First Birthday Centerpieces

Over this past week I had the pleasure of designing and creating centerpieces for a special little girl who was celebrating her FIRST birthday.

The theme was winter "one"derland and the colors were pink, white and silver.

The centerpieces were three sided with a different photo of the Birthday girl on each side!

White and silver satin ribbon adorned each side and silver snowflakes with Rhinestone centers added to the snowflake theme.

A snowflake was hand-cut out of foam board and embellished with a pink and silver glittery "1", some rhinestones and a white glitter border. Tons of pink and white curled ribbon was glued to the top and cascaded down.

I had the pleasure of attending the party and got to see the centerpieces in action:

Ballons were tied to the snowflake to complete the look

Happy First Birthday to a very special little girl! I know that everyone at the party enjoyed seeing all of the pictures of you throughout the past year on each of the tables.

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Cute Custom Hats for a special little one

One of my favorite things about Etsy is all of the custom items you can request talented people to make for you!

I recently asked one of my SNEAKY friends for custom hand knitted hats for my daughter and friend. A pale pink because my daughter is very girly!

Yesterday Stockannette finished this project and posted on Etsy! I can't wait to get them!!

Here are some pics:

Like what you see and want something similar for the little one in your life - Check out Stockannette on Etsy! Pin It Now!

A Pink and Green Party!

Ever since I started Happy Hound, I've always wanted to design an entire party from the invitations, centerpieces, favors, place cards and thank you cards.  I've been so excited to share my first party ensemble based on the colors Pink and Green.

First the invitation:

The invitation was really two pieces, an outer folder with some decorative paper, ribbon and a photo and then wording mounted on shiny pink card stock, decorative paper and embellished with pink and green ribbon slid out of the top of the folder.

Centerpieces:

Every aspect of the centerpieces were hand made by me. The base consisted of 3 sides and each side had a different picture of the guest of honor. No photo was duplicated so guests could visit each table to see all of the pictures. The paper flowers in the middle were made by hand. 

Place Cards:

Favors:

Pink and Cream M&M's were printed with the Guest of Honor's name, placed in pink and green organza bags (Handmade by: Boxes and More), Pink and Green Felt Flowers (Handmade by: SuperCrafts on Etsy, who doesn't appear to be there anymore ) were glued to the front of the bag along with a pink and green tag.

Thank You Cards:

This was so fun for me and I can't wait to do it again. As soon as time permits I am going to start putting ensembles like this on Etsy. I am currently working on the same kind of thing for a wedding this summer and will be sure to share the photos! Pin It Now!

Happy 2010!

I really thought that I had blogged since the New Year! We are only 7 days in and the year has started off with a bang! A good bang for sure!! Stay tuned I've got lots of projects to share with you!

But for now, I am sponsoring today's Sneak Attack!!

Check out Handmade Movement for more information about sneak attacks and at 7 pm eastern time visit Handmade Movement to see what shops have been picked for the Sneak Attack and pick yourself up a little something from the shops! Pin It Now!

Front Page Baby! (and Custom Christmas Cards!)

I woke up this morning to find out that my Save the Date Luggage Tags were featured on the front page of Etsy at 3am. I am so excited to have something make the front page! I wish I could have seen it first hand but there is a picture of it in the Craftcult vault...

I wanted to show you the custom Christmas cards I made for a sweet little lady in New Mexico!! She wanted something with a southwestern flair and knowing that she LOVES red and green chile this is what I came up with for her:

The inside of the card says Wishing you a Merry Little Christmas (in NM having a dish of food with both Red and Green Chile is called Christmas) and in the left hand corner - Handmade with love by our granddaughter and my website!

Thanks Granny for letting me make your Christmas Cards this year and for asking me to put in some free advertising too! I love you. :)

Have a great day everyone!

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Christmas Card Madness

I decided that my Christmas Cards this year should include a picture of my daughter and our dog. I got my daughter dressed up in her Christmas dress and put Snoopy's Christmas bow tie on. I thought with a little turkey I could get the dog to do anything and I wasn't worried at all about my 7 month old who loves the camera. Take a few shots and be done with it - is what I thought!!!

WELL......let me just say I had about 100 shots to choose from and there were probably 3 where the dog and the baby were both looking at the camera.

Here are a few pictures of the actual Christmas cards that I sent out: (I love how they turned out, even if it's not exactly what I had pictured)

(In case you can't read it: Wishing you enough happy times to fill every corner of your home with warm memories)

Here are some Candids from the over 100 pictures I took trying to get the dog and my daughter to look at the camera:

We had fun anyway!! :) Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Pin It Now!

Merry Christmas

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!

~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

My countdown to Christmas sort of fell by the wayside and I apologize for that. I have completely wrapped myself up in Christmas this year. It is a very special one as we celebrate for the first time with our daughter. She's too young to understand what is going on but we are sure having a wonderful time and are so very thankful for the amazing gift she is!

I wanted to take this time to send you all a very heartfelt thank you for all of your support. I am so very happy to be doing what I love and enjoy sharing it with you. From the bottom of my heart thank you!

To all of my Etsy friends - I have been so blessed "meeting" you all. You are amazing people, with extraordinary talents and are the nicest, most caring, most giving group of people I have ever met. I look forward to the year ahead and hope we are all blessed with the gift of many many sales.

Have a safe, happy and loving Christmas. I hope you are all surrounded by the people and pets and things that you love.

~ Kirby

PS: My cards are currently featured in the Voter on Etsy!

http://www.etsy.%20com/voter_%20list.php? ref=voter&room_id=85

I am honored to be included with the many amazing items and artists.  3 of my friends are also featured so if you can't vote for me check them out as well!

Fun 2010 write in calendar - TheArtofJoy

(Joy is currently in second place and it would be sooo neat to see her win - Please vote for her!!)

Thank you You are a Peach Card - GoodGosh

ROSELLA DAHLIA blank photo note cards - PaintedMemoriesByRos

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