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My name is Kristen.
I’m a former Wedding & Event Planner writing about fun ways to celebrate each and every day and the special occasions of life.
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Cookie Cutter Fruit Shapes
This is a festive and easy idea to dress up your next fruit bowl. Try using a Linzer Cookie Cutter Set to shape your cantaloupe, watermelon or pineapple into bite-size hearts, flowers, triangles or more. Use the heart cutter for bridal showers or engagement...
How to Make an Entrance for Your Wedding
This past weekend, we celebrated my brother's wedding in Chicago. It was a great weekend! The bride tended to every detail and all the little touches that create a beautiful wedding. And my brother, well, my brother had the crazy, but ever-so-cool, entrance. Having...
My New Clutter Strategy
I don't know about you, but my house has way too much clutter. I simply can't keep up with it. I'd like to say that it all belongs to my 2 & 4yr old, and really quite a bit is theirs (toys, books, seemingly millions of pieces to their toys). But at this very moment...
No Tears Over a Broken Hot Water Heater
photo credit mconnors Three days before we left for vacation, I discovered water in the storage area of our basement (sigh). Our hot water heater had broken and was leaking. Hot water turned off, mounds of laundry to do for the trip, the idea of cold showers...not...
Disney Vacation Countdown
In place of the usual vacation countdown (see here), I made a special Disney countdown. It is a fun way to excite and involve the kids while also removing the endless questions of how many days until we leave. We started this countdown at 30 days.As you may already...
Kids in Pumpkins ~ Fall Photo Idea
Pumpkin Pic @ 6 weeks old. Every Fall I take the kids out for a mini photo shoot. I'm the photographer and my kids are . . . well, when they were smaller, let's just say that they were my guinea pigs. And pumpkins were the props (a'hem, costumes). Lucky for them,...
Family Feud Game for Showers & Parties
If you are looking for an upbeat shower or party game, look no further. At a bridal shower for my brother and his fiance, we played the classic game of Family Feud. Prep work took some time....especially considering I had to DVR and skim through many episodes in...
Closing Out Summer – Checking on my Summer Fun List
Today is the last day of summer. I feel as if I blinked and summer passed me by. Yet because of my Summer Fun List, I feel satisfied and know that we enjoyed a variety of activities. I didn't quite get to everything on the list, but nothing ever goes exactly as...
Make a Breakfast Menu for Your Child
Kids love choices! We try to give Sweet Boy lots of choices all within our parameters. Sometimes the choices are to deliberately guide his actions and sometimes it is just for pure fun. On his first day of preschool, I made him a breakfast menu. He was to circle...
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