Summer Ice Cream Float Party with Sunkist TEN and A&W Root Beer TEN

Jun 272013

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Last week a few friends came over and we had an Ice Cream Float party, a perfect way to beat the heat. Summer has been crazy busy and I haven’t seen my friends as much as I’ve wanted to and the kids have been wanting to invite some friends over so this was a perfect opportunity. After scoping out some ideas and ice cream recipes, I headed to Walmart to grab my goodies.

I served A&W TEN and Sunkist TEN, these new sodas have only 10 calories per serving. I personally am a huge Root Beer fan (it’s the only soda I will drink), so I was excited to learn about these new sodas! It’s seriously in the 120′s this weekend and while I love to drink water, I crave soda in the Summer like crazy and can end up drinking hundreds of calories (yikes). But of course there is the whole pressure of looking good in the Summer so all those calories, definitely not a good thing. This is a great alternative. After enjoying both A&W TEN and Sunkist TEN, I am actually a fan of both!

The Ice Cream Float station was a hit! Complete with the A&W TEN and Sunkist TEN along with Dryer’s Butter Pecan, Vanilla Bean and Peanut Butter Cup. The Dryer’s Slow Churned ice creams are always my first choice in ice cream because they have half the fat and they taste delicious! The floats were served in ice cold mugs I found at the dollar store.

Halloween Spooky Witch Hat Treat Box

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Oct 232012

Witch Hat Treat Boxes

This week we are passing out the Boo Buckets we made for our neighbors ( http://cleverpinkpirate.com/2012/09/26/halloween-boo-buckets/) and we are also creating little treat boxes for our Halloween party. These were simple to make with a simple cut out from Silhouette, the 3D Witch Hats. They will be great for table decor and guests can take them home at the end of the night!

Halloween Witch Hat Treat Box via www.CleverPinkPirate.com

Supplies:

Witch Hat Cutout
Adhesive Tape Roller
Cardstock
Scallop Punch
Embellishments such as ribbon, Halloween Die Cuts etc

Simply roll the adhesive on the edges of the hat and adhere in a cone shape. Then fill with candy and adhere the base of the hat to the cone shape to create the hat. Decorate with ribbon and a round diecut punch on the front.

If you don’t have a Silhouette, you can find witch hat treat box templates to print out like this one: http://www.mias-craft-ideas.com/halloween-witch-hat.html

Hotel Transylvania Dessert Party

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Sep 302012

This week we are gearing up for Fall. We’ve gotten the decorations out for Halloween and we’re getting really excited for pumpkins, cooler weather and the spookyness that surrounds Halloween. One thing my kids can’t wait for is to see the Hotel Transylvania movie and we had a little dessert party to celebrate the release of the movie.

We went to Smart & Final prior to our party and picked up some desserts along with some party items such as forks and napkins. We even picked up a pumpkin for Fall since they were under $3!

As you can see, we’ve started putting everything up for Halloween with our party. We invited the neighbor kids over which are primarily boys and they definitely loved the idea of a dessert party. I told them to help themselves then left to get more plates and they had devoured most of the dessert!

We served First Street Pumpkin Pie and Lemon Cake from Smart & Final. Ohhhhh they were both so great. This was our first pumpkin pie of the season, well I guess of the year! The Lemon Cake bread served as a nice dessert and it went well with my coffee the next morning.

I also made some chocolate pudding and put sour gummy straws in it as worms. This dessert was easy to make in less than 5 minutes! I was happy to find the desserts from Smart & Final at such great prices. I went into another store recently to picked up baked goods and the prices were outrageous. I picked up the Pumpkin Pie for $3.49 and the Lemon Cake for $1.99. Great deal, right?!

What was really exciting about our dessert party was we actually got a free movie ticket to Hotel Transylvania! When we purchased 2 First Street bakery items at Smart & Final, we received a code for a free movie ticket!

I printed out the cute photos from the Hotel Transylvania FB page here: http://www.facebook.com/HotelT?ref=ts&fref=ts

We handed out these little boo buckets to the kids that came. They are actually made with Smart & Final soup/food containers! Find the how to post here: http://cleverpinkpirate.com/2012/09/26/halloween-boo-buckets/

The Boo Buckets were filled with candy from Smart & Final, I bought a 3.5 lb bag of Tootsie Roll Mix for $7.99.

