles share a room...and have been needing a rearrangement of their space. We used to have a small kids table, but I found it just wasn't enough room for us to do homework, play iPads and craft without them bumping into each other etc. Vaughn's crib used to be here, but we moved it and I had my wonderful hubby make this little desk and attach it to the wall. The board and legs were just purchased and cut at Home Depot...super easy and very affordable to do.



The best part of it all is that they actually love the space. Sometimes I spend so much time/effort on a project and they don't even like it! But they sit here all the time together. Playing puzzles, iPad games and art projects. The best.

Gold Succulents

I love succulents...and I love gold paint so naturally this was a match made in heaven. I bought these plastic succulents from Hobby Lobby for something but didn't end up liking the way they looked so fake so I took a little gold paint to them.

I actually think it would be much easier to just spray paint them...but I had this cheap craft paint at home and was just experimenting with it.

1- Buy any succulents you want. I got mine at Hobby Lobby.
2- I used a spray paint primer to coat them with gray primer. Let it dry.
3- Use craft paint or spray paint to cover you little beauties. It took about 3 coats of craft paint. Let it dry.
4- Blahm. Done.

I'm using them on a bookshelf and a black and gold tray and am going to do more for another area soon. Have fun painting.

Happy New Year...

Happy New Year! I can't believe January is flying by so quickly! I have some great posts/projects I'm working on to share. Until then, here is our Christmas newsletter I sent out this year. We had a fabulous Christmas and enjoyed the Holiday season with all its festivities. Hope you did too...

The perfect gift...

This August was our 10 year anniversary...for a special gift I took our favorite photos from the past 10 years...put them in instagram and then created this large 16x20 collage as a gift to the hubby. He absolutely loved it...and I love having these memories hanging on our wall.

If you'd like you own...email me! Choose 48 of your favorite instagram photos and send them to me . Then I'll put them in this collage for you and email you back the file. You can then print as many copies as you'd like! I got mine printed at Costco for about $6. It fits almost perfectly (a tiny trim) in this frame from Ikea. I'm working off a list so email me asap so we can get you on there...just in time for the perfect Christmas gift!

Bucket O' Bones

I've seen this pretzel bone idea all over the place...very easy and very cute.  Here is the way I packaged them up for the holiday with a downloadable "Bucket O' Bones" template in two versions.

Get Get the downloadable bag toppers with a white background here and a black background here.

Mingle event...

We had the best time at our Mingle event at Soel at the Riverwoods. It was a lovely summer evening...with lots of great food, fabulous sponsors and wonderful people. Thanks everyone for coming and making it another very successful event!!

The photobooth was too much fun...can you spot many of my fabulous blogger friends in there?

 I took lots of photos (above photo by Ashley Thalman Photography)

We had tons of giveaways! I created these little cards for the guests to fill-out...

Below are the lovely ladies that make it all happen: Jane from seejane, moi, Shelby from Soel, Caroline from Armelle Blog and Susan from Freshly Picked...they are fabulous.

(all above photos were by me unless otherwise noted)

these are some photos from our summer mingle from our wonderful photographers! which we loved so much. {see more photos here, and more about why we mingle here.}































































and thanks always to our sponsors for making the evening a success! because of your amazing giveaways, nearly every guest went home with a treasure!

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