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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 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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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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February 14, 2025 Valentine Fun: Food, Crafts and Lots of Love

We love Valentine’s Day. Our favorite holiday after Halloween. Growing up, I loved making Valentines for friends at school and looking at all the ones my friends made for me. When I had kids of my own, I renewed my love for Valentines – but last year, our school stopped allowing them to be exchanged […]

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February 5, 2025 Sweet Treats for Your Sweet Valentine

Desserts are my favorite – I think you should eat them first. We bake desserts for friends for all the holidays, it’s our love language. I usually don’t make sandwich cookies of any kind, because I just can’t handle the extra step, but we had some fancy jam, and, these seemed like a fun idea […]

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January 6, 2025 Christmas 2024: Full Hearts, Even Fuller Stomachs

This was an especially long holiday break – what felt like 30,303.948.505,404,980 days long. We didn’t go away and only had a few day things planned. Keep it simple. That’s what I kept telling myself. So on the one hand, vacation went by very quickly, but on the other hand, the days dragged on. In […]

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December 20, 2024 Holiday Cheer is Here

How to gain ten pounds in a month 🙂 Give me all things peppermint! Trader Joe’s makes their Hold the Cone in a limited holiday peppermint flavor, Crescent Ridge offers their peppermint stick Holiday Cridgewich ice cream sandwiches, New City Micro Creamery offers holiday peppermint stick ice cream pies and Trombetta’s also offers a peppermint […]

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