Seventh Generation Healthy Baby Home Party

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What is a Healthy Baby Home Party? 

Seventh Generation's home parties are powered by people like you who are focused on creating a healthy environment for the next generation. Developed with input from non-profit partner, Healthy Child Healthy World, they are a great way to get together with friends, share helpful information, and make an impact!

Healthy Baby Home Party kits are provided to all selected hosts and are filled with educational info about our environment, helpful tips, a fun game, and samples and coupons from Seventh Generation and other favorite family-friendly brands like bobble, Plum Organics and Zarbee's Naturals.

What is the Application Process?

• Sign up at generationgood.net to join the Generation Good community, or log in if already a member.
• Accept the Healthy Baby Home Party Application offer on your Generation Good dashboard and complete the application.
• Applicants will be notified by end of March if they have been selected to host a party, via an email to the email address assigned to their Generation Good member profile.
• All selected applicants will then need to confirm their participation by accepting the Healthy Baby Home Party Mission in Generation Good and confirming their shipping address.
• 1,900 FREE Party Kits will be distributed in this round.
• Hosting spots are open to US residents only at this time. Canadian parties are planned for later in 2016!
• Full terms and conditions are available within Generation Good in the "Healthy Baby Home Party Application" offer.

So much has happened in a year!

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I have updated! So much has happened and I have been so incredibly busy. After our amazing Disney trip last April we found out that we came home with a bit of a surprise souvenir and our third son, Flynn, was born three weeks early in December!!! He has been an wonderful addition to our crazy family and we have been busy adjusting to life with three boys. I am getting back into writing and I will be posting about all the new changes coming to Disney World as well as some product reviews. I have joined Seventh Generation's Generation Good and have already received some terrific products for baby Flynn. I can't wait to share the reviews with you. But for now, I need to catch up on some Zzzzz!

Tie-Dye Easter Egg Cupcakes

This cold weather just won't quit! It's been awhile since I've posted because things have been very busy at work and the weather is keeping us from enjoying Spring. But not today! We stayed warm and cozy in the house and decided to finally use the Duff cake mix that was included in our Disney Side kit. Instead of making traditional cupcakes, we chose to make Easter egg cupcakes in honor of the upcoming holiday.

We only had nine eggs in the fridge, so we used those to experiment with the eggshell technique and made normal cupcakes with the remaining batter. I started by poking a tiny hole in the end of a raw egg. I used a very sharp tool made for poking tiny holes in pumpkins:

Small hole

 I then peeled and carefully pried away the shell to make a hold big enough for a pipette tip to fit in.

It looks like a pretty big hole, but it's only slightly larger than a dime.

 I then let all the goo run out of the egg and into a bowl. Three of the eggs I saved for the cake, while the other ones are in separate bowl that was put in the fridge for later.

Goooooey goo

The eggs then went for a nice long salt-water bath, about 30 minutes. Then they were carefully rinsed off and set to dry on a paper towel (hole facing down).

 

While they were drying, I followed the directions on the Duff box and enlisted the help of my husband and boys to mix up the colors.

Love the Duff!

 

I made little foil nests inside of my cupcake tin to hold the eggs in place.

 

Next I carefully used a piping bag to squeeze a little bit of each color, layer by layer, into the egg, until the eggs were a little over half full. I regret not taking a picture of this step!

Ready to go in the oven.

Finally I popped them in a pre-heated oven @350 degrees for 20 minutes and used the same technique to make some cupcakes with the leftover batter.

Pre-oven

Post-oven

 Oh no! Since this was my first time doing this, I must have overfilled the eggs and the mix overflowed! No biggie though, I just scraped off the excess and they were good to go.

The cupcakes came out well too!

Inside of the cupcake

Looks like a normal egg on the outside.....

But peel away the shell.....

And voila! Cupcake!

Now that I know it works, I can't wait to experiment with other variations. You can dye the eggshells to look just like Easter eggs, you can use white cake mix and then inject lemon curd to represent yolks, use pastel colored cake mix, or whatever you want! I think I'm going to attempt the white mix with lemon curd for Easter dinner. 

Disney Side @ Home Celebration 2015

Our party was a success! Sure we had some setbacks, such as no cupcakes, a whittled down guest list due to rescheduling, and some other minor issues, but overall we had a fantastic time and we enjoyed watching our friends and family embrace their #DisneySide! We played games, ate great food, talked about our favorite Disney parks/rides/characters, helped plan trips, and laughed until our sides hurt.  If you would like to show off your Disney Side visit http://disneysidecelebrations.com/ for some great ideas on having a party of your own, or ideas for showing off your Disney Side any time of the year! For more information on Disney Parks or to start planning a trip of your own, please visit https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/
 
 I received a complimentary party kit to host this party and all opinions listed are my own.
Some of the promotional items in my kit included:

Wilton Mickey Head Cake Pan

Twining Tea

All might pacs laundry pods

Whisk detergent

Snuggle Scent Boosters

Duff Tie Dye Cake Mix

HP Printer Paper

Photos from our event:

Our Living Room, AKA Radiator Springs

 

Pin the mouth on the Mickey:

 

 

Product Reviews March 2015

Lots of reviews coming this month. You can check out the full reviews on my review page here. The complimentary products I have received so far are:

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#DisneySide 2015 was a success!

We were finally able to have our Disney Side celebration this past weekend. I will update with pictures as soon as I can!

Winter Blues

While the bad weather has given me plenty of time to decorate and create, it also caused us to have to cancel our Disney Side party. There is nothing worse than a fully decorated house that's empty. Luckily some friends braved the snow covered roads and ate king cake with us. We had a great time and we have rescheduled our party for this Saturday. I am trying my best to get back into party mode, but this weather is making it very hard :(  I am focusing on our upcoming Disney trip and I started packing to try to get my spirits up.