tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59778813668920719562024-02-07T23:40:07.337-08:00Candy Pretzel PartiesCyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-11610042209894861042021-12-14T19:42:00.004-08:002021-12-14T19:42:34.109-08:00Harry Potter Party!I was SOOO super excited to get to do a Harry Potter party!<br />
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It is to date my absolute favorite party!<br />
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Before going to hogwarts, you stop by Gringotts to risk robbing the bank. You may get (chocolate) gold coins, some (sorceror's stones) or get attacked by a dragon hiding in the vault! </div>
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Before finding your house table in the great hall, you would need to be sorted. Hershey Kiss sorting hats had different color dot labels on the bottom to get your assignment randomly. </div>
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These banners were cut from a <a href="https://amzn.to/3g3hcQL" target="_blank">single decoration</a> and hung from the rafters with magic (and pvc pipe and fishing line) Tables had simple dollar tree type table clothes with coordinating colored centerpieces/table runners. I used some leftover runners from my sisters wedding, some scrapbook paper, and some dollar tree silver candle holders. </div>
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hanging above the food table were lots of flying keys. I bought <a href="https://amzn.to/3eARuCN" target="_blank">these keys</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3g2SvE6" target="_blank">these wings</a> and strung them with more magic</div>
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We decided we must have a Honeydukes station. Lots of candy. </div>
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and a Quiddich supply store with Pretzel Brooms (literally pretzel sticks stuck into a Reeses cup, and 3 different size chocolate balls, <a href="https://amzn.to/2Z9IKwR" target="_blank">gold wrapped lindor truffles</a>, whoppers, and some chocolate caramel balls from the bulk bin. We also had <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZcbaGE" target="_blank">Harry's glasses for everyone to wear, and little cauldrons to hold little goodies like Harry Potter stickers, tattoos</a>, toy snakes and more chocolate coins. </div>
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For activities, everyone visited Ollivanders to make their own wands with chopsticks, hot glues, beads and gems. I am glad that I had multiple hot glue guns to go around.<br />
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Our wizards also stopped by Eeylops Owl Emporium to paint either a wooden or suncatcher owl, or mythical creature like dragons or unicorns. </div>
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The cake was by Pink Princess Cakes. I got gold tableware and a Hogwarts set. </div>
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I made the garland from cupcake papers, the sprinkles<a href="https://amzn.to/2NwVlVm" target="_blank"> tablecloth</a> and the <a href="https://amzn.to/2Z89Rs5" target="_blank">plates/napkins</a> were from amazon. I re-used some items from <a href="https://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2015/03/putting-art-in-party.html" target="_blank">Ellie's Art party</a> (some plates, paint cans and splatter tableclothes were saved)</div>
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We held the party at a local art studio <a href="https://www.youngatartor.com/" target="_blank">Young At Art</a> where my kids have enjoyed lots of art classes and craft days. They had a party package for a rainbow craft table (lots of collage and other crafting materials set out by color),</div>
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I definitely cheated this year and bought the cupcakes from the grocery store (luckily the pink matched the plates), but added little paint pallets (fondant and skittles) paintbrush <a href="https://amzn.to/2VhgdnO" target="_blank">cupcake pics</a> and chef hats (made by an apprentice at Pink Princess Cakes)</div>
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The cake was also store bought, but we scraped the decorative frosting off and added our own (store bought) fondant and (some real, some fondant, some chocolate) decorations. </div>
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In addition to water, punch and cake, we had rainbow Goldfish crackers, M&Ms and Skittles served in the paint cans behind the cake. </div>
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Check out Penny's rainbow cupcake apron, her sister Ellie made that for her with her own sewing machine!!<br />
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The cake stand is just a white stand with cotton balls taped on and marshmallow clouds.<br />
Earth Cake by Pink Princess Cakes<br />
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I like to make cupcakes to go with the cake because I cannot afford a fancy cake big enough for everyone. These were topped with tiny "hot air balloons", by poking a long-stick lollipop into a Reeses cup and covering the frosting with marshmallow clouds. </div>
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For decorations, we did <a href="https://amzn.to/2Xq1JnY" target="_blank">blue tablecloths</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/31LdIvQ" target="_blank">clouds table runners,</a> (one is behind the cake table with dollar tree roockets and teacher supply store paper monkeys taped on) inflatable globes (from Dollar Tree, each family took one home in addition to the goodie bags for each child) and hot air balloons back drop with little sock monkeys rockets and planes around the room.<br />
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<a href="https://amzn.to/31NzMGf" target="_blank">hot air balloon backdrop </a> helped decorate(cover) a trophy case at the pizza parlor.<br />
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Party Favors were plane (get it) blue bags with a dollar tree plane or hot air balloon sticker and a handwritten note.<br />
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Inside were little earth candies (half of which went in the outer space gift bags)<br />
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and cotton candy, (which I intended on renaming "cloud candy" or "fluffy clouds"<br />
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Tableware was a sock monkey kit from Amazon: ( I didn't use the red table cloth)<br />
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Cupcakes were wrapped with these: cloud side out<br />
