Last Minute Memorial Day Cupcake Toppers

It's never too late to whip out some cupcake toppers.  All you need are toothpicks and some ribbon.

Cut the ribbon to the size you want and hot glue them to the toothpicks.

And you are finished in less than five minutes.  cool

Cupcake Wrapper Recycling

You've probably guessed that I have thrown about a million children's parties.  I like to use the decorations
over  for a while and then give them to goodwill.  But this time I recycled.  GO GREEN!
I had a pretty fabric table runner I've used a few times and am ready to let go.  I thought about making some kind of curtain but the material is very stiff so it wouldn't drape right.  I finally thought to make cupcake wrappers.  The fabric is perfect for them, stiff enough to hold them upright and sheer and pretty.  And you can clean them and use them over for another party.

I found a pattern for a wrapper online, printed it, and cut away.  They turned out really pretty.

Is This Pottery Barn? DIY Halloween Food Tags Tutorial

I was perusing pinterest for some new Halloween ideas because, as you know, it's too early for Halloween..

I saw this cute idea and quickly pinned it.  YES!  It said it was Pottery Barn but I couldn't find it on their website.  Anyway it looks cute.  Looks like chalkboard paint on Halloween shapes to be used as food tags for a party.

So it gave me the idea to use some silhouettes I recently found at dollar tree. 

I glued one onto a stick I found outside.  Then I wrapped a spool with some black fabric.

 Use chalk to label. Insert stick into the spool and there you have it.  Try to imagine it surrounded by festive pumpkins and junk like that.  They also had other shapes like crows, and spiders.  I think using a mix of these would look really good.  And you can't beat the price.
silhouettes...$1.00
spool...already had it
fabric....was a scrap
stick.......on the ground