Week 13- Easter's on it's way!

This week I continued to prep our home for Easter. It's pretty sad that I didn't actually clean our house due to the hectic weekend, but rest assured we have Easter banners! While looking around my dirty house, I decided that I should propose a new reality show called, "Polly & Pinterest." Camera crews would follow me and my attempts to create Pinterest projects...not sure if it would be a sitcom or a drama.

I've been collecting paint chips every time I go to the store JUST for the banner shown below. How easy and CUTE is this?!?



Next, I humored Sadie (and the neighbor's kids) with the bunny butt banner below (say THAT 10 times real fast and see what happens). Again, easy and CUTE!



I need about a week of crafting to complete all of the projects that I'd like to have for Sadie's 3rd birthday. Mermaid tails, splash pads, shell jewelery, and more. I'm going to prioritize and start this weekend. Fingers crossed!

Week 12- Hippity Hoppity...

One of my favorite things about preparing for a face-to-face work meeting with my fantastic team is dreaming up a few gifts. I have an awesome group of co-workers that make gift giving a ton of fun. In fact, I had so much fun at Christmas a few of the ladies decided that 'they suck at Christmas'! Lol!!!!

Since Easter is only a few weeks away, I decided to go with a Spring/Bunny theme. I found both Pinterest ideas easy to do. The first one is using Peeps (my favorite Easter candy) in a brownie mix jar. I didn't alter the recipe at all because it seemed so simple. You can find it here. I'm going to tell my team to 'hop to it' when we go over new goals. :-)




The next project was one I could NOT resist since it uses Peeps in a clever way. I actually combined two Pinterest ideas since I dipped the Peeps in chocolate and then sprinkles as seen on a different pin. Then I bundled them and attached the saying below: "You're one of my favorite Peeps!" How cute is that???!!!!




The highlight of my day was when Zoe stopped to see what I was making and said that the Beastie Boys' song, "She's Crafty" should be my theme song. Lol!!!! I'll take that as a compliment!

BTW... I received my ViewFinders on Friday (last week's post). They are INCREDIBLE! Well worth the money, quick, and super cool.

Week 11- Mermaids and more-oh my!

My absolute FAVORITE thing to do is plan and prepare for parties. I swear, if I were rich I'd host a party each month JUST for the planning part. Pinterest has been awesome for planning for Sadie's third birthday. The theme? Mermaids! Look at all I've posted so far!



One site gave me the idea of including scuba divers, too. This works perfectly since there are several boys attending. The very first few Pinterest ideas that I've been working on (with the help of my Mom- Ms. Pinterest herself) are for the invitation and a party favor.

The invitation is a compilation of several pins. Sarah B gave me the idea to do a message-in-a-bottle invite, which I love! We worked on the wording and my mom worked her magic. As a result, we came up with this as the invitation.

Supplies:


Message:

Dive deep into the ocean blue,
with mermaids and scuba divers, too.
Here we will celebrate under the sea,
as Miss Sadie is turning three!

Insert (plus crushed shells, pearls, & tiny seahorses):

*Instagram effect makes this appear more vintage than it actually is.


Finished product (kind-of):


I'll mail each family a plastic message in a bottle with the invitation. I hope the kids get excited about Sadie's upcoming birthday party!


Next, I saw this pin and fell in love.


It's not near as a easy as it looked, though! I followed the directions here, but found that it took a TON of time. Not sure anyone besides Sadie will be wearing a koi fish in their hair! :-)




SOOOO much to do before her party. It's going to be the best one yet!

Week 10- Still on Vacation Time

I can't believe I missed a post last week! I tried to search practical Pinterest Projects while traveling...not easy to find! So instead, I decided to try out one of the coolest pins I've ever pinned.

I saw this pin and knew I was going to have to do this with one of our family events. It's a site for making your own viewfinder reels!



Zoe and I recently took our very first trip to New York City. We were so overwhelmed with the excitement of the city and so COLD that neither one of us took very many pictures. Because of this, the viewfinder idea would be perfect for capturing the images that we did take and making them fun to look at.





The Image 3D site is very easy to use and is pretty intuitive. I was able to upload, edit, and create my reels within an hour.




That's it! The viewfinder and reels should be here by the end of the week. I can't wait to see!

Now on to the 'reel' Pinterest project for the week. :-)