Road Trip Birthday Party

 

Last week, a group of us gals wanted to celebrate our friend Sande's 50th bday.  She said she wanted to take a day trip down to Magnolia (2 hours).  Even though we planned to eat lunch in Waco and try out the Magnolia bakery, I wanted to personalize it and make it feel like a party, so I planned a tailgate breakfast.  

I posted all the details about each of these in a previous post, but each girl got a box of breakfast and a personalized cookie.  

I also bought some popcorn for a road snack (it doesn't hurt that Sande's husband owns the shop) and I provided personalized shopping totes for each girl.

I brought an ice cooler and personalized some tumblers for each girl to have in the car as well.  

I think all the necessities for a successful girl trip down 35.  

Girl Trip Party Ideas

I've been tossing a few of the details from my friend's 50th Girl Trip online.  We took a day away and headed two hours up the road to Waco.  Even though it was a day trip, I still wanted to make it special and personalized.  

Sande told me almost a year ago this is what she wanted to do, so I've been collected gold and black totes from Hobby Lobby and Amazon and I personalized one for each girl.  

I also made tumblers with "Hello 50" on one side and our names on the back.  

I'll pull all the details together in my next post.  :)

Breakfast To Go Party Idea

This past week, I went with a group of girls on a day trip to celebrate my friend Sande's birthday.  Even though most of our day was going to be spent out of town visiting shops and restaurants, I wanted to do something party-ish to celebrate her birthday and make it feel more like a party.  So...I made a tailgate breakfast box for each gal who came along.  

I found these gabled boxes at Hobby Lobby in the party aisle and I added each girl's name with my vinyl and my Cricut.  

Each box included silverware, a bagel (in a pink bag, also from Hobby Lobby), a little container of fruit (I bought these little domed container on Amazon) and a cookie.  One of our planned stops was a cupcake shop, but I wanted some sort of personalized dessert.  

Typically, a cookie wouldn't be most people's idea of dessert, BUT I figured with the box idea, people could nibble along the road (we had a two hour trip ahead of us).  

 

Easy Personalized Cookies

 

     This Tuesday, some friends and I took a day trip in honor of my pal Sande's birthday.  One of our planned stops was Magnolia Bakery for their cupcakes, BUT I wanted to have some sort of fun treat that was personalized for her birthday, so I decided on cookies.

      I love baking cookies, but the date for this event coincided with the end of the busiest year of my life as a teacher, so I found that you can purchase edible rice paper cookies online.  You can order all sorts of shapes, but I went with some circles.  It was really easy-I sent a picture and the message I wanted on the pictures.  

I used my favorite cookie recipe and the rim of a cup to cut out circles the size I wanted (a little bit larger than the cookies, though this isn't necessary if you don't want to decorate the edges).  

I cut out a circle using regular scissors and I left a little white around it since my icing was white.  There is a clear paper on the back you peel off.  

I put a glob of icing down and the picture adheres right to the cookie.  

I put a ring of icing around the cookies and rolled them in sprinkles.  

I let them dry and then bagged them up.  

SMORE Bites

 Hello, summer!  I actually made these LAST year, but....I got behind in life and I'm just now posting.  There were so easy to put together and really delicious and a little bit LESS messy way to enjoy a smore.  

Ingredients:  1 c. graham cracker crumbs, 4 T melted butter, 1/4 c. powered sugar, 12 marshmallows (cut in half), Reese's peanut butter cup or Hershey chocolate.  

Instructions:  

1.  Heat over to 350.

2.  Mix the crumbs, sugar, and butter.  Spoon the into 24 mini muffin cups and press them to the bottom and sides like a small pie shell.  

3.  Bake for 5 minutes.  Remove them and place a Reese's peanut butter cup or 2 piece of Hershey chocolate squares in the 'cup.'  Cover with the 1/2 marshmallow (cut side down).  

4.  Place over on broil and put them back in for 1-2 minutes.  Remove them as they start to brown.  

5.  I added a little melted chocolate to the top as well when they cooled.  

6.  Eat and repeat.