Invitation Templates

I don't know if anyone has a need for this but I just found out about site site and wanted to share.  It's called Download and Print and it has beautifully designed invitation templates FOR FREE for you to download and print.  It would be a little bit of work because you would have to buy the nice cardstock and envelopes and then cut the invitations out but Hobby Lobby sells great, fairly inexpensive paper cutters that would make the cutting pretty easy.  Anyway, there are some really gorgeous cards and I wanted to make sure and spread the word.  Enjoy!

Holley Ann's Giveaway Winner

The winner for the Holley Ann's giveaway is....

Congrats Jenni! I'll email you with the information!

Don't forget my other giveaways that are going on: Designed by Leslie and The Purple Pug!

Birthday Giveaways - The Purple Pug

If you read my birthday paper post you saw that I used items from The Purple Pug.  Here are our decoration's from The Purple Pug.

Kristy also has such cute things in her shop and all of it can be customized just for you! This is a great store if you need decorations for any type of party -- baby shower, birthday party, going away party, graduation bash, etc.  Kristy can work with you to get you exactly what you need!  Here are some of her cute wares!

Cupcake Wrappers

Personalized Mini Coloring Books

Felt Confetti

Door signs

Custom Pizza Boxes

Custom Banners

The Purple Pug is generously giving one reader a $25 gift certificate to her shop!  Please note that her shop is currently closed but she will be open for business again in a week or two so you can purchase products then and if you need something before then you can contact Kristy and I'm sure that she will work with you.

Please go check out the rules and terms of the giveaways here. But a quick overview is that you can enter to win up to 4 times.

You MUST go visit The Purple Pug and come back and tell me what your favorite design or product is.
Once you've left your first comment you can comment three other times for each time you qualify as
- A follower of my blog
- If you tweet about this giveaway (inclue @TalesOfAPeanut in the tweet or leave a link to your tweet) or facebook about this giveaway
- If you have blogged about the month of giveaways (leave a link to your blog post)
This giveaway will end on Saturday, June 5th. Check out the other giveaway's in the Charlotte's Magnificent Month of May Giveaways here!

Birthday Party Planning - The Final Product!

Welcome to our house! Happy Birthday Charlotte!

I made the banner with fabric's from Hobby Lobby. The font for the letters was the Gentle Redhead font from Kevin and Amanda's free fonts.

Grab a plate and fix some yummy food!

I made the paper flowers using this tutorial.  The tissue paper was from Nashville Wraps (I got three flowers out of each 24 pack of paper), the plates were springtime specials from Publix, and I had the food catered and these flowers brought in because I couldn't do it all!

And check out the cakes!

 

Both were made by a local bakery.  I took them the invitation and they created these based on that. I loved the way they turned out and they were delicious!

Once you have your food, come into the kitchen and fix a drink!

The monogrammed glasses are from American Stationery and were the 10 oz frosted selection.  The Cherry Lemonade Punch was a variation of Kelly Stamps' Cherry Limeade Punch only substituting lemonade concentrate and lemons instead of the limeade concentrate and limes.

You can sit down at the kitchen table to eat and look at Charlotte's month-by-month banner while you're there!

I made the banner using one package of cardstock glitter paper from Hobby Lobby, gold brads, printed pictures from MPix, and lots of Creative Memories gadgets leftover from when I made real scrapbooks in high school.

Charlotte needed lots of fun things to eat with too!

The hat and bib are from Blooming Babies Boutique and the plate is from PaperDoll Designs.  They were all custom made from my requests.

The kids had a table all set up and ready for them to eat and decorate paper and visors with foam stickers!

All crafts were from Hobby Lobby.  The table and chairs was one of Charlotte's birthday presents and it's from The Land of Nod as are the washable plastic placemats that are on the table.

You can go into the den to eat also and see Charlotte's presents!

I decorated with the elephants that we had at our house and I had been searching for an elephant bank for a while also and I found one at Three Sheets in Homewood.  I made these floral arrangements by putting a cup in the middle of the container and filling around it with colored balls from the wedding section at Hobby Lobby.

Before you leave make sure you sign Charlotte's Dr. Seuss Happy Birthday To You Book and pick up a favor!

My goal is to have a birthday book signed by guests at Charlotte's birthday parties for at least the next few years until she gets "too cool" for it.  The favors were packaged in takeout containers from Nashville Wraps.  The little kids got finger puppets made especially for this party from Sweet Melly Jane, elephant whistles from Hey Yo Yo, and sunglasses from Hobby Lobby.  The families got an elephant cookie cutter and homemade elephant cookies.  I used the recipe and instructions from Cookie Craft to make and ice the cookies.  I got the bags for the cookies from Nashville Wraps and I made the paper toppers.

And here's the birthday girl herself!

This outfit was custom made for Charlotte by LiviStitches.

My Little Gymnast

Charlotte has been attending gym class once a week since she turned 10 months old (that's when you can enter this class). She loooooves gym! Even though she's the youngest in the class by a few months and the only one not walking she never let that slow her down.  She would crawl all over the play by herself, not even caring if I was following her or not. 

Her teacher, Miss Angel, was always so impressed when she would try all the tricks like a forward roll on the balance beam! 

Charlotte's favorite activity though was the bars.  She would giggle and squeal when I put her on them!  And she has some strong arms -- she could hold herself on the bars for a few seconds!  She even did a loop on the bar!

Charlotte also loved the balls and bubbles.  I've got to remember to buy a SloMo ball because she loves them!

Charlotte can't wait for gym to start back in the fall!

Busy girl

We got Charlotte a walker stroller for her birthday and she loves walking around behind it.  Kay and David gave her a baby doll and she puts it in the stoller and takes it back out.  It's so cute to see her walking around pretending to be a little Mommy.  Although, we hope she'll learn how to not put her child in the stroller head first by the time she actually becomes a Mommy! :) And also notice that she has her dollar bill from her new purse in her hand.  She carries it around like it's her most prized treasure!  That or a block is usually in her hand as she goes around the house.  And looking at the picture I just noticed that she has sunglasses in her right hand that she's pushing the stroller around with! She's nothing if not a busy girl!

And here's a picture I got yesterday showing her three bottom teeth.  Still haven't managed to take a picture of the top ones yet but they're coming through more and more by the day!

And here she is playing with her blocks.  She loves having us build towers and knocking them down.  But if you come over watch out for them because they are not fun to step on!