Creative Mommas

Thanksgiving

2022-12-10T14:11:00.002-07:00

Witches Night Out 40th Birthday Party

2017-11-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

I've always wanted to have a witches night out party and my friend turning 40 was a great opportunity to plan one.

We had treats, made a craft and gave prizes for best witch hats & best witch shoes.

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Cinema Lightbox Fun

2017-04-06T08:58:00.000-06:00

I have been wanting a cinema lightbox for the longest time and now I finally have one and I love it!! Woohoo! Thanks to UncommonGoods for sending me one!

So happy that I can use my lightbox to share a little positive message for stormy days. :)

This original lightbox, can be found here, along with many more creative home decor items.

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Front Entry Bench Cushion

2017-02-18T07:00:00.000-07:00

I reorganized my mudroom and decided to move this bench from the mudroom to the front entryway. It's a tight squeeze, but it works in this space.

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Polar Bear Themed Baby Shower

2017-02-17T07:00:00.001-07:00

For a baby boy due in the winter I created a polar bear themed baby shower with whites and blues.

I love how it all turned out.

Here is the tablescape with all the yummy food.

Here are the cute polar bears that I used as inspiration.

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Pick Your Plum 3 Tiered Stand

2016-12-20T12:29:00.000-07:00

I've seen this stand on the Internet many times and I love how versatile it is. I saw it on sale at Pick Your Plum and I just had to have it. The day I got it, I set it up and decorated it for Christmas. Imagine how many uses this stand will have. I can't wait to use it all year round.

It's the perfect place for my Christmas Geese!

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Brand New Aprons Listed in our Etsy Shop

2016-12-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile, but I've added new aprons to our Etsy shop.

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Alba Christmas Tree 2016

2016-12-14T10:41:00.000-07:00

This year I was so fortunate to get this awesome tree from Michael's! They surprised four random Instagram followers with a dream tree as part of their Dream Tree Home Tour, and I was one of the lucky ones! Thank you so much, Michael's!!!!

This year I wanted to create a garland to go with the tree skirt that I made (post on that to follow). I ripped fabric in about 3"strips, gathered it and put it on the tree. I love how it turned out.

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Donut Bar Wedding Reception

2016-12-12T09:00:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I had the opportunity to help with a family wedding reception and it was so fun to decorate with a donut bar.

This sign was made by a friend of the bride and it was so cute! Who doesn't need love and donuts?!

This was the sign in table.

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Money Lei

2016-05-05T11:48:00.000-06:00

Graduation is right around the corner.

So give that special graduate the gift of aloha, a lei or money.

Or what's better?

How about a Money Lei.

Sometimes I like to think I'm funny and creative.

Or daughter graduated in 2015 and I wanted to make her a lei (with money of course). But I really wanted her lei to be feminine.

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Easter Project from Heidi Swapp with FREE printables

2016-03-22T03:15:00.000-06:00

Today I'm sharing a beautiful FREE Easter project from Heidi Swapp.

I loved this idea so much because each scripture included really helps to tell the story of Easter and when we get to the last card we have to ponder what it really means to us that He did it all for us, as an individual. What does that mean to you?

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Easter Week Advent with FREE Printables

2016-03-21T01:42:00.001-06:00

Thanks so much for stopping by our blog to learn a little more about the meaning of Easter. Today I'm honored to join many LDS bloggers asked by Sugardoodle to participate in sharing some amazing Christ centered Easter ideas. I hope this idea helps you and your family to celebrate a more Christ centered Easter.

I want my littles to get a deeper understanding of the holiday, and I think this idea from Sugar Bee Crafts is such a fun idea! But since I'm a super slacker, (or maybe just over scheduled) and am just now starting this, I had to make some adjustments to mine. No judgement though because you can start now and still make this idea work for you and your family.

Mandy created an advent of activities to do the week leading up to Easter and everything you'll need in way of cute printables and outlined activities has already been prepared by her, so it's super easy for you.

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Hershey Kisses Roses for Valentine's

2016-02-12T14:19:00.000-07:00

My daughter said she wanted to make valentine's with this poem, so I thought it would be fun to make these roses to go with them. I got this idea from my husband who made roses like these for me 20 years ago--because he's so sweet! I always thought they were so fun to get and now I got the opportunity to make them and give them out.

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Horse Theme 8 Year Old Birthday Party

2015-07-31T20:02:00.000-06:00

Putting this party together was fun, exciting and draining all at the same time!

