Coors Light 6 Packs to super cute baby shower gifts??? YES PLEASE!

I make a diaper cake for EVERY baby shower I go to.  But, what do you get the person who you know will end up with MULTIPLE diaper cakes???  I have a friend who has a HUGE family and tons of friends, I could pretty much guarantee that she would get a few.  Who needs 5 diaper cakes???  lol  Usually when I make them, I'm typically the ONLY person who makes them.  But I knew I had to do something different, AND we were low on cash.

 

There is is, HELLOOOOOO Coors Light!  lol!  This friend happened to be a pretty frequent drinker.  Like us, very social, goes to the desert, goes to the river, goes to the popular bars in our part of San Diego.  Not an alcoholic or anything.  lol

So... what would you do with this?

turn it to....

Cute, right?

I went to walmart and asked for one of the 6 pack boxes, so that was FREE!  

Then I spent $5.00 on a scrapbook kit at walmart.

$1.00 on a pack of glittery self adhesive letters at walmart.

and Voila!

Then you stuff it with whatever your heart desires!  I originally wanted to stuff it with the large bottles of soaps and lotions for baby, but once I was at walmart and saw the size of the slots, I didn't thing that would work to well.   SO, I got something I LOVED when I was a new mommy, all the travel sizes!  I got powder, soap, shampoo, lotion, diaper rash cream.  Then in the extra holes I stuffed in a 2 piece outfit and a sleeper! :D  SUPER cute!

I definitely spent under $50 total, and usually when I do a diaper cake I end up spending closer to $100 just cause I end up going ALL out.  At least this way I was confined to the small spaces in the box so I couldn't really spend all that much. 

If you make one, leave me a comment, I'd LOVE to see pictures of yours!  And by the way, the Momma LOVED it! :D  I have a few other pregnant friends who I probably won't go to the shower cause we're not super super close but I'd love to deliver one of these to their house.  So, you'll probably see another one of these in the near future.  lol

And P.S. for anyone waiting for an update on my breast lump biopsy and aspiration tests... STILL haven't heard back.  :(  I've been so busy I haven't had much time to think about it.  LUCKILY!  I think all my friends are purposefully keeping me busy which I'm extremely blessed and thankful for.

Valentines Day Rice Crispy Pops!

So, being that this is the first year my boys were in school and I'm pretty involved in their class and school, when the holiday's come around I go big!  When Valentines day rolled around I had my eyes peeled for amazing idea's to make for my boys to WOW their little friends who I love so much.  We live in a small tight knit community and I also went to the same school and know much of the staff from when I attended.  This puts even more pressure on, right?  lol

So, as I was browsing blogs I found an awesome download to make magnificent little cards like this....

Cute right!!!  Although I myself am a graphic designer, I was having a total mind block on what to do about their cards and when I saw this I knew it was right.  Also with all the home repair going on to get my home daycare started and trying to balance that and the kids along with our extra activities... ugh... premade sounded amazing to me.  The boys hate it when I sit on my computer!  lol

So you can download the template or a few others with different designers here....

Custom Valentines Day Photo Careds - by Eighteen25

So, I still needed to spruce up the cards a little and I knew the 4x6 format they were in would be a little too big to attach to a treat and it would just work better small.  I combined two on one 4x6 making their size 2x3, so two would fit on a 4x6 print and sent the prints to walmart.com 1 hour.  Went and picked them up and mounted them on some black card stock.  I love black, nice clean look! I then punched holes in the corner so they could be tied to string and voila... they were ready to go!

Now onto the treats.  I had seen a few things be dipped into chocolate before and I thought the best one to hold up to preschool and kindergarten kids would be rice crispy treats.  Hearts OF COURSE because it's the big V day!

So off I went to walmart.  Got 2 boxes of cheapo off brand rice crispys, 2 bags of marshmallows and I already had butter at home.

Now my kids get Valentines day off from school (don't ask me why, I think it's stupid) so their party was Friday the 10th.  So on Thursday I spent from 2:15pm til 10:00pm making 44 rice crispy pops!  lol

Excuse my horrible lighting.  I HATE out kitchen lights and I was using my on camera flash and the reflections were horrible and I was so messy I just had to snap shots quick. 

 

So, I used cookie cutters to cute out the hearts but then kind of molded them into more round hearts and added the sticks!

 I then microwaved white chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips in a small bowl and dipped the pops into the chocolate then immediately covered one side in Valentines colored sprinklers.

I let the pops dry for about 20 to 30 minutes and the white seemed to dry much faster than the milk chocolate. 

After drying I wrapped them in clear wrap, closed them with red twine, attached their cards to the twine, and tied a bow...... and 44 crispy pops and almost 8 hours later....

BAM!  Love them!

I must say I was the talk of the town!  lol  

Every person who saw them was amazing!  All the time was definitely worth it.