The Price of Bouncy Houses!

Hey everyone!

So today is not an instructable post, it's a rant post. About bouncy houses. Yep. Bouncy houses. So I have a soccer party coming up (woot-woot!), and we want a inflatable. So I look up inflatables, thinking of a $150 budget. I thought wrong. Very wrong. Turns out $150 can get you a Disney princess bouncy house. I want an obstacle course. Looks like my budget needs to be raised. Or doubled. Or tripled. You know, just a couple of hundred dollars extra. No biggie. Actually, yes biggie. Big biggie. Big biggie. That's a tongue twister. Big biggie, big big- sorry. Off topic. What was I talking about again? Ah, that's right. The absurdities of inflatables. Anyway, now I've realized there is no way i can get an obstacle course with $150, so I moved on to slides. Nothing below $200, I kid you not. Combos next. $225+. Alright, I think, this must be a really expensive store, so I click on the next link. Same thing. Next link. Same thing. After about 7 links later, I realize people who have inflatables at their parties are a lot richer than I thought. Or maybe I haven't looked at enough companies. Maybe there's one that is really cheap. Hahahahaha! No. When you get to the 3rd page of Google, you're done searching. Here are some of the inflatables I found.  This is only $600! What a bargain! OK, I'll admit, this one is REALLY big, but still.

Sorry, it's really small, but guess how much this is! $275. That's right. $275 for a 1 lane slide with a ladder. Oh, sorry! I forgot. It has the Avengers on the top. That really increases the value.

Here we go! $425 for this wonderful obstacle. But wait, there's more. This is only for a 6 hour rental! And, it tells you that you probably are going to need to rent the $60 generator! So that comes to a total of... Too much.

All right, I'm done. I actually found a couple of ones I might get for above my original price, but not too bad at Parties N Motion and TNJ Bounce Houses.

Well, I'm done. I'm off to go rent an inflatable. Oh, fun! See you later. 

Oh, I'm starting a thing where I'm going to give you a tip for the day. 

So Meredith's Marvelous Tip of the Day is... Have the party at Rebounderz. Much cheaper :)

xox Meredith

How to make Minion Pumpkins

So Halloween is coming up at the end of the month. And what does Halloween mean? That's right! Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins! And, of course, cute pumpkins are the best pumpkins. And the cutest pumpkins are minion pumpkins. So what pumpkins are we going to make today? Minion pumpkins!!! Here goes...

First off, I got this idea from craftberrybush.com, but hers is about 100 times better than ours.

Step one: Paint the entire pumpkin yellow. We forgot to take this picture, sorry.

Step two: Either  pant the bottom half of the pumpkin blue, and paint yellow arm holes over it, or paint overalls. I recommend overalls. The right and left one are in overalls, the middle one has a blue bottom.

Step three: Glue the backside of a mason jar lid to the band of a mason jar lid, and trace around it.

Step four: Draw a black band around the head, starting in about a quarter way into the traced eye

Step five: Paint brown eyes with pupils in the middle, and hammer them into the pumpkins with a nail.

Step six: Decorate the overalls with black thumbtacks, and Sharpied pockets

Step seven: Paint the mouth, and stick black pipe cleaners into holes made by a screw driver into the head as hair.

Step eight: Set up your *adorable* pumpkins! Good job!

There you have it. The cutest pumpkins, quite possibly ever.

xox, Meredith and Andree

The Reason for No Posts

Ok, so this isn't as bad as when I went over a week without posting, but it has been quite a few days. So the reason is... my bunny died on Tuesday :(. She was a 9-month old Holland Lop named Georgia. I got her this Valentines Day, and her birthday was on Christmas, which was going to be fun celebrating, but now... Anyway she was a good little bun, hated being picked up or petted, but liked being payed attention to. So here's the story.

