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| I have been doing a little bit of "crafting" we made these cute wooden stands with some great sayings on them |
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| Blessed beyond measure... yes I am!! So grateful for the many blessings in my life- Is it perfect? No- but there are so many GREAT things in my life everyday!!! |
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| This one is probably my FAVORITE!!! Everything looks better with a Grateful heart!!! |
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| I put this chair up in the entry for my Halloween things & loved it- so I kept it there and stuck some fall things on it.... |
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| Oh how I love fall..... |
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| Hope all of you take some time during this time of year and think of all the things in your life that are so GREAT! It won't take long to see just how blessed we really are...... |
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| Halloween is all about the candy- at least that's what the little boys think. |
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| But we did have more than candy.... these are pineapple & Mandarin oranges with whipping cream on top...and a few cockroaches on the side- |
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| there were spider egg sacks..... (white cheddar cheese balls) |
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| witch brooms made with string cheese & pretzel sticks.... I made these last year & they were a hit- so I made them again! |
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| of course caramel apples too |
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| I found these cute Halloween cups at walmart- and made green Frankenstein rice krispy treats in them |
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| It's amazing what a few things put together can look like.... we also had taco soup, rolls & salad |
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| very easy graveyard pudding cups with crushed up oreo's on top, and a candy corn- I looked all over for the ghost peeps- but couldn't find them- they would have been darling! |
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| mini cupcakes- perfect size for the little monsters to eat- |
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| a jar full of little cuties - made to look like Jack-o-lanters |
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| and straws of course .... for the Italian soda's and other drinks- everything tastes better with a cute striped straw! |
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| add a few games: Balloon popping, Halloween Bingo & Bobbing for apples and you've got a fun party..... I can't believe it's already Halloween. Time goes by so quickly- take time to enjoy it and make some memories with those you love the most! :) |
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| First lay the diaper down like the first photo- then starting from the bottom roll it upward as it shows in the 2nd photo |
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| when you have 3 diapers rolled, bundle them together with an elastic. |
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| Continue to roll them into bundles of three until you have as many as you want for your bottom layer. I used a glass cake plate to put them on. Set all the bundles on top of the plate and then with some string wrap all of them together. Tie them secure and then take the elastics off- it will look like this. I had around 40 rolled diapers on the bottom layer. Once they are tied together, if you need a few more just roll them and stuff them in with the others to fill out the circle. |
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| Do the same thing for the next layer.. making it a little smaller to stack it on top of the bottom one. |
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| And again for the top layer- I used 6 diapers on top. Now it's time to put the ribbon on..... |
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| Wrap your ribbon around each layer- I attached it with a couple of straight pins, just poke them right into the diaper. It worked so much better that gluing or taping them. |
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| Then you're ready to decorate with some cute fun baby "stuff" rattles, ducks, toys, booties, medium size bottles of lotion, shampoo, wash, oil, and powder. I tied all the bottles & the ducks with ribbon and just sat them on the diaper ledge and on top of the cake. The rattles and other things I also tied with ribbon and bakers twine then I attached them the same way I did the ribbon around the cake... with small straight pins. |
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| And that's it... it took less than an hour to make and turned out darling!!! So if you have ever wondered how hard it would be to make one- try it, I promise you will be surprised how fun and easy they are!! |
