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The Coolest Goody Bags on the Block

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I totally dig party planning!  When my son turned 1, I spent weeks creating center pieces, choosing the right menu, designing the perfect cake, and choosing just the right outfit for him to wear.  Over the years I’ve planned baby showers, baptisms, birthday parties and more.  It’s just something I do for fun, but maybe one day I will take it to the next level.

One of my favorite things to work on for my kids’ birthday parties were the goody bags.  I loved personalizing them and filling them theme specific treats. But, as my kids grew and started to go to parties themselves, I realized a lot of those toys and candies were soon forgotten, and most ended up in the trash. (You mean they don’t actually write on a mini notepad with mini pencil?) What a waste of effort and money!

Recently, as I was making some of my sandwich-size mini wet bags, I thought of a great idea!  These would make perfect birthday party goody bags!  With all of the fabric selections available, they can be easily made to match almost any party theme. They can be filled with mini bags of goldfish, pretzels or other healthy treats, and the parents can reuse them later for snacks or in their lunchboxes. No more throwaways!  You can even personalize them with a little tag tied to the zipper!

Here are some super hero bags I made for my friend, which would make a perfect goody bags for a super hero themed birthday party:

My daughter’s 7th birthday party was Pink Cowgirl themed…too bad I didn’t have this fabric back then!

 Having a football themed party?  Even dads will love these bags!

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Spring "Break"

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We were so excited for the end of the third marking period and beginning of Spring Break last week.  The warmer weather and longer days were calling our name.

Wednesday afternoon, as I finished up a few orders in my “studio-office”, Hubs took our daughter outside to play.  She got on her scooter and asked her dad to time her to the end of the cul-de-sac.  Two minutes later, I hear Hubs screaming* my name through the open living room window that faces the porch.

*This is a common occurrence.  Anytime Hubs is outside he screams for me.  Usually it’s to see a butterfly or listen to a bird sing or any million other benign situations in nature.  He always yells for me as if I’m missing the greatest experience in the world, so of course, I didn’t exactly RUN outside when he called.

As I walked out through the front door, expecting to see a bunny on my lawn or a woodpecker on a tree stump, I see Hubs consoling our baby girl whose knees, shins and wrists are scraped up. “She broke her leg!” he tells me. As I look closely, I see a huge dent in her shin and know that he’s right.  Apparently, she caught too much speed at the end of the street and fell over onto her scooter as she was trying to turn around the cul-de-sac.

I carried her upstairs and washed the mud and pebbles from her scrapes. Dressed her in a soft skirt, knowing she’d be coming home in some kind of splint or cast, and we headed to the hospital.

My monkey was trooper!  She didn’t cry when they put in an IV, wasn’t scared when they took x-rays, and followed all of the doctors’ and nurses’ orders.  The x-ray showed two fractures in her tibia:

The next day we went to the orthopedist for a cast.  A long cast.  An all-the-way-to- her-mid-thigh cast!  Again, she was a trooper.  Not even a whimper.  She got her mama’s pain tolerance! 😉

She’s expected to remain in this cast for three weeks, then a shorter cast for at least three additional weeks.  Right now school is up in the air.  I don’t know if she will be in home bound schooling, or if she will be able to return when she gets the shorter cast.

Another challenge has been her wardrobe. She’s pretty much stuck wearing skirts for the next few weeks.  After emptying out her drawers and closet she had a grand total of 3 skirts which were long enough to appropriately cover her while propping one leg up in a wheelchair.  We took a quick trip to the mall on Friday, but at a minimum of $15 each, there was no way I was going to be able to afford to get her a good enough variety of skirts.

I made a quick run to the fabric shop, and spent the weekend working on some new skirts. More on those tomorrow.

The rest of the weekend was chill.  We went to Mass and lunch on Easter Sunday, and then spent the rest of the day on the couch watching golf (fun, fun!)  I was definitely missing my Florida family.  Sooo, how was your Easter Weekend?

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