Tuesday To Do #101 and #100 List Makers

Happy Tuesday y'all!

Hope your week is off to an amazing start!

If you're just sitting around twiddling your thumbs,

check out last week's List Makers for a little inspiration:

 

Sweetwater Style's budget centerpieces have my wheels turning!

 

Am I ready for spring or what?!?  Wanting to try forcing some mini daffodils thanks to Craftiments!!

 

Sam threw the cutest Donut Party over at Thrive 360

 

Look how cute Hoopla Palooza's Mini Reese's Easter Baskets are!! 

 



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Link up your creations!  Sewing, crafting, cooking, tips, photography, tablescapes, parties, scrapbooking, collectibles...it all works.  Please save your items for sell, your giveaways and your own parties for those specific blog parties.  You're the best!

BEFORE you link up, please make sure you've done the following:

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2.  Like The Blackberry Vine on Facebook.

3. Grab the TUESDAY TO DO BUTTON from the sidebar, and link back to the Blackberry Vine.  (Yes, it can be a little time-consuming, but it's the sweet blogger thing to do!)

4.  Read the full disclosure policy at the bottom...when I delete your post, I'm not being mean, I'm just showing you some tough bloggy love.

WHEN you link up, link directly to your post, not just to your blog.

AFTER you link up:

 Please visit other participants and leave them some comment love.  Comment, comment, comment!!!

Invite someone to the party! The more the merrier!!! If I visit a blog post and see that YOU invited them to the party, your post may end up a feature on Facebook!  (I can't get to every post every week, but I really try!  The more you invite, the more likely your post will be a Facebook feature!)

I reserve the right to remove posts that are not in keeping with the spirit of Tuesday To-Do including but not limited to those that link to your shop, your giveaway or your linky party, and those that do not link back to the Blackberry Vine. Thanks for playing fair!!

Lego Ninjago Party Favors

The Chinese take-out boxes worked perfectly with our red, yellow & black color scheme.

So happy Kai (the red ninja) is Jack's favorite!

  

Will have the printable for the tags, invitations & thank you notes up for sale in my Etsy store soon.

The tags are tied to chop sticks with black wraphia (from Michaels.)

 

Inside are the goodies mixed with some shredded paper (Dollar Tree.)

 

Custom fortune cookies from KC Fortune Cookies, a Chinese yo-yo, and chinese handcuffs were inside.

 

These fun fortune cookies came from KC Fortune Cookie Company.

They were really good and very affordable!

 

You can upload an image and they print on both sides.  We had 8 different fortunes but the back of each side all said, "Thanks for coming to my party!  Jack"

 

Stay tuned!  More Lego Ninjago Party ideas coming!!

 

Smiles!

 

Will share with the parties on the sidebar=>

 

 

 

Lego Ninjago Cake - Kai

Just some photos of the Lego Ninjago Cake from Jack's party.

 

Hand lettering in the image of the Ninjago font.

 

"7" was on the three other side of the cake.

 

 

Gotta have "Happy Birthday!"

 

Close up of the 7.

 

Stay tuned...the rest of the party will be up soon!

 

Smiles!

 

Will be sharing the cake with my bloggy friends at the parties on the side bar=>

Tuesday To Do Party #100 & #99 List Makers

Wow!  I can't believe it!

We've been partying for 100 weeks in a row!

Thanks to each of you for stopping by and sharing your life each week.

 

Let's check out this week's List Makers:

 

Your Charmed Life made these super cute Valentines!

 

Grilled Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus Recipe from Our Mini Family

 

You know I like Pretty Packages...Silver Boxes has 8 clever Gift Wrap Ideas!

   



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Now on the the party...

Link up your creations!  Sewing, crafting, cooking, tips, photography, tablescapes, parties, scrapbooking, collectibles...it all works.  Please save your items for sell, your giveaways and your own parties for those specific blog parties.  You're the best!

BEFORE you link up, please make sure you've done the following:

1.  Become a follower of The Blackberry Vine.

2.  Like The Blackberry Vine on Facebook.

3. Grab the TUESDAY TO DO BUTTON from the sidebar, and link back to the Blackberry Vine.  (Yes, it can be a little time-consuming, but it's the sweet blogger thing to do!)

4.  Read the full disclosure policy at the bottom...when I delete your post, I'm not being mean, I'm just showing you some tough bloggy love.

WHEN you link up, link directly to your post, not just to your blog.

AFTER you link up:

 Please visit other participants and leave them some comment love.  Comment, comment, comment!!!

