{Creative Corner} Teacher Gifts 2013 and a diaper cake

An end of the year gift for Baby Bear's preschool teachers: Inside is a Yogurtland gift card.



A diaper cake for a student.

{Creative Corner} Valentines 2013

A couple of my Valentine's Day projects for Baby Bear's friends and teachers.

I was inspired by several ideas I found floating around on pinterest and designed a little something myself with Valentine's straw as a gift.







For the teachers, I merged a few ideas from pinterest and designed something for them along with a small gift they could use.

{Creativer Corner} Teacher end-of-the year gifts

Today is the last day of Baby Bear's first year of preschool. To thank the teachers for an amazing year, I put together some teacher gifts to show them how much we appreciate them. We absolutely love Baby Bear's teachers.



This was inspired from this blog, where you can also download the tags. Since I really didn't have time to design my own tags this time around, this was a nice and easy gift to put together. The cups included a Jamba Juice gift card, M&Ms, and Jelly Belly candies. I wanted to get them soemthing that would be useful for them. So I hope they enjoy them. I know that the Christmas gifts that we gave them get good use; I see the coffee cups at school being used often. They need to keep hydrated during our warm summers and they work summer school through the summer, so these seemed like they would get some use.

{Creative Corner} Princess Tulle Wands

For Baby Bear's preschool fundraiser I decided to make the princess wands instead of buying the cheap plastic ones. Look at what I made...



I think they turned out pretty good. I use the tutorial from this blog. They are very easy to make, I think any little girl will love this.

{Creative Corner} DIY Easter garland

I decided to do little Easter decorating. I was inspired by something I had pinned on Pinterest, which was inspired from this blog.



It is very easy and inexpensive to make. I bought 2 bags of plastic eggs from Party City. I used some yarn I had on hand and some extra ribbon I had laying around. I threaded the yarn through the little holes in the tops and bottoms of the eggs (which make the threading oh-so-easy). Then tied some ribbon in between the eggs. Voila, an Easter garland. Total cost was just under $2 since all I had to buy were the plastic eggs.

{Creative Corner} Valentines for school

I made some Valentine's for Baby Bear's classmates and friends. Goldfish crackers wrapped up in little wrappers that I designed and made myself. A simple valentine.





For the Valentines for teachers, I was inspired by something I found on pinterest that led me to this blog. So I made my own version.

{Creative Corner} DIY Christmas trees

Another Christmas craft I created. I was inspired by Living Locurto.

{Creative Corner} DIY Advent Calendar

On December 1st we began our advent calendar. I was inspired by Martha Stewart and made a stocking advent calendar.





We have enjoyed counting the days and getting a stocking each day. It is fun way to count down to Christmas.

{Creative Corner} Crafty Inspiration

I have neglected this blog for sometime. I am so sorry blog. I've spent more time blogging with Baby Bear and not much for me. I recently gave in and joined pinterest. It is a great website where many other bloggers share their ideas and crafts. Here are a few things I have been inspired to make.

I made these cards for Baby Bear's teachers (inspired by eighteen25) and packaged it along with a coffee cup and some treats (I forgot to get a picture of the final product) as a holiday gift.






For Baby Bear's class mates, I made these little cards that they could color along with a few crayons. Here is a picture of the inside of the card.

I'm a crafty bear

A beautiful friend of mine is having a baby boy and I recently went to her surprise baby shower last weekend. It was a total blast and she was so surprised. She looked so cute with her baby belly, I can't wait until this little one is in our world!! She is going to make a wonderful mommy!! I love baby showers and I love making something special for the baby. I made this no-sew fleece blanket (it is actually quite easy to make and there are several websites that provide instructions):



Here it is all wrapped up lazy girl style:


Every new mommy needs diapers, it is inevitable since babies poop! I also made a diaper cake for my friend covered with baby toys with a baseball theme since they are big baseball fans and I am sure this little boy is already a fan! Also, quite simple to make and there are several different "recipes" on the internet. This one actually uses a combination of "recipes," the middle layer is different from the top and bottom.