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I made these favors for a Mother's Day event but I never got around to posting this, besides, I think this would be a great party favor idea for an engagement party or a birthday party.  What you need: ● 24 carnations (or other colorful flowers) ● Tissue paper (I chose pink, gold and purple) ●Ribbon, twine etc.  ●Kraft gift tags ●Vases (one per table) 1. Open the packaging to separate the bouquets. Since the vases I was using were short, I cut the flowers to fit.  2. I opened the packages of tisue paper and the package of twine, separate the Tissue paper and cut 24 length of twine or ribbon. 3. Taking one flower at a time, choose one or two peices of tissue paper, gather the paper in the middle, place the flower in the paper and attach the paper with the twine.  You can prepare the flowers a few days ahead of time, keeping them in vases with fresh water, making sure bot to fill too high.  For our gathering I placed 5 flowers in each vase. I added a stack of

My little Miss is getting to the age where she doesn't play with her play kitchen as much anymore, unless there's mud involved! I moved all her kitchen toys and playfood outside, the result is so much fun to see. She is rediscovering the toys that she hasn't played with for months.  When I was looking up ideas for mud kitchens Isaw a lot of beautifully muddy wooden kitchens that handy people had built. I went in a different direction, I decided to repurpose the toys we had in the house, most of which we've had since Little Man was this age. There was a corner of our backyard that had been a garden but the animals kept eating it so I gave up on that thought. We put down some mulch and some old fence panels for Little Miss to sit on. We used some old planters to hold the dirt, mud and water.  since our backyard is a bit of a wind tunnel I made sure to secure everything to the fence with bungee cords. Putting the mud kitchen next