Invite someone to the party! The more the merrier!!! If I visit a blog post and see that YOU invited them to the party, your post may end up a feature on Facebook!  (I can't get to every post every week, but I really try!  The more you invite, the more likely your post will be a Facebook feature!)

I reserve the right to remove posts that are not in keeping with the spirit of Tuesday To-Do including but not limited to those that link to your shop, your giveaway or your linky party, and those that do not link back to the Blackberry Vine. Thanks for playing fair!!

Lego Ninjago Party Invitation

We just had our Ninjago party and it was a BLAST!!

I can't wait to share it with you.

First, though, we have to start with the invites.

 

 

My Jack likes Kai, the red ninja, so we built the party around him.  It worked out really well because so many of the things I found for the party carried out this red, yellow & black color scheme.

 

These were fairly easy to figure out...just some time spent cutting/editing the invite.  If you'd like the actual pattern or would like to order a customizable printable, stop by my etsy store.  I'll have the details listed there soon!

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO TEMPLATE ON ETSY

 

Smiles!

 

Will share these Ninjago invites with my friends at the parties found in the side bar=>

Teacher Heart Attack

 

My room mom partner suggested that the Teacher Heart Attack might be a fun surprise.

She shared some details on how it worked and I totally agreed.

Our sweet teacher was out one day a week or two before Valentine's Day.  The perfect chance for me to drop off the pre-cut hearts and have the students write a little something.  I gave them the prompt, "I love Mrs. Monk because..." 

 

 

Here is one example of the hearts that were inside.  I meant to include her entire team, but life got in the way.  In the future, I'd add her team, maybe parents, the principal and other people along those lines.  It might even be cute to sneak one in from her husband/parents/kids if you could manage it!

 

Our teacher did say it was totally unexpected...she loved it!

 

Smiles!

 

Will share this fun idea at some of the great parties found in the side bar =>

 



Lego Valentine Box

Come on...you knew it would either be Star Wars or Lego.

 

Last year was Heart Vader and so this year we went Lego.

 

Using your everyday Nike shoebox, we covered them with wrapping paper.  If I were to do it again, I'd go for more durable/thicker wrapping paper/butcher paper.  We used gift wrap paper we bought at Target.  It's great for the color, but pretty flimsy.

 

Then the boys traced out circles on a cardboard box using the inside of a used ribbon holder.  It was the perfect size. If we had planned ahead at all, I would have started collecting large bottle caps like the ones on Gatorade or the like.

 

They cut out a few of the cardboard circles and I cut out the rest.  We cut out 32 in all.  Because we were covering the sides with paper, we put a circle on the bottom, some scrap cardboard in the middle and another circle on top.  This helped give it more height with out the added trouble of cutting out 16 more circles.  We covered the circles with more paper and glued them to the top of the box.

 

  I printed out the boys' names on the cricut and they glued them on themselves.  Full disclosure...normal everyday elmers glue doesn't stick so well to the glossy paper.  By the time we got to school, JACK was missing the C.  Another reason I'd go with sturdier paper next time.

 

All in all a quick and easy Valentine project.

Wonder what we'll do next year?

 

Smiles!!

 

Will share these Lego Valentine Boxes with the parties in the sidebar >

Tuesday To Do #99 and #98 List Makers

This is Valentine's Week and I can't wait to celebrate the loves in my life!

Y'all are so great to share your great ideas with me every week.

They inspire me and fill my basket with so many ways to show my loved ones how much I care.

Thank you!!

Now, on to this week's To Do List...check out the List Makers:

 

Lemon Tree Dwelling's Chicken Spinach Artichoke Pizza made my mouth water!

 

 

Cute Valentine idea from Shaken Together

 

Handmade by Is gives a link to make these cute Ric Rac Rings

 

 



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Now on the the party...

Link up your creations!  Sewing, crafting, cooking, tips, photography, tablescapes, parties, scrapbooking, collectibles...it all works.  Please save your items for sell, your giveaways and your own parties for those specific blog parties.  You're the best!

BEFORE you link up, please make sure you've done the following:

1.  Become a follower of The Blackberry Vine.

2.  Like The Blackberry Vine on Facebook.

3. Grab the TUESDAY TO DO BUTTON from the sidebar, and link back to the Blackberry Vine.  (Yes, it can be a little time-consuming, but it's the sweet blogger thing to do!)

4.  Read the full disclosure policy at the bottom...when I delete your post, I'm not being mean, I'm just showing you some tough bloggy love.

