I Heart Faces "Anything But a Face"

The theme over at iheartfaces.com this week is "Anything But a Face" and unfortunately this week I had a very hard time choosing a picture.  I have a lot of pictures of my kids in which their face is not in the picture.  Some of them are your typical sitting in a chair, legs dangling pose and a few are more orignial.  I decided on this one though, because it shows my little girl's hands.  She has come to love playing the piano, and in this picture she was in her Christmas dress practicing for the church Christmas program.  She was so intent.  I just love her precious little fingers playing the worn out keys of the same piano that her great grandmother played.  Her great grandmother would be so proud if she could see her now (her great grandpa would be too).  :-)

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Love Your Shot "Love"

The theme over at http://lovethatshot.com/ is love.  I had planned on using my tripod and getting a nice picture of my husband and me, but alas, we were too busy and I got sick.  So, instead, this is a picture of one of the little loves of my life doing what he loves--playing in the snow, taken right after the huge snowstorm that came through at the beginning of the month.  I love this guy so much and his smile and laugh are infectious!!  I love that his personality almost always shines through in photos.  He is such a sweet little guy with so much energy.  He melts my heart everyday.  He can be as ornery as can be, but when he looks at me with those sweet little eyes and that precious smile, all I can do is feel tremendous love for him.  So here is my entry.....

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"Four is Fun" the party

For my son's fourth birthday we decided to go with a robot theme.  I was thrilled because I had been keeping my eye out for cute stuff and had happened to see some cute robot stuff.  I started by decorating our mantel.  I cut out a birthday banner using the cricut and cut out some gears to decorate too.  All of the robots were cut using the Robotz Cricut cartridge. 

Of course there has to be a dessert table....

I saw these silicone cupcake molds one day while googling robot themed stuff.  They are by Fred and Friends.  I think they are the cutest ever!  I just knew we'd have to get them for the party.

Being that the robot molds were so expensive, we only bought two sets, so for the rest of the cupcakes my husband designed some toppers for me and my wonderful friend Mary Lynn cut them out assembled them.

I cut out the favor boxes using, I believe, the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, and filled them with mini slinkies, some gumballs and some robot stickers.

Here is the whole cupcake stand...

And after making cake pops for my daughter's birthday, I knew I had to make them for my son's.  So here are some robot cake pops.  Thank you  http://www.bakerella.com/ for the wonderful inspiration!!  And thank you to my wonderful friend Mary Lynn for helping me make these.  It was so much fun!!

Here's another view of the mantel where I used slinkies and funnels to decorate, and I love using candy in apothecary jars to decorate too!

Here is the banner I made, once again from the Robotz cartridge, that hung between the two rooms.  I just used miniature clothespins to hang them, so they could be taken down and played with later.

I cut out vinyl, using the cricut, and decorated the utensil caddy, making it look like a control panel.

My father-in-law helped me make the cake pop displays.  We used foam core and made a box.  We drilled holes in it for chasing LED lights in the front and holes on the top for the cake pop sticks.  I once again cut out vinyl to make it look like a control panel.

Here's my birthday boy sporting the shirt I made.  I simply used a iron on applique for the front...

and cut out a vinyl stencil, using the cricut, for the back...

Oh and I can't forget his robot tattoo.  All of the the kids got to pick out a robot tattoo.

I forgot to photograph a few other things, but I will mention them to give any of you out there ideas in case you might be planning a robot party.  We used my son's Halloween costume from the two Halloweens before, it was a robot made from diaper boxes, to put on our porch for decoration.  It lit up too.  As for games, we had pin the gear on the robot, robot freeze dance and a robot part relay race (we divided the kids into two teams and made them carry washers on spoons across the room, the older kids had to carry them on their noses). 
Here's a few collages I threw together of all of the pictures.  There are a few that I didn't feature big because they were just pictures of the food labels.  They were pretty neat labels that my husband designed.  He was such a big help.

And four is most definitely fun!!!

I Heart Faces "Hearts"

This weeks challenge over at http://www.iheartfaces.com/ is "Hearts."  I just recently picked up these heart sunglasses for my daughter so we could get some fun Valentine pictures.  So when I saw the theme I thought it would be fun to incorporate them in my picture. After taking the picture, I then realized my daughter was wearing her heart earrings too, so I guess there are more hearts in my picture than I had planned. :-)

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