Diaper Cake Time Again

My mom is throwing a baby shower for her best friend's daughter-in-law this Sunday. I have never met her before, but since I am very close to her best friend and she has done so much for me, I am going to go and help celebrate her first grandson being born! The nursery and shower theme is turtles and like I do for every shower a diaper cake is being made...


It is a lot harder to make one for a boy I am finding, but the basics can still be added to it, just none of the little bows girly stuff.

I was having a hard time finding stuff at first, nothing at Target, Walmart, and only two receiving blankets and an iguana outfit (okay its not a turtle, but its still a little green animal) at Bealls Outlet.


Then yesterday I was taking back a top to TJ Maxx and found so much great stuff, some our frogs, not turtles, but I would take any green little animal at this point and they are so cute...



Hope it turns out cute! I am also in charge of favors, I am thinking of turtle shape fancy cookies, like cookie bouquets, in a nice clear bag with green and blue ribbons... we will see if I can find a turtle cookie cutter in time.

****Great news, I found this one on Amazon for $1.50 plus shipping and handling!


I think I will cut off the bottom of the tail though.

Impromptu Pool Party

Last weekend it seemed everyone had plans for the 4th but nothing going on the 3rd, so what was going to be just a relaxing day of Danny, Carrie and I by the pool ended up being a really fun pool party with all my girls...Tara, Lia, and Amy and their boys.

The pool has never looked better since Dan moved in a took over, yay free pool boy!




I made buffalo chicken dip since I had all of the ingredients, so that was easy, grabbed some shrimp to make shrimp cocktail, grabbed two sandwich wheels from Publix, Carrie brought homemade spinach dip and bread, Tara brought steak skewers, Amy brought wine and I made up a punch to use the blueberry vodka I already had and wanted to make it festive for the fourth...

2 cups Blueberry Vodka
4 cups Oceanspray Blueberry Juice
2 cups lemonade
2 cups blueberries 1/2 muddled, 1/2 frozen and added for a colorful alternative to ice cubes



It was a huge hit, even the boys loved it and I had to refill!
The day was so fun and super easy and stress free since it wasn't planned and was just casual. Glad it turned out to be a beautiful day!

Zoo trip!

Our local zoo has free summer nights starting at 5:00, and live music like jazz or classical for everyone to enjoy. I have never been to our zoo before, so tonight Danny and I are going to check it out.

Cornice is up

I didnt make the curtains yet, but I put up the cornice just to see how it looks...

Had to share because I thought it was too funny...

I was doing research online today for work and on one of the websites they had ads powered by Google, and this is what came up. All boring work related stuff and Lilly, too funny! Ah Google, how you know me!

Closet Fabric

So since I have no patience and had a four day weekend, Friday I took the day to go fabric shopping, so I wouldn't have to wait two weeks for Jo-Ann's. I hit up Hancocks, then my favorite Boca Bargoons and found this fabric. At first I thought it was a little busy but then after I told the guy helping me it was for a closet he said I could go a little busy...we will see...


Since there was so many patterns going on we couldn't decide what was best so here were the choices...




I decided on this one.


Luckily I had an old cornice and I just had to cover it. Pretty easy job with a staple gun.





But since the pattern was horizontal and the fabric was only 55 inches wide and the cornice was 64, I had to make it in 3 pieces.


Ta-dah, the finished project!

Then Dan tried to come up with ideas to use the extra fabric...


Puppy outfit.


Very cool head scarf. Okay not so much! But he gets credit for being creative and cute!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Happy Birthday America! God Bless you!!