DIY Fall Wreath with Felt Flowers

I decided to try the noodle wreaths and the felt flowers you see all over Pinterest.  I found this to be pretty easy and super cheap.  I stole my daughter's pink noodle from the garage while she was sleeping...ssshhhhhh...

And I purchased green yarn from Walmart for $3, and bought cream, brown and khaki felt sheets at Walmart for $.23 a piece.

I taped up the noodle ends with packing tape.  I just wrapped it around a couple of times, but you can see in the picture that its already lost its round shape and I think more tape would have made it stronger...and I'm not sure if I hung it right at the seam...perhaps that's not a good idea...

So after taping the seam, I then wrapped the yarn around it.  This part will feel the most painful and possibly cause an arm cramp. When I finished wrapping it, I just laced the end through several wrapped strands to keep it in place.

Next, I made the felt flowers, which seemed daunting before I started but I found them easy and very satisfying to my crafting soul-yay! look what I did! So impressive!

I used Paper&Stitch's blog post: DIY Felt Flowers.

I wasn't as hard core as this, didn't really measure anything, just cut some circles based on things near me that I could trace and I didn't do all the ones she shows.  Just the easy ones. Oh, and I traced with chalk after tracing with a pen and seeing how not amazing that looked.

Then I laid them on the wreath until I was happy with a design and hot glued them on.  The banner was a last minute addition with some raffia, scrapbook paper and a sharpie.

I attempted a bow for the top and then quickly decided I hated bows.

I found a Command clear hook in my closet and put it on the inside of my door, upside down. Then I cut some ribbon I already had and tied it and hooked it over the Command hook.

Ta-Da!

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Easy Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

I've been pinteresting for my son's upcoming 3rd birthday, and came across these that I made last year for his 2nd birthday.  Kellen had just been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia three weeks before the big day.  Cancer took its big foot and stomped all over his party.  

Kellen was pumped full of chemo and steroids and pretty much felt like doggy doodie, but he had wanted a Mickey Mouse party so bad, we put one together real quick.  I found these cupcakes online and thought they were super easy to make.  

I baked the chocolate cupcakes and iced the top with chocolate icing (all of this was store bought).  I doubled up the red cupcake liners to make sure the red showed up enough.

I piped the icing with a good ol' fashioned Ziploc bag (cutting a hole in the corner).   You wanna make sure you pipe the icing high enough to support the ears.

Then I jammed two Oreo's in the top for ears.

I thought they looked pretty good just like this, but decided to add the buttons to his "pants" and thought it made it look better.

I just cut out oval shapes from white printer paper (perfectly unperfect ovals) and in a very delicately messy way, wiped a glue stick on the back and stuck them on.

Kellen loved them.