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DIY Tropical Drink Sleeves

Tropical DIY Drink Sleeves

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DIY Tropical Drink Sleeves

Making this winter bright and tropical continues with these fun coffee or hot drink sleeves! I’m feeling all tropical and beachy while inside with the heat on. Fill these up with my colorful hot chocolate. Then you will have some bright drinks and cups. These could be really fun for coffee at a tropical brunch! Then top the drinks with whipped cream and colorful sprinkles. Plus the tropical vibes go great with colorful Christmas lights for easy decor in the winter. I just couldn’t wait until the heat to make some tropical fun. By the time summer comes around I will probably be making things in fall colors. read more

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Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

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Sparkly Centerpiece Ideas

Sparkly Candle Centerpiece

With New Years and winter around the corner I want to add some sparkle to everything. I am all decorated for Christmas and I added plenty of sparkly snowflakes to my decor. Of course I didn’t think about how messy the sparkles could be so now my place is covered in glitter. These sparkly centerpiece ideas are no mess because I used glitter washi tape! Plus I got the materials from the dollar store. Cheap, easy, and sparkly without the mess.

For the Candles I wrapped gold washi tape around led tea lights. Don’t use regular candles unless you are just wrapping the very bottom. read more

About Valerie Lewis

Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

DIY Ways To Make Your Party Sparkle

26 Ways To Make Your Party Sparkle

DIY Ways To Make Your Party Sparkle

These diy sparkle party decorations are the best and most creative ways to make your party sparkle! I want to have a sparkly unicorn princess party stat. There is something for every kind of shiny party from weddings, kids parties, new years, and birthdays. These are my absolute favorite sparkly decoration ideas from around the web. Click on the site name to get the full diys.

DIY Glitter-Dipped Cups

DIY Glitter Dipped Cups from Evite

How fabulous are these sparkly donuts found on Kara’s Party Ideas read more

About Valerie Lewis

Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

Easy Party Appetizers

Easy Party Appetizers

Easy Party Appetizers

I love parties but I never know what food to make. I am not much of a cook so I always need to make something easy. I want the food to be easy to make but super tasty. I found some amazing recipes from around the web that are both tasty and simple to make. There is something for all types of parties from fun kids parties to classy adult soirees! These easy party appetizers are sure to please a crowd and will disappear in minutes.

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These Buffalo Chicken Bites look amazing! From A Pumpkin and A Princess read more

About Valerie Lewis

Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

Trolls Party Games and Activites

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15 Troll Movie Party Games and Activities

15 fun trolls party games and activities!

We are really excited for the Trolls movie in my house! My daughter loves games and activities. She helped me come up with some Troll games and activities! These are all kid approved.

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  • Find the troll. Put a troll from my printable tags CLICK HERE underneath a piece of candy or cups. Tape on with double sided tape. Show the kids which cup has the troll then mix them around quickly and see if the kids can guess where the troll ends up. You can do it with the two different trolls and 5 pieces of candy(or cups) to make it more challenging to guess.
  • Decorate a troll. Take blue and pink paper bags. Add googly eyes, stickers, gems, tissue paper, feathers and other decorations.
  • Freeze dance. Put on some music from the movie such as “Cant stop this feeling”. Start the music then stop it after a short time. Every time it stops the kids have to freeze. Dancing and a game in one!
  • Troll pinata! Everyone loves a pinata.
  • Poppy’s popping bubble station because bubbles! You can have individual bubbles or a large bubble maker.
  • Run from the bergan! Have an adult or one person be the bergan/bad guy. Everyone else are trolls, if the trolls are tagged they turn into a bergan and get to tag others. The last good guy wins.
  • Making streamer troll people. Have different teams with different colors of streamers for every team. Each team has to wrap an entire roll of streamers around one team member. Whoever finishes first wins.
  • Streamer troll relay race. Once people are wrapped up as trolls have an obstacle course set up for them to crawl over objects or jump over. This can be made with streamers tied across the room or a hallway.Trolls Balloon Game
  • Balloon game! Everyone loves balloons. I haven’t met a person large or small that doesn’t love balloons. Tie balloons around the kids waists with streamers. Have two teams with two different color balloons. Kids from one team try to chase and steal the other teams balloons. When they steal a balloon the person they stole it from is out and they can put the balloons in a laundry basket or box. Whoever gets the other team out first wins.
  • Crazy troll hair station. Have a station with hair chalk and hair glitter(glitter optional) to make fun bright color troll hair. You can do fun styles as well, depending on your hair skill level.
  • Hide the troll or trolls. Have small troll toys, small balls, candy or plastic eggs with the troll printables taped on them. Hide them, have the kids search for and collect the trolls.
  • Car races! Tape the printables on small wind up cars. Have two teams race Poppy and Branch.
  • Pin the hair on the troll. Get a poster of the trolls. Get cardstock paper in the color of the hair and cut pieces it out in the shape of the hair. Put double sided tape on the back of the papers. Have the kids pin the hair on the poster.
  • Ring toss. Print out the large circle trolls CLICK HERE, Tape onto the top of a wooden dowel. Glue the bottom of the wooden dowel to the middle of a small piece of wood, cardboard or foam board. You can use embrodiery hoops with ribbon wrapped around for the rings(these are cheaper than a ring toss game). If you already have a ring toss game just use that and tape one of the trolls to the base or front.
  • Troll twister. Use the printable mentioned in the line above and tape them to one of the colors on the twister board.
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    About Valerie Lewis

