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Sophia’s Vintage Barbie Inspired Birthday Party

For this party, I wanted the dessert table to help capture the children’s imagination just a Barbie does. So, I tried to design it as though it was actually a place in Barbie’s house.  I found the perfect black and white striped fabric, for the background, which called back to Barbie’s original bathing suit. And then I chose a dressing table to display the sweets and used it as inspiration for many of the other elements. First I found the most beautiful corset cookies and chose to stand them up like a wardrobe of gorgeous Barbie dresses and displayed them in and around a jewelry box. I had the cake pops standing up in a make up bag like beautiful lip glosses. And I created a silhouette, inspired by the classic vintage Barbie silhouette, and used it as one of the icons for the party as I designed the paper goods.  To create the “floral” centerpiece for the dressing table, I was lucky enough to find the perfect marshmallow roller pops .  The favor table was laden with fabulous accessories which I was able to find in the Target dollars bins… pearl necklaces, bracelets, flower headbands, gloves and even little purses to hold all the goodies!  

Pea Pod’s Pink or Blue BBQ

Since we had a gender reveal dinner for our son, when we found out we were expecting our second, who we called Pea Pod, I knew we had to do the same. Also the planning made waiting to find out a little easier. After we had our elective early gender scan at 16 weeks and found out the gender of our little “Pea Pod” we gathered our close family and friends at my parents home and decorated with gender neutral green pea pods. I ordered cupcakes froma friend of a friend and had the centers filled with the correct color frosting, and we had a cook out. After everyone finished eating they were allowed to bite into the cupcake and find out “Its a GIRL!”

Holly’s Snowy 1st Birthday on a budget!

I made a snowflake themed party for my 1 year old daughter’s 1st birthday in January. It was pretty, pink, robin’s egg blue and glittery like frost. I made some cupcake toppers with scrapbook paper, skewers, and snowflake stickers, along with some dollarstore white styro snowflakes…And I made the banners with the same scrapbook papers, as well as some old fashioned paper chains with snowflakes added on the bottom! Also I used those “decorate them yourself” crowns from the dollar store and glued the leftover bits of scrapbook paper onto them…