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 2 * A BIRTHDAY PARTY *

Up next on the diy menu for Zadie's birthday is this cupcake stand.

I think my crafting theme for this party was keep is simple-sweet

(an old saying from my cheerleading days- don't judge. ;)

If you missed my last post about the painted glass vases you should check it out.

I let you know in that post that the color theme for the par-tay was turquoise and pink.

This cake stand does not exactly fit in the color theme- but I thought it was close enough

and these plates... yes i said PLATES

were far to cute to pass up. 

I have seen similar ideas to this cake stand on other blogs where all the supplies were bought at the dollar store.

Unfortunately I do not have a dollar store near my house that I feel real safe going into...*insert* ghet-to 

One of the few negatives to living downtown in my city.

If you choose to buy your supplies at the ole' dollar tree you could definitely save some mullah,

But seeing as I only spent a whopping 10 bucks on this cutie...

and I didn't have to paint it...

I'll stick to Target :)

I used two large and one small plastic plate from Target.

Then I buggied (totally a verb) over to the candle section and bought two glass taper candle holders.

When I got home I whipped out my handy dandy E600 and glued those bad boys together.

(I tried hot glue at first and it was NOT strong enough!)

It goes a little something like this:

large plate

glue

candle stick

glue

large plate 

glue

candlestick

glue

small plate

Wha~LA!

This little cutie was born.

Here is how it looked at the party

Just perfect.

Much love

Linking to these great parties!

a few of my favorite things *A BIRTHDAY PARTY!*

I mentioned recently that my oldest goose just turned two.

Young birthdays are sort of tricky for me because Zadie can't tell me what she wants the theme of the party to be.

I mean, she LOVES Curious George, but the idea of a yellow and red theme didn't really appeal to me.

Plus all the game ideas I came up with for that theme were just to old for Zadie,

and a birthday is meant to celebrate the birthday girl so we should be doing things she enjoys right?!

cutie putooty!

So the decision was made- it would be a day all about Zadie.

I went with the theme "A Few of Zadie's Favorite Things"

The color theme was pink and turquoise...

and it turned out PERFECT!

The next few post I am going to share some of the things I made for the party.

Today I want to show you a super simple project that I am in. love. with.

I wanted to put fresh flowers on the food table but I didn't have anything to put them in

luckily I had two glass bottles just lying around ;)

I used this tutorial and it was so informative!

I mean glue and food coloring...

I like that supply list.

And if you don't mind an itty bitty picture,

this is what they looked like on the table.

A little bottle with big impact!

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