I'm a little overdue but I had to share all the details from Isla Rose's birthday bash earlier this month! I want to thank all the amazing local vendors who helped make this happen, all of whom are amazing moms AND smart and savvy business women. I'm so happy celebrations can happen again! When I asked Isla Rose what she wanted to do for her birthday this year, she immediately said
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There's actually a little story behind this theme. I met with Royale at Bonjour Fête with the shop owner Rachel (another Rachel!) back in January to pick out the products for Harper's party (plates, trays, etc). As we were walking around the shop, Royale showed me the crocodiles and said she...
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When I saw a Super Mario Birthday party on one of the other party blogs out in the blogosphere, and realized my sister was having her 25th birthday soon, I knew I had to throw her a party. I was going to keep the theme a surprise. Then she suggested a mario theme. I fibbed, I told her that I had already started getting Luau stuff and it would be more summery and grown up than a Super Mario party. I didnt do invitations because there wasnt time to get them out, so I just made a facebook event and called a few people. She was very surprised it wasnt a Luau when she walked in. I had put pink flamingo decorations at the end of our driveway and on the door to the shop. The tables were simple green plastic table clothes, circles cut from polka dot napkins left over from Ellie's Ladybug Birthday, gold stars and plastic gold coins. In the middle of the table were Piranha Plants, a green pipe and chocolate gold coins. Power Flowers The flower head is just cardstock and sharpie eyes. I decided to make it round instead of oblong because it was easier to find round items to trace than oblong. I found the plastic green pots with silk flowers in them at Dollar Tree. I pulled the flowers out of the styrofoam. I had flower stems/leaves leftover from the butterfly clips I made (and hadnt taken my craft room garbage out yet) so I taped the flower head to a stem and stuffed it into the styrofoam. Boo Balloons Boo was one of my pinata ideas, but decided to make balloons instead. I just blew up white balloons and drew the faces/arms on with sharpie. Chain Chomp The Chain Chomp was another pinata idea. The only white balloons i found for the Boos were in a multi-pack with black ones so I made this guy pretty quickly. His face is just mailing lables cut up and sharpie for the eyes. The chain is a simple black paper chain made with card stock and staples. It was funny where he was hanging, he would often jump off and bite at people coming in the doors. Star Balloons at the dollar tree I saw these balloons and thought they would work great as Starmen, then at my nephew's graduation, I saw they used the same balloons in the decorations. My aunt is on the school board so I asked her to see if she could keep the balloons for me to reuse. I figured I could refill them if needed, graduation was Wednesday and the party was going to be on Sunday. They ended up not needing refilled so I got 6 helium filled star balloons for free. All I had to do was add the electrical tape eyes. Backdrop The blue is a baby blue plastic Dollar Tree table cloth. I found the cloud image here, edited it and printed them from home. They were cut out by my hubby. The coins were punched with a circle punch out of a gold gift bag. The stars were a gold star billboard boarder from the teacher section of Dollar tree, I used sharpie to make eyes and cut them apart. I downloaded a free Super Mario Brothers font from here and made labels for the food items to tie in the theme. Princess Peach Punch The punch was 2 cartons of peach/orange/mango juice, a 2 liter of Sierra Mist, a packet of sugar free peach drink powder, and a bag of frozen peaches. Super Mushroom Cakes These are just box cake mixes with food coloring added. Red are strawberry and green are vanilla. I poked holes in the cupcakes with a straw and piped frosting in the holes. I topped the holes with upside-down white chocolate chips for the dots. Super Mario Cake! Made by Pink Princess Cakes King Koopa Kookies I used refridgerated sugar cookie dough, cut out circles and used a smaller circle cookie cutter as a stencil and sprayed on Wilton Color Mist inside the cutter, then baked. While still cooling, I poked candy corn into the cookies to look like Koopa's spikey shell. The colored part of the cookie crackled when it baked, which was unintentional but made the green look more like a shell. Brick Brownies I used a box mix and my brownie pan, which makes individual brownies in squares. I piped on the grout lines. Starman Krispies Treats These are just rice krispies treats cut into stars. Lemon Candy Question Blocks The recipe for these was on the back of the Chex Mix box, they're a white chocolate version of muddy buddies. I used lemon Jell-O instead of lemon zest. Mario's Mustache Pops I ordered the mold for these pops here. They were cheap so I bought 2 so it would be faster to make them. I got pictures of most of the guests with mustaches. Atomic Fireballs Itsa Spaghetti anda Meata Ballsa Power Up Pasta (with turtle shells noodles) Bowser Breath Bread (garlic bread) Although it was a grown-up's party I still wanted the kids to have some fun and goodies. I found the pin the mustache on Mario free printable here. I edited it slightly to use less ink when printed at home. The pinata was a Costco size cereal box covered in leftover brick corrugated cardboard from a fireplace design I made a Christmas. I had perferated the corners but it was still too strong, after all the kids got multiple turns, I tore the box and ended up just swinging the pinata across the floor to dump out the goodies. I had felt sticky mustaches for everyone