On Tuesday, my mom and I went to the dentist, and when we came home, we knew a worker was going to be there. He was probably going to bring his dog, some kind of herding dog. I was excited, because I hadn't seen the dog in a while. So anyway, we opened the garage, where Georgia was kept,  and Tebow (the dog), smelled her. He somehow got her out of her cage, and started chasing her around. Eventually, my mom got Tebow away. Georgia was lying down between 2 golf bags, completely still, nose not twitching. Now, usually georgia will claw me if I try to pick her up, but she didn't this time. I put her on the ping-pong table, and brushed her, because she was very wet from Tebow's slobber, and had some hair falling out. Tebow never caught her, but we thought he might have bit her. Anyway, I brought her inside, and set her down on a towel with a tunnel. She walked over to the tunnel, and just lied there. I picked her up, and wrapped her in a towel, and occasionally she would lift her head, then put it down. I put her on the towel again, to see it she would walk over to her tunnel again, and she did. I moved it again, and she just lied down on her side. She was half on half off the towel. All of the sudden, she started clawing. I thought she was trying to get off the hardwood, so I moved her all on the towel. Then, she started clawing again. Then she stopped. She stayed like that for a couple of seconds, twitched her nose, and died. I put her in a box which had some bedding and cilantro in it, her favorite treat :). We buried her that night. She was a good bunny.

So that's the story of Georgia. She is very loved.

R.I.P Georgia

xox Meredith

 Top: The picture from the breeder when she was first born
Middle: Taken just before the summer
Bottom: Last picture of Georgia ever ;( Taken in September. She always liked to have her bottom on a towel raised like
that :)

How to Make a Haunted Pumpkin Patch

Hey there!

Yes, yes I know, I haven't  posted in over a week. I apologize profusely. I will try as hard as I possibly can to post more often. Much more often. Alright, now what you can for... The Haunted Pumpkin Patch! Yay!!! This is what we're doing to part of our yard this year. Usually we just put fake spider webs on the bushes, inflate a few things, and that's that. But this year, I wanted more. So, I came up with a theme. Fall. Yes, I know it's simple, and VERY broad, but I thought: No one trick-or-treats in our neighborhood (very tiny, not worth the walk), so why not just decorate for the entire season, not for the night? i decided to have pumpkins and scarecrows to incorporate a bit of Halloween. So here's what I got.

Supplies:
Scarecrow Families- However many you want
Pumpkins- The more the merrier
Fake spiderwebs
A hay bale- Real or fake
Scissors





First, stick the Mom and Dad Scarecrows into the ground. Make sure to have them open to the rest of the yard/road.

Next, put your kid(s) in the hay bale. If you have a lot of kids, or extra scarecrows, you can either get another hay bale, or stick them in the ground. I got my real hay bale at our local feed/tack shop for $8, and we're going to fertilize with it once Halloween is over.

After that comes the pumpkins! As I said before, the more you have, the better. You'll fill your "Patch" better if you have a lot of pumpkins. You can also use gourds, or squashes. I got my pumpkins at Ace Hardware for 3-8 dollars each, depending on the size. Ace had a pretty good selection, and I got 8 pumpkins, different sizes and colors. Anyway, now you have to put the pumpkins in the patch. Just spread them out so it looks like you have a lot, maybe stack them, do your own thing. Go crazy! ;)

Now for the spiderwebs!!! So what you're going to do is take your webs out, and spread them out, break them up (use scissors if needed) and start decorating! You can wrap them around groups of pumpkins...

Entwine a couple in spiderwebs...

And attach the kids to hay bales forever :)

Don't be afraid to put random webs, here and there, or just do something else entirely. Have fun!

Ta-da! Excuse the horrible camera quality.

There you go. A Haunted Pumpkin Patch.


Good Luck!

xox Meredith

Welcome!

Hey everyone!
This is the first official post of Poppies and Wellies!!! Yay! This blog is about anything and everything! Healthy recipes- got it! DIY- right here! Pet tips- we have it! So now that you know a bit about this *fantabulous* blog, welcome! The future blog posts will be more interesting, but this is it for now!
Au Revoir!
xox Meredith