Easy Flower Pot Cupcakes!

These are some of the easiest (but not cheapest!) cupcakes you will ever do. Perfect for bridal shower, garden/spring parties, or girlie girl birthdays, these easy flower pot cupcakes will have everyone super impressed...without you having to do much work at all!

You will need:
*cake mix and ingredients/materials to make it into cupcakes
*chocolate frosting
*small, cupcake-sized flower pots
*Dollar Store flowers and wire cutters
*One package Oreos
*candles (optional)

1. Bake your cupcakes as you normally would.
2. After they've cooled, stick them (paper and all) into washed and dried mini flower pots.
3. Dollop a small bit of chocolate frosting on each one and use the back of a spoon to spread over whole cupcake.
4. Pulse or smash Oreos until dirt-like, then spoon and press into frosting.
5. Cut each flower stem about 3-4 inches and stick one flower in each pot. Can reserve one cupcake for candles if desired.
6. Enjoy! Take out the flower and use a knife to pop out the cupcakes before eating to ensure food safety and that no one digs their fork into the paper! :)

Much easier than pre-treating the pots to bake in or making it all from fondant! And everyone gets a pot and a flower as a keepsake! :)

Fairy Garden

I didn't get inspired until, like, yesterday to do this, and fundage is low because of all the birthday goings-on...but still, I think my fairy garden to welcome in spring turned out awfully cute.

The whole thing.  Right out of our patio was a little space that, I assume because of the giant rocks forming a barrier around it, the former tenants used to garden flowers.  So I pulled out almost all the weeds (I liked the little white flowers on the one in front, though, so I let it stay), tilled up the soil (LOTS of worms in there!), and put my pots down...the leftover flowers went on either side.

Check out this adorable park bench and the picket fence!  (Though it looks like I may have to glue them together.)

This cute little bookshelf (only $2.47) came with lots of little books, complete with titles--I stole a few for the bench and tucked the rest on the shelf in another pot...fairies can fly, after all.  ;) 

Just another view.  For reference, those viola flowers are not even the size of my thumb.

I just want to curl up on this bench.

Aerial view.

I went to Dollar Tree for all the pots and dirt and such, and Hobby Lobby for the miniature things (oooooh, I wanted to buy EVERYTHING on that wall!  Next year my fairy will have a tea set in an outdoor dining area.  And she'll do a little gardening herself.  And this park bench will get a streetlamp behind it...), and got a few cheap, small flowers from Walmart.  Next year I'll save up for better stuff, but for this year, I think I welcomed Spring in today just fine.  :)

This is going to be my new Spring tradition! Or you could do this for Earth Day.  Next year I'll have Caida help me.  :)