Cookie Gifts

Seems like when you don't have any money, the best gifts to give are edible treats! People still know that you care and that you took the time for them, and they remember how amazing your treats tasted!

Well, a bunch of events just happened and I just didn't have the funds to splurge for gifts. It was Mother's Day, and my friends birthday (on mother's day), and my sister graduated from High School, and of course Teacher Appreciation week, plus a baby shower I offered to help with. I decided to make them all some yummy decorated sugar cookies! These literally take 6-8 hours of active working time if you make this big of a batch, with this many colors of icing, and so so many tiny shapes!! I hope they all know how much I care about them, even if I couldn't get them some amazing gifts that they so deserve.

Since my last post was about Teacher Appreciation week, I'll start with these.

But I should be honest.... these didn't actually make it to the teachers. We kinda ate them instead. I had every intention of making some new ones to give them, until my family got sick and I don't feel right about giving away our sick germs along with some cookies. 

And now, in true Anna Dawn fashion, I'll bombard you with a million unnecessary pictures! Enjoy!

These little lambs were for the baby shower. I made 58 of them!! I forgot to take pictures of them displayed all cute at the shower, and I also decorated some with little dots that was probably the cutest design of them all but didn't take pictures of that either... oh well.

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Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 2nd-6th and National Teacher Appreciation Day is May 3rd.

What are you doing to tell the teachers in your life "Thanks"?

Personally, I feel quite indebted to the remarkable educators who spend so much time with my daughter each day helping her to reach those milestones and develop into the little smarty pants she has become!

Although she is a little behind other children her age, I see the improvement that they are making almost daily. For instance, today she sang me a little song about her vowels. I didn't know she knew what they were, let alone memorized a cute little ditty about them!

We have several wonderful people on our "team". Of course her classroom teacher is high on my list, but there are other specialists that play a huge role in her education, like the speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, special education teacher (also called the resource teacher), and the nurse. She also has a very nice and helpful bus attendant and bus driver, since she rides the "special" bus.

Needless to say, I will be giving them all a great big "Thank You" this week! I have something pretty cute in mind for her classroom teacher, which I'll share with you in a few days. But for everyone else, I'll be giving them these adorable Candy Pencil Thank You's!

They are for sale in my ETSY shop for a limited time! So why not click on over there and get some to show appreciation to the educators in your life?!! At only $3.00 a piece, it's a very inexpensive way to say "Thanks"! Plus they're just so dang cute! I had to have a little photo shoot to show off their cuteness!

 

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Easter Carrot Party

This party was pretty much canceled, so I wasn't going to make any decorations for it. Then, the night before, (it's always last minute with me, right!) I decided I wasn't gonna let the fact that I had no funds deter me!!

So I stayed up ALL night, which I've been know to do quite often when I'm pressed for time.... and created this

EASTER CARROT PARTY!

I arranged the tablecloths like this to resemble the colors of a carrot... 

sometimes I do weird details like this that aren't obvious to everyone...

I just found some Easter Coloring Pages online and printed them out for people to color as they arrived.

This 3D Paper Chocolate Bunny was SOOOOO cute! 

I used him as the table centerpiece with these little carrot containers.

He's a printable from Lettering Delights here:

http://www.letteringdelights.com/clipart:easter_beasties-10159.html

Um, yeah... I made carrot cups. 

Cuz I'm crazy like that! Or so everyone keeps telling me...

Oh my, our Easter Brunch was so adorable!

These little bunny pancakes were floating all over the web,
so I had to try them myself!

The tutorial is here: 

http://jennipriceillustration.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-make-bunny-pancakes.html

Of course Bunny Pancakes have to have Carrots to go with them!

You have to make the outlines first,
then fill them in with the pancake batter.

They are ready to flip when the bubbles start to pop.

Plastic Easter Egg Carrots

I just threaded some green yarn through the holes on the top! Easy!

I made an Easter Scavenger Hunt for the kids. 

It had to be SUPER easy, so my clues are kinda lame...
but the kids had such a blast!!

All the clip art on the clues is the same set
from Letting Delights: Easter Beasties,

oops, except the basket, it's from this set.

One of the Easter Presents at the end of the Scavenger Hunt was a pink windsock, which was defective and we couldn't hang. So we made our own!! We used the Printable Eggs from the clip art and stapled crepe paper to them!! Quick and Easy!

This is the last clip art I swear! I absolutely fell in LOVE with this set, 

and most all sets from Lettering Delights actually!

They are still doing Dollar Days- so you can get some super cute graphics for CHEAP! 

That's what I did!!

Thanks for checking out my impromptu, Easter Carrot Party! 

It wasn't everything I wanted it to be, but that's what happens when you wait til the last minute!

Come visit me on Facebook! I've got lots of party ideas to share..... :-)

Mobile - Purple, Lime and Teal

These photos are courtesy of Babies R Us website. Here's the mobile I made to match this bedding set.

Honestly, this mobile is my FAVORITE!! I love the teal glitter paper, and the metallic shiny teal paper! It was just so sparkly hanging up in my living room while I made it! The colors flow so well, I just LOVE it!
Thanks for checking out yet another mobile. Seriously, if you're getting sick of seeing all them on my blog... well, I don't know, just order one for yourself!! BTW, they are not just for babies.... I'm making one for myself to hang in my craft room! And I've made one to hang in a seven year old girl's room too!
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Mobile - Turquoise, Hot Pink, and Yellow

Here's a picture of the room I made the mobile for. The customer requested that the mobile have a lot of white so it would tone down the wall colors but still complement the room's color scheme.

And here's what I came up with:

One of my favorite details on this mobile is the white origami flowers with the turquoise center! I just folded the paper inside out to make it that way! So pretty! Thanks for stopping by!