Cupcakes for Mia

My daughter and I wrapped gift boxes and staked them to make a place for Mia's Birthday Cupcakes!  We added lots of ribbon, flowers, bling, rings, crowns, wands and beads!  My granddaughter Mia is now 4!

xoxo Karen Lee

Sawyer

I'm sharing another custom order my daughter Lisa just completed.  Her client wanted the babies name made to hang on a door, so Lisa came up with this idea and I think its adorable.  I love all the fun ribbon and pearls she added to the ribbon she used for the hanger.  She is not sure if the client will like the bird, so its not attached at this point, she is waiting for her to see it.  I say KEEP the bird, its cute!!

xoxo Karen Lee

Karsyn

My daughter Lisa just finished another custom order.  The pink paper she used has touches of glitter, but it does not show in these photographs.  She added a little bling to each letter.  They turned out so pretty.  


To place an order or to just check out her etsy shop......click on the link below

LETTERS BY LEELEE

xoxo Karen Lee

GLUTEN FREE ORANGE CHICKEN

Jenn Cuisine

A Gluten Free Cooking Blog

My daughter Lisa served us this wonderful Orange Chicken last night.  My granddaughter Kelly has to eat gluten free meals and this one was awesome.  I hope you take a minute or two and go check out the recipe.  Just click on the Jenn Cuisine link above.  It's a great meal for those of us who don't have to eat gluten free, try it!!

xoxo Karen Lee

Trick or Treat Banner

This is my first attempt at making a banner.  The only item that I had to go out and purchase was the Halloween print paper from KC&Company.  Everything else I already had, even all the cute wooden bats, cats, etc.  I found them in a plastic bag, I don't even remember buying them.  I must have thought they would come in handy at some point in my crafting.  It was a lovely surprise!!  I dug out my Cricut, punches, buttons, ric-rac, ribbon and ink and got to work.  It looks really cute hanging from the mantel of my daughter's fireplace.

xoxo Karen Lee

DECOUPAGE PUMPKINS

WOW........I LOVE THESE!  I love how creative crafters are when it comes to pumpkins these days.  No more bright orange pumpkins with cut out eyes, nose and mouth!!!  I was never very good at carving, but I can decoupage!!  I will be trying this technique very soon.  Did I say I LOVE THESE!!

CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR INSTUCTIONS......

pocket full of dreams

xoxo Karen Lee

PRETZEL SNACKS

Just melt Hershey's kisses onto tiny twist pretzels
(place in oven at 275 for 3 minutes)
remove from oven and immediately press a 
single M&M on top of melted chocolate


Refrigerate until time to eat as to make sure they are
deliciously solid.  Enjoy!!


These would be so much fun to make with the grandkidlets!

foodgawker.com

xoxo Karen Lee

A POT OF PUMPKINS!

My daughter Lisa and I finished making these adorable pots of pumpkins today.  I had found one of these the other day over at Pineterest and we made some changes to the original and made these our own. 

This was our inspiration pot of pumpkins.  As you can see we kicked it up a notch!

We started out by spray painting our terra cotta pots black.  While they were drying I used my Cricut machine to cut out 1 1/4 inch circles.  We thought it would be much easier to mod podge on the paper circles, so we didn't have to stress out trying to paint perfect circles all around our pots.  We don't like to stress!!

We applied each dot to the pot using mod podge on the backs of each paper dot.

Once the dots were dry, we applied mod podge over the entire pot.  You really don't need to be careful when applying this stuff.  We just kind of slapped it on.  When it dries it looks wonderful.

We bought unfinished wooden letters at Michael's, painted them black and then covered them with halloween print paper.  We also applied mod podge to each letter and then glued them together.  

We cut the stems off the bottom two pumpkins so that we could stack them.  We just used a steak knife, no fancy tools needed.

Now we are getting excited......its time to start the fun part of putting them all together.

We bought leaf garlands, bunches of sunflowers, 2 big black spiders and autumn colored ferns to add around the bottom of the stack of pumpkins.

and every crafter needs a special helper!!  

XOXO Karen Lee

POLKA DOTTED PUMPKINS!! SO DARNED CUTE!

Oh my gosh!!  I so love these painted dot and felt dot pumpkins.  Just how cute is that caterpillar!  Once again I found these while snoopin' around 

PINETEREST

XOXO Karen Lee

Candy Corn

Now I know what to do with candy corn!!!

PINETEREST

xoxo Karen Lee

More BOO finds!

      I found these over on the UNCOMMON design blog

 and I found these boo pumpkins over on the
                      REINVENTED blog


I just love all my BOO finds!!!

xoxo Karen Lee

Boo!!

I'm excited about my finds tonight.   I found these over at Pineterest.  They would be so fun and easy to make.  A good mother-daughter project.  I love buttons, did I say I love buttons and I have tons of them.  So watch out pumpkins.......here I come!

xoxo Karen Lee

Taco Pizza

This looks so yummy!!  This was my recipe find for tonight.  Click on the link below for the recipe.
                      Real Mom Kitchen Blog. 


xoxo Karen Lee

Lasagna Soup

I gotta make this soup!!!  Soup ranks right on top of my favorite food list!  I found this recipe over at
A Farmgirl's Dabbles Blog. 

xoxo Karen Lee

Mini Buttermilk Cinnamon Bun Pops

These would be so much fun to serve at your next family brunch.  I found these over on the Ice Cream Before Dinner Blog.  Click on the link for the recipe.


xoxo Karen Lee

Santa Hat Brownie Bites

These would be so fun to serve at your next Christmas get together.  I found them over at the SweetTooth Blog.  Take a minute and go check out the recipe.  Seems very simple and oh so good!  I am sure I will be making these very soon.

xoxo Karen Lee

Rainbow Cake

What a fun cake for kids!!  I found this while surfing Pinterest.  Just click on the following web site and it will take you right to the recipe.   http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake  I can't wait to try this fun cake!

Frame

Good morning to all my crafting buddies.  I just finished up this frame and it will be listed for sale later today in my daughter's Etsy shop.  Now I've got to get back to working on more frames.  Enjoy your Saturday!!
                                         LettersByLeeLee


xoxo Karen Lee

I just sold this frame

I listed this frame for sale at my daughter's etsy shop..........LettersbyLeeLee

I'm missing all my blogging buddies, where does our day go???

Thanks for stopping by, Karen Lee

Letters By LeeLee

Another beautiful custom order made by my daughter Lisa.  Her client ordered them for her wedding.  She is going to attach them to an old oak tree as a decoration.  Great idea!!

Visit.............. LETTERS BY LEELEE

xoxo Karen Lee