Bright Colored Favors

I have been fully immersed in homeschooling my kiddos for the first year.  I have abandoned the blogs, abandoned my hairbow business, I have a huge list of emails I need to respond to as well but my kids are happy and learning and I am soaking up these days with them!

Although I have not had time for much in the past month, I did manage to sneek in a little crativity so I thought I'd better share it!

A few weeks ago I lent a friend the party decorations from Cait's Firts Birthday.  I offered to bring favors as well.  The them was "For the Love of Chocolate" so naturally I went with a chocolate treat for the favor.  I bought chocolate filled Oreos, dunked them in melted chocolate, gave them some sprinkles and let them harden.  They were simple, cute and delicious.  I put them in plain little zip bags and added fun colored fold overs at the top.  I stapled the folded papers in place and accented them with fun colored ribbons.  So easy!!

Hello little tasty treats:)

I love all these colors together.  They are MY colors!  All my kids' clothes are these colors, their bedrooms are these colors, I just seem to gravitate toward them.  THey make me happy!

What projects are you working on these days?

Hello Kitty Party Details

My 6 year old loves Hello Kitty.  When she asked for a Hello Kitty party I kinda cringed.

I don't like character parties.

I don't like how easy it is to "buy the matching plates".

I like a good challenge.

I like an original party!

So I got to work dreaming up a "Hello Kitty Party" of my own.  It was a ton of fun and Maddie loved every minute of it and it was over way too fast.  Please enjoy these photos and if you have questions, please ask!

The Decor

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-Simple balloons tied to curling ribbon

-Cute bouquets lined the table

-A fun felt Kitty welcomed the guests at the front door

-My birthday girl made the name tags herself.  CUTE!

-The kids adored the Hello Kitty balloons!

-I covered tin cans with cute card stock and filled them with silk flowers and button flowers for the kitty balloons.

The Crafts

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-"Pin the bow on the Kitty

-"Pass the package"

-Home made coloring books

-Place mats the kids glued in place and we covered with contact paper

-Coloring pages are better printed on card stock!

-Every time the music stops, someone gets to unwrap one layer!

-Packing tape on the back of felt "bows"

-Kitty looks pretty!

-The girl who unwraps the last layer of paper gets to keep the prize inside.

The Main Event

Hello Kitty Store!

My daughter Maddie told me she wanted a "Hello Kitty Store" (like the adorable Sanrio store in San Francisco and other fun cities).  One night I woke up with the idea to display the goody bag items in our cute dollhouse and let the girls buy their treasures with play money.  This activity was so much fun.  The girls were completely into it and my older daughters loved running the store!

The Outfit

 I found the gorgeous pettiskirt in bubblegum pink on Etsy .  The seller was so great to work with and the quality of the skirt is top notch at a fantastic price!

Maddie put the skirt on Friday night and wore it to bed!  When she woke up she was ready to party.  

I bought a $4 plain white shirt and ordered this fantastic iron-on rhinestone from Bling Bling Transfer on Etsy.

I love Etsy in a big way!

The shirt turned out so adorable.

I made the bow. 

The kitty is on a bobby pin and can slide off the bow and be worn alone.

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Thanks for visiting and taking a minute to check out this fun party!

If you are inspired to use any of these ideas, I would LOVE for you to send me a photo or a link so I can see what you come up with!!

See cake HERE.

Construction Party

Here are some pictures from my son's fun 2nd birthday party. We had just moved into a new house so he was obsessed with construction. The park across the street was the perfect location for the kids to dig and dump to their hearts' content!



The invitation said "come dig and play at Caleb's 3rd birthday!" and I asked them to bring their favorite diggers and dump trucks to use in the "gravel pit".

The birthday boy wit his "I love Dirt" shirt. I always try to find or make a shirt to fit the theme of the party.

Because my son is a younger sibling, a lot of his friends have older siblings. I chose to include all of the children so I kept the favors simple. They each got a construction hat, a bucket and a shovel with their name on it.

One of the games involved the daddies...there was a prize buried in the gravel that they had to search for! The kids loved seeing their dads get competitive.

The cake! mt son wanted a digger and a dump truck...I opted for making the digger out of cake and purchasing a dump truck to fill with cake "dirt". It was a hit, he loved it!

Favors

These are incredible tea infusers and trays from Tea Forte! A perfect finishing touch to a gorgeous wedding created by Stage Right, Etc.