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I provided amazon links ( some pics are links) mostly above but the tablecloths, paper rockets, inflatable globes, cotton balls and air plane cut outs were from Dollar Tree.Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-82875817065794295362019-01-24T13:40:00.001-08:002019-01-24T13:40:13.844-08:00Lego Party for Ellie turning 7! <div class="mobile-photo">
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(I also helped with <a href="https://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/lego-party.html" target="_blank">my nephew's Lego party</a> years ago)</div>
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I found this invitation background and used an app on my phone to add the text in the middle the printed them as photos at walgreens (a MUCH more affordable printing option vs actual "invitiations") </div>
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To keep things more easy for me, instead of the fancy pants lego shaped cupcakes I had envisioned, hubby picked up some simple cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles from walmart and I tossed some lego candies on each one, boom easy. </div>
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The main cake was this masterpeice mini fig head by<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9z4is1OTYAhUW3mMKHSudCNAQFggqMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPinkPrincessCakes%2F&usg=AOvVaw0JIJpemWSCaNYXQO4x8too" target="_blank"> Pink Princess Cakes</a></div>
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The kids helped me make some lego head marshmallows too:</div>
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They are just small marshmallow on big marshmallows (on a skewer) then dipped in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilton-Yellow-Candy-Melts-12-Ounce/dp/B0061TXUNS/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=meenahug02-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=a1e91551cef1137965cbfc0377866e11&creativeASIN=B0061TXUNS" target="_blank">yellow candy melts</a> and face drawn on. </div>
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(which I had done less successfully at <a href="https://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/lego-party.html" target="_blank">Prestens Lego party</a> a few years back) </div>
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I found some great candy molds and decided instead of sugary candies to go with the cupcakes and marshmallows I would do a Lego jello salad, which turned out good, but did not photograph well. </div>
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The birthday girl! </div>
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party favors were dollar tree<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tatuo-Pieces-Birthday-Wedding-Halloween/dp/B07G2HMY9W/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=meenahug02-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=390d051e363336b186f7d5f149534f85&creativeASIN=B07G2HMY9W" target="_blank"> gift bags</a>, I bought about 50% more than I needed in the main colors and used a circle punch to cut the circles and taped on with popdots. The yellow ones were cut like minifig heads and drawn on sharpie faces. The sign was cut from a themed table cloth. </div>
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For activities we had, LEGOS, mega blocks and duplos for the younger guests and a mountain of mixed up legos on the play table. </div>
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The food tables had a small pile of legos as a centerpeice and the adults mingling at the tables did build some tiny things.<br />
I cut table clothes into strips to make table runner, I like this look better than a solid busy table cloth. </div>
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Ellie made this decoration! </div>
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For signage to help drivers find the party, I covered some signs I had with extra table cloth scraps. This made them rain proof. </div>
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I like to use just a few themed elements mixed with solid color elements so that the decorations are very busy, and because I like to re-use supplies. Tip: dollar tree had lego party supplies last I looked!<br />
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I had plans to tape a little square of yellow paper (or cut extra plates into rectangles) to the top and draw minifig head faces onto these <a href="http://celebrateanddecorate.com/12-fun-ideas-for-a-lego-party/" target="_blank">like this idea</a> but didn't, but the color still went with the theme.<br />
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Penny has been a little obsessed with Minnie Mouse lately so I was excited to do a Minnie Party</div>
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Box mix cupcakes with homemade red candy bows and mini <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078G7NC9R/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=meenahug-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B078G7NC9R&linkId=3948435b5391e629239d2fe49f10e761" target="_blank">fudge dipped oreo </a>ears. </div>
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Cake by Pink Princess Cakes<br />
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CANDY!! I just picked a variety of red, white, pink and yellow candies.<br />
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The little Minnie topiary thing was repurposed <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/08/piranha-plants.html" target="_blank">Super Mario pirana plant</a> pot (flipped over) and covered with polka dot napkin circles (from the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/06/rachels-super-mario-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Super Mario tables)</a> with re-painted <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/poke-balls.html" target="_blank">pokeballs</a> hot glued together.<br />
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I had done a similar cake for the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/pokemon-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Pokemon Party</a><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Goodie boxes. I had these little cardboard boxes from somewhere and had my kids paint and decorate with stickers. Inside were Finding Dory themed snacks, pencil toppers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004C7NTBY/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=meenahug-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B004C7NTBY&linkId=0bf8d706fb90cf4ad697db00f12295ae" target="_blank">toy ocean animals</a> and a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003FPXQX0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=meenahug-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B003FPXQX0&linkId=3fedd0f166b1943ebe553a7a6f25530e" target="_blank">dolphin necklace </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Farmer Penny had a great birthday! </span></div>
Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-48551387181429484472016-05-15T15:19:00.001-07:002016-05-15T15:19:35.909-07:00Ellie's Football Birthday Party!<br />
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I was pleased when my turning-5 year old chose a Football party theme. Her birthday falls shortly after Superbowl, so I wouldnt have to change the decorations, and since we host every year, we had a lot of decorations already.<br />
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Plus the food is easy! Concession food, like hot dogs and nachos:<br />
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these were going to go in the goodie bags, but ended up not fitting (we did have red, which was the favorite color)<br />
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using the big orange drink cooler was fitting for a football party, and easy! My in-laws got this small football shaped cooler at a garage sale awhile back, which worked well for water bottles.<br />
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For a "guest book" Ellie wrote a request, and I got this football shaped/textured paper from the scrapbook section of the craft warehouse.<br />
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Some of the decorations:<br />
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The goodie bags were brown paper sacks that Ellie turned into footballs with strips of paper and glue:<br />
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inside the goodie bags were some foam footballs, referree whistles, cracker jacks (Ellie's only experience with sport game food she requested) and football candies. The babies got goodie bags with football socks and squeeze apple sauce.<br />
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For activities, we had football shape-themed sugar cookies for the kids to decorate their own megaphones, jerseys, footballs and helmets.<br />
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We also had a beading activity (Ellies request) and sport themed beads.<br />
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The birthday girl's outfit:<br />
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Headband is from etsy, "jersey" is from Zazzle and the pants are part of a pajama set I got on sale at Kmart. He referree whistle was from the goodie bags. Purple hair courtesy of Ellie's aunt.<br />
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Cake by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PinkPrincessCakes/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Pink Princess Cakes </a><br />
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Ellie helped make football shaped chocolate cookies, which was a chocolate cookie mix dough spread out and cut with a cookie cutter, then baked and threads piped on in candy melts.<br />
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My headband from my sister's Etsy shop<br />
More pictures of the decorations<br />
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For table runners I reused the astroturf "grass" i bought for <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2015/03/buggy-first-birthday.html" target="_blank">Penny's Bug birthday</a> as table runners and added football themed Easter eggs and small finger football toys that I found at the dollar tree.<br />
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She always remembers horses and has to say good-bye to them when we see them (or even the benches painted like horses at the library!<br />
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I contemplated doing a wild horse theme or even a cowgirl theme, but since we had decided her birthday would be at a restaurant instead of at home, I decided the Carousel theme would be great, because we can go to the carousel for rides after!<br />
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I have been procrastinating getting this blog post up, so I am just going to post pictures with captions and call it good!<br />
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Party Favor bags from Oriental Trading co<br />
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I made this favor with a small plush pony, candy stick and cardstock<br />
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I was so proud of this cake! My first time working with fondant (store bought) The cake is on a lazy susan so it really spun! I borrowed the wilton carousel kit from a friend, and used candy melts to decorate the horses<br />
The cake stand is a cupcake tree, but instead of using the supports, I covered 2 popcorn tins with striped paper (the back was red polka dots), added ovals cut from a gold gift bag (both were leftover from the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/06/rachels-super-mario-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Super Mario Party</a>. I used spiral paper straws as posts/added support. Some of the cupcake toppers were chocolate, some were edible paper, and some were animal cookies glued to pretzel sticks with melted chocolate.<br />
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I ordered Penny's shirt from Zazzle and it turned out faded (as pictured) but they sent me a replacement which looked MUCH better, (but I failed to check the mail before we left for the party and thought it did not arrive on time, so she wore the faded one).<br />
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For table decorations, I found these circus tent goodie boxes on clearance at Oriental Trading Co, they were deeply discounted because the sticky areas used to assemble them weren't any good, I knew I could fix them as I turned it into a tiny 1 horse carousel!<br />
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to glue to paper straws, I cut notches in the tip of the straw to fold over for more glue-able surface area</div>
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I cant believe I did not get a good finished picture of these! The prototype was a small candy dish, but then I opted just to make them center pieces. Each kid that wanted one took one home. I have a few leftovers in the attic, perhaps I will add a picture later. </div>
The pizza restaurant we went to has this and another ride-on toy, I think this alone would have made her birthday fun!<br />
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After lunch and playing at the pizza restaurant's arcade some of the guests went to the carousel for rides and popcorn.<br />
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The birthday girl wore her horsey boots, skirt made by my mom, and shirt from Zazzle.<br />
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<br />Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-45637175318474536902015-03-20T23:59:00.000-07:002016-05-15T11:28:00.582-07:00Putting the ART in pARTy! I couldn't resist doing a rainbow art themed party for my little artist!<br />
