End of School Party

On Friday, I threw an "End of School" party for my 3 older girls. We ended up with 15 girls who came! Activities included large kiddie pool, water balloons, making leis, slip and slide and of course, lots of snacks and treats. Here is a photo of the cost effective party favors I sent home with each guest. My girls helped me paint all the pots in fun, summery colors. Each pot contains a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting, a gummy worm and a cookie pop flower.

Polka Dot Cake

Here is another cake I did about a week ago. It was for a wedding anniversary. All white cake with vanilla pudding.

Stay-At-Home Mommy Tip #2

Learn to cut your husband's hair. This saves at least $20/month. After we'd been married for about 4 years, I just bought one of those home hair cutting kits that came with a how-to video and viola, I could cut my husband's hair myself! Okay so he had to endure a few not so great hair cuts but it didn't take long and now I can do it in under 20 minutes. And to save even more money over the years I have learned to cut my girls' hair, just simple hair cuts for now but you never know, maybe I will get to be able to do more someday.

Cake Decorating

I would say that in the last couple of years, decorating cakes has become my passion. I love it and have a lot of fun with it. If I could do it for a job I would but I fear demand is low in my small city. So for now it is for fun but I would like to start sharing some of cakes with you. Here is the latest one I did over the weekend.

Stay-At-Home Mommy Tip of the Day

Okay this is the first of what I hope will be many tips to come. I have been a stay-at-home mom for 11 1/2 years and I have learned a thing or two in that time and started thinking I should share! So tip of the day today. 3 of my 5 girls have their bedrooms in the basement so I bought one of those plastic drawer things, labelled their names on them and put it in the boot room on the main floor. That is where they can keep little things like their swim goggles, notebooks or little things of theirs I find laying around while they're at school. As long as it is not overflowing they can keep whatever they want in there.