4th of July cupcake w/ free printable wrappers

Blueberry cupcakes for the 4th of July!

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For the cupcakes:

I started with a regular yellow cake mix and added a handful of blueberries to bake into each.

Frosted with buttercream from 1 part butter, and 4 parts powdered sugar, thinned with a little water, and  'cornflower blue' wiltons gel food coloring. (I highly recommend using gel food coloring for frostings). I used a large star tip to apply the frosting. Waited for them to cool and then added some fun wrappers I made up.

To print the cupcake wrappers: Click on the photo below to expand it, and then right click print or select 'file' and 'print'. To avoid moisture from the cupcake seeping through you will want to print these on card stock or other thicker paper. (Personal use).



4th of July Tablescape

A picnic basket filled to the brim with stars and stripes seemed a fun way to decorate for this holiday.

My petal plates reminded me of stars. They are set on our blue everyday plates.

Some mismatched stars and stripes napkins. (above and below)

Little flag garland as a table runner.

And just for show some cute little coasters for the glassware.

Happy 4th of July!

Father's Day Breakfast Tray

A fun black and white breakfast tray for Father's day with a cute shirt and tie napkin fold.

We start with a shot of espresso, which is always a must when waking dad up early.

Added some flowers from the garden.

A photo of our kiddos in their 'we love dad' shirts from last father's day.

The breakfast food we will bring in and set up on a separate wooden tv tray next to the bed.

And a fun fathers day shirt and tie napkin fold:

To fold this napkin:

See the step by step instructions:

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Dad T-Shirts

Easy no sew T-shirts for Father's day.

I was inspired by THIS post at A Girl With A Gluegun. Go look and come back, I'll wait. 

I changed it a little to make it even simpler.

I love dressing my children in holiday clothing, but think it is wasteful to buy clothing that they will probably only wear that one day. With this idea you can buy one in-expensive t-shirt and redecorate it until they grow out of it.

I started by printing out some letters which I then traced onto an old pair of black jeans.

I left a little bit of material on the edges to fold under.

Pinned and ironed on highest setting.

Removed pins and used hot glue all around the underside edges and glued to shirt.

And here they are!

The wiggly little bunch of them :)

We are ready for Father's day.

After Father's day is over the letters are coming off and some flags are next.