PB&J Cupcakes 4 JT

When I first started dating JT, I had just moved to the big (and very expensive) city. My paycheck covered my bills and left room for nothing else. So I had to be creative and resourceful when it came time to holidays. Looking back at the gifts I have given him, I realize now that those early gifts I gave him, when I didn't have any money to just go out and buy him something- those gifts really were the best. Now, with all of our new expenses that we have taken on for our our upcoming wedding, I didn't feel right about spending a bunch of money to proclaim my love to him this year. It was time to get creative again...

I decided to bake him something. He loves peanut butter so I decided to make Peanut Butter & Jelly cupcakes for him. He loved them and he was totally surprised because we said were ignoring Valentine's Day this year. 

 I made a peanut butter frosting.

and tinted it pink with food coloring.

I cored the center of the cupcake filled it with strawberry jelly and put the piece I removed back to cover the jelly before frosting them.

I cut strawberries to look like hearts to decorate the tops of the cupcakes.

Strawberry cake, filled with strawberry jelly and topped with peanut butter - butter cream frosting. YUM.

I hope you had a great Valentine's Day!

xo Lizzie

Blind You With My Love

I put this gift together for my best friend Jenn. I wanted to mail her some sunshine to brighten her day so I filled a box with fun yellow gifts!

JT saw what I was putting together and decided to literally blind her- with bright flashing lights! He made this for her (built the whole device) to add to the box! Yeah... he's awesome! I love that it's personalized :)

I was so excited to get this in the mail and wait for her reaction! 

Love you Jenn! Miss you!

xo Lizzie

Glitter Fringe Banner Tutorial

I have had so many requests for glitter fringe banners in the past few days after the two banners I made were featured in two different Etsy emails. But I do not want to be in the glitter banner business! I had really only wanted to use up what I had bought to make banners for my own wedding. They are incredibly cheap to make, but very time consuming. Not to mention the mess - my dining room floor was a gorgeous glittery mess!

For those of you who are crafty, I wanted to share with you the tutorial that helped me create the banners I wanted for my wedding, so that you can make your own. 

Click here to be linked to a glitter banner tutorial by blog Contradiction Of Sorts.

Photo of Glitter Fringe Banner Created by Contradiction of Sorts

A few things to note where I differed from the tutorial: The fringe trim I use is 4 inch chainette, I used bakers twine to string the banner and also instead of regular Mod Podge to adhere the glitter I used one that had sparkles in it to amp up the sparkle.

I Love You; Glittering Fringe Banner

Video Of My New Fringe Banners

Please forgive my video skills... I just wanted to show you how sparkly my glitter fringe banners are!

xo Lizzie

Forever Glittering Fringe Banner

I am going to be adding fringe banners to my shop! The first one is this aqua forever banner.

I will be making more of this style with other words and color combos. I can also create custom fringe banners- just message me! Click here to be linked to my shop.

xo Lizzie

Happy 2013!

I am looking forward to all that 2013 has in store for me! Thank you for reading my blog this past year... I hope to share much more with you in 2013! 

Happy New Year!

xo Lizzie