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She wanted a rainbow pony unicorn party. We compromised.<br />
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Cake courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PinkPrincessCakes" target="_blank">Pink Princess Cakes</a><br />
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Paint brush Pretzels and Rainbow Chips Ahoy</div>
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Last minute I thought of how to add the unicorn theme to the food:</div>
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We had hot dogs (because kids love hot dogs and they are super easy!) </div>
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(you see what I did there? a rainbow of condiments)</div>
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These basting brushes were 2/pack for just over $1 at the grocery store</div>
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We also had a rainbow fruit tray and veggie tray. </div>
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The table runners on the tables were blank papers and the centerpieces were buckets of crayons and markers. </div>
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As each kid arrived, they picked an apron to wear and keep. </div>
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The aerial view of the room:</div>
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You can sort of see the food table back drop in this picture, the paint splatter table clothes were only big enough for the top of the table, so I did a rainbow effect of solid colored table clothes on the fronts. Behind the table is a crepe paper rainbow backdrop. </div>
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For a "guest book" I drew the number 4 on a canvas and provided fabric markers for each person to add to the masterpiece:<br />
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For party favors, I wrapped rainbow washi tape around a water color set with a thank you tag. Kids also kept the paint pallet from the cup cakes and their aprons.<br />
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The babies got a little horse and the toddlers got finger paint in leftover gift bags from the curious george party.<br />
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Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-53045276723290310062015-03-20T23:33:00.000-07:002016-05-15T12:01:55.140-07:00Buggy First BirthdayFor Penny's first birthday, I decided to do a Bug theme. I didnt want it to be too cutsie, but I also didnt want it to be too realistic or yucky looking.<br />
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I made low sugar banana bread frosted with mashed banana and PB2 to hold kiwi slices on to make a green caterpillar with blueberry legs.<br />
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For cupcakes I went with super simple dirt cups (cake, pudding, gummy worms, chocolate rocks and green coconut grass)<br />
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One activity was building bugs out of craft supplies. </div>
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At this table we also had some headbands and fuzzy sticks to make antennas. </div>
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And bug jar decorating</div>
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For food I made a variety of buggy foods:</div>
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A great tip if you cannot find or don't want to spend money on special themed cups, stick a themed sticker to the cups! I had bunches of these stickers super cheap leftover from party favors. </div>
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To drink your beetle juice, you need:</div>
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These were Twinkies with white yogurt pretzels as wings. The antenna and eyes were in a kit meant for bumble bee cupcakes I had picked up on clearance. </div>
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On the tables I laid out astroturf and plastic bugs and flowers. </div>
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I didn't get a picture of the favors but I had bug themed rattles and bee bibs for each of the babies. The bigger kids got a bag of random buggy stuff from Oriental trading. </div>
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<br />Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-34998062516501098302015-03-20T22:26:00.000-07:002015-03-20T22:26:47.788-07:00Blueberries for Sal 3rd Birthday I love the book Blueberries for Sal so even before Ellie's 2nd birthday, I knew I wanted to do a Blueberries for Sal Party for her 3rd.<br />
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For anyone who doesn't know the book, here is a quick run down.<br />
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Once upon a time a little girl name Sal and her mom go out to Blueberry Hill to pick blueberries to can for the winter. Sal has a little tin pail and manages to get 3 berries in before getting distracted eating berries. Meanwhile Little Bear and his mother are eating berries on Blueberries to fatten up for winter. I wont ruin the rest of the book for you.<br />
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In addition to the obvious blueberries and bears in the theme, I decided to go with Mason Jars, tin pails, and blue gingham for the decor.<br />
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The plan for the cake backfired because my cake girl's daughter was in the emergency room the night before the party and couldn't finish the blueberrry cream-filled cupcakes and large tin pail cake. I bought plain green frosted cupcakes from a local grocery store bakery and put 3 fresh blueberries or 2 teddy grahams(one small one large) on each one.<br />
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Blueberry yogurts on ice in a tin pail.</div>
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Under the cupcakes on on the favor table I put some circles and blue gingham designed scrapbook paper I had bought for the invitations that I didn't end up using. I got the little tin pails at various thrift shops and a bunch from <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/silvertone-pails-with-handles-a2-3_5975.fltr?Ntt=pail" target="_blank">Oriental Trading</a>. </div>
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For activities, we had teddy bear shaped wooden picture frames to paint:</div>
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I co-hosted a surprise 50th Birthday party for my Aunt. </div>
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The cake by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Haute-Cakes-and-Confections-formerly-Elegant-Creations-Cakes/152411391438088?sk=info" target="_blank">Haute Cakes and Creations</a> of Aumsville Oregon<br />
