I got a lot of ideas and inspiration from blogland and wanted to return the favor by posting pictures of the party set up and decor here on my blog. I know it wasn't the most amazingly beautiful party ever, but I'm proud of the work I put into it. I enjoyed the crafting, planning and making that came along with pulling it all together.
Early on I wanted to pick a theme, and I just could not commit! I liked the idea of a theme personalized to the baby. Maybe your little one's nickname it Scooter, so your theme is scooters. Or your whole family is big into fishing so the theme is fishing. But I ended up going with colors as a theme: blue, green, and orange.
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| had a ton of fun making the banner, got a lil crazy with it...it's kinda hard to read, haha |
Luckily Thomas bought me serving wear over the past several Christmases, it came in very handy for this party. The
mini cupcakes are from a
local bakery. I definitely recommend having other's bake your cake/cupcake. Take's a lot of stress out of the equation. They even delivered 'em!
We ordered 5 1/2 dozen mini's, which are exactly half the size of a regular cupcake. It was just enough to feed 24 adults and 5 kids. Although I think people could have forced more down. I wanted to have his
smash cake up on a little stand. Ended up finding this the morning of his party at
walmart. it's the base to a large hurricane type candle scape thingy. I put a piece of paper under the cake.
My sister-in-law, Carol, made the cake.
Since the party was at 4pm we had finger foods. I snatched a plate and bowl from
HEB in the coordinated colors. I had to resist so many purchases just because the item was orange blue or green, haha.
All the other was either borrowed from my mom or we already had. The spiral snacks Thomas originally wanted to make himself but i convinced him to just buy from
Sam's. We used two boxes (60 spirals each), which was just enough. Good ol chips and dip. I made some
pb and j sandwiches for the kiddos, though I suspect some adults ate a few. I used a Pampered Chef
sandwich press to make them all cute (you can see the pbj's on that white square plate back there) Also had a bowl of
chex mix that like two people touched. and another warm dip.
oh yeah, see that odd center piece. I wanted something nice and tall in the center, buuuut couldn't think of anything great. Didn't really want flowers. I glued ribbon around the glass vase as well as a circle with a little one on it, which you can't see. While brain storming with my mom we decided to just stuff it with tissue paper, works for me! One idea i had was to fill with water, food dye it blue and float some mini rubber duckies in it.
By the front door on a spare end table I put the favors in these
Target Dollar Bin bins. I wrote on a piece of scrap paper and stuck it in a frame. I personalized the favors cause there weren't too many kids and they were quite different ages.
Some fun things I put in the goody bags were:
bath toys,
Elmo bath dye tabs (found with bubble bath at
Wmart), bracelets, small note books, jumbo crayons, bubbles!,
playdoh, pencils (for kids starting school this year), stickers, fruit snacks.
So there you go! Like I said, wasn't anything to put in a magazine but fun was had by all. I hope you can get an idea of what you might want to do, or not do, haha!
Oh and wouldn't you know, that night I came up with the perfect theme for
Sean's First Birthday.
Giant Things! Because of all the pictures I've taken of him with over sized items! Gah, oh well.
Next I'll post pictures from present opening and cake smashing...err cake gently touching. Silly baby, don't you know to smash into it!
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