Here's a the cupcake toppers we made for my son's 5th birthday. My neighbor helped me with photoshop and we made the little monsters on a plain white background. Then, I cut them out. Next, with gel paper glue, we glued them to the yellow card stock. After they were dry, I hot glued the toothpicks between the the yellow card stock and another piece of paper. At the party, I simply added them to store bought cupcakes.
Who doesn't like a good cupcake? I had the pleasure of lots of cupcakes for my birthday and thought I'd share. These delicious cupcakes are from SuzieCakes of Newport Beach. I saw the ladies of this bakery on the Martha Show sharing their strawberry cupcake recipe 
I haven't featured a Etsy shop in quite a while. I love these cupcake wrappers from Cupcake Social. I think I have cupcakes on the brain this week. The prices in this shop are very reasonable, too. 
Yesterday, it was so hot here I could not blog. I did manage to go for a run and almost passed out. On the run, I was swarmed by ladybugs. They are all over around here. On Sunday, the kids found hundreds of them hanging out at the beach. They were the cutest things ever (the ladybugs and the kids). The kids made a large mound of sand and put the ladybugs on top and they rolled down the hill. I thought they'ed crawl, but they seemed to like the roll down. I wanted to find a nice photo of these beautiful creatures, and ran across these on Flickr. How cute are these? I want to make some. Simple and elegant. Thankfully today is way cooler with a nice breeze.
