Hawaiian Going Away Party

We had a going away party for a friend that was moving back to Japan. Here are some of the things I made for it. Sushi made out of candy. I used fruit roll ups, Twinkies, Swedish fish, mini powder donuts cut in half, and Swiss roll or din dongs.

 These Hawaiian hair clips made out of Hawaiian hibiscus flowers.

 These cupcakes are made with vanilla and chocolate fish crackers, gummy life saver, fruit roll ups and teddy Graham. I used crushed Graham crackers for the sand.

I saw this pineapple cream cheese dip and had to make it.

I saw these online and a friend made them.  Aren't they cute?

I also made a topiary out of umbrellas and used a thruster s heet that was Hawaiin as a backdrop for a photo booth. I brought leis for everyone to wear and got funny glasses, hats and Hawaiian skirts for the photo booth.(will add photos of these when I find them). Everyone were their Hawaiian attire and had a great time. 

Winter Owl Baby Shower

I help with a winter owl baby shower for a good friend. I made snowflake sugar cookies and my sister  helped me decorate them.

 I also made these sugar cookies for the Hot Chocolate bar to set on the cups.

We had a Hot Chocolate bar that everyone seems  to love.  There was a variety of toppings including syrup, different flavored marshmallows and chips, and candy canes for stirring. I also made marshmallows pops covered in white chocolate and blue sugar.

 My friend did a great job with the make the all the decorations. I helped make some of them and the favors.

These were made with empty baby food jars. We hot glued the owl and spray painted the top and filled with candy. Didn't they turn out good?

We hand stitched these little mittens and filled with chocolate covered pretzels. 

We cut all these little owls out by hand and attached to mini ziploc bags filled with chocolate covered snowflake pretzels.

Wine Tasting Party

We have  made many homemade wines and in hopes of getting rid of some we had a wine tasting party instead of our usual Oktoberfest. We had lots of cheese, fruit, brownies, and other appetizers. We sent everyone home with some wine too.

Plum Jam

We got a lot of plums from some friends, we went back for more but the bear had eaten them. So in addition to making wine we also made some plum jam with honey and agave instead of sugar and canned it. It set well and tasted delicious. 

AEDM Day 18

Today we had an animal party with 9 kids. We made a horse out of toilet paper rolls, cups, popsicle sticks and a few other craft supplies. Pretty fun and easy. You can also see the oragami animals I made last week and the animal food I prepared this morning. We had ants on a log, ladybugs, penguins, goldfish crackers, swedish fish, gummy bears, cheese bunnies, chocolate chip bunnies, annimal crackers, jello jigglers and baked macaroni and cheese.