Kaitlin's birthday cards

As I don't have much to show you, I thought you might like to see some of the handmade cards Kaitlin received for her birthday. 

 Lovely paper hearts bursting out of an envelope from Grandma

This one is from Lily, my 6 year old niece who loves to craft.  I had given her a bundle of left over bits and pieces a while ago and this is what she has made.  

 From one of our family friends

 From an aunt

and another aunt. 

What a creative and clever family we have!

Cellophane Lolly Bags

Have you noticed the cute little lolly bags on Page 23 of the Seasonal Catalogue?  They were one of the first things I noticed when I first saw the catalogue.  And of course I wanted to make my own.  

I don't know what sort of lollies they used, but as we have lots of Skittles in house they were what I used first. I made up a few bags, but this is the only one still intact.  Shame I didn't photograph them altogether.

Also made up a few bags using pastel coloured Menthos.  They do fit in the bags but have to lie upright rather than stacked flat.  

One of my friends made these bags up for her school class using jelly beans.  She says she had to buy lots of bags to get enough colours as each bag takes 12 jelly beans.  I think I used 21 or 22 Skittles per bag and about 8 Menthos. 

 

 

 Don't you love all the colours lined up together.  From what I heard the kids enjoyed them as an Easter treat.  Didn't have treats like that when I went to school.  

If you want to have a go at making your own lolly bags they are sold in 3 different sizes; 2.5 x 20cm (which these ones are), 10.2 x 15.2cm and 15.2 x 20.4cm.  There are 50 bags in each package and they cost $4.50, $7.95 and $8.95 respectively.  Send me a photo if you make your own.