Utica United Methodist Church Craft Show

Hello All! Two weekends ago The Boho Birdie was at Utica United Methodist Church for there Annual Harvest Craft Show. Check out some pictures from the event! I had a wonderful time! It was a great way to start off the Holiday Craft Show season.

I also want to thank my Mom who was a huge help throughout the whole thing, thanks Mom! I will also be at the Dakota High School 15th Annual Holiday Craft Show November 13th 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mention my blog and receive a FREE set of Holiday Gift Tags.

Up Coming Events

Good afternoon and Happy November! I can not believe it is November already...soon snow and ice will be here in Michigan and it will be time to get out the snow shovels and winter jackets. But with cold weather comes the Holiday season and that means Holiday Craft Shows! Here is a list of The Boho Birdie's up coming events for this Holiday Season...

Utica United Methodist Church's Harvest Craft Show

October 30th 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

8650 Canal Road, Sterling Heights, MI 48314

Dakota High School 15th Annual Holiday Craft Show

November 13th 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

21051 21 mile Road, Macomb, MI 48044

Eisenhower High School 27th Annual Santa's Craft Castle Arts and Craft Show

November 20th 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

6500 25 mile Road, Shelby Township, MI 48316

Henry Ford II High School St. Nick's Warehouse Arts and Craft Show

November 27th 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and November 28th 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

11911 Clinton River Road, Sterling Heights, MI 48313

Please stop by. If you mention this blog post you will receive a FREE set of Holiday Gift Tags! Hope to see you there!

Check Out the Newest Items from The Boho Birdie

Hello everyone! I know Halloween is only days away but I thought I would share some of the newest items for this Holiday Season from The Boho Birdie. Check out these great frames. These make wonderful, thoughtful gifts for anyone on your list. Just add your favorite photo and you have a beautiful memory to share with a special someone. Click on the item to head on over to the listing!

Fanciful Finds: Little Monster's Edition

Hello! I nanny for a neighbor down the street and I could not help but be inspired today by the cute, little Halloween shirt I dressed my little sweetie in today. So I thought I would search etsy.com for some Fanciful Finds with the little guys in mind today. Enjoy!

Robo-Mummy by Littlebrownbyrd

Little Monster classic Frankenstein T-shirt by Rainbowalternative

Candy Corn Trick or Treat Bag by Kidtasticcreations

Batty the Pink Bat with Squeaker Stuffed Animal by FlakyFriends

Halloween Decoration Sugar Skull Garland Kit by rubyrockwell

Etsy's Holiday Home Decor Showcase

There is a first time for everything! So I am going to try my hand at an Etsy Showcase. I booked two spots for this years Etsy Holiday Home Decor Showcase. I have slots booked for October 20th and October 22nd. I will be keeping you up dated on this process and how everything works. Right now I am working on taking photos of my newest creations. I hope to have them up and running by the first part of next week. Sometimes photos, for me, can be a time consuming process but I am working hard! I am excited to see how this all comes together.

Fanciful Finds: Fall Edition

Hello! Welcome to the Fanciful Finds section of The Boho Birdie Blog. Here you will be able to check in and see some great items created by some brilliant minds from etsy.com. Each Fanciful Find post will include a photo of the item, the items name and price as well as a link that will take you directly to that item's listing! So drum-roll please...here are the first official Fanciful Finds from The Boho Birdie Blog.

Here is the Fanciful Finds Fall Edition.

Gift Bag for wine or coffee ($12)

Hootie Owl Fall Autumn Plushie Decoration - Brynn Owl ($22)

Multi-colored cotton ropes brown Leather Wrap Bracelet-Casual ($4)

Flock - original 8 x 16 screen print by poetry and cloth ($50)

Nine Orange, Brown, and Indigo Blue Felted Acorn Decorations ($15)

It is Official!

The Boho Birdie has gone International! This little Sweet Love Frame with free mini card is on its way overseas to the United Kingdom! It will be carefully packaged for its long trip and will be sent out today.

