What I Don't Heart Today: Sick Family

We have been a house full of sickos since late last Thursday night. As everybody says "it's going around." Well I sure wish it would stop hanging around here.

On top of being sick we had to move everything out of our upstairs to have carpet installed (photos coming soon).

I wonder if I wouldn't mind being so sick if I had this bathroom to be sick in :)

(Martha Stewart)

What I Heart Today: My Little Man

Last weekend we hosted a sip n' see for this handsome guy.

Ever heard of a sip n' see? Me neither until a few months ago. It's something they do in the South rather than a baby shower. They host an open house after the baby is born so everyone actually gets to see the little bundle of joy, and they sip on a few cocktails while doing it. What's not to like?

The theme for our sip n' see was "Little Man" and I wanted to share how it all turned out.

First, to make it easy on myself I started out with this printable party package by joyess designs for modernprintables.com.

 

It had everything you could possibly need in it, invitation, thank you cards, decorations, it was just perfect. I would normally design my own party printables but with a two year old and a seven week old I decided to go a little easy on myself.

Here's what the invite looked like.

Here's how the party table looked.

 

This was a largely Pinterest inspired party. Here's some of the things we served that you've probably seen floating around Pinterest before.

This sangria was awesome, a little out of place in March, but still awesome. Will definitely be my go to for entertaining this summer.

 

(sangria)

We served my husband's famous, handmade margaritas in half pint mason jars and it was a huge hit!

 (mason jar drinks)

Mini mac n cheese was also a huge hit

(mini macs)

(pizza bites)

And last but not least, one of my favorites, the mustache straws. I made them myself but this photo and the idea came from the Etsy seller linked below.

 

(straws)

See my entire planning board on Pinterest (and follow me too!)

It was a really great party with family and friends. Bye, bye awkward baby showers, I'm sold on the sip n' see. Now you just need to have a baby for an excuse to throw one!

What I Heart Today: If I Only Had $100

If I only had $100... I'd buy this adorable aloha quilt for Gracie's toddler bedroom, $55.49 at overstock.com.

What I Heart Today: Orla Kiely

Shut the front door! Did you hear the latest at Apartment Therapy? Orla Kiely for Bed, Bath, and Beyond coming in May. Oh geez, let's hope it's not another Missoni for Target fiasco, I want the bedding but won't pitch a tent in front of the store to get it.

What I Heart Today: If I Only Had $100

If I only had $100... I'd buy one of these great moroccan poufs from Land of Nod, only $79 and it also comes in purple, pink, aqua and blue.

What I Heart Today: Good Advice

You know what they say, hindsight is 20/20. Well in hindsight I would have had a much better plan for backing up my hard drive. My hard drive crashed :( Data is not recoverable :( The last time I backed up my data was December of last year. Parties I designed for my Etsy store...gone, pictures of my daughter's first birthday...gone. I am one sad panda.

Don't be like me, make sure you have a backup solution in place. My husband is a computer guy (he kept telling me to backup my data I just didn't listen), he works for Microsoft. The solution he recommended for me was a product like Carbonite.com which is an online backup service that runs about $60 per year, it will backup your data whenever your're online and store it in the cloud. By the way I am in no way being compensated for this post by Carbonite, I'm just telling you what my husband told me.

So, in the meantime while I work on getting a new hard drive, please standby!

What I Heart Today: Love Letter Designs and Kiki's List!

I've got a hot tip on a few great things today! I just discovered two great new blogs and one of them is doing a fun giveaway.

The first new blog is Style Temple, she has a great idea for design and runs a fabulous Etsy shop called Letter Love Designs. Look how fun some of her stuff is!

My second great find is Kiki's List who is hosting a giveaway from Letter Love Designs! I've got my eye on this beauty if I win.

Check them both out and enter the giveaway while you're there!