Showing posts with label birthday parties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday parties. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

The Fairy Birthday

Woah, it's finally over! It may not look like a lot of work ... but with so many little ones under foot, it really took all of my free time to do this party! :)I bought this digital scrappin' kit and used it for the party invite & to make some cute cupcake toppers. Savannah wanted them to be all the colors of the rainbow ... I made tissue paper flowers and put them all around the house,and arranged butterflies everywhere too (thankfully my Mom was there to help the day prior ... or nothing would have gotten done as easily). A simple sign was made to welcome the girls when they arrived. I enlarged one of the fairies from the digi-kit and made a pin the wand on the fairy game. Large flowers & butterflies were hung from the chandelierMy friend Lacie found a great website for the fairy wings & pre-made wands. And I made the tutu's using this tutorial (although it would have been cheaper to buy them with the fairy wings). Jedi/Elf Robes were made for the two boys using a robe pattern.She was in absolute heaven having her friends over to play & celebrate her birthday with her. They didn't seem as interested in the games I had planned, but just playing on the swing set. And now, thank heaven! It's done!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Fairy Planning

So I am knee-deep in tulle & party planning. I know it may sound early (her birthday is a month away) ... but with the fussy baby & hand making a lot of the party stuff, it seems too close! Here's some of the links I've found so far:

Fairy party ideas & games: here, here, here and here.

Fairy Digi-Kit (for the invitations & scrappin' the event).

How to make a Fairy Princess Wand

No-Sew Fairy Tutu's

Make a Jedi/Elf Robe (for the boys)

Rainbow Cake - looks so awesome ... but really intimidating too! This would be fun as a tinkerbell cake!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Mario Party Stuff ...

At the same time that I was putting together Hunter's party stuff, one of my friends from the ward called asking if I could help her put together a birthday party invite for her son's birthday/mario party. I was able to find a lot of the same graphics that the other card company had chosen & he liked a simple set up for his actual card. Here's the birthday party invite: Then I made up some cupcake toppers (which I also made for Hunter's birthday): and she also saw a fun idea to have mario on the placemats, so we made some graphics for that too. I've been surprised at just how hard it is to find mario stuff ... with all the little boys who are SOOOOO addicted to video games, you'd think there'd be more selection!

Now back to work on some quilting I'm doing ...

Monday, January 19, 2009

Wii party pics

So I made mii nametags for the kids.I enlarged one of the mii's & had the kids help me color it in. Then we played pin the wii remote on the mii. A scoreboard to keep track of their party winnings or losings.The cute cupcake toppers were found (and finally used). Then as the giveaway present ... cute little wii remote candy dispensers from K-Mart. He told me he thought it was an "awesome" party ... thanks Hunter. :)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

A Wii Party

I let Savannah see the two choices & she loved the ginger blossom line ... now to just find a cute/not too time consuming pattern!
But for tonight and tomorrow, it's all about my little boy & his birthday party tomorrow. He's turned 6 on Sunday & decided that he wants a wii party.
Which is great, right? No real expensive jump house needed, just setting up & letting them play! Except there are no wii party things anywhere!!! Which has me searching for ideas ... hostess with the mostess had a fun bowling party set up on her site, but a lot of them will just add up $$$-wise too fast.
So ... I found this darling link, I can create little mii characters for each of the kids! AWESOME!!! I also picked up a large posterboard to make a mii character & let the kids play pin the wii remote on the mii ... I'm not great at freehand, so this may take a while. Food -4- Less has some darling little wii remote candy dispensers, whichn are only $2.99 in the store, and that will be the hand-out. Then I need to make a score board tonight & pick up soda, pizza and make nachos tomorrow. Not too intense, right???

Now to find more fun ideas ... wish me luck! :)