Birthday Banner

Posted By: Kristi

I have another Silhouette project to share! Lou's Birthday banner is almost done, and of course shaped as fishes since this is a water party! = )

Elmo Invites

Posted By: Kristi


I told you I would give you step by step details of how I made the Elmo/Water party invites, so here I go...

It started with my inspiration, I found it here.

Lou loves water so early on Steph and I decided her Birthday needed to be a water theme, naturally. Well, recently Elmo came into Lou's life and she decided she needed to have an Elmo party. UH-OH. Problem was quickly solved when we decided to have a water party with a little Elmo on the side. ; )

When I found this Elmo invite online I realized I could change it up a bit to really work the way we had pictured. That is when I came up with this:

I took out my Silhouette and started cutting out my shapes and slowly piecing the invite together.

The only thing that really took very long was making a lot of them. The invitation itself was easy to piece together!

More party stuff to share soon!

Prepare Air Pop Popcorn in the Microwave! *Update - We're Guest Hosting Today!*

Posted By:  Stephanie

Surprise!  I got on today to find that we are the featured blog (Guest Host) at the Mingle With Us Blog Hop today!  Please take a moment to link up and let them know that you found the hop on 4Eighteen.  Thank you Keeping Up With Kristi, Joy in the Jumble, I Heart Crafty Things and Happy Go Lucky!

Prepare Air Pop Popcorn in the Microwave!

This is magic people, pure magic!  Are you a popcorn fan?  If so you know two things, air pop popcorn is the best, and that if you buy the microwave bag popcorn it gets expensive (not to mention the weird ingredients).  This will just change your world completely, if you are a popcorn fan, or even just eat it on occasion you know what I mean.

Now you can pop your air pop popcorn (that's a mouth full) in the microwave!

All you need is:

- Brown lunch bag

- 1/4 cup popcorn

- Air pop popcorn

- Microwave

Poor 1/4 cup of popcorn kernels into brown paper bag.

Fold the top down a couple times until it fits into your microwave.  You must fold it down at least twice to keep the heat in.

Turn the microwave on for about 1 min 50 seconds, microwaves vary.  Listen for the pops until there are about 2 seconds between each pop.  Stop the microwave immediately, popcorn will go from perfect to burnt way faster than you can blink!

1/4 cup made about two bowls worth.  This is so much less expensive and tastes SO yummy.  Once you take the popcorn out of the microwave you can season it how you like it.  I told my Granny K. about this, who is a popcorn fan for sure.  She says that she has done this now since I told her about the awesome magic trick and she loves making it this way instead of pulling out her air popper.

Speaking of Granny K...

This is Granny K. and my girl Little Lou reading a magazine together.  I just love this picture.  Please excuse the quality, it was taken with a phone and it wasn't one of those fancy smart ones, Granny K. and I don't have those spiffy phones.  We rock the cell phones old school.  = )

ENJOY!