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I love my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Cupcaketree?fref=ts" target="_blank">Cupcake Tree</a>. I has served me very well since our wedding 2 years ago. </div>
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The next wedding was Tresha's she did an amazing job on the wedding cake, cupcakes and grooms Reese's cake. This shows how a simple plain Cupcaketree can still be elegant.</div>
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I knew I wanted to use the Cupcaketree for more than just weddings so I devised this set up for our Superbowl party. Thanks again to Pink Princess Cakes for the football cupcakes. </div>
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Next came Ellie's <a href="http://ctparties.blogspot.com/2012/08/ladybug-birthday.html" target="_blank">Ladybug 1st Birthday Party.</a> The top cake was a no sugar super healthy cake by Pink Princess Cakes. she made cupcakes of the same recipe for all the other babies and toddlers and it was sooo yummy. </div>
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A <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/lego-party.html" target="_blank">Lego Birthday Party</a> (instructions to build at that link) for my nephew. I switched out the risers for posts made of Megablocks for the Lego Theme. The stickers on the rounds have the Lego logo printed on them to make it look like a building base. ( I cannot take credit for the adorable cupcakes or top Lego cake, they were done by my aunt)</div>
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The next party was an <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2013/01/around-world-party.html" target="_blank">Around the World Amazing Race party</a> for a friend's birthday. The Dessert table was Europe themed, so the German chocolate cakes got a German Flag inspired cupcake tree.</div>
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The most recent use was only 2 of the middle layers to make a platform for the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/strawberry-shortcake-party.html" target="_blank">Strawberry Shortcake</a> house cake, also done by Pink Princess Cakes</div>
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I was glad I left the wood theme contact paper on the cupcake tree when I re-used it for the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2016/05/carousel-party.html" target="_blank">carousel cake: </a><br />
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For this, I replaced the risers with popcorn tins covered with scraps of a table runner left over from another party, and gold swirl paper straws. The top cake is even on a lazy susan so it spins like a real carousel! </div>
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Most of these uses omitted the bottom level, what I love about the Cupcaketree is that it is flexible like that.<br />
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A few tips for decorating. A single table cloth can be used to cover the rounds easily when the bottom is not used, possibly with the bottom if you are careful. Just wrap and tape the plastic or paper onto the cardboard side of the rounds (not the white side). If you tape to the white side, and rip the tape off, it will show through some thinner, lighter colored table clothes the next time you use it. For the risers, I just lay them flat and wrap them like a gift and then cut the wrap for the tabs to stick out and tape to keep taut. The risers do not have to be perfect. Ribbon works well on the edges, just dab hot glue every few inches, spinning the round as you go. The cupcake tree can also be spray painted according to their website. They also sell end caps for the edges of the risers to cover the cut cardboard look. If you paint the cupcake tree, you will want to cover the edges with ribbon or something.<br />
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http://www.cupcaketree.com/Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-91374984851141573882013-10-06T18:38:00.000-07:002018-05-03T14:58:33.289-07:00Watermelon PartyI failed at getting enough pictures of the Watermelon decorations, but here are the ones I got. I had some gingham decorations left over from last year's Butterfly Picnic Aunts Day to use.<br />
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The spread of food.<br />
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Ham/cheese tortilla rolls, and watermelon/feta/basil/balsamic appetizers (and some with mozzarella)<br />
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Fruit salad, heavy on the watermelon<br />
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Watermelon Punch with a slice of frozen watermelon floating in it instead of ice.<br />
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Centerpieces, individual size watermelons, scraps of $1 shelf liner from dollar tree, some scrap red gingham, watermelon and ant stickers. Bowls of red m&ms with some chocolate covered jelly bellies mixed in (to look like watermelon seeds) and some watermelon Jelly Bellies<br />
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I got to help a friend make decorations for a baby Sprinkle she was throwing for a friend. </div>
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these clips were for a baby shower game where you cannot say baby or someone steals your token, the guest with the most tokens at the end of the party gets a prize. similar to the <a href="http://lofteeideas.blogspot.com/2012/05/butterfly-shower-game-clips.html" target="_blank">butterfly ones</a> I made for the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/05/butterfly-bridal-shower-deck-was.html" target="_blank">Butterfly Bridal Shower</a></div>
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My **Favorite** nephew had a Super Mario Galaxy Birthday Party this year. This was his birthday card. </div>
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I used my friend's Cricut Gypsy. She had the "rivet block" (I think that's what it was called), the leaf, the 7, the circle and the < shape. I lined up the leaves with dashes to cut out from a tag cut. I cut vinyl rivets out of leftover vinyl. The plant head was cut from polka dot paper and constructed using 2 mirrored heads glued together. The vine is dark green curling ribbon. I hand wrote the message. I cut 2 blocks out and sandwiched the plant in between, carefully taping them together so that the plant wouldnt get stuck. <br />
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My original idea was that these could be invitations, but it was a little too time consuming for multiples. The envelop was a reused envelop from a previous card, I had leftover red polka dot napkin rings that I used to cover the previous name, and more ribbon to fancy it up.<br />