WHEN you link up, link directly to your post, not just to your blog.

AFTER you link up:

 Please visit other participants and leave them some comment love.  Comment, comment, comment!!!

Invite someone to the party! The more the merrier!!! If I visit a blog post and see that YOU invited them to the party, your post may end up a feature on Facebook!  (I can't get to every post every week, but I really try!  The more you invite, the more likely your post will be a Facebook feature!)

I reserve the right to remove posts that are not in keeping with the spirit of Tuesday To-Do including but not limited to those that link to your shop, your giveaway or your linky party, and those that do not link back to the Blackberry Vine. Thanks for playing fair!!

Valentine Rolo Pencil Pattern

The Rolo Pencils that I made a few years ago have, by far, been the most visited post on this blog.

Often I get emails asking questions about how to make them.  (Not sure why as I have a tutorial HERE.)

Any whoo, I decided to put together a pattern for all of you who just want it DONE.

 

The pattern can be found HERE at my new ETSY store.

 

I'm also offering customizable patterns.  Let me know what you want, I'll create it for you!!!

 

If you'd like the blank pattern, CLICK HERE!

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my lastest venture!

Again, my ETSY store is

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBlackberryVine

 

If you want to see the original post & directions

CLICK HERE

 

Will share this at some of the fun blogs found in my side bar.

 

Smiles!!

More 100 Days of School Ideas

Thought I'd quickly share with you a couple 100 days of school ideas I saw today.  The photos are from the phone, so bear with me!  There were also some cute ideas using photos that I'll share at the end. 

If you're looking for something last minute, maybe one of these cute ideas will help you out!!

 

100 Ballons

100 Shells in a stepping stone!

Great way to preserve some of those Kindergarten memories!

100 Plastic Spoons in a block of styrofoam.

Each spoon has a unique face...can you guess which one the Kindergartener did?!?

100 Thumbtacks on cardboard initial

100 Little Pom Poms become a cute Hello Kitty

100 Pieces of Pasta turned into a self-portrait

100 Toothpicks made a cute tiny house!

100 Pennies!

 100 Safety Pins on a necklace

 



100 Toothpicks make a cute picture

 

Also I saw a poster board cover in 100 Faces of Susie!  OH MY!!!  From baby pictures until today, there were pictures of a sweet little girl!!

Another little girl made a photo album with 100 pictures of herself.

 

What are some of your best 100 days of school projects?

 

Smiles!!!

 

Will share this post with some of my favorite parties found in my side bar!

 



Tuesday To Do #98 and #97 List Makers

Happy Tuesday Eve my bloggy friends!!

Anyone else still trying to recover from the Super Bowl food coma like me?

Loved all the tasty treats!!

Now, let's check out the treats on this week's list of List Makers:

I'm definitely putting these cute lunch box notes,  from Tutus and Tea Parties, in the boys' lunches this Valentine's Day!

 

Lemon Tree Dwelling's Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons sounds sinful!!

 

 

Love the idea behind Robin's posts.  Maybe you can help her find her Grandmother's missing notebook.  Check out Fluster Buster for some great tips!

 

 

 

 

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Now on the the party...

Link up your creations!  Sewing, crafting, cooking, tips, photography, tablescapes, parties, scrapbooking, collectibles...it all works.  Please save your items for sell, your giveaways and your own parties for those specific blog parties.  You're the best!

BEFORE you link up, please make sure you've done the following:

1.  Become a follower of The Blackberry Vine.

2.  Like The Blackberry Vine on Facebook.

3. Grab the TUESDAY TO DO BUTTON from the sidebar, and link back to the Blackberry Vine.  (Yes, it can be a little time-consuming, but it's the sweet blogger thing to do!)

4.  Read the full disclosure policy at the bottom...when I delete your post, I'm not being mean, I'm just showing you some tough bloggy love.

WHEN you link up, link directly to your post, not just to your blog.

AFTER you link up:

 Please visit other participants and leave them some comment love.  Comment, comment, comment!!!

Invite someone to the party! The more the merrier!!! If I visit a blog post and see that YOU invited them to the party, your post may end up a feature on Facebook!  (I can't get to every post every week, but I really try!  The more you invite, the more likely your post will be a Facebook feature!)

I reserve the right to remove posts that are not in keeping with the spirit of Tuesday To-Do including but not limited to those that link to your shop, your giveaway or your linky party, and those that do not link back to the Blackberry Vine. Thanks for playing fair!!