to wear. Pipe decorations I had thought to get actual pipes and paint them green but pipe connectors (to make the rim) were kinda spendy. Last minute, I found green can cozys at walmart. I cut them in half, some went on painted green soda cans and some went on crystal light drink mix canisters and a can of beets covered in paper. Price breakdown 6 Green pipes 3 can cozies: $3 (Walmart) leftover green paint: free recycled drink cans: free $0.50 each 8 Pirahna plants: 3 pack of terra cotta pots x 3= $3 (Dollar Tree) 8 pack of ping pong balls = $1 (Dollar Tree) leftover red paint: Free (would be like $0.88 for a 2oz bottle) leftover white paint: (would be like $0.88 for a 2oz bottle) leftover green paint: (would be like $0.88 for a 2oz bottle) Black paint: $0.88 (could have used sharpie) $4.88 = $0.61 each Power Flowers plastic pots with flowers in them: $1 (Dollar Tree) cardstock from my stash: Free (would be like $0.49/sheet from craft store) garbage stems: free (maybe could have used the ones that came in the pot) Clouds, Pin the Mustache, Coloring pages: whatever some 8.5x11 paper, cardstock and ink costs pin the mustache prizes 2/$1 Stars: billboard boarder: $1 (Dollar Tree) Coins: Gold gift bag: $1 Pinata: Leftover brick corrugated stuff: Free recycled cereal box: Free Stuff for inside: under $15 (If i find the receipt, ill update) goodie bags: $0.50 (Walmart, clearance)
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A few days ago my next door neighbor emailed me asking for a favor. Now I need to tell you, my next door neighbor is awesome. I totally won the next-door-neighbor lottery. If she ever moves, I'm going to sell my house and follow her. (Because that's not at all creepy...) But as I was saying... she emailed with a favor. She wanted to know if I could help her brainstorm ideas for her four-year-old daughter's birthday party. Now this is the kind of thing that I frequently offer to do for people and I am always thrilled when they realize I'm serious and take me up on it. As it happened, I had recently seen something on Pinterest that I was dying to try. Image from Pinterest via http://blog.celebratethebigandsmall.com PINNERS: If you would like to pin THIS image PLEASE pin it from the site I've linked to above. The rest of the images in this post are mine and can be pinned from my blog but I want her to get credit for her image. THANK YOU! The idea was initially pinned from here and she was apparently inspired by this. It's called a "Punch Box" and it's a great alternative to a pinata. (Four-year-olds with big sticks can be a little scary sometimes.) Instead of beating on a pinata with a stick, each child punches through one of the pretty colored circles in order to grab the prize inside. I set out to make one using some guidance from the originators plus a few of my own ideas. I also decided to document the process with the intention of doing a tutorial. It's my first one, so bear with me. I started by gathering up some supplies. I was really lucky in that I had almost everything I needed in my garage. The most important item (which I forgot to photograph) was the box. I got my husband a bike rack for Christmas and he had been meaning to disassemble the box it came in for awhile. I'm glad he didn't. The first thing I did were some rough measurements of the box. I knew I wanted ten circles. I debated whether line them up or to put them in a random pattern. I decided to go with the lines. Ultimately I used my circle cutter to make a template from a brown paper bag. This helped me plan out the spacing. Then I used the circle cutter to score the box. (You can buy your own circle cutter here.) Sorry about the dark pictures. My intention was actually to cut the box with the circle cutter but the cardboard was too thick. So I ended up making the actual cuts with a box cutter: As you can see, the cuts weren't perfect, but I decided the four-year-olds wouldn't notice. ;) I had to take the box apart to do this. Other bloggers made their own boxes. I just took mine apart and then reassembled it. Then I needed to attach tissue paper to the back of each hole. At first I tried staples, but they went all the way through to the front of the box and I decided that they might cut one of the children. Can you see all those little holes? Yeah, so could I. Kind of a bummer but I decided not to freak out about it. So I turned to my good friend hot glue. And scotch tape. Here's a picture of the covered holes: And here's how they looked from the front. I used old tissue from my garage-area wrapping station so it's a little rumply-looking: Pretty cool, huh? At this point I had already glued on these: Again, that's a crummy picture, but the letters are called "Twinkle Type," and I had a box of them in my garage. They were originally purchased at Michael's. I decided to add them because I thought the middle of the box needed a little extra somethin'-somethin' Then I flipped the box an added toys on top of each piece of tissue: After that, I took paper bags and cut them like so: And I taped a bag over each toy. (Why I didn't think of masking tape for the tissue paper is beyond me..) It was a hot mess back there with all that tape. Kind of like a sausage factory; you really don't want to know what's going on inside. Finally I reassembled the box using packing tape. (The one thing I didn't have; fortunately my neighbor did.) And here is the finished product: Unfortunately we couldn't make the party but I heard it was a hit. Here's what remains of the box. I think I can reuse it: Please let me know if you attempt one; I'd love to see your pictures! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you interested in seeing new projects as I post them? Simply enter your email address in the space below and then click "submit". Thanks! FOLLOW BY EMAIL:
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