Fresh From The Oven Favors

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While researching favor ideas for the upcoming Flashcards and Cupcakes and Alphabet and Stuff Baby Shower (working title), I did what any wise person does...I Googled. I Googled "Cupcake Mix Favors" to be exact. Hooray for Google because it led me directly to Gourmet Gift Company!

Gourmet Gift Company sells gourmet baking mixes that are are handmade in small batches with wholesome ingredients. They are all-natural with no artificial flavors or preservatives. They specialize in producing custom label baking mixes as favors that are not only a treat for the taste buds but a treat for the eyes as well. Look how adorable the little boxes are!

The boxes come in kraft color or white and you can choose your custom label from a number of their fabulous designs. Feeling crafty? Do as I plan to do and order the boxes plain and create your own label.

It would be a shame if I accidentally ordered a few too many, wouldn't it??? I mean, I'd be forced to pay for the overage and eat them myself. So tragic.

Life is Sweet (Giveaways are pretty sweet, too!)

(Pssssst...stay until the end of the post for the Giveaway!)

With so much sour news everywhere you turn these days, it's time for something sweet. I'm a sucker for cute packaging and these two certainly fit that bill. Whether you need something for a new baby in your life or want to baby your guests (or yourself!) you have to check these out.

Her Milkshakes Bring All the Babies to the Yard

Claudia's Bowtique has these adorable baby items packaged like cupcakes and milkshakes (and much more!) available in her online store. Oh how I love an entrepreneurial Work At Home Mom. Good luck, Claudia!

You Know You Are a Grown Up When...

You legitimately get excited over socks and start to ask for them for Christmas. When they are as cozy as these KN Feet Treats chenille socks, then you start wishing Christmas was all year long!

These cute little bundles of joy would be such great additions to your next spa party, girls get-together, bridal shower, Wednesday, etc. I'll let the words of the people of Karen Neuburger take it from here for a minute:

Invitations:

First, punch a hole into the corner of your invitation. Then string pretty pastel ribbon into the hole and knot. Wrap the excess ribbon around the top of KN KAREN NEUBURGER Feet Treats packaging and tie into a friendly bow. Grab your guest address list, hop into the car and play crafty cupcake carrier. How could anyone turn down an invite complete with such a sweet surprise?

Place Setting:

Set your dinner table with a plate for each of your guests. Then arrange four various pastel-colored napkins in a spiral motion on each of the plates. Top each of the plates with KN KAREN NEUBURGER Feet Treats. Then sit back and watch your guests enjoy a calorie, carb and fat free first course!

Door Prize, Game Award, Parting Gift:

KN KAREN NEUBURGER Feet Treats make great gifts for your guests! Give as a fun twist on a classic door prize, award to a charades champion or send each of your guests away smiling and satisfied with a comfy, cozy pair of KN KAREN NEUBURGER’s biggest seller.

Now, about that GIVEAWAY. Leave a comment here on this post and you'll have the chance to win a pair of these chenille socks from KN. Baby, it's cold outside, so come on and enter. Your feet will thank you for making your fingers type a comment!

Be Thankful

Be Thankful. That's just a good motto to live by every day of the year but often we get busy and forget to stop and do just that.

Now you have one more reason to be thankful and one less excuse to having the time to slow down and do so. How so? Paper and Cake is here just in time to help set your Thanksgiving Table. In style. In minutes. In free. (Sometimes those just don't work like you hope...oh well.)




Each Paper & Cake Downloadable Party Design includes everything from place cards to invitations, napkin rings, wine glass tags and more. The girls from tangarang and Piece of Cake Parties have just started Paper and Cake and while future downloads are on the way, the first one is here now for Thanksgiving and is yours for free. Download, print and you're set.

Best of luck to Kira and Abigail with their new venture. I'm thankful for your creativity and inspiration now and all year long!

FREE CUPCAKES!!!

Did that get your attention? Okay, so they aren't edible but they are cupcakes and they are free. Totally counts.

These free downloads from A Print a Day are adorable AND they won't damage your waistline. You're welcome.

If you haven't spent hours on A Print a Day looking at all the amazing free downloads they so graciously offer, then get comfortable, because you're about to do just that. Thanks to A Print a Day for being so generous and sharing so many incredible goodies with all of us!

image courtesy of http://aprintaday.blogspot.com/

I Have Designs on You, Beau Coup

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for anything that reminds me of cute gift wrap. That's exactly what the labels on these adorable favor tins look like to me. I can just imagine sheets of some of these designs in my ever-growing gift wrap collection. A girl can dream, right?

With this many great designs, there's sure to be a favor tin to match just about any occasion. These are just the tip of the iceberg, so take a look for yourself. I bet you find something you need in your life on the Beau Coup site.

"Merci beau coup, Pee Wee."

"Merci, bleh bleh."

(Did I just show my age with a Pee Wee's Big Adventure reference?)