Dollar store gifts – Candy Kebabs

candy kebabs, candy kabobs, candy on a stick

These adorable and delicious candy kebabs (candy kabobs) are great for Easter treats, birthday loot bags, or classroom treats and cost less than $1 each! I know I’ve been posting smaller projects lately, but that’s because in the background I’m working on a fairly big makeover… my unfinished laundry room is getting built-in cabinets, one […]

How to make an ice cream cake

How to make an ice cream cake, ice cream cake, homemade ice cream cake

If I’d known how easy it was to make your own ice cream cake, I might never have made anything else for birthdays!  The simple three-step process for how to make an ice cream cake on the blog today. We had a birthday here last week! My baby (my eldest, but first born baby) turned […]

Championship Beer Pong (with or without beer)

Beer Pong, Championship beer pong, basketball beer pong, summer fun, party games, scrap wood project, backyard games

We went over to our dear friends’ house the other night and I was (very belatedly) introduced to beer pong.  Why have I never played this before?  I went to College (and University) and I don’t remember missing any parties when I was there – but the wonder that is beer pong was never introduced […]

Holiday Entertaining and Surprise Guests

Holiday entertaining, bar cart, surprise guests, unexpected visitors, dessert display

You know it’s going to happen… usually when your house is at its worst, you have laundry piles on the couches waiting to be folded and there are dirty dishes in the sink… Surprise Guests! It’s the Season for stop-by’s and pop-by’s and “I was in the neighbourhood”, so I thought I’d share a little […]

Candy Bar / Candy Buffet

Candy bar, candy buffet, candy display, candy loot bags, treat bags

My girls have danced around the house all weekend reminding me that there are only “9 days left of school”. At this point, actually learning anything is mute – it’s all about treat days and field trips to celebrate the end of another school year…. essentially a month-long party with a bit of math squeezed […]

Personal (mini) Fire Pit

Mini fire pit, personal fire pit, s'mores bar, terracotta pot fire, marshmallow roasting station

I love this post so much – and I can’t take credit for it at all. Damn!  I hate sharing the glory. My friend Leslie was showing me photographs from a party her daughter threw the other week; in them, she pointed out the mini fire pit / personal fire pits she had created for […]

Canada Day!

Canada Day - street party invitation, pancake breakfast

We’re changing things up this year! Every year for the past 11 years Hubby has organized a Canada Day street party for our friends and neighbours.  He sends out invitations (paper and electronic), then collects money door-to-door for the fireworks.  He organizes tents and barbecues, the pot luck and drinks, and usually arranges for something […]