Bicycle themed birthday party

Even though I went on a little blog writing hiatus I did not go on a blog reading break. I have to give full credit of this bike birthday theme to the sisters at kojo designs. They totally were my inspiration.

Now, if you have looked at their party just replace the extremely talented graphic designer with a girl with some mean stamping skills. :) Seriously, the theme of this party should have probably been bikes and stamps... Anyhoo, I digress, on to the pictures.

For the backdrop of the food table I stamped bikes onto a pink plastic table cloth that I cut in half and hung from the ceiling. I just did sandwiches, corndogs, and sides for the food.

The cute bike sign came from Micheal's dollar section and the flowers are from our yard.

 Have I ever told you how much I love bunting? I LOVE bunting. It is just the right amount of whimsy.

Sorry for the poor picture quality on this one . but the sun decided to come out in full force and I am not camera savvy enough (yet) to know how to deal with it. This is the food table (minus most of the food) in it's entirety. The tissue paper pom-poms were left over from Zadie's birthday party.

I made this for Mattie to wear to her party; sadly I made it WAY to big! So it became decoration too.

 More flowers from our yard (my favorite decorations EVER by the way!)

I reused the cupcake stand from Zadie's birthday

and I tried to mimic the cake from the inspiration party which I am pretty happy with. I think I would have LOVED it if I would have focused while spreading the sprinkles instead of jibber jabbering with my mom. To get this look I just laid down a number one shaped stencil onto fresh icing and shook out the sprinkles into the one design only (fail). Seriously, it would have been easy to make it look really good if I would have taken a little more time. Learn from me!

I found this sweet little print on pintrest FOREVER ago and saved it to my computer, but did not pin it, and I cannot find it again to give the creator credit. :( I love it though. I just had Walgreen's print it like a poster and then I washi taped it to the side of the fridge. (Lucky for me it totally fits in with my house color pallet and will be framed and on the wall very very soon!)

I told you I got a little stamp happy! Brent and Zade have plain shirts stamped with bikes ( I painted the stamps with fabric paint) and I stamped a pair of leggings for myself (I used a fabric paint stamp pad for my pants and the color has not held up NEAR as well as the shirts.)

 The birthday girl got a cute little dress from Target (That fits!) stamped with a cute little bike. I got both of my bike stamps from Micheal's.

The kids all brought a set of wheels to the party, per invitation instructions, and we paraded to the park right next to our house. I was a little nervous about asking people to bring some wheels (bikes, scooters, stroller) for their kids so I talked myself out of the one activity I had planned besides playing at the park. It would have worked perfectly though! My idea was to have a decorating station filled with balloons and streamers for everyone to jazz up their ride before the parade.

Can you see all the bikes in the background? SO. MUCH. FUN.

(I had a friend take pictures of the actual parade on her camera and haven't gotten them from her yet! sorry)

The birthday girl had a wonderful time playing.

But I am pretty sure her favorite part was the cake. I mean the girl HUGGED it and would just lean down her head and take big bites of it. She is such a fun baby!

Hope you loved this party as much as I did. It was pretty low-key, being so close to the holidays I couldn't do much more, but I think it turned out just right!

Rachel

A few of my favorite things (Overview)

SO are you tired of hearing about this party yet guys?

I get it.

I LOVE reading all the nitty gritty details when I am in party planning mode,

but when I'm not I'll give the details a quick scan then move on.

So if you are scanning and patiently waiting...

you are in luck.

I have been sewing like a crazy lady lately and I have so many projects to show you.

For those of you who need some party planning love here is a link to all my projects.

Theme: "A Few of My Favorite Things"

Food

Games

Decorations

Cups

Vases

Tissue paper puff and Bunting

Cake stand

The Outfit

xoxo

a few of my favorite things 3 * A BIRTHDAY BASH *

Games

Zadie's favorite things in the world to do right now are

* Bubbles

* Sidewalk chalk

* Swimming

The girl has good taste :)

So, in honor of our party's theme we had to have ALL of her favorite activities!

Did I forget to mention that Z-baby also LOVES hunting Easter eggs- like we still have weekly egg hunts.

So in honor of that love we had a water balloon hunt.

Each of the kids were allowed to find two water balloons and then we had a water balloon toss...

at Brent! 

