Birthday Party Tips: Invitation Ideas

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I always put so much pressure on party invitations.  I want them to be perfect because they are the first impression of the party.  I want the invitations to completely set up the scene and atmosphere of the party, even before the party starts.  

Animal Birthday Party

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Animal birthday party?  Yeah it seems a bit broad to me too, but it was fun.  Check out the details below on how this whole thing came about.  

Throw a Onederland Party That is Pinterest Worthy

My baby girl turned one!  This is a big deal and I have very mixed emotions about it. Does anyone else feel like turning one is such a big deal?  Please tell me you do so I don't feel so crazy.  

How to set up the perfect Olympic Party

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The Olympics are this year!  I LOVE watching the Olympics and if you have been following me for a bit then you know I love parties.  I love going to them and I love throwing a great party.  Since the Olympics happen every 2 years (when taking into account Winter AND Summer Olympics), I think its the perfect excuse to have a party.  

Princess Birthday Party-Games

Once I knew that we were going to be doing a princess party I knew we had to play some fun games.  The problem that I was facing is that there were only going to be 5 girls total AND the ages ranged from 3-8.  So I had to come up with something that would be okay for all of the girls no matter their age.  

Princess Birthday Party-Party Favors

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I asked my daughter what kind of birthday party she wanted and she said Frozen.  For those of you who are new here, I threw a Frozen birthday party last year.  I was not about to do that again.  So I told her that she needed to come up with something else.  I was prepared for a complete meltdown, but instead she said, "OK!  PRINCESS!"  That was when I thought, "Really?"  I mean that isn't that far off from Frozen.  However, I decided to work with it.  

This daughter of mine lives, breathes, and sleeps PRINCESS.  She always needs a dress on.  Just the other day we went to preschool and she gasped in the back seat (almost caused me to have a heart attack) then she said, "We forgot to put a dress on me!"  She is always wanting to dance around the room with her prince.  She has a certain princess smile.  She eats like a princess.  She plays with all her princess toys.  I mean the list goes on and on.  So I thought that a princess party was probably the best option for her anyway.  

This year she turned four years old.  I told her that she could have a friend party this year, but she could only invite four friends.  She was happy with that.  Then the birthday party planning began.  It was so much fun to plan out this party.  I can't wait to show you all the details.  The first hurtle I had to overcome was what I was going to do for the party favors.  

I wanted to do something fun.  At the same time I wanted to highlight each of the princesses.  So I thought it would be fun to have a prize or present from each of the princesses.  That is when I decided to put together a gift bag with all the princess "treasures".  

Do you want to see what I came up with?! I have to add that each bag and the contents cost about $3 a piece!  So affordable. 

Merida (from Brave): I made an arrow from felt and a wooden skewer. (I had all this at home already)

Rapunzel (from Tangled): Paints 

Snow White (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves): A whistle

Tiana (from Princess and the Frog): Gummy frogs (I had to get these at a gas station) 

Pocahontas (from Pocahontas): A compass notepad 

Jasmine (from Aladin): A gold bracelet made with dry macaroni noodles and a cut up toilet paper roll.  (Once again using stuff from around the house)

Ariel (from The Little Mermaid): A dinglehopper made with a plastic fork and some jewels.  (All left over from other projects.  

Belle (from Beauty and the Beast): A light up rose

Elsa and Anna (from Frozen): A chocolate kiss

Aurora (from Sleeping Beauty): An eye pillow (Many stores have these; I got them at a dollar store) 

I attached a little tag to each treasure to make sure the girls knew exactly what it was they were receiving and who the "treasure" was from.  Then I put them in a bag with the cutest glass slipper (for Cinderella of course) on front.

Everything fit in the white bag perfectly.  I loved the white bag with the blue glitter of the glass slipper.  I cut out glitter iron-on vinyl for the glass slipper using my Cricut.  

I couldn't have been more thrilled with how it turned out.  The girls loved their party favors and the smiles on their faces made it worth every thought I put into it.

Check out the other posts for this Princess Birthday Party:

Party Games

A Frozen Birthday Party for a 3 year old

 

My daughter had her third birthday party last month.  In January I started asking her what kind of party she wanted.  She kept saying Frozen.  I kept giving her other suggestions.  I know I am a bad mom.  I just felt like the Frozen thing had been done too much and I wanted to do something different.  Then I realized it was not about me.  She wanted a Frozen birthday party and a Frozen birthday party she was going to get.  

Gender Reveal Ideas

We found out what we are having!  I am so impatient it is so hard to wait for me.  So in honor of announcing what we will be having I thought I would post some gender reveal ideas!   

Recipe and Kitchen Themed Bridal Shower

A few weekends ago I, along with my mom and sister, threw a shower for my soon to be sister-in-law.  We did a recipe themed shower.  By that I mean we asked the guests to bring a recipe card (sent with the invite) filled out with their favorite recipe.  They also brought any ingredients needed to make that recipe.  

I made this invitation, but my inspiration came from this pin.  It is no longer available in the Etsy shop so I decided to try and create my own.  I think the original is phenomenal, but I was happy with what I produced. 

Kids Halloween Party

I feel that every holiday is a perfect excuse for a party.  I love parties and I love holidays.  So I combine them any chance I can get.  

Baby Shower Fun

My sweet friend just had a baby last night!  Such a perfect excuse to throw a shower.  Two of my friends and myself were the hostesses.  I couldn't have asked for better help!  I went back and forth with a theme and decided to not do an actual theme.  Just a baby girl shower.  We offered brunch type food since it was from 10 am to noon.

Blog Tour!

Today I am participating in a blog tour!  I was very happy when Shanice from City of Creative Dreams emailed about being part of this blog tour.  I had to say yes because I love reading blog tour posts from all bloggers.  It is a fantastic way to get to know them.  Of course I want you to get to know me better so I jumped on the idea!  I will also introduce you to a couple of my favorite blogs right now.  I have a lot, but picked a couple.   First, let me answer the same questions that all the other bloggers have answered and then you get to see the bloggers that I am absolutely loving right now. You can see Shanice's answers to these questions on her site here.  She has an amazing linky party every week on Friday.  Go check it out to get a lot of inspiration from some very talented bloggers.  

Cupcake 1st Birthday Party

This birthday party happened almost a year and a half ago!  Where has the time gone?  My baby is growing up! When she turned one I decided to throw a birthday party centered around cupcakes.  I loved how it turned out.

30th mustache birthday party

Last year my husband turned 30.  Since I love throwing parties I wanted to do something big, but he is not the party type.  He would much rather have a low key birthday.  I decided to send out some invites to close family and stick with that.  To some this might be a big party still, but I wanted to do much, much more.  So I considered this a compromise.  It was fun though and I was able to do a theme that was more "manly".

A 2 year old's dream Bubble Guppies party

My sweet baby girl (I have no idea when I will stop calling her that…it might be never) turned 2 this last April!  Of course we have to have a party.  I have to confess something right now.  I love parties.  I love hosting them, I love going to them, I just love the feeling of a party.  I went all out, because, well that is what I do.  I actually did not stress out that much over the decor because I did a TON of it before hand.  I made myself a timeline and I stuck to it.