Thanks so much to my speical shopper!

Lets Go for a Picnic

My boyfriend and I are going to take a picnic tomorrow afternoon. I was inspired by these picnic themed items I found while browsing through etsy today. Nothing says summer is here like a picnic with family. Click on the photo to follow the link. Please take a look....

Check This Out

Hello there!

I just bumped over to Oh Hello Friend's blog and saw this great giveaway. There are just some beautiful items from Adventures in Clay. Here are some of my favorite items! Go check out it out, who knows you might just win a $40 certificate!

FREE SHIPPING

Hello All!

The Boho Birdie on Etsy is offering FREE SHIPPING between June 9th and June 16th. So please fly on by and snag up some goodies, free of shipping! Here are some of my newest items...

Baby Shower Over Load!

Hello There!

I have finally had some time to catch up on my blogging and etsy shop. Not too long ago I started a baby shower do it yourself feature and I am back now to give you all the details! My mother, grandmother, aunt and I had a wonderful time planning and preparing these two showers for my cousin and her new little guy, Gage. Below are all the picture I took. Remember we had a safari themed shower with some orange, brown and green color inspiration. I will give you the details on everything from goodie bags to decorations. So please take look here at all the decorations...This was the snack table. We had set out with all kinds of goodies. I found really easy directions for those fun tissue paper pom-poms on Martha Stewart. They were super quick and fun to make. Everyone loved them. They were a hit! Try them out! I cut out the little leaves on my Circuit Machine. I sprinkled the little touches all around the house.

This was our little candy bar station. Because we had quite a few people at these showers we were having trouble coming up with a cute, inexpensive giveaway. We pulled together and came up with a candy bar. We filled cheap glass jars we bought from The Hobby Lobby with the soon-to-be-mommy's favorite candy and we asked guessed to fill little goodie bags for themselves. This was very easy and because we went to a bulk food store, pretty inexpensive.

This was one of our games we played. We found some colorful jellybeans at the bulk food store. We picked colors to match baby Gage's room and counted them. We asked guests to guess how many jellybeans were in the jar. The closest one got to take the jar of jellybeans home with them.

These are the baby banners that I made for the party and for Molly to later hang in Gage's room. The top one is simply cutting out triangles and gluing them onto a ribbon. I then cut out letters on my Circuit Machine. The bottom banner was made with my sewing machine, a long piece of ribbon and different size circles.

There is still more to come so please stick around!
xoxo SarahKate

Baby Shower Goodie-Bags

Check out these adorable pins and goodie-bags that were given away at the baby shower!

I found these pins at Micheal's Arts and Craft store a few weeks before the shower. The were so cute. The mommy-to-be, Molly, was able to pass these around to all of her family members before the guests arrived. Everyone got a huge kick out of these!

These were the goodie-bags that were passed around to all the children that came to the shower. We decided to go with two family style showers where men, women and children were all invited. Each bag was packed with two animals tattoos, jungle fruit snacks and a wooden magnet coloring kit we found at Micheal's Arts and Craft store. These bags were stuffed and put together for all under $1.50 each.

To create this grassland inspired goodie-bag all you need is a few simple items. All of these can be found at any craft store. I got all of my supplies from Micheal's.

1. Small brown craft bags
2. 1 Roll of green craft paper
3. Scissors
   
4. Glue (glue dots worked the best!)

These bags were completed repeating these short steps for each individual bag....

1. Cut green craft paper into strips about 3 inches wide.
2. Cut small triangles to create a grass affect.
3. Glue the cut grass to the bottom of the bag. (this part can be a bit tricky, this is why glue dots work the best!)
4. Stuff with goodies and enjoy!
   

xoxo SarahKate

It Has Been a While

Hello there!

