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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Strawberry Shortcake Party

The Birthday Girl, Niz.

Thank You gifts for the kids. The girls got strawberry shortcake coloring books and the boys got boy ones.

The cake the birthday girl's aunt, Nette, made. Nette is actually a good friend and an amazing cake decoractor.

The cookies Nette made for the kids to take home.

The candy bags for kids to take home also.

Sorry everything is a little off on here. Everytime I try to change pics around Blogger deletes them.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Bumble Bee Baby Shower

The Thank you gifts.

My sister Kim drew the pictures for the gifts.

Here is a bee hive I made from a wicker pear I found at St.Vinney's. I painted it yellow and hot glued the little clay bees my sister and I made onto it.

The decorations.

I put bee stickers on the pom poms and lanterns.

The clay bees were also put onto wire and put in the flower bouquets.

The food all had a honey theme.

Honey Glazed Pork Tenderloin, mashed potatoes. rolls with butter and honey. I also made lemonade and added honey to it, everyone loved it.

The cupcakes. I made fondant bees to place ontop.

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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Some of the decorations I did. I hung paper chains, the silver star garlan and I made the black star garland. They were just black star cardboard cutouts that I got on clearance at Party city and then I sewed them into a garland.

I made a star wall with black plastic tablecothes and I got the stars at OTC.

Everyone had a great time at the party.

After we ate and the kids played for ever we sang happy birthday and blew out the Darth Vader candle.

Wyatt couldn't wait to open his presents. Seriously he asked every 15 minutes, LOL.

I never did get a picture of Wyatt of the kids in thier costume, but I did get one of them all playing. And I am so glad it was nice out, they all got to play outside most of the time.

I got this box from a friend. It was her couch box and then it was a pirate ship at her sons peter pan party. And today it turned into a star ship.

The food table. I saw all these cool food tags on the internet. I am not usually one for labeling my food, but come on Yoda ears (pickle spears) how cute is that.

I also made these light sabers with melting chocolate and pretzels rods. They were a huge hit and all three dozen were eaten.

The table and centerpieces turned out great. We had the dark and light side tables. The centerpieces were Wyatt's drawings that I scanned and copied. The poor kid got tired of drawing though so I ended up mixing in a few silver and gold star wars labels.

The Cupcakes my good friend, Nette, made. She is also the one who made the popcorn cupcakes last year for his carnival party.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Star Wars gift bags

Here is a pic of the gift bags for Wyatt's Star Wars party tomorrow. They turned out super cute I think.
I started with a black bag from Oriental Trading Co. The bag was to tall though so I cute several inches off the top and then made new holes and restrung the handles. Wyatt wanted to help put the star stickers on, but that lasted long enough for 1 bag.
I did up the bags by family since there were alot of siblings gonna be there, but each bag has girl/boy items in them. Also everything I got was either on sale of clearance. Items in the bags our-
Star Wars puzzle from Dollar tree
Star glasses & necklace
Star Wars Silly bands (from valentines day)
Glow in dark braclet
Pixie Sticks (lightsabers)
Star Wars stickers and fruit snacks
Glow in the dark stars

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Knight Swords

So I finished the swords for the Princess Party. I got for free 5 gl and 1 gl stir sticks from the paint store. Duck tape and black electrical tape for less than $5 with coupons. These were really easy to make. I decided to use tape instead of paint, because I didn't want to spend the time sanding.

I applies the metallic tape the long way as to not waste it wrapping it around the other way. I then hot glued a a cut 1 gl stick to the 5 gl one and wrapped it with black electrical tape.
The boys are gonna love these.

You can also check out the gift bags I made here, the centerpieces here, and the invites here.

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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Princess Centerpieces

I have come to find that I do very well if I have awhile to plan parties. I am one of those that has to think and try out several different ideas until I have exactly what I want to do. Until I love it. I kind of knew what I wanted but it took me alost a week to get it just right.
Again just like the bags I used Dollar tree (balloon weights), Target dollar spot (pails) and coupons (Styrofoam balls at Joanns). The wands, crown and flowers I actually borrowed from my friend Candy who is throwing a princess party in a month. So she let me use them and then she will use my centerpieces in trade. Great way to save money.

Here is the finish product.

Final cost for 6 of them was under $20. The pails cost the most at $1 each.
Now I just have 5 more to put together.

Princess Party Gift bags

So I had to find a way to make a boy and girl bag form this party. Really wish I could have found more knight stuff (like pencil and stickers), but what I found I think they will enjoy.

The girls will get a princess pencil and eraser, heart chalk, bracelets and ring and pearl like necklace (these two last items will actually be set by a stand up mirror so they can play dress up).
The bag is a die cut from our local scrapbook store and I made the tag from a picture I found online. As well as the same as the boys bag.

With the boys bag I went with a darker purple. They received chalk, bubbles and they will each get 2 knight characters (either a dragon, knight, or horse).
Funny story with the knights characters, my sister and I hit 4 or 5 stores searching for something knight related and found a tube of them at Joann's. We were super excited about it after half an afternoon of looking.

I found alot of this stuff clearance, at Dollar tree or used a coupon. For 24 bags it only cost me about $50. Which isn't bad, less than $2 a bag. You can't buy that at any party store online.

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Princess Party Invites

Lots of crafting going on for the Princess Party.

My sister, Kim, drew the picture for me. I then inserted the pic in Word and put a text box over the pic to enter all the wording. I then glittered the castle tops, flags and girls dress.

AND theeeen... (remember from Dude where's my car)LOL. No really I then stapled a ribbon onto top so you can pull it out of the envelope.

Now the envelopes are a whole nother story in themselves. My sister and I searched all over and couldn't find an envelope the size I needed. then she saw a long skinny one and had teh idea to cut it in half. It worked perfect.