Monday Made It - Frozen Party!

Yay! I'm linking up again with 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It! One of these days, I will make something for my classroom, but today is not that day. 

We celebrated my daughter's {gulp} fourth birthday on Saturday. Four just sounds so much older than three, and it's killing me. Anyway, just like every other little girl in America, my little love is obsessed with Disney's Frozen. If you follow me on Instagram (Click here to follow me), you saw this little preview last week: 

I bought some scrapbook paper (on sale!) at Hobby Lobby and used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the circles, snowflakes, and letters. 

 I punched holes in each side of the circles, strung them on this snowflake ribbon I found in my mess ribbon supply (score!), and voila! A fun birthday banner! 

Here is the banner in all its glory with my second Made It - favor bags! Thankfully, this project was not as time-consuming, and my daughter loved helping me! If you're like me, you roll your eyes when you see the Christmas decor out at Hobby Lobby in June. This time, though, I was super excited to find a package of these glittery foam snowflakes that I just glued onto gift bags (also found at Hobby Lobby). 

And here's another reason to love the Target Dollar Spot (as if you needed one)! I found these Activity Books (with stickers!) and the socks in the Dollar Spot, and boxes of the fruit snacks at my local grocery store! Perfect!! 

Note: The boxes of fruit snacks with Elsa and Anna on the box contain some packages with Elsa and Anna on them and some with other princesses. I didn't realize this when I bought them, but I bought three boxes, so I was covered. 

Next up: Food! I scoured Pinterest (Click here to follow me on Pinterest and see my Frozen Party board) to come up with a menu and made some cute little labels to go with the food. 

 These are pretty self-explanatory. 

 I kept it simple with chicken salad and ham and cheese sandwiches. I couldn't remember what the little shop was called where Anna and Kristoff met, but now I know it was Oaken's Trading Post. So I would make that change if I had to do it all over again. Basically I just needed a reason to buy Munchies! 

 My daughter couldn't believe the tag on the left really said "eat" a snowman! :) And if the tag on the right doesn't make sense, we have a restaurant here called Wolf's BBQ, and they make THE BEST potato salad. And since Anna and Kristoff have wolves chasing after them at one point, this worked out perfectly! 

Sorry about the blurry label. I was snapping these quickly!
And I'm completely in love with the cake. No label necessary. 

And finally: the dress. I used to do craft shows and had a little hobby business called Baby Z Boutique. Technically, I still have it, but I don't do much bow or tutu making anymore, except for for my own daughters. Mommying, teaching, blogging, and TPTing just take up too much time! 

Anyway, I ordered a turquoise lined tutu top from Etsy and then got to work cutting tulle pieces. 

I should've taken a picture of the finished dress before she put it on, but she COULD. NOT. WAIT. to get dressed. I had to set an alarm on my phone so she would stop asking! :) You can get the idea, though. 

She was testing out her new roller skates! 

I always wait till the last minute to do everything, but it all turned out pretty well! I can't wait till next year! :) 

Monday Made It - Nursery Edition

I'm so excited to be linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for my first Monday Made It! 

My "Made Its" this week have nothing to do with school; hope you don't mind! I spent the majority of this past school year on bed rest and maternity leave, so it's fitting that my first two "Made Its" are related to my baby's nursery. 

While going through things at my grandparents' house last year, my husband and I found this dresser and nightstand in their basement. Not exactly my style, but they were in excellent condition, and we wanted to bring them home with us and attempt to refinish them. 

We had no idea what we were doing, and I use the term "we" lightly. My husband did almost all of the work on these babies. He sanded, painted, sanded some more, painted again, removed hardware, and sealed them. I bought unfinished knobs and painted them. See? I helped a little. It counts. 

Folks, refinishing furniture is no joke, and I doubt I will ever do it again, but I'm in LOVE with these two pieces of furniture. And they are even more special since they once belonged to my beloved grandparents and are now in my sweet baby girl's room. 

My next creation took a whole lot less time, but it is also in my daughter's room, and I love it! This time around, I couldn't find a bedding set that I loved, so I pieced some things together on my own. We (ok not really me) painted the walls a beautiful turquoise blue, and I found pink and white polka dot curtains on Zulily that I fell in love with. Then I was on a mission to find something to tie together the pink and turquoise, and I discovered the perfect fabric at the mothership - Hobby Lobby. {You can see the package of curtains and the fabric on top of the nightstand above.}

I can't even sew on a button, so I enlisted my neighbor to make a blanket and pillow for the rocker for me. But the room needed something else. 

 I think I bought 1/4 or 1/2 of a yard of the fabric and a white 8x10 frame from Hobby Lobby. 

I put the fabric on top, cut out the center, flipped the frame over, and hot glued the fabric to the back side.

An important step so you don't get a fabric bunch in the corners is to cut the fabric at the corner, fold it over into a triangle, and then fold that straight edge up and hot glue it. 

Finished product. The lighting was obviously not great that day, but you kind of get the idea. :) 

Hopefully this will be the first of many Monday Made Its for me since it's SUMMER!!