BabyBites: When life gives you lemons..make cupcakes

I’m in love with Dear Colleen’s quirky ‘lemons’ prints for adults, so when I saw this post on one of my favourite blogs, Oh my! Handmade Goodness, I got very excited. These dinky little raspberry lemonade cupcake toppers were shared by Lisa from A House Full of Moxie and say “ when life gives you lemons…make lemonade cupcakes” – and to me it completely sums up life with two rambunctious little girls. When the day is going badly…let’s stop, get silly, and bake!

Perfect for the school holidays and the rain!

This wonderful little free downloadable set comes with cupcake recipe, printable cupcake toppers, wrapping paper, and cupcake stands. I’m in love!!

To read this and my other columns on Baby Bites online magazine, visit http://www.babybites.co.nz/

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Free 'back to school' printables by Creative Mamma

If you love free downloadable printables as much as me, you will be very excited about my latest find. All you need is some children to gift them to and you are totally justified in the ink costs!

Why? Well, it's back to school and kindergarten this week and time to shake off your littlies' holiday mode.

There's never a better time than now to set up your expectations for the year in terms of encouraging good manners, setting up a before and after school or kindy routine, instilling tidy up times or introducing new chore lists. Why not make it fun by giving them a gift of a matching 2011 Kawaii kids Organisation kit?

Free to download at Creative Mamma, this kit gives your child a monthly calendar for the year they can write on; a weekly chores chart; 'reward coupons' to cash in; shopping lists and to do lists they can fill out; and stickers to decorate. All decorated with cute Japanese cartoon "Kawaii" characters.

Now your child can be proud of their responsibility filling out the calendars and charts themselves, and keeping them on display.

And while you're on Creative Mamma's website, you could download some free downloadable Kawaii school book stickers, mini note cards, or free Valentine's cards for your kids to give you to say thanks for all their cool new stationary!

To read my original column on Creative Mamma on Baby Bites, click here.

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