A Fairy Party

My little girl turned 3 on April 29th. To celebrate, we threw a fairy party. Unfortunately, I didn't get pictures of everything I did (boo!), but here's some of the homemade touches. We had the party in an old firehouse, which, unfortunately was a '60's firehouse and not an old charming one with a fire pole!

I started off with her invitations as the inspiration for everything. Pink, Purple, Green, and Blue are the colors I used. I found several different invites on etsy and took different ideas from each one and my DH put it all together. I love how they turned out!

All the kiddos seemed to have a blast. Each of the girls got a pair of wings to wear for the party.

(lexi is below in the bright pink)

The next few pictures are of the food. I tried to go along with the fairy theme...so I had dirt complete with worms, pixie dust so the fairies could fly,

fairy gems,

a fairy garden, (pigs in a blanket in the background)

crab stuffed mushrooms, fruit tray, fiesta party dip and beer bread. I also had DH's grandmother make mini cheesecakes and I had cupcakes, meatballs, spinach and artichoke dip, and pinwheels. YUM.

I used the fairy from her invite and made it into an svg file and cut it with my cricut on vinyl. I put it on a canvas and painted over it purple, then pulled the vinyl off to be left with the white. I added Tinkerbell's famous saying (sorry, it didn't turn out well here), "All you need is a little faith, trust and pixie dust"

I had two banners that I hung that I didn't get pictures of hanging, but here's one that I made. The first one I made with fabric I had laying around and a white grosgrain ribbon.

The second one, a friend made for me last year for Lexi's 2nd birthday. I had put Happy Birthday on using fabric and heat n bond. in the hot pink fabric.

And, finally, here are the water bottles I did. The centers I also used as the cupcake toppers. For table centerpieces, I had little tubs that I planted yellow and purple flowers and added a fairy in it, too.

Thanks for letting me share!!

monkey around

I apologize in advance for the quality of these pics! I was using my small point and shoot and it was a dreary day outside!

Back in February (yes, it's been awhile since I offloaded this camera!), I did some cupcake toppers for a 1st birthday party.

I was able to use pp I had on hand and used my cricut to cut out the larger 3" circles. The 2" and 1.75", I used punches for. A third were done in Happy Birthday from Birthday Basics, another third were done in a monkey (not sure of set, but it's not PTI), and the rest were done in 1's that I cut from my cricut using the Plaintin SchoolBook cartridge. It's been awhile since I actually used a cartridge!

I attached each large circle to a lollipop stick and they worked perfectly! These ones I used a 1/8" piece of scor tape to attach, but when I did ones for my daughter's party, I used a glue gun...much easier and faster!

PAR-TAY!

You're invited...

I'm hosting a portrait party with friend and photographer, Erin Johnson. No obligations, no money needed until you decide you want to order something (after the party...not even that day!). Here's her website so you can check out what FABULOUS work she does. AND...if you want to see her last portrait party, she posted sneak peeks on her blog. AMAZING.

Hope you can join us!!