Stairway to Heaven

In my quest to find a desk for my room I found a few that I really fell in love with. So much even that I randomly storm into different rooms in the house and stare intensely to see if that room could use a desk. I came across this beauty at Crate and Barrel.

I love how light and airy this feels. You get storage space and a workplace without a big bulky piece. The downside is the price tag. $399.99 Not ridiculous, but not in my budget. So I hoped over to overstock.com and found this piece for $79.99

If you don't want the whole desk you can just use this piece, BUT the lovely part is they sell the desk and the other side so you can have the set and each piece is $79. They didn't have white but you could always keep checking. So don't be surprised if in the future I have a desk in my kitchen, I'm staring hard in there right now.

Raphael's Gabbalicious Party

The party plowed through this weekend and it was a success. The remnants of the day are still littered around the house. And don't even mention the backyard. It looks like a post apocalyptic playground. Paper, bubble wands, pinata pieces strewn around. haha. I promise I will clean the backyard before this weekend. I posted pictures of the party to my facebook already, but I'll throw some up here.

The cupcake stand was one of my favorite pieces to make and this is so simple and fun for anyone. You need to buy this Dessert Tower.

I bought some scrap booking paper and cutout large circles and taped them to the platters

Then I bought ribbon (and you can use thick or thin) to wrap around the edges. You can glue it or tape it. I taped mine

And you have your custom dessert tower, any colors or theme you want!

I ordered the door sign, The Happy Birthday banner, and the goodie bags from this nice woman on Etsy. Unfortunately, it seems her shop was closed down. A lot of people selling Yo Gabba Gabba stuff on Etsy have been getting their shops closed down due to copyright issues. Which is sad, she had a lot of cute stuff, all kinds of themes.

The Characters on the cupcakes I also got from Etsy. The shop is called Sweet and Edible. She does everything and anything, her work is amazing.

All the other decor I made. I did order Giantic Muno from the party supply store. Anyone in the market for a 6' cardboard cutout of a monster??

Honestly this party was better than Roman's 1st bday, but I have to explain, how that was mommy's first time trowing a party and my planning and decor skills have improved since then. Its ok I have many birthdays to make that up to him.