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Father’s Day Tattoo Printables

by emilyalder on Jun 13, 2013 • No Comments

Since discovering Silhouette’s Printable tattoo paper a few years back I’ve been a bit obsessed with making my own tattoos. I made them for My Bachelorette 1 & My Bachelorette 2, Tom’s 5th Birthday and his Tball party just to name a few. So I thought why not make some more, no harm right? See what I mean about being obsessed?

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Anyways, I thought it would be fun to make some tattoos in honor of Father’s Day. Something that dad wouldn’t mind wearing and something that strayed from the ever popular heart with dad across it.

I put together a couple designs that anyone in the family can wear to give dad a little shout out.

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Of course, the person who has the most fun with these is Thomas. I definitely didn’t have more fun than my 5 year old… I’ll just keep telling myself that.

To make your own first download the printable

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*Note: the images need to be backwards in order to look correct when applying so don’t turn them around.

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Steps:

1. Take your Silhouette Tattoo paper and print on the glossy side of the white sheet.

2. Once the ink is dry carefully remove the clear paper from the green backing sheet and apply to the top of the printed tattoo page.

3. Press down hard, but carefully to remove any air bubbles and to get the plastic cover tight.

4. Cut out tattoos. If you have the Cameo Cutter you will need to use the steps for that. I used regular old scissors.

5. Apply! Remove plastic covering, place tattoo on desired location, hold a damp cloth to it for 10 to 20 seconds.

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You’re done. Now you’ve got some spiffy tattoos to show how awesome dad is!

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See what I mean about having fun? Look at that face. Such a goofball. But he was stoked on the tattoos!

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Thomas took that picture. It’s pretty good right? I think there is a huge probability he has better photography skills than I do.

Hope you enjoy the printables! If you print them make sure to take a snapshot on instagram and tag me @emilyalder or you can email me pictures and I can feature them next week! I’d love to see what you do with yours!

Happy Father’s Day!

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Fireballs TBall Team Party

by emilyalder on Jun 12, 2013 • 1 Comment

We recently threw a party at our home for the end of Thomas’ last season playing TBall. I was able to be team mom this year so I was planning position for the end of season party which usually will be in the park after the game or at a nearby restaurant. But since we have such a great space in our yard we offered to host. I threw together a small baseball themed party with some fun favors, games, and printables.

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This party gave me the long awaited opportunity to work with Minted and use some of the items from their fabulous new Party Shop. After getting some inspiration from there, I put together goodie bags for all the kids.

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Each bag contained 1 Minted Party Crown, a lips whistle, soft baseball, Fireballs Team flag, a bag of cracker jacks, a Fireballs Team tattoo, a baseball eraser, and an orange glow stick. I put all of the items in these glassine party bags and tied them with some string.

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The tattoos were made with a design Matt and I put together for the team and then printed on silhouette tattoo paper. I don’t have a Silhouette Cameo Electronic Cutting Tool, yet :). So having the tattoos a simple round ball made the task of cutting them up much easier.

For the party I mixed together printables I created and some of the Minted supplies. Since our yard is such a large space, it can be hard to cover everything so I focused on the food tables, drink station, and a couple of backyard highlights.

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I loved this huge garland and I knew it would be perfect to hang in the yard. It took some time to get it together and set up, but it was a huge hit.

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Then I set up a drink station for the adults separate from the kids buckets of juices and waters, a goodie bag & tattoo station, and several food tables. We decided a potluck would be the best way to get everyone fed without spending tons of money so we cooked hot dogs, ate fruit and veggies, and I threw in some popcorn, peanuts, and other yummy treats.

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The kids snacked on cracker jacks, sunflower seeds and popcorn as the dogs were being cooked. They could also come over and apply all kinds of fun baseball themed tattoos.

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After, and well probably for a majority of the party the kids took blow up swords and ran throughout the yard. Then we all settled on blankets on the lawn and trophies were presented and cupcakes were had.

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Here are the printables if interested

Team Orange Tattoos Team Orange Stripe Pennant Team Orange Pennant Team Orange Pennant Straw Flags

Make sure to check out Minted’s New Party Decor

While the Minted Party Decor items were a gift I do love their new party shop and all opinions are my own.

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I’d Live Here – Swedish Farmhouse

by emilyalder on Jun 11, 2013 • No Comments

A small remodeled farmhouse in the South West part of Sweden. The family who now owns the home waited patiently for 10 years before they could purchase the home of their dreams. Now they and their four children have worked for years to restore the home.

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With bight open rooms, a stylish mix of old and new furnishings, and handpicked furniture the home perfectly suits their family of six. I think this home would suit me pretty well too. The fact that the family took the original elements of the home and restored them rather than tear them out is inspiring. Like finding and healing the roots of te home.

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Not to mention the property is settled on a half-acre of land which backs up to a forest. It doesn’t get much better than that. The owner and designer had a couple of tips that I really took to heart.

• Love your house, although it is not perfect and newly renovated. You can not change everything at once.

• Take your time. Rome was not built in a day. Think about the different possibilities and what you want from your home before thinking about changing it all.

Design by Anna Trulesen // Photography by Jonas Lundberg

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Marvelous Me Week

by emilyalder on Jun 6, 2013 • No Comments

Last month Thomas was Marvelous Me at Kindergarten. The week was spent bringing in his favorite books, toys, and a few posters we made. The first day was picture of family and friends

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The second day was a poster about his favorite things

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It was a pretty big job for him to write all of that out. It took a while but he powered through it. I was pretty impressed and may or may not have rewarded him with a popsicle. I love that his favorite song choice was Do Re Mi, you know the one from Sound of Music? It’s something I sing to him at night before sleep and I was surprised that he chose it over the ever popular Gangnam Style.

Our favorite part of the week was the parent visit. Matt and I put together a little something for all the kids. Matt was going to talk about his work in architecture while I helped the kids build popsicle stick houses.

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I went to the dollar store and picked up some plain and colorful popsicle sticks, colored paper,craft glue and goodies for the kids.

I’m sad to report we didn’t get any pictures of the kids creating the houses. We only had 30 minutes and were too busy playing with the kids to snap any pictures. A good friend who teaches at the school came by and got this snapshot of us presenting

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