Summer Days

We have been having fun enjoying our summer. I hope you all are too! ;)

Brave Inspired

I recently had a request for a Brave inspired purse. I decided to have the main character, Merida, featured on the purse with her wild and crazy curly hair. I added a few different shades of dark and light orange for her hair to accent her highlights. I used a dark teal similar to the color of Merida's dress for the purse and strap, accented in a yellow-gold.

Here is a picture of the lovely "brave" Merida.

I think it turned out really cute!

Custom Fairy Mushroom House Giveaway

In honor of reaching my 100th Crochet D Lane fan today on Facebook, I am hosting a very fun GIVEAWAY! I am giving away an adorable fairy mushroom purse custom created in the winner's choice of colors! If you would like to try and win, all you have to do is post a comment on my Crochet D Lane Facebook fan page; onto the fairy house giveaway post, stating your favorite color combination for your fairy house along with your email address. If you would like to have another chance to win, please share this Giveaway on your facebook page and post in your comment, "shared" Everyone please be honest and have fun! I will be announcing the winner via number generator on Monday, July 23rd! I will ship anywhere in the world for free for this giveaway too! Good Luck and remember to have fun! HERE is the link to my Facebook Fan Page where I am hosting the giveaway!

Well Hello!!

The Blue Angels have arrived and are putting on a show that I can view from my backyard!

I Hope...

....everyone had a very happy and safe Fourth of July this year!!

Future Plans

Xiera: "Mommy, I already know what I want to be when I grow up."

Me: "Really, what is that?"

Xiera: "An Artist!"

It's Official!

I recently purchased brand new business cards through Vistaprint. I wasn't too thrilled with my older business cards because the font against the blue background was very hard to read and see. I just LOVE my new business cards now. The dark purple font against the white background just "POPS" and I adore that whimsical flower design with the little bird. And yes you are reading that correctly. I am officially in the diaper cake business as well. I just had so much fun making the diaper cake for my friend's baby shower that I want to make more! I do have my phone number and business address on these but I edited it so that they were hidden on the picture above to respect my privacy. ;) I had another request for a cupcake purse recently. They wanted a vanilla cupcake with white icing and rainbow sprinkles. Here it is!

So fun and cute!

Pink And Brown Teddy Bears

Yesterday I hosted my best friend, April's baby shower. We had it in a banquet room at the Ramada Inn hotel. The theme for the baby shower was pink and brown teddy bears. I found the adorable bear banner on Etsy. I purchased two of these banners from Calladoo on Etsy.
Calladoo also made the super cute door sign to match.
For the tables, we put little bears inside pink pails and scattered teddy bear confetti around them.
We then attached plain pink and pink baby feet balloons to the pails. I purchased the pink pails at galvanizedpail.com, and the adorable bears and balloons from oriental trading company. I found the super cute teddy bear confetti on etsy and it was created by vintagehillcreations. The gorgeous cake was made by the talented Vanessa Mitchell who had also made Xiera's fairy mushroom birthday cake.
Vanessa outdid herself yet again because this cake was absolutely adorable and almost too cute to eat! I am loving that little pink bow on the bear's ear!

I put little bowls on the cake table filled with gummy bears and teddy grahams.

As all of our guests came in, we had them fill out these sweet little baby well wishes cards as a keepsake for April. I had purchased these cards on Etsy and they were created by erinsartwork. If anyone brought in any diapers or wipes, we had them fill out a ticket to put into the larger pink pail for the special door prize drawing. Once all of our guests had arrived, and finished eating all of the delicious food we had, it was time for games!! For the first game, we had baby word scramble. Whoever could unscramble the most words in three minutes correctly wins.
Of course we had a 5-way tie and we had to have them guess a number between 1 and 50 to see who could guess the number April chose without going over. For the second game we played the toilet paper square game. Whoever could guess the correct amount of squares that go around the largest circumference of April's pregnant belly wins. The answer was 11. We had a 2-way tie for that one, so we had to have another tie breaker, guess-the-number game. For the third game we played Baby Shower Bingo. Everyone got a blank bingo card and had to fill in what they thought April would open. As April opened her gifts, they would mark off what they wrote on their card. Whoever got five in a row yelled out "Bingo" and won. April had so many beautiful gifts!
She had a lot of help opening those gifts from big-sis-to-be, Emma.
My gift to April and baby Keira was a pink bear baby blanket I crocheted. I think it turned out adorable and April LOVES it.
Here is a close up of the blanket and the bear on it.
I had also made a matching baby bear hat that I had given to her earlier as a game gift (because mommy-to-be had to get a gift for each game played. ;)) The diaper cake I made turned out beautiful and I am so proud of myself especially since it was the first diaper cake I had ever made! I have to thank Pinterest because I found the tutorial on there and of course I have to thank the blogger who posted the tutorial, Susie Stamp A Lot.

Hosting my very first baby shower was a lot of fun and I am so happy to have done so for such a great friend. April is the sweetest and most amazing person and I am so happy for her.
Congrats April and I cannot wait to meet little Miss Keira Lynn; my new Crochet D Lane model, I hope! ;)

Preparations.....

I am gathering last minute things and running last minute errands for my BFF's baby shower I am throwing tomorrow. I am so excited! Here is a little sneak of the gifts I have made for her and her little bundle.... I also created my very first diaper cake. It turned out adorable and I know she is going to love it!