Secret Agent themed birthday party

Are you looking for a birthday party theme for a tween boy?  This Secret Agent Themed Birthday Party is perfect for a 10 year old boy!

                                                                                                                  updated 8/2019


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A bit more love

Here is the shelf in our eating area all dressed up for LOVE day. 










a little love

While at Kohl's today I saw the cutest plate.  It was a red square with "love" written in white.  I almost bought it but like any good crafter, I thought- I can make that myself.  So I came home and found this plate in my stash.  I know it's a crazy pattern.  But I bought it for the shape and always intended on painting it. 
 I used glossy craft paint.  Many, many coats of glossy craft paint. 
 It didn't cover completely, but I decided I liked the stripes.  Or maybe I was just done after the 10th coat of paint. 
I was going to use my Cricut to cut some vinyl letters.  But my littlest guy is asleep right next door to my craft area and it's so not worth waking him up.  I found these glittery letter stickers and thought they would work just as well.

 Wall-ah!



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The in between decorating

I have professed my love for holiday decorating over and over. So it makes me sad (but kind of happy too) to take down my Christmas decorations. And I don't want to immediately put up Valentine stuff because Valentine's Day is more than a month away and since I have a really short decorating attention span, I know I'll get sick of everything by then. So I usually do a little winter decorating.


This is my favorite thing...I put felt snowflakes on the inside of the lampshades. A little surprise when one turns on the lights.




the whole shelf

a little jar of snowballs. They are just fluffy yarn covered balls and some snowman heads from Target.




a snowman and a vase with snow (Epsom salt) and a rusty snowflake

 the dining area
Oops...there's that low decorating attention span thing happening.  This shelf changed between the 2 pics.  I added another mercury glass candlestick.  The ball is another yarn covered one and the fluff is a white tissue paper pom pom. 

Coming up next...Valentine's projects!

What I've been up to

It's the New Year.  Fresh start and all that.  Time to clean and organize and I'm loving the results!


Reorganized craft area in the playroom.  I'm slowly taking over the playroom.  Last year I added my desk.  This year I moved my desk 6 more inches into the "play" part of the room and brought out my sewing machine. 







Under the kitchen sink.  This may not look like much...but it's waaay better then it was.












Other things we've been up to:

Playing in the snow.  We actually got some serious snow.  About 6inches. Tomorrow will be my kids 3rd day off from school.
Homemade cupcakes.  From scratch- not a cake mix.  First time I've ever done that.  They were yummy!  Homemade icing too. 
Getting ready for a birthday party.  It's not until the end of the month, but takes lots of planning and prep.  I can't wait.  My big boy is going to be double digits!  Crazy!!
Lots of planning going on too.  I have big ideas for this funky little corner in my bedroom. And the rest of the room too. And the kids' bathroom.  And...and....and...lots of projects in the works! 
Great start to the new year!!

I'm still trying to dig out...

 We decided 5 days before hand to drive to Utah for the Holidays.  It's 27 hours away from our house.
 After spending an extra 5 hours in a really ugly snow storm in Wyoming, we made it!!
 We had Christmas part I in our hotel room.  It was lots of fun.  We also got to visit Grandparents on both sides, eat at lots of yummy Utah restaurants and stock up at the Quilted Bear, Deseret Book and LDS Distribution.
 After 4 days of Utah fun, we drove home and had Christmas part II at our house. 
This is what unpacking from a huge road trip, putting away Christmas gifts and decorations and getting caught up on laundry looks like.  SCARY!!  I'll hopefully be back to regularly scheduled programing soon.  As soon as all this mess gets cleaned up.  And my kids go back to school.  Not necessarily in that order.

Happy New Year!