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You may see some decorations in the pictures re-used from <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/06/rachels-super-mario-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Rachel's Super 25th Party</a>!Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-83736008563263964702013-03-10T12:47:00.001-07:002013-03-10T13:00:18.431-07:00Blue's Clues Budget Birthday PartyThis party was supposed to be a $0 budget. I told my BFF I could use entirely leftover or DIY decorations and I ended up spending like $5 or $6 not counting food, (which was very minimal) and we would have eaten anyway at our regular play date game nights.<br />
This was for my nephew's 2nd Birthday, just about everything was leftover from other parties. I decorated in under 2 hours, including finishing the cake and making the pennant banner.<br />
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Cake and Favor Table<br />
The table runners were leftover from the Strawberry Shortcake Party. They remind me of Steve's shirt. The blue Polka Dot pennants were leftover from the Curious George Birthday Banner (the backside). </div>
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Favors, everything inside was leftover from previous goody bags, the bags were extra from the Curious George party with stickers from my collection, The napkins were purchased for this party. cups and plates were leftover from other parties. I bought a package of paw print stamps on clearance with the napkins. </div>
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we had hotdogs, potato and pasta salads and chips, all leftover from a party we had the day before for Daytona 500</div>
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The kids loved the hot dogs and had fun playing together!</div>
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Pail cups for drinks. we had the cups and I paid $1 for a huge bag of white pipe cleaners. </div>
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As a guest book, we all wrote messages in a Blue's Clues book I found at a thrift store. </div>
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My daughter LOVES Curious George, and well I love him too, so it was perfect for her 2nd Birthday Party.<br />
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Guest Book and Party hats. The sign says "When I'm older I'll be <i>curious</i> who was here, please write a message in my book" and "Please put on a hat". I loved the image of George floating with balloons so I wanted lots of balloons in the decor. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I had my hubby pipe a blob of frosting on each (box mix) cupcake. I cut circles out of Wilton Sugar Sheets like I did for the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/pokemon-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Poke Ball cupcakes</a>, used the scraps for the balloon-knot triangles and put them on the frosting blobs. I accidentally smeared white frosting on one and it looked like a shimmer on the balloon so I added one to each of them. The ribbon was poked into the frosting after they were placed on the stand. After they were all in place, I gathered the ribbons for George's hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I got the idea from <a href="http://bethkruse.blogspot.com/2010/04/curious-george-party.html" target="_blank">Beth Kruse Custom Creations</a></span></div>
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Quint's Fish Crackers (from the surprise birthday party episode)</div>
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Table settings with Yellow Hat cups/plates (as seen in many places on the web). The centerpiece is bananas and red shredded paper with balloons on sticks.<br />
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The banner was made similarly to how I made <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/08/strawberry-shortcake-party-banner.html" target="_blank">the Strawberry Shortcake one</a> but with poster letters and banana/monkey cut outs from Dollar Tree. The balloon cut-outs at either end were also from the Dollar Tree, it was my sisters idea to make it look like they were holding the banner up. </div>
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The bags were for older children, the bowls were for the toddlers and baby. Inside were lollipops, raisins, animal crackers, bubbles, stickers and fruit snacks. The baby got some monkey and zebra socks from Dollar Tree and some crisp dried fruit. <br />
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As I did last year, I played a slideshow of pictures of Ellie on our projection screen. I also downloaded a bunch of songs about bananas to play in the background with the Curious George movie soundtrack. </div>
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Using a knife, cut/break/shave the top off of as many eggs as you need. this really wasn't that hard. I only cracked one down the side, and used that as my hole, worked fine. </div>
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we got a bag of 40 eggs for like $12 at Costco</div>
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You will want to prep the eggs and yolk first. The cheesecake sets up quickly and want to fill eggs before it sets up. </div>
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you need a jello no bake cheesecake without the fruit topping. (or save the fruit for another use) you could also use a light orange jelly or apricot preserves for the yolk, I used lemon meringue</div>
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The meringue was too, uh, lemony colored (imagine that) so I added a couple drops of yellow food color. </div>
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I didnt get pictures of the process, but you mix the cheesecake in the ziplock baggy per instructions on the box (you wont use the graham cracker crust). Snip the tip off the corner of the bag and pipe cheesecake in to each egg. then pipe a yolk on to the center of each egg. We had extra cheesecake and meringue so I piped them both into silicone cupcake cups to eat also. I estimate that 1 box could fill 20-30 eggs. If i were doing lots of eggs, I would not do a double batch of the cheesecake because it does set up quickly, i would do both batches separately. </div>
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Then get a picture of all of the eggs instead of forgetting and then realizing when only one is left in the carton. </div>
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Thanks family and friends for not wanting to be the one who takes the last egg. </div>
