Crafty Tuesday

last week bean celebrated her "un-brithday" at school. all summer birthday kids were given an "un-birthday" so that they could have a special day at school, which i think is nice. they get to wear the birthday crown, pick a present from the birthday box and bring in whatever treat they want. bean wanted ladybug cupcakes. ladybug cupcakes like the ones she saw on the computer. so mommy finally remembered what web site they were on and she made them, because she is a good mommy like that. ;)
i did change a few things... like instead of mallomars the lady bugs are actually mini cupcakes. and i didn't put on all the colored sugar. and instead of rolling out green gumdrops and cutting them into a leaf shape i just used spearmint leaves and sliced them in half (so they weren't so thick). oh, and i ran out of red food coloring so the ladybugs are pink instead of red. but bean liked them better that way so, yay me! ha ha!!

i think that they turned out pretty darn cute if i do say so myself!
wanna closer look?
and because i'm an overachiever i taped this to the lid of the box...
i can't take credit for the poem, at least not the first four lines. i found that in this month's issue of my big backyard magazine and thought it was too perfect for our "un-birthday" treat. so i made up a few extra lines found a clip art lady bug and we were done... at 11:15pm. seems a mom doesn't have regular working hours. :)

so that is my crafty contribution this week. next week i'll have pictures of the teacher gifts that bean and i made... i bet you can hardly wait, can you?