Monster Birthday Bash

This year I decided to have my boys birthday party together. We have 3 kids with birthdays in 4 months. June, July, & September. Quinton in late July and Colton in early September so we had their birthday party in the middle of August. It worked out very well.

First we chose a neutral theme that would work for both of them turning 2 and the other turning 5. We chose monster because they are well our little monsters.

 

My little monsters blowing out their candles.

"adopt a monster" as a Party Favor. I ordered these monsters from oriental trading.

Something to keep the kids busy during the party.

easy and free banner I made. Check this link for the free printable.

I used the same 'end' pieces and pasted them on regular $1 multicolor party hats from the dollar tree.

 

Game for all the little monsters to play.

 

 

Now of course my personal favorite.... the food! lol

 

The monster cake.. one monster for each boy of course.

Food labels and invitations came from a wonderful designer and friend. check out her etsy site she can do any theme or custom design.

 

Homemade Last Name Wreath

You know that feeling when you have about a million things to do and not of those things sound like fun? I do. I have the boys birthday party coming up this weekend that I could be getting things ready for and even though I have planed... and planned... and planned... nothing I wanted to do sounded like a whole heap of fun.

so.... My distraction for the afternoon......

 

I have been wanting to make something like this but I'm not as crafty as I would like to be.

Its just a basic wreath which I added a burlap bow that I made out of burlap and some twine and attached some wooden letters to spell out our last name. I added a few little "primitive" berries/stars around where I thought it looked good and it was done. took me about 20 minutes and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

 

I adore all things fall and this reminds me of fall.  I think its the burlap. I love burlap things. It has felt like fall the last few days even though it is August. there is a briskness to the air. (maybe I'm just already craving fall)

DIY $60 Firepit

My family loves camping. We don't get to go as often as we like with our busy schedule though. We decided to improvise.

I had bought My husband one of those little metal fire place pits from target a few black Fridays ago for around $20. He opened it and loved the idea of us all sitting around the fire making smores instead of all sitting around the TV on summer nights. However, it set in our closet for a few years- unused and untouched.

This summer I had enough. I decided I wanted to rev-up our fire pit a bit though. so instead of just building the normal bit itself I used the pan from the fire pit out of the kit I bought from target. I then went to walmart and bought a block like this - I got this from lowes website. it list the price as $1.97 but I seem to remember it being less than that at walmart.


we laid it out in the walmart parking lot how big we thought it would be. counted how many it took to be in the size circle we needed than counted how high we wanted it. you get the idea. easy math. I believe I had $40 in material (remember I got mine from walmart.. outside in the garden section) Brought it home and stacked and added our metal scoop from our $20 fire pit and ta-da instant DIY firepit. Easy and very worth it $60 fire-pit for our very own back yard. Kits like run around $200 on website to build similar fire-pits. We got a lot of use out of it last summer and hope to this summer as well.