Despicable Me Cupcakes.

So I have a new love, Pinterest. I just got an account a couple weeks ago and I am so obsessed. But I was browsing on it the other day and came across these cupcakes from Plucky Momo, they are like the minions from Despicable Me. I liked the show but it wasn't one of my favorites, but I was in love with these cupcakes and I wanted to make them so bad cause they were so freaking cute. My sister-in-law however loves, loves, loves that show, and she was coming over that day, so I ran to the store, got my ingredients and quickly made them up. They were really easy to make. 

I did however kindof over fill the cupcake tins, so my cupcakes were hanging off the side a bit... so they were a nightmare to frost. I hate frosting things really really badly. So try not to look at my white frosting job on the cupcake... Cause I just didn't care. 

So all you do is you get some twinkies, cut them in half and pipe on some black frosting. You need some for the mouth, and then some for the glasses, I made little lines for the glasses and then two dots where the lenses should be, I put white smarties on the two little dots and then two more dots on the smarties. Next just place some chocolate sprinkles on top of them for the hair and stick the twinkie onto a frosted cupcake. EASY! 

Here is the picture on Pinterest of them. I couldn't find the actual page of them on Plucky Momo's blog, when the pin was made it was made on her site, and then she moved her site, so the pinterest pic works best. Hers are cuter than mine, but I was in kindof a hurry and I'm just not a perfectionist when it comes to frosting... 

And just in case you haven't seen the show, this is what they look like in the movie. 

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A is for...

Well I am now 24 weeks along. I feel really great, but feel ready for the baby to come and not to be pregnant anymore and I still have so long to go. 

But I have been making a lot of crafts for our little girl. I am so excited for her to come. 

I have most of our stuff for her too, a cradle, a play pen, carseat and stroller, changing table, crib bedding. I mainly just need a crib now, but we aren't getting that until she is closer to coming. 

I want her to like have everything pink! I am going to make such a girly girl out of her. 

So I went to the craft store, got some pink paint and a wooden A and painted it for her room. Her name is going to be Analiese Kayla Pierson. I got the name Analiese from Barbie Princess and the Pauper movie, it is a great show. And my wonderful husband liked the name luckily, of course he tells me to quit telling everyone its from a Barbie movie, but whatever. 

I just added a ribbon bow and sanded the edges a tad to give it dimension. 

Here is me at 24 weeks, I took the pic yesterday. 

Onesie Love

 I am finally inspired to start crafting again, babies can do that to you I guess. I want to make so much cute pink stuff for the little girl growing inside me. So my first project was one I saw on pinterest, it is so freaking cute. 

A cute little necklace on the shirt!

All I did was paint it with some fabric paint with an eraser tip, and sew on a couple buttons and a bow, it seriously was so easy. You can find the original HERE along with the entire tutorial and all the details on how to make it. I looked at the original pic again and the paint dots were a bit closer together, which I should have done, but I like my big pink buttons, so I guess its all good. And I think it still turned out cute. But man, even sewing on buttons was getting me frusterated. I am not a sewer at all, no talent in that area whatsoever.

But I have a few more baby projects I am working on, and also some other projects that are not for baby, and just pretty for my future home. I am excited to get back into crafting! I just barely got a pinterest account and I am obsessed, so that probably has something to do with all my new inspiration too... 

You can follow me on pinterest here. 

Looks like I am gonna be able to buy a lot of pink stuff!

So last week I had my ultrasound and got to take our second look at our baby! Our first look at it, it was the size of a bean, so seeing its little face and body was so cute and amazing! And we found out we are having a little girl. A super active girl the ultrasound tech told us, she kept wiggling sooo much! I figured she was pretty active cause she moves ALL DAY! But I love feeling her little kicks. And as of a few days ago my hubby can feel her kicks too, sometimes. 

I already bought cute pink crib bedding and my mom was wonderful enough to buy us a stroller carseat combo, so that was awesome, so we are almost there! Just the crib is the main thing we need, and I am not going to buy that until later in the fall since right now we live in a basement, but in November we move into a town house, so that will be awesome! 

