Three Times the Fun!

Here are our most recent birthday hat customers. Triplets!! How cute are these guys?! Their mom sent us this great photo of them in their birthday outfits. We hope they had a fantastic 1st birthday! We can make birthday hats for your little ones too! Visit our Etsy shop, our birthday hat gallery, or email us at info@sweetnsassybaby.com to discuss a custom order. Here are a few of our other recent custom birthday hats...

Our Newest Addition

Here is our newest product. It is a gift card adorned with a removable applique that the recipient can use to decorate a onesie or shirt for their new baby. This card is perfect to add to a shower gift or just to send to a new mom to congratulate her on the new arrival! All she has to do is detach it from the card and iron it on! Read more about our applique gift cards in our shop.

The Best Cheap Cupcakes

If you need a lot of cupcakes for a birthday party, Sam's is really the way to go! Someone told me to get them for my daughter's birthday party and I just didn't think they would be very good. I'm a bit of a cupcake snob. I called some bakeries and their prices were outrageous. I decided to get some Sam's cupcakes to try before the party to make sure that they tasted OK. They weren't just OK, they were soooo good! I couldn't believe it! Her birthday theme was brown and pink so we bought ones with chocolate frosting and ones with pink frosting. You get something like three dozen for $13. Now I get all of our birthday party cupcakes at Sam's, and I tell everyone I know to get theirs there too. They really are some of the best I've tasted, and I pride myself on being a cupcake connoisseur!

Hot Shoe of the Week

I have not been able to get myself to purchase this style of shoe yet, but they are definitely growing on me. This one is very cute and versatile. I think it would look great with skinny jeans, regular jeans, skirts, long dressy shorts, capris, anything! It is the Phedra by Steve Madden. You can find it here for $179.95.

Giveaway Tuesday!

Here is this week's list of great giveaways to enter!

Win...

1. A set of birdie decals from Home Sweet Walls on Splendid Things.

2. A pair of Midnight Black Earrings from Jewelry of Lav on Designs by Vanessa.

3. A mystery vintage sewing notion grab bag from secret cake.

Trend Watch: Floral Headbands

Headbands adorned with feathers have been hot this season, and they still are, but flowers are the new feathers! Here are some great floral headbands from Etsy sellers.

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Owls Owls Everywhere!

This is currently one of our hottest fabrics. Our owl burp cloth sets, diaper clutches and wipe cases are very popular right now and we recently had a request for an owl baby shower gift set. This gift set included a burp cloth set, blanket, diaper clutch, and wipe case. We can make a gift set of any combination of items in any of our fabrics. They make great baby shower gifts! Visit our shop or email us at info@sweetnsassybaby.com for more information.

Coolest Kid on the Block

We were at the park the other day and saw a little girl, probably around 8 years old, riding a lowrider bike! Awwwesoooome! It was purple and similar to the one pictured above. I have never seen one for a kid. She is definitely the coolest kid on the block. They need to make a tricycle version for toddlers!

Hot Shoe of the Week

This week's hot shoe is the Kwest from Nine West. This is the orange, but it comes in several colors. It was recently featured in Harper's Bazaar and you can find it here for $89.

Giveaway Tuesday!

Here are this week's great giveaways! Go enter now!

Win...

1. A head band from Bow Sweet on Audery's Give Away Blog.

2. One of 25 gift boxes full of handmade goodies donated by over 40 indie shops on Zu-Li Designs.

3. A gift box of 5 gifts from NC Triangle Street Team.

4. A silk clutch from MS Handbags.

5. A mystery vintage sewing notion grab bag from secret cake.

Trend Watch: Coral and Turqoise

These colors are hot hot hot right now according to many fashion magazines such as In Style. We were already fans as you can tell by the Sweet 'n Sassy Baby logo. The colors are bright and fun and you can mix them together for a great summer look. Here are some great finds from Banana Republic in these fashionable colors.
And a little something from Sweet 'n Sassy Baby for the fashionable mom on the go...a diaper clutch!

My Husband's (Not So) Famous Corn and Crawfish Soup

My husband has been making this since I met him. He doesn't cook. This is the only thing he makes and he thinks he is a master chef because of it. I could never eat it. I thought it was awful, so he would just make it for himself. He just threw everything into a pot and poured in a bunch of crab oil. It was just a bowl of creamy spicy stomach ache to be. He recently decided to do some research and see how he should cook it to make it better, so he looked at some recipes and combined them with his own. We made it, and I couldn't believe it. It was really good!

Here's the new improved (edible) recipe...

Corn and Crawfish Chowder

INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup butter
1/2 bunch green onions, chopped
1/4 cup celery, chopped
1/2 cup butter
2 pounds frozen crawfish, cleaned
2 cans condensed cream of potato soup
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 can whole kernel corn, drained
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 cups half-and-half cream
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon crab oil


DIRECTIONS
1. Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute green onions and celery in butter until tender. Remove from pan, and set aside. In the same skillet, melt 1/2 cup of butter, and saute the crawfish for 5 minutes; set aside.

2. In a large pot over medium heat, combine potato soup, mushroom soup, corn, and cream cheese. Mix well, and bring to a slow boil. Stir in half-and-half, crab oil, sauteed green onions, celery, and crawfish. Season with cayenne pepper. Bring to a low boil, and simmer 5 minutes to blend flavors.

*You can easily lower the fat by using light, low fat or fat free versions of many of the ingredients.