You can keep up with Smart & Final

Smart and Final Social Circular: community.smartandfinal.com
Smart and Final on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/SmartFinal
Smart and Final’s Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/SmartFinal

Find our shopping adventures at Smart & Final here: https://plus.google.com/photos/115520848880526546694/albums/5794210578844735729

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September Crafty Pinterest Party Recap #AZPinterestParty

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Sep 092012

We had another crafting Pinterest Party w/ our Phoenix gals this past weekend. Heather from Brie Brie Blooms and Laura from Pink Cake Plate helped put on an amazing event!

We had so much fun crafting, I tried working on a project but honestly I had fun just talking to everyone!

We had a gift exchange of items we made inspired by Pinterest. Here is what I made:

It is Cowgirl Cookie Mix in a jar inspired by Bakerella and all of the pins to her how to blog post. She even has some adorable printables to make your life easier: http://www.bakerella.com/mix-things-up/

I received this cute Pumpkin CandyJar:

It was from Liz at http://lizziejanebaby.blogspot.com/ and I love it because it is something I would make!!

I loved all the Pinterest Party Decor

Our sponsors were amazing, we had plenty of swag and giveaways! I won Pizzazzeries Push Pop Book *ooooooh ya*!

I didn’t take too many photos but thank goodness for Instagram and all of our guests who did! http://instagrid.me/tag/azpinterestparty/

Thanks to everyone who came out! Can’t wait for the next one.

Pinterest Party ~ Friends, Crafts, Food & Pinterest in Real Life!

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Jun 172012

This weekend I hosted a REAL Pinterest Party at my house. It was FABULOUS! Guests were invited over to a crafting night where they would bring Pinterest inspired recipes to share and projects to work on. Just a casual gathering of friends with an excuse to hang out and celebrate a site they love! I mean think about it, how many things do we pin with the inention of doing, but never get around to? This is a great excuse to put those awesome pins to good use!

It’s definitely one of those parties best described in photos.

The Decor

I tried to take a few ideas from Pinterest and use them for our party.

I haven’t made a tissue Pom since I was probably 7, so I did have to follow a tutorial from Martha Stuart here:
http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to#slide_0 .

I attempted colored mason jars, they came out okay but I think because my Mod Podged was aged a bit, they had streaked. I did follow a great tutorial courtesy of MomTastic.com (thanks to TipJunkie.com) here:
http://go.tipjunkie.com/dc/1972/www.momtastic.com/diy/168908-diy-tinted-mason-jars-in-rainbow

The DIY ruffles on the tablecloth were easy thanks to Thatsmyletter.blogspot.com’s easy no sew tutorial here:
http://thatsmyletter.blogspot.com/2012/03/p-is-for-party-2.html

I covered the tables in craft paper from the dollar store and used colored lunch bags as trash sacs at everyone’s seat.

The popcorn bar/welcome sign made it into the decor because my daughter actually made that sign and the popcorn ended up being more of decor then a snack because we had so much food!

The mustaches were cut out on a Silhouette and wouldn’t you know, that decor on the front of the jar is actually the new Mustache Duck Tape. Cute, right! I just cut out the mustaches and put them on skewers for guests to pose with and then take home to their kiddies.

The cute name tags were made for everyone by Laura from PinkCakePlate.com!

The Crafts

We had a lot of fun working on crafts. I won’t lie, I didn’t get much done because I was running around but check out these great crafts these ladies worked on!

Kelly from http://eclecticmomsense.blogspot.com is sporting a gorgeous mustache and a cute musical note which she Mod Podged at the party.

Heather from http://briebrieblooms.blogspot.com made a twined monogram for a gift. She makes this look easy, trust me. I am doing the same project and I got maybe 1/8th of my letter done

Kimberly from http://anightowlblog.blogspot.com made some cute 4th of July items for her Summer mantel (that is her hot glue action pictured above)

Mary from http://damselofdistress.blogspot.com got not only her craft on but I have to highlight, she put the Mustaches to good use. She did a whole post with awesome mustache photos, you have to see it: http://damselofdistress.blogspot.com/2012/06/excuse-me-but-i-mustache-you-question.html

Tammera worked on her Smash book. I loved it, I can’t wait to do one too.

