I found the fabric on my favorite online fabric store, Hawthorne Threads, and the first thing I made was Melody's dress. I love the way it looked on her! I incorporated eight (I think) different fabrics for the Happy Birthday Melody banner and party hats. I even made a penant banner for the highchair.
I made the M (also made ELODY, but they wouldn't fit:-) on top of the cupcakes, and topped the others with butterflies I found at Michaels. The middle plate was wrapped in fabric using Modge Podge, tissue paper for the other plates, and planters and bowls were used to seperate them, forming a cupcake stand. My friend made Melody the most beautiful 'smash' cake, topped with edible butterflies!
I saw the mini-cupcake flower topiary in a magazine, and just had to give it try. Just used a foam ball, stick from the yard and a flower pot that I already had.
In the smaller vase are strawberry marshmellow's on a stick with pastel colored candy corn, made to look like flowers. They were kind of random, but the kids loved them!
For favors, I found this idea from a Prudent Baby post. The kids put together their own flower pots (with a little help). It was really cute seeing them get so excited about it.
And finally the pom pom vines, which before I found the fabric, was what I was basing the 'flower' theme on. I saw them on a Spearmint Baby blog post, and knew I had to make them!
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