My daughter recently had a birthday party to attend, and as you probably already know, I'm a sucker for creative gift wrapping.  I didn't have much time, but I DID have a bag of assorted balloon shapes and colors I never got around to using for Niamh's Stampy Longnose Minecraft birthday party.

Welcome to June's Taste Creations Blog Hop, where I team up with some of my favorite bloggers each month, and we all share recipes on a single theme.  June's theme:  Salad Bowl.

Perler bead Minecraft figures make the perfect necklaces and favors for a Minecraft birthday party.  True story.  

What could be a more fun activity and take-home favor at a Minecraft birthday party than a toy bow and arrow?  

Need some incredibly easy party decor for your Minecraft party?  These Minecraft ghasts looked amazing hanging from our trees!

Today is the last day of school for my girls--6th grade and 1st grade.  I made fortune cookies again for my younger daughter's teacher, and for one of my older daughter's teachers, but the English teacher needed a special gift.  You see, we discovered a few months ago, that the teacher--the 6th grade ENGLISH TEACHER--had never heard of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  NEVER HEARD OF IT.  Clearly, this is a situation that has to be remedied.

I had fun testing out my patriotic ice cream cones with actual ice cream yesterday, but I actually had a different plan for them: patriotic cotton candy faux ice cream cones!

Tutorial for taking plain ice cream cones and decorating them in edible red, white, and blue decorations for the 4th of July or Memorial day.

I needed a gift bag for the kids to hold their loot at the Stampy Minecraft birthday party, and came up with this incredibly easy craft to add Stampy Cat to a plain yellow gift bag.

I don't really like human-shaped pinatas.  But a pinata shaped like a creeper (one of the monsters you kill in Minecraft)?  That seems appropriately thematic to beat to smithereens at a Minecraft birthday party.