And for the last detail of Avery's birthday gift from my cousin Amy (featured on Monday's post): its monogrammed gift box. Amy used IKEA reversible wrapping paper and cut out an "A" to adorn her gift box. Simple and very cute!
gift box
handmade ramen bowl
My creative cousin strikes again! For Avery's birthday gift this year, Amy made a pretend ramen bowl using the following "ingredients": yarn, felt, craft foam, Sculpey UltraLight oven bake clay, acrylic paint, card stock and Modge Podge. Genius, right?!
lego crayons
As promised, here are photos of some of the many lego crayons I made this past Christmas to give to Avery's friends. These are the ones I ended up keeping for Avery, and as you can see, they are a little worn down because they've been in use! I purchased a lego-shaped mold on eBay and used this tutorial, but ended up increasing the oven temperature to 225-250 degrees (depending on the batch). Recycled crayons are fun and economical to make, and there is an endless variety of shapes and possibilities out there!
rainy day morning
Lots of energy this morning!
[Photo taken with my iPhone.]
frosted cupcakery
Over the weekend, we bought a half dozen cupcakes using a Groupon at Frosted Cupcakery in Long Beach. I thought I would snap a few pictures before we dug into these beauties. My favorite was the lemon cupcake with lemon cream cheese frosting. (From top to bottom: neapolitan {the monthly special}, strawberry with strawberry cream cheese frosting and orange with orange cream cheese frosting.)