I am so sorry it has been a while! Everything just came at once here in my family. We had my cousins baby shower one weekend and the very next week my cousin had her baby!!! (and the fact that Michigan has been seeing some beautiful weather does not help either!) I will have some up dated photos of Baby Gage and the baby shower as well with in the next few days. I am just trying to get back into the swing of things here so please stay posted. I also went on a photo shoot with my good friend Jordan. So many, many photos are to follow! Please come back, its good to be back!
xoxo SarahKate

Baby Shower Up Date

Hello everyone!
I am so sorry it has been so long. My Internet has been acting up but we got the problem fixed and I am back up and running!
We have been working very hard on my cousin's baby shower. We got all the invitations out over two weeks ago. Everyone seemed to enjoy them very much. :o)

We have come up with a final menu and have started to buy items that can be purchased ahead of time such as the plates, cups, napkins and silverware. We have a lot of guests coming to both the Friday and Saturday showers so we decided to stay with very simple foods. Nothing to fancy at all. Convenience and simplicity played a huge factor in choosing the menu items. We stat down and divided up the food duties. This way there is not just one person in charge of all the food. It makes everything much less stressful and easy! Take a look at the menu....
We only have six days left so time is ticking. We have decided to invite both men, women and children to both parties. Everyone in my family is very laid back and enjoys a good time. So we figured why not involve everyone in the celebration right?!

After our Mother's Day celebration tomorrow I will be sitting down and finishing up all the giveaways for the children that are coming. I am excited about the goodie-bags and all the little treats that come with them. I will also be putting together some of the games we will be playing. So please come back for more baby shower fun!!!
xoxo SarahKate

The Baby Shower Invites

Hello Everyone!

Here they are! My mother and I have been working very hard on these! We knew we were going to have to make quite a few of these because my cousin is having two parties. One for her and her husband's work friends and one for family. We had to make a ton--80 to be exact.

We had decided on a safari theme. My cousin has a safari themed baby room so its perfect! I got started right away with a design on Photoshop. I just love the little giraffes and the baby heart.

We printed that out onto card stock at 4.5 inches by 4.5 inches. We then rounded the corners with a corner punch (really easy to find, Micheal's or Jo Anne's $8-$9).

I then cut out a scalloped square on my Cricut Machine at 5 inches by 5 inches. To save paper and cut back on waste I also cut a square inside the scalloped square (I will be using these scraps for my Bottle Buddies and Plaques!)

Finally I stuck on some glue dots in the corners and antiqued around the edges. Each invite was accompanied with a Babies R Us baby registry tag and a sweet little poem we found online and customized. I hope everyone will enjoy these little invites. They were so much fun to make and put together. Please feel free to let me know what you think! Soon we will be finalizing the menu and I have already started on the giveaways and favors. So please stick around because there are more goodies to come!

Baby Shower Up Date

Hello again!

My mother and I are working very hard on our invitations. We have a design all picked out and ready for cutting and gluing. We are going to be meeting up with my cousin tonight so we are working like busy little bees! I will have photos of the invites up very soon.

In the meantime I have been all over the Martha Stewart Website looking for ideas and inspiration. I came across this baby shower check list. It is a great start to my ever growing list. And for a girl who loves lists it was perfect!

Do It Yourself Baby Shower

Hello!

My cousin and her husband are having a bouncing baby boy. His name will be Gage. His due date is June 10th, the day after my Birthday! I really hope he comes early so we can have the same birthday!

My mother, myself and other family members have chosen to give her a baby shower. We are a very do it yourself family. So we have decided to do it all. We are making everything from the invitations to the decorations to the games and the food. I thought I would share a Do It Yourself Baby Shower Tutorial with everyone. There will be no bones about it, I will be sharing everything about everything.

We are going to be putting on two showers. One of Friday May 14th and one Saturday May 15th. So we only have three weeks...but yet another thing my family is good at is procrastinating. But we work hand and always get the job done. We have a lot of work to do so lets get started.

To begin I am just brain storming ideas for decorations and invitations. Here are some of my favorites...