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March 13, 2025 Valentine’s Day > Friendship Day > Nothing

Valentine’s Day was my favorite holiday growing up. Making home made Valentines for my friends, glue sticks and heart doilies. With my kids it was decorating bags and fun toys to give to friends. Recently though, our school district decided to do away with Valentine’s Day, or Friendship Day, as it was most recently changed […]

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March 12, 2025 Taco Truck Birthday for Tres!

We thought it would be fun to do a taco truck birthday theme this year so we called on our friend Sarah to do this really fun cake topper for the “mom made cake”. I basically just said, let’s do something fun and Sarah took off with the idea. I mean, how cute did it […]

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March 11, 2025 Decorate a Heart Cake with My Best Galentine Gal Pal and Weesh Bake Shop

View this post on Instagram A post shared by A Little Bit About a Lot of Things (@d_grubs) Looking for other things to do with your friends than just dinner and drinks? I always am. While dinner and drinks or coffee are always welcome, I like to look for fun experiences. I have known about […]

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March 10, 2025 Sleep Under: Fun Personalized Party Kits

We were headed to our first sleep under, and decided to bring some fun party favors to keep the night exciting! We had these cute clear pencil cases that I used my Cricut to personalize with the girl’s names. They were having dinner and then watching a movie, so we decided to put in some […]

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March 7, 2025 Cupcakes: What I’ve Been Working On Lately…

As I was just talking about my sprinkle collection, I thought I would post a few pictures of cupcakes that I have done lately. I made these cute Pokemon cupcakes for a birthday party. Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, topped with pokeballs from Amazon. Here is what they look like without the Pokeballs. These are […]

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March 5, 2025 Gotta Make the Cupcakes

Cupcakes are my go to baked good to make for any event – birthdays, holidays, bake sales, teacher treats, you name it. We recently had friends over who had never been to the house and she said, “I kind of expected that you would probably have a shelf full of sprinkles in your kitchen”. I […]

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March 3, 2025 How Old Are You Now? Birthday Cake “OLD AF”

Sometimes, after you reach a certain point, you just stop counting birthdays. My husband hit that point years ago 🙂 So this year, for his birthday, we decided not to even put a number on his cake. The “OLD” was made with melting chocolate in a silicone alphabet mold, nonpareils on the bottom. Just a […]

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February 24, 2025 Ultimate Cake Off – Store Cake vs. Mom Cake

In our house we have a tradition where we get the kids a “fancy” store bought cake and then I make them a homemade “mom” cake. It helps make the birthday celebration last a little longer! I have to admit, with all the things that I bake, cakes are not my jam. I can never […]

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February 21, 2025 Is it Cake? Take A Bite of a Shark Attack Birthday

We had a moment when we went through a very serious shark phase. We took out every single book from the library about sharks, I could tell you every shark’s name and some fun cocktail party fact about them. This came right after our dinosaur phase. My friends made us this incredible cake for the […]

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February 19, 2025 Unicorns and Mermaids: A Magical 6th Birthday

What do you do when you can’t decide what you want your birthday theme to be, unicorns or mermaids? You have them both of course. They go together right? Well, when you’re friend is a super talented cake designed, she sure makes them look like they belong together! My little was beyond over the moon […]

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