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    Trolls Cupcake Wrappers

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    Trolls cupcake wrappers

    My daughter has been excited for the Trolls movie to come out for the past couple months. Any time we see a preview she gets really excited. I also want to see this movie because it has Trolls duh! Plus, I love the theme song and love me some Justin Timberlake. I made these printable Trolls cupcake wrappers inspired by the movie. They can be use for parties or a fun treat before going to see the movie. You can also put cotton candy in cupcake wrappers with the Trolls wrappers for troll hair. read more

    About Valerie Lewis

    Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

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    Bad Moms Back to School Tips

    Bad mom back to school tips

    Who’s ready to embrace your inner bad mom?! With the movie bad moms coming out I was thinking about all the “bad mom” things I am doing with getting my daughter ready for school. I feel bad for doing some things completely half ass but I really shouldn’t. If you worry at all about not doing everything right as a parent then you are a good parent. I love that moms are starting to embrace there imperfections and say who cares if others judge me. I can be a pinteresty mom. However, I am not going to have the perfect bento boxes that include a sandwich version of a Picasso painting. I just don’t have the time. I also don’t make healthy snacks(or anything) from scratch and I can’t always get my daughter to eat any of her vegetables. I put fruits and vegetables in my daughters lunch mostly so I wont get judged for not including these healthy additions. Yes, she is picky and I don’t want to hear about how kids are picky because parents make them that way. We do eat healthy but we also have to live life. Sometimes chicken nuggets and pizza are just delicious! Sorry not sorry. read more

    About Valerie Lewis

    Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

    Simple Banana Notes

    Bananas with notes on them

    With school coming up I have been looking for ideas for school lunches. My daughter is starting Kindergarten this year. I can’t believe she’s already in Kindergarten! It’s the big time for her, real school! I would love to do fancy lunches every day but realistically that’s not going to happen. Notes are a fun way to show your kids you care. You don’t even need paper just write a note, joke or draw a picture on bananas or other fruit. Since my daughter is 5 I will mostly be drawing little pictures. read more

    About Valerie Lewis

    Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

    DIY Emoji Party Favor Tags

    DIY Emoji Party Favor Tags

    I love emojis! I may over use them just a tad when I’m texting though. Sometimes words can’t express what an emoji can! Emoji parties are a fun trend right now and they are perfect for tween/teen parties. I will show you how to make these adorable emoji party favor tags and give a few ideas for party favors. Teen party favors are really tricky because bubbles and bouncy balls no longer cut it(although I’m an adult and I like bubbles haha)!

    What you need to make them:

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    About Valerie Lewis

    Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

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    White Chocolate Covered Fruit Kabobs

    White Chocolate Covered Fruit Kabobs

    For summer I love having desserts with fruit in them. I also like a simple dessert. These white chocolate covered fruit kabobs with rainbow sprinkles are perfect for a simple refreshing dessert! I chose rainbow colored fruits to give a pop of color. I also didn’t put all the kinds of fruit on one kabob because some people like different fruits. You could do a bunch of combinations of fruit too to give variety. I like them separated and how they look all lined up by color. I also toyed around with the idea of colorful candy melts for the chocolate drizzle but decided white chocolate with colorful sprinkles would look good. If you have a theme and a certain color you want to use you can add a colorful chocolate drizzle! I was thinking of orange, pink or another bright color. I also think colorful sprinkles are a nice touch for parties! read more

    About Valerie Lewis

    Hi I'm Val! I love coffee and cupcakes(breakfast of champions), and making simple crafts with my kids.

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