A "Peep" of Easter Fun!

I love the colors of Easter - so bright and cheerful! One of the more colorful Easter Treats are Peeps - great for snacking and decorating. Check our Easter Pinterest Board for lots of fun Easter ideas - many featuring those cute sugar covered chicks.

Each Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow Bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. In 1953, it took 27 hours to create a Marshmallow Peep. Today it takes six minutes.

Get ready for the holiday by creating some of these chocolate covered Peeps for your Easter baskets. Buy a pack of your favorite Peeps. Melt either milk, dark or white chocolate in a double boiler. Dip the Peep tails into the chocolate "bath" and allow to cool. Package in a clear bag, tie with a bow and give with cheer!

Thanksgiving Tablescape

Happy belated Thanksgiving! Here are some shots of our Thanksgiving table decor. Homespun theme with burlap, ric rack and felt - inspiration came from felt leaf place mats and candle holders spotted at on a recent antique shopping trip.

Holiday Party for a good cause!

Today I hosted a holiday party for good friends! It was a wonderful few hours of good company, good food and most importantly - a project for a good cause. We enjoyed a brunch table of goodies and then made blankets and assembled bags for the nonprofit Project Night Night, http://projectnightnight.org/. Project Night Night helps children in homeless shelters by providing them with a blanket, stuffed animal and story book. Guests brought books and stuffed animals - I prepped fleece for blankets and then we tied them during the party. We assembled the bags and taged them for girl or boy and appropriate age. It was alot of fun to visit and do something to help others.

 Hot beverage cups with homemade felt cozies:

 Personalised cereal spoons for each guest:

 

The finished bags!

Advent Calendar

My parents have made my sister and I an advent calendar every December since we were very little. Each year's is different and unique and definitely one of my favorite traditions of the holiday. This year, I wanted to make Advent Calendars for four of the little people in my life. I sewed felt stocking with fun designs for each day, strung the stockings on ribbon and them filled the stocking with fun, little gifts! Two went to three children in England and one to a little girl much closer to me. Enjoy!

Friday Fun!

Starting a few months ago, we have been celebrating Fridays at my office with a special treat! It's something different every week - hot chocolate, root beer floats, cupcakes. Today it was Chocolate Covered Strawberry S'Mores! There were delicious - the perfect mix of chocolate, strawberry and gooiness - not too mention that sweet pale pink color! The secret ingredient of these s'mores is Strawberry flavored marshmallows that I found at Target. The possibilities are endless ...

Very belated posting of Halloween celebrations

As I posted about earlier, I celebrated Halloween with two very different celebrations. The first was a very elegant affair for friends nicknamed, Dracula's Ball. It was a multicourse dinner party at my place with guests of the vampire, dracula and even Twilight fan variety!

Invitation at left ordered from http://www.tinyprints.com/.

From the top left: party guests in costume, a vampire serves pumpkin soup in a very appropriate vessel, the drinks station include pina ghoulade and vampire kiss martinis, a close up of the soup appetizer

Decorations and festive napkins awaited all who dared enter!

From top left: close up of place setting, the table awaiting the feast, place card that doubles a favor, cupcake for dessert

The buffet and one of favorite details: black candelier decals on the wall!

St. Patrick's Day

My creation, originally uploaded by moggiegreen.

Dessert for our holiday dinner was green cupcakes with green frosting and decorations and green jello jigglers cut in the shape of shamrocks!

St. Patricks Day Party

My creation, originally uploaded by moggiegreen.

My "Little Sister" and I hosted a St. Patrick's Day dinner complete with some traditional Irish dishes and lots of GREEN!

Halloween 2008

Place setting for Candy themed Halloween party complete with circular menu card and lollipop place card!

Candy Halloween Party

Candy Halloween Party, originally uploaded by moggiegreen.

Halloween 2008 was celebrated with a CANDY themed party! From left to right: Candy face pumpkins and large glass jars of festive candy served as decorations; Candy weath and reflected table with tissue paper puffs hanging from the ceiling; Candy arrangement centerpiece; Party guest hosts and guest; Stacked pear and gargonzola salad; Guest with Candy Cone favors and placecard lollipops

Valentine's Love Bug

IMG_6431, originally uploaded by moggiegreen.

A cute love bug cupcake to celebrate Valentine's Day!

Gingerbread House Tea Party

Gingerbread House Tea Party, originally uploaded by moggiegreen.

In honor of the holiday, I hosted a Gingerbread House Tea Party. Each place setting had the pieces for a different house, icing bag and cake board. The table was full of assorted candys for decorating and tiered tea plate of treats for the hungry builders!

CSI Halloween Party

Halloween Party 2007: CSI Theme

Last Halloween, we threw a dinner party with a CSI theme. We had alot of fun incorporating the theme into everything from food to decorations.

Appetizers: Mozzarella Eye Balls