Amy's Fall Themed Baby Shower

This weekend I worked with a few friends to throw our friend Amy a baby shower. She is expecting her second little girl, Autumn anytime now! Amy is due with Autumn on Thanksgiving, so we thought a Fall themed shower would be perfect! We had the shower outside and the weather was beautiful! We served soups and salad for lunch and pies for dessert. As favors everyone took home a homemade pear butter. You can read and see more details below!

Seven Great Juicing Recipes

These are some of my favorite juicing recipes that I continue to make over and over. I love to drink my juice cold, served over ice. Makes it taste better to me. It seems like once I start juicing my body begins to crave it everyday. It is a great way to get lots of fruits and veggies in at the start of the day. Especially for the kids! My kids love helping me juice and they also love to drink it. So when my boys are being picky eaters, and only eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... I make them a glass of juice and feel much better about what they're consuming for the day!

Hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we do! Some of them I have created on my own and other recipes I have found online and slightly adjusted. For all of the recipes below you will run the ingredient through a juicer, according to the manufacturer's directions. 

Recipe: Serves 1
1 bundle of kale leaves, stems removed
-2 apples, cored and halved
-1/2 pineapple, cored and sliced
-1" ginger, peeled
-1/2 lemon

Recipe: Serves 1-2
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2 lemon

 Recipe: Serves 1-2
-1 large golden beet
-2 oranges, peeled and halved
-2 apples, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-2 carrots
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-1 large beet, quartered

-2 carrots
-1 orange, peeled and halved
-1 apple, cored and halved
-2 celery stalks
-1/2" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1

-1 grapefruit, peeled and quartered

-3 carrots

-1" ginger, peeled

Recipe: Serves 1-2

-2 apples, cored and halved

-2 carrots

-2 celery stalks

-1/2 lemon

-1" ginger, peeled

-5 oz spinach

(Rise and Shine Juice recipe via Giada De Laurentiis)

Recipe: Serves 1-2

 -1 sweet potato, quartered

-4 stalks of celery

-5 carrots

-1 apple, cored and halved

-1/2 lemon

Halloween Bat Branches

 I made some Halloween Bat Branches to decorate for Halloween this year. I painted some branches black and hung bats covered in glitter from the branches. Then I spread some cob webs in the branches too. You can find the step by step tutorial below along with the bat template that I used. It's a fun table decoration for Halloween and you could have your kids help too.

 First Hudson and I went searching for big "spooky" looking branches. We didn't have much trouble finding any because there is a pistachio grove right by our house that has lots of branches lying around. Hudson loved helping me with this part. Then I spray painted them black!

 

 Next you will print out the bat template that you can find here. I printed an extra one out for Hudson to color while I was cutting and using the glitter.

 Then cut our the template and trace it onto black card stock paper. I made six bats to hang in my branches.

 Once you have cut out all of your bats, you will use a hole punch to make a hole to hang them with ribbon or twine.

Next I brushed the bats with Mod Podge and covered with glitter.

 Shake off the excess glitter, then do the same thing to the other side. Let the bats dry and then you can hang them in the branches with ribbon or twine.

 Finally, I took some cob webs and spread them through the branches.

Halloween Party!

Welcome to our Halloween Party! Kelsey from Everyday is a Celebration and I are hosting a batty Halloween party today and you are invited! Over the past month, Kelsey and I have been putting our heads together to think of some great designs and party décor to create a fun Halloween party setting. Kelsey has a shop, Snowcone & Lollipop Designs where she sells party printables! You can get a whole party package that includes: invitations, a party banner, circle labels, water bottle labels, tented cards, drink flags, and more! In my shop I sell other party supplies, including: fondant cupcake toppers, paper straws, twine, cupcake wrappers, and more! We decided to put our items and passion for parties together to create a fun Halloween party, that we hope you enjoy!

 

 

 

Vendor Credits:

Cupcake Wrappers, Fondant Cupcake Toppers, Paper Straws, Twine, Tissue Poms, and Mini Bunting by Domestic Charm

Paper Party Printables by Snowcone & Lollipop Designs

Bat Candy Bar Printable available by Skip to my Lou

Photography by Kelsey & Katelyn

We can’t wait to show you more parties that we have in the works! It has been so much fun working with Kelsey and I hope that you stop by her shop and blog because I know you will love what you see!

Linking up HERE!

Ikea Spice Racks Now Bookshelves

 I have been wanting to create Hudson some bookshelves for a while now. I considered making him some from a rain gutter like I had seen on Pinterest. However, I needed smaller shelves to fit in his room and this seemed like the easier option. These are Ikea spice racks that cost only $3.99 a piece. They come unpainted which allows you to customize them whatever color you'd like. I made Hudson a reading and music corner in his room. He loves sitting is his little orange chair and looking at his books!