decorative pom poms

decorative pom poms

I must admit that I am a bit in love with these pom poms. I made these for my friends daughters first year birthday. She asked me to make the pom poms as part of decoration so I added the ribbons incase she wanted to hang them and they sure add an elegant touch. The best part about these were that everyone actually thought they were flowers and the older girls at the party used them as party hats,  with so many boys in our house I don’t know why my mind din’t go there. I enjoy making them, they look so pretty almost anywhere. These were made from tissue paper and it was relatively easier to make than the ones I made from newspaper. contact me if you would like to buy these, they come in different sizes and colors and can be custom made for your next event.

newspaper decorations

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newspaper pom poms

photo 3I made these pom poms for my friends 40th birthday. His love for the wall street journal inspired his wife to make a WSJ cake and needless to say I jumped on the idea. She had tons of newspaper and we used it to make pom poms, giant paper flowers, streamers etc. It was not the easiest thing cause newspaper, as supposed to tissue paper, has sharp edges so had to be careful but the outcome was fabulous. I used black silk ribbons to tie and suspended it from the vault and the lights from the backdrop set the mood perfectly.

favors / christmas decorations

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These are favors for my nephews who for the first time agreed to celebrate there birthday together.

It was at the ice rink in Virginia and they are 10 and 4 and most  of their friends are common between them like Peppa and George from Peppa pig. Since the age group varied from 1-10 they decided to get gift cards for everyone and being the creative aunt I stitched these skater bags as covers for the gift cards. It was very pretty and did I mention Yellow was one of there fav colors:). I made quite a few extra and used them as christmas decorations too.

Pumpkins for halloween

IMG_3976When you have a young toddler at home full time you really have to get creative to manage time and have fun. I thought about getting a pumpkin and carve, paint etc for halloween but my baby was too small to understand any of it, so I thought instead I’ll just make some halloween decorations thats easy and different. All I had to get was some orange foam sheet, scissors and thread. Very simple and looked so gorgeous all over the house in different sizes. Hung it from the door knob too for trick o treaters.

favor carriers

drink carrier as toy holder for birthday favors

eco friendly drink carriers filled with summer toys are my favorite favors of them all and yes this was for my sons first birthday in June. I am amazed at the wonderful response I got for these. It was initially going to be the same for everyone but it dint make sense because we had kids from newly born to 10 years old and so I had to custom make it but it was easier than I thought and each favor had a name tag too.  The amazing part is that my girlfriends tell me that they are still using those favors after almost a year and after all it was a favor for both -carrier for the parents and toys for the kids. Love it!