{Party Bee} Introducing the Splish Splash Bash Collection

Summer is finally upon us and everyone is breaking out their swimsuits, towels, and beach balls and hitting the pools and the beach! With all of the wet and wild fun that summer brings, why not celebrate you or your child's birthday with a pool party!

The Sugar Bee Bungalow is now introducing our new Splish Splash Bash Printable Collection. With a color palette of primary colors and a fun beach ball design, your party will for sure be a smash and make a splash!

The entire collection $30.00 and comes with the following:

- Invitation (envelope not included)
- 5 circle tag designs. These are great for cupcake toppers, cookie tags, decorations. With a little creativity, their uses are endless!
- Thank you tags
- "Happy Birthday_____" banner
- "________ is one" (or whatever age of the birthday boy/girl)
- Decorative pennant banner
- Mini Decorative pennant banner
- 2 large circle designs. One with beach balls, the other says "Pool Party".
- 2 treat bag label designs
- 3 water bottle label designs
- Party pail tags
- Menu tent cards
- Cupcake wrappers on patterned paper
- Coordinating patterned paper

Just send me the name of the birthday boy/girl, age, and the party information (i.e. date, place, contact, etc.).

Receive the files electronically and print out as many as you need! Then cut and assemble!

{Party Bee} Monster Cookies

This past weekend my son, Jake, turned 2! I can't believe my baby boy is already two, where has the time gone? It is so true that time flies when you are having fun!

Because this past year Jake has become obsessed with Sesame Street, it only seemed appropriate that we celebrate his birthday, Jake Street style! So over the weekend we had a very fun Sesame Street themed Bash. Pics to come soon! But to give you a little sneak peek, I am showing you the "monster cookies" that I made for his dessert table. Jake loved these cookies and he wanted to play with them as if they were toys!

Stay tuned for Jake's "Jake Street" birthday party pics!

{Party Bee} Jake Baptism Party Collection: New Color Palette

The Jake Baptism Party Collection has a new color palette! It is now featured in blues and lime green! It even contains three water bottle label designs and two mini candy wrapper designs as well as two banner options!

Get the whole collection for $25!

The Jake Baptism Party Collection: Blues and Lime Green contains:
- Invitation (envelope not included) (picture optional)
- 5 circle tag designs. These are great for cupcake toppers, cookie labels, etc.- the uses are endless!
- "Happy Baptism ____" banner in two color choices.
- Treat bag labels
- Menu tent cards
- Water bottle labels in three designs
- Mini candy wrappers in two designs (created to fit the Ghirardelli squares)
- Large cross in circle (great for the wall, centerpieces, or hanging decorations)
- Coordinating patterned paper

Receive the files electronically and print and assemble!

{Party Bee} Sneak Preview: Jake's 2nd Birthday

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? Well...actually Jake Street! If you haven't guessed, my son is having a Sesame Street themed birthday party for his 2nd birthday. I can't believe he is already going to be TWO! He of course is learning so many things and is developing such a fun and energetic personality and this year he has become infatuated with Sesame Street. Therefore, it only seemed appropriate to celebrate with a Jake Street birthday party!

A little while back, my husband came up with a great idea to create life size (well... life size for toddlers anyway) characters for the yard for decoration and for photos with the kids. What a fantastic idea! Well he worked hard and they came out so cute! He is pretty crafty I must say, but he didn't do this freehand, he had some help from a fabulous tool called the Tracer Projector.

This is a fantastic tool to use when you don't have the time to draw something freehand (and with 2 kids who does). He just set up a smooth cut of quality plywood in the garage where he could get it pretty dark and traced the image with a black Sharpie marker. After he finished tracing the illustration, he used Behr paint color samples that he purchased from Home Depot in the colors that he needed and painted the characters. Look at the simple transformation of Elmo...outlined with Sharpie and then painted! So easy and looks great!

In some of them, he used a combination of both paint and Sharpie.

 

As you can see, Cookie Monster's present is colored using Sharpie. Same goes with Big Bird's legs, tongue, and eyelids.

And if you don't feel like using paint at all, you can color in the entire illustration using Sharpies like our Oscar the Grouch here!

Such a simple project that makes a BIG impact! The kids are going to love them...especially Jake!

Stay tuned for photos from Jake's 2nd Birthday Party!

{Busy Bee} Proudly Introducing Ava Belen

Just days after my beautiful baby girl was born, my wonderful aunt and talented photographer, captured my daughter on film for her newborn photos. Let me just say that she did an incredible job and my baby girl, Ava, looks mesmerizing. Seeing these photographs simply make my heart smile.

Thank you so much, Auntie! These are just absolutely beautiful!

Photography by K.L. Images

{Queen Bee} Happiest Easter

This past month for me has not only been the happiest month but also the craziest month! It is no surprise to anyone that taking care of a toddler and a newborn is hard work, though the little special moments, like hearing your toddler say mama and dadda for the first time or laugh so hard it is contagious or seeing your baby smile at you when you speak...these are the special moments that far outweigh the crazy moments of insanity!

Thus, with my month being consumed of babies, things like preparing for Easter kind of end up being left to the last minute. But although last minute, I don't think my Easter table and chocolate covered Oreos turned out too shabby. What do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

My little love bunny and a beautiful dinner with my family was the perfect Easter gift. This has been the Happiest Easter!

And a BIG thank you to my wonderful friend, Dary, for photographing my pretty little girl in her bunny outfit!

{Busy Bee} April Fools' Day Desserts

April Fools' Day is a perfect day to whip out the baking supplies and fool your loved ones with silly treats dressed up to look like another kind of food...such as the icky vegetables that seem to revolt your kids! For inspiration, I have a few examples from some awesome bakers that I thought are perfect and just too cute!

 Bakerella's Hamburger Cupcakes

 

 Hello, Cupcake! Spaghetti and Corn Cupcakes...just too funny!

 The Sweet Adventure of Sugar Belle's Pizza Cookies...LOVE these!

Sweetapolita's Asparagus Cake...AMAZING!

Happy April Fools' Day!