I may have enjoyed it more than the kids. 

This was the only organized group activity we did.

I wanted to start the party off with a planned game just to get the kids use to playing with each other.

After that the kids were left to play with whatever they wanted.

They had fun "Painting" with sidewalk chalk

(I love this picture)

Playing in the sprinklers

Shooting each other with water guns

and blowing bubbles.

We had all different age kids coming to the party

and I was a little scared that the games would be to "baby" for them

but it worked out perfectly.

The older boys had a water gun war.

The older girls had fun drawing and in the sprinklers.

And the middle age kids (you know like 3 and 4)

loved the bubbles.

The toddlers mostly stayed near the kiddie pool and every one played together so nice!

Food

Because Zadie's birthday is in the middle of summer, in Florida, I knew the only bearable way to have an outdoor party was to have it early.

The party started at nine and I made sure to let everyone know on the invitations that breakfast would be provided.

Lucky for us pancakes are Zadie's favorite food!

List of food:

* chocolate chip pancakes

* yogurt and granola cps

* watermelon

* cantalope

* grapes

* egg and bacon muffins

* Krispy Creme donuts

* cupcakes

I let the guest eat right as they arrived, we played outside, then we did cake and gifts.

It was lovely!

much love

a few of my favorite decorations * A BIRTHDAY BASH *

Today I am going to share a few little projects I did to make the house feel extra special on Zadie's big day.

She stayed with her grandparents the night before the party so I wanted the house to really make her excited from the minute she opened the door.

Since the theme of the party was "A Few of Zadie's Favorite Things"

we HAD to decorate with balloons because they are definitely a favorite of my baby girl.

I just picked up a helium tank at Target add blew up as many pink and blue balloons as I could.

 

We also used a few outside to make the house a little easier to spot.

I made a simple pendant banner to go over the food table and covered wall behind/ beside with pink streamers in a hombre design.

I used this tutorial to make the hot pink tissue paper pom-poms.

I hung them from the ceiling all over the room with the food and in a cluster above the drinks table. (first picture)

The cupcakes were decorated with a mini pendant banner hung from bakers twin and skewers.

I placed the party favors around the cupcake stand for a little extra color.

To make these I simple painted the lids of clean baby food jars, added some gumballs, and tied a sweet pink ribbon around the top.

I wanted to use Mason jars SO BAD for the kids drinks but I didn't think glass cups would mix too well at a two year old's party. 

All I could find at the store were cups with zoo animals all over them, that did not quite match the look I was going for so I covered those bad boys up.

I got the pattern for the cups by tearing one apart, laying it down flat on a piece of paper,and sketching the design.

A piece of scrapbook paper cut by the pattern and glued to the cup did the trick.

Adding the blue straws was the perfect touch to round out the color theme.

The kids (or parents) wrote their name on the cups with a sharpy.

It worked out perfectly!

Well guys, if you are getting tired of the party post I totally understand.

I will be back very soon to the regularly scheduled programming ;)

There are only two more party posts to go...

Next up: the food and games.

Lots of love 

linking to these great parties!

a few of my favorite things (the outfit) *A BIRTHDAY BASH*

No birthday is complete without a new outfit, right!

After I won this super cute organic cotton fabric from simplifi fabric I knew Zadie needed a birthday oufit out of it.

I really wanted to showcase this sweet fabric so I decided to make Dana's circle skirt.

I really loved how quick it was to make and how stinking cute it turned out!

There was still plenty of material left over after the skirt and I  really wanted to make something that had her age on it, mostly for the pictures, so I decided to made a crown.

Luckily I remember this fabric crown tutorial from The Little Giggler that even has a FREE PATTERN.

This was another easy to follow tutorial that was finished in one nap time.

To bad she decided to not cooperate for the pictures.

This is what the majority of the pictures looked like from the shoot.

This makes me laugh out loud every time I look at it!

I love my little drama queen.

And here is a picture of the birthday girl at her party in all her glory.

(This is not pee on my shorts, I swear ;) It is my war wounds from a water gun fight!)

Can you tell this little goose was having a good time!

This is what a sugar high looks like y'all :)

What this mamma loves is:

The crown went into the dress up bin and is worn fairly often still

and she wears the skirt once a week!

xoxo

Linking to these great parties!