A Happy DIY Decorated Superbowl.....

I will admit I am not the biggest football fan ....but the hubby is for sure. and as a result I find myself hosting a crowd for the big game each year. Over the years I have accumulated a hodge-podge of football themed serving dishes and decorations .. and this year I decided to actually put it all together into a cohesive superbowl theme and I thought I would share my DIY's projects. 

Using a fake grass rug & some masking tape I created a "football field" table cloth for the base of my tablescape. I found a football cookie jar on Amazon which used to arrange flowers in for a centerpiece.  Using some felt, an empty Costco peanut can, and this cute penalty flag printable from HGTV's site I created a penalty flag bucket for napkins... Some homemade football cupcakes added an extra bit of sweetness to the table. 

I also made this adorable tassel garland to help get us in the football spirit-- I am really enjoying making these garlands for events lately!   I just love the festive touch they lend to any event and you can make them in just about any color combination. 

A round of superbowl bingo helped to keep everyone in the spirit and how cute are these DIY coasters. They were really easy to create with a strip off the grass rug, some wide mouth mason jar lids, and green felt on the back.  Check out the DIY instructions here... I found that a standard mason jar lid is just the right size to use as a stencil to get the grass to sit perfectly in the larger lid. 

Even Xander the Great Pyrenees got into the football spirit and wore his "LineBarker" jersey  & enjoyed a beer with the rest of us! 

Preparing the Garden for planting

Now that it is spring it is time to plant the garden. Creating a bountiful garden starts by preparing the garden from the ground up! It took a bunch of  weeding and pulling out the last of the crops from the year before...

The rest of the carrots & 1 last beet from last years garden

 Then we had to take a shopping trip to get some good soil. Ideal soil drains well and is full of organic material to give nutrients to baby plants aka not our natural soil so we picked up several bags of organic gardening soil  to amend our natural soil in the back yard with. We choose to go with an organic soil to avoid pesticides. 

 

Luckily we had Xander with us to give us a hand with all those bags of soil!

 



Xander doing the heavy lifting of soil bags



 First step when getting home was to rototill the garden area and soften the compacted ground from last year. We tried to get ~6 inches deep with the rototiller. We then spread out the garden soil from the store overtop and tilled it in as well giving us a great base of natural & nutrient rich soil.

 

Prepping the soil... What happened with my Camera!!

 

After we finished preparing the soil a fence had to go up to keep the pup out, we put weed barrier down to help prevent weeds, and into the ground went our little plantlings. We even planted some marigolds because they are rumored to help prevent insects.. (but if the marigolds don't work they will still look pretty!)

The plants are in!



loving the end results

Hoppy Easter!!

This is Xander's first Easter with us & I am dog sitting my sis's dog Mocha right now so I decided to go a little crazy & have a doggie Easter for the pups!  Xander donned some bunny ears & we did an easter egg hunt for the pups and it didn't take them long to realize that the plastic eggs had pieces of yummy Stella & Chewy's inside ( if you haven't tried this food for your dog they will LOVE it. )  I wish I had my camera for it... however my hands were  busy cracking open the eggs for the dogs once they located an egg.

 

Xander the Great Pyrenees with his Easter Basket

The spoiled pups Easter baskets! The neighbor's dog Emi even got one too.

Easter Baskets for Xander, Mocha, & Emi  +  the eggs for the egg hunt in the grass.

My sister's dog Mocha the Great Bernese

Happy Birthday Pup!

Our cute little puppy is turning 1 year and to celebrate we had to have some good friends over for a puppy paw-party.....

 

Yum! Birthday Cake

 

 

I saw the cutest cupcakes for a Pyr Pup over at I heart Cuppy Cakes  & my sis helped me create these adorable vegan Great Pyr cupcakes....

 

 

The dogs were having a blast with all of the yummy doggie treats...& Xander's cousin Mocha Bear the Great Bernese  had no problem helping gobble them down!

Xander & Mocha Bear share some doggie birthday cake!

 

 I can't believe my sweet little pup is a 100lb dog now! It was too fast.... I still remember his as a little pup.

Xander at  4 months right after we brought him home....
it didn't take him long to dig up all those flowers!!