Miya's 1st Birthday

My sister's niece Miya celebrated her first birthday last Saturday. Her mom Melissa was going with a bright summery feel and said she might use some flowers and butterflies to decorate. She wanted me to make a tutu she had seen here and ordered the bloomers from *golden* as well.

You can tell she really loves her crown, right? =) It is hard to see in the pic above, but the banner's letters have polka dots to match the material on her bloomers...

Hope you had a happy birthday, Miya!

A Baby Surprise...

I know you've seen surprise birthday parties on this blog, but this was a new one. My sister Rachel is pregnant...I just may have mentioned this before...with her second child. When her son Jack was born her friends were spread about the country and never threw a shower for her, so they decided that a small surprise shower would be in order this time around.

I kept asking Rach what she was doing this weekend and she was SO clueless...she was actually throwing her friend Darcy a baby shower at her house on Friday night (pics of that in the coming days!) and was so busy that she never suspected a thing. So Saturday morning Darcy asked her to stop by her house, only to find a baby shower waiting.

They were keeping it low key, but thought Rach deserved a banner for her baby room like she has had made for all of them. Rachel and Brad are going to let the sex of the baby be a surprise as well, but I couldn't help throwing a little pink in there, too, in case this is her last baby. Cross your fingers its a girl or I'll be making a new one. =)

{Happy Customers} : Jozlyn (Round 2!)

I can't believe its been a year since this {happy customer}'s last birthday. That means my baby will be two in no time. You may remember Jozlyn from previous posts...I've already written about her first bday, then a happy customers entry for that, and her second birthday gear that we got ready back in May. I've also professed how much I have come to <3 href="http://www.persnicketyme.etsy.com/">Persnickety Me. It turned out so stinkin' cute, Abby!

Head on over to {happy customers} to see the pics in better detail and read Heidi's kind words.

On a personal note...this is going to be my last post for a few days. I was going to try to do it all, but life is a tad overwhelming right now. I am trying to get my classroom in order and mentally prepare myself to leave my kiddos again, not to mention getting Beckett's bday party together for next weekend and finish orders that need to be done before I go back. I will hopefully get a few posts ready for next week. Thanks in advance for being so patient and supportive over this next crazy month! I will be back!

Monkey Business

It was exactly year ago that I sent out invitations almost identical to these for my own baby's first birthday. I can't believe how time flies...now I am about 10 days away from birthday #2 for my baby! Sniff...=) I had a custom request from one of the clients on my schedule to make a party pretty identical to Beckett's monkey party. She had little JJ's pics taken with his own monkey to use for the invitations. I LOVE his pic...don't you want to squeeze those cheeks?

Lots more of this one coming next month!

Noah's Cars

Earlier this summer I did made this banner for our cousin's son Noah who was turning three. Noah LOVES cars, so Abby wanted to do something with lots of bright colors and some images of cars that she had seen on my blog before. We started with one bright paper that I use for my circus collection that she loved and went from there.

Abby also wanted to get Noah a matching tshirt and she knew I had just the lady to do it! She told me to take care of the details, so I got to work with my fav girl Rach at *golden* to make Noah's tshirt as well...isn't it cute?? She took the exact image I was using on the banner and made it into a shirt, and per my request even sewed Noah's name in the window...just as Rachel's logo says...sew cute!

Have a good weekend...lots to show you next week before I am back to school!

{Happy Customers} : Baby Miller

I guess Baby Miller isn't really the happy customer here, but since the party was in his honor, we're going to go with that! Krystle threw her friend a baby shower totally decked out in baby blue and zebra for the baby boy that would soon make his arrival!. I love that twist...I've definitely seen pink and zebra, but I love love love the blue!

Click here to get a closer look and hear what Krystle had to say about her PDP experience. Lots of other cute parties to check out over on {happy customers} as well!

Forty and Fabulous!

One of my previous clients enlisted me to help make some cupcake toppers for a 40th birthday party she is throwing in a few weeks. She was planning the party decor around the paper goods that she purchased, shown here:

Fun, right? Very fun to have to match to! So here is what I came up with...

Hope you love them, Jodee!