Her name is Analiese Kayla Pierson! 

Me at 19 weeks, I need to take a new pic soon cause I am now at 21 weeks, but I am pretty much this size...

Baby!

I am halfway through my pregnancy, Wahoo! Although it does seem like the halfway point should have been long ago. These last few months are like in slow motion. 

But today I finally get to see my baby. I have my ultrasound tonight at five (yeah I have to wait clear tonight for my husband to get home to go, its going to be a long day) but we get to find out what gender the baby is. I am so excited. I feel like it might be a boy. 

It is an incredibly active baby, I felt it move at 17 weeks and it hasn't stopped moving since, and it kicks the hardest when I am watching action movies, such as Thor. So all signs point to boy! But who knows, maybe its just a girl and it also thinks Thor is incredibly hot and thats why it kicks so hard... 

And the ring on the string over the belly thing pointed to a girl... so I am at a loss. 

But  I am excited to find out, and especially to see the little munchkin that has been living in me for the last five months. 

Patriotic Wreaths

Ok, apparently I have wreath fever! 

Here are some amazingly creative and oh so very charming wreaths that are perfect for Independence Day. 

 Sorry I haven't actually made any wreaths for you. But since I live in like a basement, I don't have a door to put it on, so it seems like a waste to make one right now... 

How totally cute is this ruffled burlap flag wreath from The Scrap Shoppe??

I love this Coffee Filter wreath from Tattered and Inked

I have a coffee filter wreath that I won on another blog and I love love love it!! 

And this one is just so cute and patriotic. You can also do them in any color scheme you want. 

Mine has glittered edges. I wanted to take a pic of it, but it is packed away, no room for it in our temporary little basement home... 

Ok this wreath is made from cardstock!! Cardstock people! 

And it is 3-D. Head over to Gluesticks to see how she made them. 

This wreath looks so simple and is made out of cupcake liners! How cute! Head over to a Mommy's Life to see how its made. 

Ok, Extremely cool patriotic wreath! This is made from 400 miniature flags. 

The tutorial is over at The Pike Family

Head over to Just Sew Sassy to find out how to make this burlap pinwheel wreath. I love how I have two burlap wreaths on here, but they are both so incredibly different! You people are so creative, you amaze me! 

Super cute, love all of these wreaths. they are totally the perfect edition to your Independence Day Decor. 

An Abundance of Wreaths

So lately I have been trying to go on a lot of walks lately. Cause mostly I just spend my days lying on our love sac taking a ton of naps (I love you naptime!) so I have to get some kind of exercise I guess... But right now we live in a super cute little neighborhood and everyone has a cute wreath on their door. They are all so different so I figured I should take some pictures of them and then maybe give everyone some ideas on some cute summer wreaths for your home. 

Ok, so I went out this week and took some pictures and man I felt like a real creeper taking pictures of people's doors. So I apologize if a few of them are a little blurry. I didn't want to linger any longer than I had to outside people's homes. 

But I hope these all give you some ideas. Some look homemade, and some are store bought, but you are all so crafty so I am sure if you wanted to you could make any of these. 

If you have a blog that has a tutorial on how to make any of these, or similar to them, shoot me an email and I will link your tutorial up under the picture. 

I love this one cause it is square! How often do you see square wreaths?

Love the hydrangeas in this one!

Ok, so not exactly a wreath, but come on, how easy! And festive. 

This looks like flowers and I had to get a little closer to see what it was, but it is actually made from like little pine things, like little pine pods or something, I don't know the word for it... 

This is made from paper, it looks like it was store bought, but HERE is my tutorial on how to make paper wreath flowers. 

One of my favorite, I love the cute summery pink color!

This one has apples, pears and limes in it. How fun and creative. 

So it took me forever to be able to do this project. My husband is doing like high speed summer classes and so I have barely seen him let alone the laptop the last month which makes posting a but hard. But someday this pretty little macbook will be all mine, no more sharing! 

I think I will do a post soon on wreath tutorials from other blogs soon too. Anyone interested in that?