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These were the perfect size if you had eaten a big lunch, snagged some of the kids candy, or got bunches of other goodies to eat.Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-88744876735894362842013-03-09T20:35:00.000-08:002013-03-09T20:35:26.878-08:00Blue's Clue's Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I didn't have time to take pics of how I made the cake but I think I can explain it easily. I made a single layer cake mix cake, I poured the rest of the cake batter into both regular and mini cupcake cups. I frosted the cupcakes in blue and dipped them in blue sugar I had leftover from my wedding and the cake in green. I used cut up Twizzler pull and peel candy to look like the spiral. I had some of these red <a href="http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=2B9EA0CC-1E0B-C910-EA79A68284CCC8F2&fid=2B9EA129-1E0B-C910-EA20F08E5C73A8A9" target="_blank">Wilton Sugar Sheets</a> leftover from the <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/11/pokemon-birthday-party.html" target="_blank">Poke Ball cupcakes</a>. I printed <a href="http://jasonmatters.blogspot.com/2011/07/blues-clues-handy-dandy-notebook.html" target="_blank">an outline version</a> of the Thinking Chair onto card stock. I cut the chair out of the paper and held it up behind the sugar sheet and found that the sugar sheet was slightly transparent enough to see the outline through it when held up to the light. I cut around the outside of the chair, then placed the cut outs (still stacked) on my cooling rack and placed my phone under in flashlight mode* (I couldnt think of any other lights that would shine up, and fit under my cooling rack, or easily accessed) I piped on melted chocolate along the lines, and moved it to my green frosted cake. The letters on the paw prints are more Twizzler pieces. (I ended up having a few more cupcakes than you see.)<br />
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*IPHONE TIP If you go to camera and turn it to video mode and turn the flash ON, the flash will shine like a flashlight without having to download an app for that. The camera is easily accessed from the lock screen, so its great for quick access. Beware, I'm sure that this drains the battery, so only use until you find a flashlight if there's a chance you cannot charge your phone, like in a power outage.Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-50090821556503906932013-02-17T02:40:00.000-08:002013-02-17T01:51:25.826-08:00Curious?Sneak Peak of Ellie's Curious George Birthday<br />
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got the idea from <a href="http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/11/goodbye-to-hostess-and-our-collection.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
<br />Cyndihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03993256987784714244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977881366892071956.post-40572181254922420612013-02-10T01:50:00.000-08:002013-02-17T01:51:37.598-08:00Banana Invitation<div class="mobile-photo">
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I forget where I saw it first but I loved the peeling banana invitation idea.
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Here is my version. I gave my banana a back peel, partly because I thought it would look complete and partly because the off-white card stock wasn't as sturdy as I thought, it was packaged with a piece of cardboard in the middle of the stack.
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To tie it into the Curious George theme I made a produce sticker that says Curious? Peel me. I added a generic monkey or banana sticker to the back of the envelope.
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Found a clip art banana shape (unpeeled).
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Using Paint made it an outline.
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Copied outline into Publisher and, using multiple text boxes, filled the top half of banana with details
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Grouped the design and copied multiple times on a page, close together. (didn't worry about overlapping/losing the outline of the banana as long as the words were there.)
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Printed as many pages as I needed.
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Printed 3 banana outlines (in the same size!) on a sturdy card stock.
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One outline was cut on the inside of the ink outline (cutting away the black outline) also cut stem off of this one (just eye-balled a rounded top)
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Cut on the outside of the other 2, cutting the stem off of one.
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Using the smaller stem-less banana, I traced (in pencil) the banana around the words anywhere that the outline had been cut off in publisher.<br />
I cut out the paper bananas, just to the inside of the ink outline/trimming off just a bit of the ink/pencil marking.
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The other, slightly larger, bananas were traced onto yellow felt using a brown marker. I traced an even amount of stemmed and stemless felt banana shapes.
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Using the same brown marker I colored the stems of the stemmed ones, and added brown blotches (not on the on pictured) and drew the line (where the banana peel separates) down the entire banana of the stemless felt banana.
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Next I ran the paper bananas through my xyron, words side up.
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The sticker bananas were placed centered onto the stemmed felt banana.
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Using the paper banana as a guide, I cut down the stemless felt banana, about half way, just to the bottom of the invite info.<br />
I spread glue evenly onto the bottom, wordless, half of the paper banana, and stuck the cut felt banana to the paper banana, covering the paper banana.<br />
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For the stickers:
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I found a good quality curious George logo and snipped (screen shot) the image of "Curious", copied in Paint.
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Then, using Word, I made a yellow ? with a shadow and snipped/copied it to the Paint also
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I had to edit the Curious part a bit so the ? would show up behind it.
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(I couldn't match the font of "curious" perfectly so I thought it would work to put the ? Behind in a similar font/different color rather than try to add a ? to the end of the logo.<br />
Under the curious? I put the words "peel me" in the same font as the ? (ms script bold I think). I added the oval around it all to mimic a Dole or Chiquita sticker.
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I saved the sticker image to my computer.
