I love May Day. It means summer is right around the corner (even if I woke this morning to snow on the ground). I have a darling neighbor who always doorbell dings us and leaves a little mayday surprise on our doorstep. I have always dreamed of having a maypole in my yard...and then I came across this Maypole Cake from Martha Stewart and I thought it was the most adorable thing I had seen!! I could totally do a maypole cake--much less daunting than a real Maypole set up in my yard. (For the complete recipe click on the link to her site.) However you spend your May Day...happy spring from us at Holiday Snob!

I especially love the display!  I think I'm going to get some old shots of my Mom to have out with my copy!

So next week is National Teacher Appreciation Week and we definitely have some teachers that we love. So Dot and I decided we needed a little something snazzy to show our love. We have been in love with the balloon wreaths we have seen "floating" around....
a couple of our favs:

Landee See Landee Do

Our Best Bites

So with those little beauties as our inspiration we created the teacher appreciation balloon wreath. We thought it was fitting because...well we are in love with them...and balloons are eternally connected to kids, and they are bright and fun and don't you think it will look adorable on your favorite teacher's desk - maybe hung on a wreath stand or hanging on their wall? And most importantly it fit perfectly with our cheesy little saying "voted most POPular!"

Our next little treat for teach is a fancied up sonic drink carrier. We just used a little spray glue (love) and placed  2 napkins to cover the carrier. Then we made the little tag with scrapbook paper and of course we used our standby crepe paper for a rosette. Then we are going to fill it with lunch for our favorite teachers. But it could also be used as a cute holder for any fun little gifts you want to shower your teacher with. Good luck with appreciating those teachers!! What would we do without them. This little treasure can be found and downloaded free at eighteen 25. Those girls really do rule the school don't they!!

How cute would it be to give those teachers the subway art and the wreath and bring them in lunch? I am thinking they will really be feeling the love?... Whatever your ambition level is this next week we hope we have given some inspiration and would love to hear your ideas!
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Mrs. Meyer's Musings

Embellishing Life Every Day has another inspiration for painted plastic eggs:

I wish I could tell you that these yummy cupcakes were what I made for dessert for Easter, but Costco was out of raspberries and I was out of time for errands after Costco!  So I made an meh dessert tonight instead.  Blech.  I hate a lot of work for meh.

Moving on... I made these for a birthday party and they were a hit!  I've been craving more since they disappeared so quickly, so they most likely will be Mother's Day dessert!  Anyway, they're super easy and you should try 'em!

White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
1 box of white cake mix, eggs and oil according to package
1 small cartons of raspberries, rinsed and drained
1 c. (approximately) of white chocolate chips, melted

(yep, that's the ingredients)

I followed the package directions, then added about a cup of melted white chocolate, mixing quickly as it was added.  Then I dumped in a small carton of raspberries and mixed those bad boys in.  This made 6 dozen mini cupcakes, which was about 2 more than a cake mix usually makes for me.  Cook according to directions.

White Chocolate Frosting
1 8 oz package of cream cheese
1 stick of butter
(1/4 c to 1/2 c) whole milk
2 lbs of powdered sugar
1 c. of melted white chocolate
dash of salt
1 small carton of raspberry

Blend together softened cream cheese and butter, then add powdered sugar and milk in increments to make sure the consistency is right.  Then add melted white chocolate.  If it's too thick, thin with a tiny amount of milk.  Add a dash of salt and blend.  Top with a fresh raspberry!

I have to say sometimes I see a craft and I just want to reach out and touch it is so dang cute. That is how I felt when I saw this tutorial for these stenciled eggs. I mean I want to pet them. I also am now going to make my 8 year old daughter get her little buns into a tutu and put on bunny ears for a silhouette pic--that may mean I am bribing her with a trip to Justice later but it will so be worth it. Maybe I should just make my little 4 year old guy put on the tutu...no one would know...right!! (okay don't tell my hubs that I might be considering that..wink wink) But seriously!! PRECIOUS. For her full tutorial, head over to her blog!

Did you love it? I am dying to know or if I am just a little bunny crazy these days....let us know what you thought.

Here's some we ended up making with our own pictures.  I cut out pictures of my kids and then traced it onto chocolate colored vinyl.  The eggs I used were BIG, about 8 inches tall from a store called Tai Pan. I just stuck the vinyl on, but ended up modge-podging it as well since it didn't stick to the surface very thoroughly.  Then I cut out a bunny, chick and easter basket with my Cricut and applied them as well.  Sorry for the dark pictures, but these eggs are going into some baskets tomorrow so the only chance I've had to photograph them was once the kiddos were asleep!






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Now I have to admit when you find a patent shoe in a perfectly delish yellow a "redo" is not really necessary!! (Did I mention these shoes are from Macy's and on sale for less than $30...just got them) But, due to my snobbish nature and the fact that I keep seeing all of your snobbish clothing remakes out their in the blog world I had to do it!! So with Easter coming up I knew these babies had to have topper.

Like I said they really are delish on their own aren't they?

But I am in love with polka dots right now and happened to have this ribbon laying aorund begging to made into a shoe topper so I gave in and used my handy hot glue gun to make these bows. I hot glued a bobbie pin to attach them to the shoe. I did have to clip a little part of the front of the bobby pin so it won't show on the top of my shoe. I am also seeing these on my red patent leather flats...oh the possibilities!!

Again, I hate it when stores put a cute little thing like these clips on display because seriously how do you NOT buy it? Old Navy has these fancy little treats on sale right now (in several colors just to blow your budget) and it matched my polka dots perfectly so had to buy them!!

So the only question left: With or without the rosette?

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3.  I ruffled a few strips of ribbon.  This is different from Amy's project because she used fabric she needed to semi-serge the edges.  I figured if I used ribbon I wouldn't have to worry about fraying, plus I have much more of a selection in ribbon than fabric.


4.  Then I started hot-glueing each layer on, which also differs from Amy's tutorial, since she sewed each layer of ruffles. Lazy me again.


6.  Then I glued two jewelry pins onto the back, since I love the dress we're using for the party and I didn't want it to be just for Easter after this!