1 Christmas Gift + Free Printables = A Happy New Year!

We have a wonderful Christmas tradition in our family. Many years ago, I told my mom that I wanted a "Garage Sale Box" as one of my Christmas presents. Why? She's got a great eye and finds lots of cool things at garage sales, auctions, flea  markets, and thrift stores. So.... I told her I wanted her to find stuff for me and save it up and put it in a box for me at Christmas. It kind of makes me feel like she was thinking of me throughout the year as she put the box together. Every year, it's my favorite gift to open!

This year, this was one of my gifts:

Do you know what it is?

How about now? Does that picture give it away?

If you guessed cupcake stand, you got it!

I had just been eyeballing these babies, but I wouldn't splurge on one. I'm so excited to have this. Yippee!

AND, with New Year's coming up as well as that little football game, you know what you have to have with cupcakes..... cute toppers! So... I found some free printable toppers as well as a cute idea that's not a printable. 

Here's an entire New Year's kit, along with cupcake toppers. 

I'm so in love with chalkboard prints... isn't this one terrific? Click HERE.

This next idea isn't a printable, but is so stinkin' cute!

Use yarn to match your color theme, or just use silver, white, and gold yarn to create mini-poms and attach to toothpicks. Click HERE for the blog post.

This next printable is for the year 2011, but you can still use the ones without the year on them! 

Click HERE to get the free download from the Anna and Blue Paperie blog.

Remember that "little football game" that's coming up soon? I thought it would be fun to make cupcakes for game day and use some really cute toppers. I didn't find any cupcake toppers specific to the game, but I found some that would be great to use. (There were tons of generic football toppers on Pinterest, but I wanted some that reflected our teams.)

                                                                    Source: greenowlcrafts.blogspot.com via Amanda on Pinterest

The cupcake tree holds 18 cupcakes, so I can have 9 with these toppers, and 9 with the ones below. 

These are actually St. Patrick's Day toppers and there are 4 designs to download. Only 1 of the designs refers to St. Patty's day... the other 3 designs would be perfect for the game! Click HERE to see the other designs and download.

Until then, maybe I'll serve the girls' breakfast muffins with the stand! 

Happy Saturday,

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