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Using Avery.com, I put the image onto mailing labels (2 ovals per mailing label, 3 will fit vertically but 2 horizontally gives some wiggle room)
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(the image could be printed a bunch of times on paper then ran through the xyron or just glued but I have a small label obsession.)
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A good friend of my husband was having a 40th birthday party and his wife asked if she could use our shop for a surprise party. I offered to help plan it. She couldnt decide on a theme until about a week before hand so we didnt have much time. This is what I came up with. </div>
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She finally decided to send her husband on an Amazing Race around town, ending in a clue/mission to get the movie "Around the World in 80 Days" from our movie collection. When he arrived after his adventure, a bunch of friends welcomed him with this party. </div>
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Walking into the party space we had an Amazing Race inspired Finish Line (but I failed at getting a picture.)</div>
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The Welcome Table was world themed. My Friend brought a picture frame (not pictured) for everyone to sign. My personal globe collection decorated the welcome table. There were country themed stickers all over the table and book case behind. </div>
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Since we were serving classic American food, so we set up the food tables using 4th of July decorations I had. </div>
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At the end of the American food table we set up some chips, salsa, and guacamole with some old fiesta decor I had. </div>
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The Dessert table was Europe themed. German Chocolate Cupcakes, "Hungarian" Cream Puffs, and Ice cream "Gelato" sundae stuff. I made a sign that said "Happy Birthday Derek" in German</div>
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The Drinks table was decorated with St. Patrick's Day decor I had on hand. My friend bought beers from all over the world, as the birthday boy is a fan of beers. </div>
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This is Austrailia. We hung boomerangs from the rafters, and used some coastal theme decorations that I had on hand for a future party idea. The alligator (crocodile?) came from my father-in-law. </div>
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This is Antartica, Its hard to tell but there are white snow flakes hanging above. In the various shaped jars are marshmallows. There is a map of Antartica on the table with some white "snow" batting under. The snow and flakes came from my Christmas decorations. </div>
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This table is China. My mother in law picked up some place mats from the Chinese restraunt the night before. I also used a take-home box to stablize a photo of the Chinese flag. My husband's dragon figurines made a centerpiece. </div>
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This table represents Africa. We had some Zebra trimmed plastic table clothes left over from a sweet 16 birthday, we cut the edge off and used it as a runner. the middle is a baby blanket in a leopard print with the pink ruffle edges folded under and some toys from my friend's daughters toy collection. </div>
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Throughout the decor I used photos of different flags. My friend purchased some continent bullitan board stuff from The Learning Palace, a specialty toy/education store in town. She got placemat sized maps of each continent that we used on the tables. </div>
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I failed to get a picture of South America. We hung vines and toy snakes and monkeys in a corner of the shop set up with a TV playing Rio for the kids to watch. </div>
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Overall, the decorations did not cost much time, or effort to make. Using what we had worked very well, supplementing with a couple trips to the Dollar Tree and The Learning Palace was all it took. </div>
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My "nephew" loves Legos so he had a Lego theme birthday party.<br />
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My Aunt (his grandma) asked to borrow my cupcake tree. When she told me Lego themed I started looking and found lots of awesome party ideas.<br />
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Here are the instructions for the Lego Cupcake tree I made:<br />
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First I built some risers for the Cupcaketree rounds out of mega-blocks<br />
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The tablecloth is too thin and the ugly cardboard shows through so I cut a circle of white cardstock to cover it.<br />
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To make the circles look like the green lego bases, I decided to stick circle stickers all over them. </div>
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I found a Lego logo on the internet and edited it in Paint to be green. </div>
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Next we peeled and sticked, trying to keep them in even rows. Ellie helped., </div>
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I cannot take credit for the cake or cupcakes. My Aunt and cousin made them. </div>
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Something I saw when I was looking at Lego Party inspiration were Lego Head Pops</div>
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I assembled one regular marshmallow and a mini marshmallow onto candy sticks. </div>
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I had a feeling the yellow food coloring wouldnt work in the white candy melts. I was right. The candy seized up and was all lumpy. I did my best to smooth out the faces.<br />
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For the faces, I used edible markers. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The markers didnt work so great after a few faces. I think the cold or moisture was a problem.</span><br />
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For the display base, I took a cardboard box lid and covered it with leftover green plastic table cloth. I took styrofoam floral disks and covered them also. They were taped on and the sticks were poked into them. </div>
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I also made some red candy treats. I made a 9 brick, (which I was later told doesnt even exist and a red Lego base. I had leftover red melting candies from <a href="http://pretzelparties.blogspot.com/2012/08/ladybug-birthday.html" target="_blank">Ellie's ladybug</a> pretzels. The mini marshmallows tried to melt in the warm candies, so I had to be quick.<br />
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My aunt also made this awesome pinata out of a gift box and cut up oatmeal canister. It is a 6 brick because my nephew was turning 6.<br />
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