EEEEEEK!

Every time I look at my blog I think, "EEEEEEK THIS NEEDS A MAKEOVER!!"
And being the ever, DIYer that I am, I have been busy researching new ideas for blog design.
I think that I want simple, then I think I want vintage, then I think I want simple AND vintage...ughhhh!
I have the itch to pick up the pace with the crafting, creating then blogging so something has to give with my current blog design.
Stay tuned for the grand reveal...hopefully soon!

{i heart faces} BLACK

this weeks photo challenge on {i heart faces} is...

Blog Makeover

I APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE WHILE I MAKEOVER 

THE HOBBY MOMMY

My Pretty Little Mermaid

WOWZA! I have sooooo neglected this blog. Time to start re-posting all the projects that I have been working on and plan to work on.
By the way, THE HOBBY MOMMY blog needs a makeover...badly!!! I foresee a very late night tonight, of trick or treating and making over this blog

Here's a Mermaid Costume that I made for My Little Mermaid. There was a LOT of LOVE put in this and I am supper thrilled to hear My Little Mermaid tell me how much she LOVE LOVE LOVES feeling like a "real-life mermaid!"

There is no tutorial and I didn't think to take pictures of my process, but hmmmm......should I make these to sell?

Surfin' Pool Party With Mermaids!

Well here it is, FINALLY! 

THE SURFIN' POOL PARTY WITH MERMAIDS! 

The party was a couple of weeks ago and it was a HUGE success. My Princess is still talking about her birthday party! 

I wrote in a previous post that my Princess had finally settled on a birthday party theme. Being that I am not the fan of a "Character Party" theme, I decided to base the "revised" theme on her original requests. So, I set out to incorporate SURFING and MERMAIDS into one party theme.

We started with DVD video invitations and passed them out to our friends.

I settled on a color theme in shades of blue, teal and lime in an effort to imitate pool and water colors. I found a great blue fabric at Wal-Mart and incredibly, I found matching towels at a local discount store. I also scored some never been washed, linen-like, floral king size pillowcases at a local thrift store. I used my seam ripper to remove the seams and folds. The pillowcases ultimately served as beautiful, perfectly matched accents for the table top.
Along with a few trips to Michaels and the Dollar Tree, I managed to pull together something that resembled a style with purpose. I also had several left-over items stashed in my closets from my beach themed wedding to The Conductor from last year. These items, like the teal tin buckets were useful as the centerpieces. I used a bucket for each letter of the Birthday Princess's name. We painted styrofoam letters, and pushed hemp twine covered dowels through the bottom of each letter.

  
 I set out to design and craft a simple Mermaid Tail Towel party favor. This was to serve the "Mermaid" portion of the party theme:) No two Mermaid Tail Towel party favors are alike as I was constantly tweaking and perfecting one after another. Maybe it is here that I should mention I sewed 17...YESSSS 17 Mermaid Tail Towel party favors! WHEW!

The FABULOUS thing about these Mermaid Tail Towels is that they were also used as the chair decor!

Place cards were made using real flip flops, ribbon, shells and twine.

We ordered a Surfer Tiki Hut Cake from a local grocery store. It arrived less than perfect but we laughed it off and created a "hurricane story" to compliment the lopsided cake;)

 There was a selection of color themed sweet treats arranged around the cake.

Below is a picture of the food and beverage station midway through set-up.

Birthday Princess greeting her guests as they arrive and receive sno-cones.

PRETTY PARTY GIRL

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS!