Wishing for SNOW {Our Christmas}

 

Wishing for snow.

Every year we do Christmas Eve at my moms house. This year we did it at our house once again,  What a surprise right? LOL we had a wonderful time and my kids enjoyed it to the fullest. They ran around, played on their swing set, and ate lots of sweets.

We live in Miami, FL so our weather is no where near what the North is going thru, but we do wish that we had a little snow, especially on Christmas. So we decorated our table with rolled snow and snowmen.

This all started when my mom and I went to shopping and found Charlie our snowman.

Isn't he adorable? I just fell in love with him.

After taking Charlie home we decided to stay with Charlies color scheme. I immediately contacted Lynlee from Lynlee's Petite Cakes for a smaller version of Charlie, made of  fondant. Her work is fabulous and beautiful as you can see below.

While looking around on Etsy for my daughter's Christmas outfit. I bumped into Julie from Cakes and Kids. I was so impressed by all the designs she had. I wanted a small stocking banner counting down the days till Christmas and she had what I needed. 

The stockings had a number one and the number twenty four glittered on the them. 

One day left till Christmas!!!

When you walked out to our patio this was the image you saw. I was so excited to see what my kids, family, and guest faces were going to be. They loved it and I was pleased.

Our Lollipop banner was something different than what I normally do. I came up with this idea when I stumble on these lollipops in our Christmas boxes. It came out wonderful!

Our Snowman Hat utensil holder.

While at the supermarket I noticed the cover of Woman's Day magazine and saw an idea I liked. Their's was in red and white. It was so inspiring however, we wanted our own twist. So our color were in bright pinks, aqua, red, and green. We also added the word JOY and small Elf's.

It's not easy to make, but it was fun. Our straws and Elf's came from Hey Yoyo.

Our centerpiece for the  dinner table was hand made. The big white poof pom poms are normally hanging tissue pom poms. We decided to use them a little different.

Hand made food labels

We wrapped our cupcakes in our hand made wrappers that had a snowflake design. They were delish.

Some little decorations on our dessert table.

I had seen something similar on Pinterest. They had Reindeer's instead, but we liked the idea and thought it would a nice  to make snowman marshmallow.

Hope you had a wonderful time celebrating your holiday seasons with our loved ones.

xo,

Maylene

Happy New Year!

I wanted to take this time and say thank you to all, family, friends, clients, fans and vendors. I can't believe that once again we are at the end of the year. Oh how this year has flown by.

I'm very grateful to my family and friends for helping me in all of my daily madness and also in helping our business to continue to grow to what I have envision it to be.

To our clients and fans without your support our business would not be successful. Thank you for giving us the chance to make your day extra special with our designs.

Last but not least are the vendors I speak to.

This is where I get some of my inspiration from. Throughout the year we have developed friendships over the Internet. These ladies inspire me with their work, and they go beyond their designs to help out. Thank you for your friendship and support. I'm truly grateful to have met these and other wonderful ladies.

Here are some of my favorite peeps and their designs.

Peas & Thank you's

The Purple Pug

Crazy for Design

Paper Glitter

Celebrate today the Superchick way!

Bird's Party

Hope everyone has a wonderful and Safe New Year.

May 2012 be a Happy, Peaceful, and Prosperous year for everyone.

Xo,

Maylene

Last Minute Christmas Decoration/Gift Ideas

Wow REALLY only 2 days left till Christmas? Were has the year gone? Just like everyone your probably trying to get your last minute shopping done. As well as getting your decorations ready for Christmas.

Hopefully we can help you with some small ideas. I LOVE Mason jars, but sometimes if you have to buy a few they can get costly. Take a look at your spaggetti jars. Some have a pretty nice shape or design. Don't throw them out rinse and clean them! You can reuse them by adding a hot chocolate recipe or a cookie recipe.  The possiblities are endless. Look how cute these are??

Cookie Recipe

Hot Chocolate with Marshmellows

You can add ribbon, dolie, material, and a small tag with the recipe. There's plenty of different ideas one can do with these jars. So next time your looking at your spaggetti jars think of what we said. Rinse and wash {Wink}

These would be adorable to give out for your gathering.

Aren't they cute?

There also ornaments that you can decorate with your kids and give them as gifts. Grandparents love handmade goodies from there grandkids.

Glitter filled ornaments or

Recycled old Light bulds. These are just darling? I think my kids will get a kickout of painting light bulds.

Your probably planning your meals and cleaning all of your table wears right? You probably can't wait to set up your tables with all of your decorations and foods. This year I'm in love with all the different Christmas Sweet Tables that have popped out this month. Here are a couple of my favorite table scapes. There's just so many beautiful tables that its just hard to pick just one.

 Frog Prince Paperie

Kate Landers Events and Pen and Paper Flowers

I do hope I get to share with you all our Christmas table and decorations around our home. My daughter has been sick. {Sad face} It's hard to get the house ready, finish the decorations, wrap up gifts, and work at the same time.

Hopefully this post has inspired you both in small gifts and table decoration.  If you have any pictures that you would like for us to share with your Holiday decor please send them to Maluboutiques@yahoo.com 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

XO,

Maylene

The images above were found off the net. They are not property of Malu Boutiques. 

Inspirational Wednesday (Small craft room/organiztion ideas)

I've been trying for a very, very, very...... long time to organize my office. Some how it's not done. Something or another always comes up. I do wish I had the time do redo it like some of the images I have saved. I would like to hand pick some of the ideas I see in each of the pictures and put them to use in my room.

The baskets and the folded material in the draw.

I would love for my stamps to be seen like this. 

 

I would just love a room like this. The white is just so refreshing and the blue ceiling is just wonderful. The chandelier is an absolutely enchanting touch.

I just love how organized it looks.

 

Would love to place this in vinyl letters in my office.

Of course I love this one because of the pink and for being organized, but really for the pink and the ruffled chair. {wink}

If your looking for some inspiration I do hope these images gave you some ideas for your craft rooms. If you need or would like to see more ideas of mine you can always check our inspirational boards on Pinterest. Do you follow us? If not you can start now click here.

Malu Boutiques

How does your craft room look like? I would love to see some picture. You can email them to maluboutiques@yahoo.com

XO,

Maylene

Our Thanksgiving

 

Before setting up all the yummies!

After setting up all the yummies!

Glazed Pears. These were absoluty delish!!

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  I enjoy all of the holidays, some more than others. Every Thanksgiving, we have family and friends come over and join us for dinner and to give thanks. On this day our family gets together to cook different dishes.  Everyone has a special food or item to bring to our Thanksgiving feast.

We had so much fun planning what was going to be on the menu and how our table was going to look like. When planning our table decoration this year my mom and I decided to go a little different.  She had a tablecloth from when she had her own store; it had fruits with jewel tone colors. This is the color scheme we went for this year.

Our table had golden square plates, golden wine glasses, harvest napkins and walnut napkin rings. The napkin rings were hand made with glitter walnuts, acrylic purple and yellow leaves, with a pheasant feather.  The centerpiece had different types of squash and small pumpkins. When looking for printables, the ones we found that would match our style for the night were from The TomKat Studios. We used their menus and their food labels.

The dessert/coffee table had a golden frame with the banner placed inside saying “GIVE THANKS”.  I picked Give Thanks as the banner this year, because we have had many different obstacles to overcome this year. Some were wonderful and some were not so wonderful, but even though we get placed in difficult times we should Give Thanks for the love and support one has between family and friends. Which is why I chose to have Pen n' Paper Flowers "BE" print on our dessert table. By the way the golden frame and the coffee carafe were found at a thrift store. This is one of my moms and I favorite hobby.

On our dessert table we had moon cookies, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake, glazed pears, stuffed apples, and cupcake. The beverages served were coffee and hot tea.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and have fun decorating in your upcoming holidays!

Paper Goods, Styled, and Photographed by: Malu Boutiques

Printables by: The TomKat Studio

"Be" Print by: Pen n' Paper Flowers

xo,

Maylene