ready for take off!

Man, I'm on a roll tonight!! Amazing parties just keep finding me.  Check out this adorable airplane themed party by Amy Atlas HERE. I LOVE the runway table. SOOO CUTE!

Lady bug Birthday!!

Seriously, not many things get cuter than this Lady Bug themed Birthday by Nichole.  It is SO thought out and put together!! What a dedicated mother..and party planner! Check it out for ideas and explanations HERE! SO CUTE!

Where it all began!

When my daughter turned one I was SO excited to throw her a birthday party. I had never thrown a party before, of any kind, let alone one for kids.  It was kind of intimedating, but I was determined it was going to be amazing for her. Even though it is impossible, I wanted to make it so special she would remember it for years to come! lol, delusional mother or what?  Anyways, not having ANY idea what I was doing, or being aware of all of the wonderful things available online, I was pretty limited to my own imagination. I think it turned out pretty good for what it was, however.

I had her party at the local Pet Land.  They do a great little animal presentation.  It was a lot of fun and not very expensive.  Plus NO CLEAN UP!  Always a great bonus. 

I got the vine for the banner at Walmart, and traced and cut out "Happy Birthday" out of felt paper in animal prints.

I found little painted animal shapes at michaels for $0.39 a piece. (which made me VERY excited) so I hot glued them to a little piece of wood so they would stand up straight and placed them around the room, on tables, around the food and cake, etc.

The cake was two-layers. Bottom layer was chocolate, top was vanilla. I used fondant for the first time. It really wasnt as hard as I thought it would be. But my cakes have def. improved since this one.

I painted little wooden letters from Michaels pink and hot glued them to tooth picks for the letters. and the palm trees were $0.35 just like the animals!  The hot pink ribbon around the bottom is to cover my fondant "inexpertise".

I got some super cute safari fabric at Walmart for cheap so I bought a yard and made a little placemat for thecake to sit on.

I found little sun hats at the dollar store instead of the typical paper party hats. I sewed on animals that I cut out of the left over safari fabric and hot glued hemp around them to make "safari hats"!

For snacks I had dips and veggie trays for the adults.  For the kids there was animal crackers in animal print boxes, and PB&J sandwhiches cut out with animal shaped cookie cutters.

The favors were small bags with animal pictures on them. Each had a play dough with animal playdough press, animal stickers, and animal figurine. All found at the dollar store.

Even though I had no idea what I was doing, and had no direction..this party was a BLAST!  Plus this is where I realized that there is nothing more that I love to do than to plan and host parties!!