Alex from http://inspirevanity.blogspot.com made an awesome upcycled necklace (I wish I had gotten a photo).

Sara worked on scrapbook pages, she actually did a beautiful layout that I have been wanting to do!

Cindy from http://www.jenkinskidfarm.com made these cute little owl necklaces for the girls going to girls camp.

Her daughter and my daughter got together and made cute little Father’s Day cards and more!

This cute Father’s Day craft was made by Vanessa from http://seevanessacraft.com/ . She made it from Jones Soda Bottles, it was very cute!

The Food

I loved everything everyone brought. I made the Chicken Artichoke and Spinach Stuffed shells which you can find a recipe for here: http://cleverpinkpirate.com/2012/06/16/mango-salsa-chicken-and-chicken-spinach-artichoke-stuffed-shells-easy-meals-with-sams-club/

Vanessa from http://seevanessacraft.com/ made those yummy Funfetti Cooke Sandwiches

Kelly from http://eclecticmomsense.blogspot.com made the Eggless Cookie Dough Bites

Laura from PinkCakePlate.com made everyone Dessert Cannolis (which you can find a tutorial for here: http://pinkcakeplate.com/cake/easy-coolwhip-cannoli-cones/)

My friend Sara made Veggie Pizza

Heather from http://briebrieblooms.blogspot.com/ made FunFetti Cake Batter Dip, served with vanilla wafers and graham crackers

The drink station was inspired from a pin I saw from http://creativepartybuzz.com/2011/05/duct-tape-crafts/, where instead of water bottle labels, they used Duck Tape. Well I just happened to have a great number of Duck Tape Rolls so I decided to put them on water bottles and Mason Jars and made a cute little sign so people would know what was inside!

The Sweets

Here is the sweets buffet that I had in the crafting area. Most of these goodies came from Winco, my favorite place to stock up on sweets!

The Thin Mint Truffles I made as my Pinterest Inspired dessert from SixSisterStuff.com at http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/01/no-bake-thin-mint-cookie-truffles.html

Unfortunately, mine did not look the same because I couldn’t find the green mint chips and when I took the white chocolate and was going to dye it green, I realized I only had regular green coloring, not candy coloring. Therefore, it hardened fast. They tasted delicious, though!

The Swag

A special shoutout goes to my friend Laura from PinkCakePlate.com who helped me co-host and she helped secure all of the donations for the goody bags! She also gave everyone cute candy necklaces in their goody bags!

Thank you to our Goody Bag and Door Prize Contributors:

Kim from TomKatStudio who donated some really cute items from her store. If you are planning a party, you MUST check out her site for decor and printables.

Vintage Rose Wraps gave everyone an adorable headband, I really love these.

Brassy Apple gave everyone a free pattern, which I just checked out all her Patterns and not only are they adorable and easy enough for the beginner seamstress to use, they are all on sale!

Pick Your Plum gave us a lot of little crafting goodies to put in our bags and to give as door prizes. I’m so excited to make some jewelry!

We got a couple of awesome coupons from Quik Trip!

The Sewing Loft donated a little kit to all of our party goers!

We also had door prize donations from Whippy Cake, Mod Podge and Duck Tape!

Also, thanks to Mod Podge’s contribution, I know now they made Glitter Mod Podge. I already have a fond love of Sparkle Mod Podge, I am excited to try this one out and see which one I love more!

That is it!

The wreath featured in the beginning of this post was made with:

Styrofoam Wreath
Red Fabric
Silhouette (cut out the banner pieces)
Black Fiber
Printer (printed the Pinterest Logos and words)
and a Scalloped Circle Punch

I just adhered the fabric with E6000 glue, then punched out the circles and adhered them to the banner pennants then punching holes and placing them on a the black fiber. It took me less than an hour to create!

You can find more of what inspired me on my Pinterest Party board:

http://pinterest.com/CleverPirate/pinterest-party/

Linked up at:

http://www.thegunnysack.com/

http://www.skiptomylou.org

http://www.justusfourblog.com

http://www.craft-o-maniac.com/

http://todayscreativeblog.net/

www.tipjunkie.com

http://www.homestoriesatoz.com

http://www.houseofhepworths.com/

http://whipperberry.com