I enjoy the "research" of party planning, I enjoy the creativity that flows when party planning, I enjoy the resourcefulness of party planning, I enjoy the learning of party planning, but most of all, I enjoy the final product and it all coming together and my daughter being awed by it all.

First we did pictures out front while the girls arrived. It was soooo hot that we made sure to have cold drinks on the porch!

We covered hay bales with some pretty pink, turquoise and gold fabric, hung a "Cowgirl" banner, put out a few decorations and drinks and snapped away.

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Neapolitan Cupcakes for Teacher Appreciation Gifts

2015-05-08T19:52:00.000-06:00

Sometimes I get really great ideas at the last minute, and this is one of them that kept me up baking until 3am. I wanted to make a yummy cupcake and put it in a cute gift box for my kids to take to school for their teachers for teacher appreciation week.

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Faux Mirror Tutorial

2015-04-10T10:36:00.000-06:00

My sister, Mashaide, found this image on Pinterest and wanted to create something like it for her photo booth. Since my family LOVES Halloween, I have a very full Halloween Pinterest board and I remembered seeing tombstones and other Halloween decor made from insulation foam board. (BTW these people are awesome at Halloween!) After brainstorming we thought, "Why not create our own faux mirror using insulation foam board?"

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Glow Stick Valentines

2015-02-14T06:07:00.000-07:00

For Valentine's parties this year we wanted to make non-candy gifts and this is what my girls and I came up with.

I saw this post on Fabulessly Frugal and I knew I wanted to to use glow sticks.

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Freezing Fog

2015-01-14T15:30:00.000-07:00

We had freezing fog yesterday and although it's cold, it leaves everything frosty and beautiful.

I just had to take some pictures of the beautiful frosty trees.

I'm loving the contrast between the dark and white. Nature is so beautiful!!

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Red & White Christmas Tree

2014-12-15T23:28:00.000-07:00

This year my tree is red and white & I love it!

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Ordering Christmas Cards

2014-11-27T11:49:00.000-07:00

I know many people send digital Christmas cards, but I still love sending and receiving Christmas cards in the mail. It's one of our favorite family traditions, to put up and display all the Christmas cards we receive. Just a couple years ago we started taping them all to the front door, so we get to see our Christmas cards all month long. This picture below just makes me happy looking at all these wonderful people.

We usually take our family pictures in the fall so we have brand new family picture to include on our Christmas card. I've used various printing companies over the years to print our Christmas cards and I've usually designed the card myself and uploaded my design with the colors that match our photo.

This year I wanted to save some time and decided to check out the pre-made designs to see if they would look good with our photo. I used the website Minted.com and the whole process was smooth and very quick. I think it only took me about 10 minutes to create the card you see below and they had some really great pre-made designs to choose from.

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Halloween Ghost

2014-10-30T13:37:00.000-06:00

Halloween is one of the favorite holidays in our house. The kids like it because they get to dress up, go trick-o-treating and eat tons of candy. Me? I love it because I get to SCARE the kids. I know, what a mean, insensitive mother I am. But it's hilarious. Well not so much for them as it is for me.

Again, insensitive, I know.

Some of the other fun things about this holiday are the decorations. We have an annual pumpkin carving and craft making day. This year I started a little bit early and decided to do an easier craft with my daughter. A cheesecloth ghost.

There were a couple of different websites for this but here is the one I originally got the information from Cheesecloth Ghost.

Baby Shower Brunch

2014-09-13T17:25:00.000-06:00

I got to help Abby with a baby shower for my niece and here are a few pictures from the brunch we provided.

A couple different options for the yogurt.

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Masquerade Party

2014-07-19T08:00:00.000-06:00

These are all the pictures from my sister Mashaide's masquerade birthday party.

She came up with all the ideas and I got to help decorate for the party. It was a lot of fun!

My sister came up with the idea to use dress forms and decorate them with different materials.

Each one is unique and adds lots of texture to the decor.

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Vintage Airplane Baby Shower

2014-05-28T19:08:00.000-06:00

My talented friend Nicole created this Vintage Airplane themed party for a baby shower for a friend of ours. She used these free printables from The TomKat Studio.

Nicole wanted to keep the baby shower simple since she recently had her own baby, so she decided to have an ice cream bar with lots of yummy toppings.

She made some cute felt clouds & airplane garland to decorate above the food table.

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Spring Banner Tutorial

2014-05-01T08:00:00.000-06:00

Last month I had the opportunity to participate in the Retro Color Ribbon Design Challenge for May Arts Ribbon and this is the spring banner that I created.

And now for the tutorial...

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