Red, White and Blue & Addison who's two!

I hope everyone is having a great week...busy busy over here as usual! I am working on two special projects, plus my sister's hs graduation items, plus my regular orders, so it is crazy!

To top it off my oldest son graduated from preschool this morning...sniff. Hard to believe he'll be in Kindergarten next year!

Here is a sneak peek at some invitations I finished last night for a friend of mine. Her daughter's birthday will be celebrated at the family lake cabin on the fourth of July, so she wanted a theme that would go along with it.

I'll be making a banner next month for the party as well, so stay tuned as always! Have a good weekend.

The Future Mrs. Klein...

You've seen the invitations, but here are the banner and door sign to go along with them for the shower my friend Leah is throwing for her BF Amanda...



Amanda's wedding colors are an olive-y green, brown, and a little yellow. I made the banner and sign universal so that Leah can use them again at the bachelorette party in a few weeks.

I am kind of sad to be done planning bridal showers for friends. I love weddings! But that means baby season is in full swing, which just may be even better. :)

From the weekend...

A few pics of Olivia's piggy party as promised...

I'm going to stick these in {happy customers} even though technically I didn't get an entry from Patti...I think she was happy with the outcome and O is too cute not to put her there!

And a few more I couldn't resist sticking in here of (clockwise from top L)

1) Olivia spitting out her candles (can you see it??)
2) One our very fav families!
3) Our silly girlies
4) Aren't those piggy cupcakes A.DOR.A.BLE?

The kids had such a great time and little Miss O was adorable as always. We <3 you Olivia!

Let the Holm celebrations begin...

You've seen a few of the projects I've done for the Holm family before...like this party I did for my one of my BFs from high school for her 30th birthday...and this project I did for when baby #4 was born, and these tags I made for Tammy to put in the kids Easter baskets. So I got excited when I got an email from Tammy in which the subject said "Another Project".

Besides Lil' Frank, the rest of the Holm Kids' birthdays are pretty close together. Tammy's email said that once they got back from their trip to Sweden to see the grandparents they had a party to throw every couple weeks! I think I would hyperventilate. But not this experienced momma...she had the details ready for each party.

So first comes Miss Julia, who turned 7 this week, who is having a glitz and glam party and required that it be all pink...

Then comes Mr. Erik, turning 3 in June...she wasn't sure what theme she was going to go with but knew she would center the colors around red and navy...

And lastly Princess Emma, turning 5 at the beginning of July...all princess of course and had to be hot pink and black...

I am guessing Dad is beginning to feel left out, so Peter just let me know when you need your own crown!

Olivia's Polka Dots and Pigs

A while back I spotlighted some invitations I made for my little friend Olivia. Her favorite two things are polka dots and pigs.

Olivia is actually our neighbor. Her mom and I became good friends after we had our oldest boys 10 days apart. So for her birthday, we made Olivia a tutu to match her outfit for the party and a pig wearing a tutu to match hers...

And here are the rest of the things Patti ordered (and the tutu we gave her) for the party...

We will be going to the party this weekend, so hopefully I will have a cute pic of O to show you next week!

Sydney's 7th Birthday

Okay...looks like my internet likes me again for now. So here we go with what I've been up to during the time it hated me!

This is definitely in my top 5 for biggest projects I've worked on. Sydney is Grace's big sister...just as cute as Grace but she's in school so we haven't been able to use her as much for pics...ha!

Sydney is having her family party this Saturday and a friend party in a couple weeks, so I tried to make everything so that it would work for both parties.

We started out with Sydney wanting a rock star party and Darcie NOT wanting one...anyone else been there? I have! But then they decided to have Sydney's friend birthday at the pool and the rock star theme didn't fit so well, so I shopped for new paper and we changed it to just fun bright colors with not so much of a theme. I hope that 7 year old (going on 20 :) Sydney loves it and that her mom does too!

Technical Difficulties...

Question: How do you run a internet business with no internet?

Answer: You don't.

UGH.

Last night I told my husband (who spent an HOUR on the phone with the cable company trying to restore our phone and internet only to have them tell him that they couldn't fix it until Thursday) that maybe this morning it would miraculously be fixed.

I came down to check, and holy hannah, its working. For now at least.

I will work on a real post this morning granted it stays connected. I know I don't post about my family on this blog anymore, but while you're waiting, I'll throw something in to keep you busy.

It was almost 100 degrees here yesterday. My sister Kara moved in for the summer last weekend and when she got home from work yesterday she suggested a water fight...









...yep, with her here its bound to be a fun summer!

If you are waiting for an email response from me I promise I am going to work madly on it this morning, so long as my children can keep themselves occupied.

With 9 packages sent in the past two days, I have lots to blog about...check back this afternoon!