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DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

Jen — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:06:44 +0000

Hi guys! It’s Amy from My 3 Monsters. Are you ready to think about food yet, so soon after feasting like crazy yesterday?! What if I told you donuts were involved? You’re listening now, aren’t you? I am thrilled to be here today sharing my new favorite creative way to serve dessert when you’re entertaining this holiday season. Whether you’re hosting a crowd or just your immediate family, this fun donut server will leave you thinking , “I donut know how I ever survived without one!” *insert groan here* For only about a $10 investment in wood, this little beauty will be a welcome guest at all your holiday get-togethers. It can easily hold 3 dozen+ donuts and looks super-stinkin’-cute on your dessert {or breakfast, or brunch} table now and all year long! DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

In my mind, steaming hot cocoa piled high with marshmallows and glazed donuts go hand in hand during the winter months. Are you a donut dunker? My sons are dunkers and it kinda’ grosses me out. I am an avid non-dunker, but to each their own! After skiing or caroling, shoveling snow or just about anything outside in the cold, there is nothing better than cozying up in the warm house with hot cocoa and donuts.

DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

To make your own Donut Stacker you will need:

1 piece of 2×6 pine cut 24 inches long
decorative trim molding {Get a piece at least 4 feet long so you have extra room for the miters}
(4) ½-inch dowels, each cut 18 inches long
wood glue
miter saw or miter box
½-inch drill bit and drill
Painter’s tape and paintable caulk
Optional: small finishing nails, hammer, nail set, primer and paint

Begin by sanding your 2×6 pine to remove any rough edges and splinters. Find the center of your piece of wood and draw a line in pencil. Mark the points where you want to have your dowels inserted. I put my first two 4 1/2″ away from the ends of the board and spaced the dowels 5″ apart as shown below:

{Do you like my quick sketch from when inspiration struck at work one day?} Use a ½” drill bit to drill holes almost all the way through the board. You want them to be deep enough to hold the dowels in place securely.

Next, cut the trim molding to fit around the base of the board on all four sides, mitering the corners for a nice clean look. Attach the molding around the base of the 2×6 using wood glue. I applied a small amount of glue to each piece of molding and used painter’s tape to hold it in place while the glue dried. You could add a few small finishing nails to make sure it’s really secure.

Caulk all the gaps, set the nails {if you used them}, and fill any holes with wood putty. Once the caulk and putty are dry, give it another quick once-over with your sandpaper and it’s all ready to paint. I primed my wood before painting because it had a few knots that I didn’t want to bleed through, but priming is optional. Paint the base and all 4 dowels.

Finally, insert the dowels into the base. I chose not to glue my dowels in place because it is so much easier to clean and store if the dowels are removable, but if gluing is your thing, by all means glue away.

The only thing left to do is rack up the donuts!

DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

I’m loving the way it looks, but it is also super practical because it only takes a tiny bit of space on your dessert table. More room on the table = more treats, amiright?

DIY Donut Stacker Party Idea

Because it’s the giving season, I also designed a fun printable you can use a backdrop for your donuts-and-cocoa dessert table. It can be printed as a 16×20 as I’m showing here or as an 8×10. It was the perfect finishing touch to cozy-up my little display! Download the “Baby it’s Cold Outside” printable files here.

We have already filled up the donut stacker a couple of times for family movie nights, and I plan to use it at least once more when we go caroling with the kids I teach at church. My youngest son, who was born in January, always has donuts instead of birthday cake and I’m sure he’ll request it for his 15^th birthday party as well. We’ll make this little serving piece earn it’s keep around here, for sure!

Happy holidays, friends!

Amy

Thanks Amy!

That donut stacker is absolutely adorable. And it would be perfect for ANY type of party!!

Amy is SO talented!!!!

Here are a few ideas I LOVE from My 3 Monsters:

All Is Calm All Is Bright Printables

Parmesan and Artichoke Appetizer

Printable Holiday Gift Tags

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Have a Beautiful Day!

xoxo

PS be sure to check out the HUNDREDS of holiday projects that have been linked up at the HAPPY Holidays event!!

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Graduation Donut Backdrop

Jen — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 05:10:54 +0000

My handsome nephew is graduating from high school this week. To celebrate my sister, his mom, Wenderful made a cute Blue and White Graduation Donut Backdrop.

We had seen this adorable one that Kristen at Capturing Joy made to celebrate her son’s Eagle Scout accomplishment and thought it was such a great idea. It’s a decoration, plus a photo backdrop AND dessert – all rolled into one idea!

You can make donuts with any color of icing to tie in with YOUR party’s colors. And these Heidi Swapp marquees at Michaels are so easy to glitter up. You can spell anything for your own celebration.

And a few other things that Wendy created that are fun for graduation are these photo garlands.

Super easy to make – just use little clothespins to showcase pictures of your senior from their school years.

Just add some tassels and party decorations and you are ready to celebrate!

And these tassels are all ready to string up in the party section of Michaels.

This month as part of Michaels Maker’s we were asked to make something to celebrate a party or event. So Wendy and her husband whipped this idea up. You can find out how to make your own on Kristen’s site. It would be fun to make for all kinds of parties – birthdays, weddings, any type of get together.

What parties are YOU excited to throw this summer? Share YOUR ideas in the comments. And be sure to check out the other FUN party ideas linked up this week from the other Michaels Makers. They are always so inspiring!!!

Be sure to check out Wendy’s site – she teaches an amazing Mamarrazi photography class for anyone with a camera who wants to learn how to take better photos!!

Have a CREATIVE day!

xoxo

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Donuts with Sprinkles Printables

Jen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:42:59 +0000

I have a little obsessions with donuts. They are so round and cute! I thought it would be fun to make a happy sprinkles donut printable for Spring. Donuts with Sprinkles Printables.

Did you know that donuts can be spelled several different ways? Most people consider donuts to be a fried confectionery treat. They’ve been around since the early 1800’s and come in all different sizes and shapes. In fact, almost every country in the world has their own way of making donuts. One thing I am sure of is that they are delicious!!

Print a few off and frame them and give them to a friend or as a birthday gift. How cute would it be to give your friend this framed donut printable along with a box of donuts for her birthday??? Love it!! I also think it looks adorable framed in my kitchen.

You can print these off in a few different sizes. Of course, I love printing mine on my Canon PIXMA iP8720 Crafting Printer in the larger 13×19 size. The larger size is perfect for decorating your home. But I’ve also included it in a couple of different colors in the standard 8.5×11 paper size.

And here are the printables!

To download the 20×30 sized printable, just right-click this link or the image below and choose “save link as” for the HUGE 20×30 printable PDF.

And right click here for the 11×13 Canon PIXMA iP8720 Crafting Printer

And here’s an 8.5×11 size with brown lettering:

donuts with sprinkles printable 8.5×11

As always, these printables are for personal use only.

I hope you enjoy the printables!

xoxo

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