Oh the Places They'll Go...

My kiddies graduated today and I was so proud of them. So proud in fact that I made 144 cupcakes (only 120 were edible :-/...guess those directions about temperature aren't suggestions....) and brought them as refreshments. I saw an idea last week for "Oh, the Places You'll Go" cake for graduation and it inspired me.

This is a close up of one of the cupcakes. I made 100 with the simple graduation cap but they aren't as inspiring...

 

The full box

To make them I simply used a box recipe (yes box!!!) and baked them to semi perfection. (Perfection would not include me burning a batch).

To decorate I googled the book and pasted the images into a word doc. I then printed it on a color printer, cut out the shapes and taped toothpicks to the back. Insert into freshly frosted cupcake and done!!!!

Brilliant Blossoms

One of the first projects I completed was creating paper flowers that I hang from my ceiling. I get a lot of flack from my sorors over the color of my room, but I love flowers and living things. Below is the picture from the Martha Stewart website. I absolutely love the colors and I can see them hanging from the ceiling of my wedding. LOVE <3

The flowers came from Martha Stewart in an individualized package. I managed to get them for three dollars and used them to center the design of my room. In the picture below, I painted the giant flower based on the blooms. 

To make the picture, I took three pieces of foam board and sketched out the blossom and painted it with acrylic paints. Ties the room together and brings a lightness to the room. I absolutely love, love, love flowers but as I have a BAD track record with real ones, this is as close as I can come to having them in my life.

My room (believe me that it does NOT look like this anymore...#procrastination)

This is my room and below is me in it :)

Me with the blooms in the background

Magnificent Magnets

I love these magnets!!! I went with my friend Katy to her Relief Society meeting. Best decision ever!!!! I don't know hat I expected, seeing as I am not Mormon, but I loved it. We discussed earthquake preparedness, money saving tips, STARTING BLOGS ;) and making magnets. Needless to say I took to the making blogs like a fish to water, admittedly very thick water as it took me a minute to figure it out, and have created this site of my projects.

The magnets were the cutest idea. We took glass marbles, glued scrapbook paper on the back with Modpodge and simply glued large magnets to the back. I loved it and immediately created three. I see a whole range of projects that can be created for this: Crafts for Mother's Day for my kids, magnets for the board in my classroom, and even wedding favors and decorations. What another pretty way to procrastinate!