Casino Night 30th Birthday Party

Way way back in November I decided what I was going to do for Jason's big 3-0 party.

I decided to do a game night rather than a traditional party because while I think he is great with talking to people and is extremely sociable, I knew he wasn't a fan of stand-around-and-chat parties. The one thing I knew he LOVED was playing board games with friends, so I ran with that.

I went with a casino night theme and used the colors black, white and red for it.

I brought all our favorite games and set them out on a table so people could choose what they wanted to play and I even invited them to bring their own if they wanted to play that instead.

Lots of playing cards were used, I got them all from the dollar store. I made this little 'banner' the night before with a sewing machine and sharpie. Yeah for procrastination!

Everything wasn't too hard to put together. Mostly a lot of cards sewn together from the dollar store, ton's of snack food and awesome friends.

Jason was very surprised (at least so he tells me) and needless to say he won't be telling me I never give him any big parties like I do the boys anytime soon. Bam!

For the 'cake' I did some dominos out of brownies and frosting, some stacked oreos (his favorite) and some easy to make cupcakes.

Snacks were pretty much all his favorite stuff along with some that stayed on the red, white and black/brown theme. Yeah, they were all pretty much gone by the end of the night.

Happy Birthday Sr. Jason, I love you tons!

V-day 2 for 1 Giveaway!

And the winner is Justine! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated.

This giveaway is closed! 

Here's a quick, just in time for Valentines day Giveaway! I'm giving away 2 of these beautiful necklaces, one for you, and one for someone you love. 

They are 18" oxidized sterling silver with a gorgeous wrapped aqua chalcedony stone.

There are 4 ways to enter. Please comment separately for each entry to increase your chances, and leave your e-mail so I can let you know if you won (seriously I can't tell you how many people have won and I couldn't even contact them)!

1. Comment. If you won who would you give the second necklace to and why? 

2. Follow Belleza Mia Jewelry on Facebook, and write a little note on the homepage, it can be anything. 

3. Follow On My Side of the Room

4. Refer a friend to Belleza Mia on Facebook or through a blog post (each friend that joins can be an extra entry)


Giveaway ends Monday, February 11th.

C is for Colors

This summer for the letter C we did a lot with colors. We had our friends over for the whole day because they were expecting a new baby brother and we were more than happy to have them. So we played a ton and talked about the colors of things we were playing with and of course messed around with paints. And what else could be better than coloring your food? They each got to pick a color to change their milk and mac and cheese. Looking back I should have done the mac n' cheese all the same color at the same time, it was a mess. Lesson learned. 

They all loved every bit of it, though Mr. Max refused to color his mac n' cheese, I guess he was going with orange. Though I might agree with him, the food coloring did make it look pretty weird. Tasted fine, but red and green mac n' cheese just seems a little off.

Here's KJ, isn't she cute? We don't often have girls over to our house so it was a rare treat to have her over.

Christmas in July Giveaway!

It's been a great summer playing with my boys. A lot of time at the library, playing in fountains, sprinklers and pool. I was cleaning off my desk (shocker, I know) and realized it has been almost a year since I did a giveaway. A YEAR. and I love giving stuff away. So, I'm making up for lost time.

This giveaway is for 7 pieces and I think this is how I'm going to do it.


(1) First Prize Winner will receive first pick of 3 (that's right 3) of the items below.
(2) Second Prize Winners will receive next pick of 2 of the items below 
(2) Third Prize Winners will receive last pick of 1 item below.
(4) Fourth Prize Winners will receive a mysterious gift.....from me.....ohhhh, mysterious right?

That's 13 winners with prizes totaling over $240 worth of goodies!

On to the details. Here's how to enter.

There are 4 ways to enter. Please comment separately for each entry to increase your chances, and leave your e-mail so I can let you know if you won (seriously I can't tell you how many people have won and I couldn't even contact them)!

1. Comment. Which one would you piece is you favorite from my shop? Which is your least? Is there anything you'd like to see that you don't? (you don't need to answer all, just one. Always trying to improve things!) Belleza Mia Shop

2. Follow Belleza Mia Jewelry on Facebook, and write a little note on the homepage, it can be anything.
3. Follow On My Side of the Room

4. Refer a friend to Belleza Mia on Facebook or through a blog post (each friend that joins can be an extra entry)

Buena suerte!

Giveaway ends in one week on August 5th at midnight.