Party Perfect Dream

2013-07-26T11:36:00.003-07:00

Connorsaurus Dinosaur Party

This party was so much fun to plan and put together..... I pulled ideas from so many wonderful blogs... I honestly don't remember... Connor had an amazing time with his friends. This party required a lot of planning ahead but in the end made the party perfect!

It started with the Invitation..... CUTE.... A little work required... but worth the effort to see the kids faces when we gave them the invitation.

All The Parties Detailed were printed and tied to Dinosaur Bones "Dog Treats" and the top of the bog asked them to Dig in for Details. Depending on how much you don't want the parents to like you will determine what you put in the box. Many of the ideas I saw said to use sand, I decided on Green Easter Basket Paper.

Next Task was to make the Dinosaur Bone out of Plaster of Paris. I ordered the molds on line. The Dinosaur Bones would be used in the Dinosaur Dig at the birthday party but each set took a whole night of curing time. So though it didn't take long to pour the molds it did take days to make the bones to allow the bones to dry.

The "DIG SITE" was originally planned to be in the back yard, but mother nature had other plans. No problem "Dig Site" moved to the garage and actually I think worked much better because it was not as hot! Started with a tent added some fabric to block the junk in the garage and a plastic swimming pool was lined with a painters drop cloth to provide the brown dirt look. next the bones were added along with dinosaur eggs (Easter eggs I picked up in April) and small plastic dinosaurs. A few bags of sand were used to cover all the items and the "Dig" was ready. A few of the outside potted plants were moved into the garage for added ambiance and the perfect jungle was created.

As the friends started arriving they were made into archeologists with hats, binoculars and other party favors....

Next was the cake! My favorite part of the whole party. I found the perfect cake online and found the perfect bake shop in "A CAKE TO REMEMBER" and they graciously accepted the challenge of building my dinosaur.

It was the center piece of the dessert table and turned exactly as I had visioned.

I made "Dinosaur Eggs" by using paper meche, balloons, and brown spray paint. They made the perfect decorating accessory.

I used blow up dinosaur's threw out the house and made "Dinosaur Crossing Signs" to complete the look!

Treats Consisted of Chocolate covered marshmallows with Rocks "Rock Candy"!

Volcano Bites and Prehistoric Cookies.

This party was so much fun to plan and Connor could not have been happier. Everyone left with a smile on their face and a new found love for Dinosurs.

PINK PINK PINK

2013-07-26T10:49:00.002-07:00

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA

2012-07-11T07:24:00.003-07:00

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA

This year for Easter I decided to throw an "eggxciting" Easter Party for my Family and friends. Living in South Louisiana it was warm enough to have a water party... So the basic fun and games revolved around playing in the water.

I order these custom baskets from whatchawantdesign

for each of the kids I knew would be attending the party and a couple extras, just in case!

They were a hit!!! The kids loved the personalization on each of them and it helped everyone keep track of there own baskets.

I made "Easter Treat Bags" for each of the kids as well. In each of there personalized bags were a bathing suit and flip-flops for the little ones and beach towels and other fun stuff for the older kids. They loved searching for there own private little present. This is them hauling in their loot! :)

I tried to base the majority of the decorations around bunny ears and tails.... I love how the bunny tails turned out... And to my surprise most of the kids (and some adults :) ) wanted to wear them or at least pretended while they were there!

For the Desert Table we had A Bunny Garden of Peeps, Peeps Smores, Cupcakes and Cookies...

The Bunny Garden basket made the perfect center piece and super easy to make. Take your favorite basket add peeps marshmallow bunny's to a stick put foam in the bottom of your basket and cover. I used Moss to cover mine so it looked more like grass but you could use Easter grass or whatever you have laying around the house.

No Easter Party is complete with out Carrot and Celery cups. Take clear cups add Ranch dressing to the bottom and add celery and carrots. The kids loved them and they were easy to carry around on the go.

The Drink Dispensers had an addition of bunny ears and a tail and for drinking glasses I used Mason Cars with a bunny tail glued to the rim. To make the bunny tails simply glue a cotton ball to a piece of twine! I added Colorful straws to top it off!

I though why should the kids have all the fun at an Easter Party. So the back yard was set up for everything kid.... Kids Easter Egg Hunt, Kids Treat Baskets, Easter Egg Dying Tent and water activities.

The front yard contained a SURPRISE for the adults. An adult Easter Egg Hunt. I decided the easiest most cost effective thing to put in the ADULT EGGS would be Lottery Tickets. Since I had never even bought a Lottery Ticket before (LOL :)) I figured out how.... and went all in buying a mixture of what the sales girl told me where good deals!

After the kids had hunted for eggs and presents and were settled the adults got straight to it!!!! This was definitely the highlight of the party for me. Seeing the adults run around and find Easter Eggs and toss away the ones they though might not be as good as the ones they just found, I had to set a limit per person so everyone got some eggs! Of course they had there own GOLDEN EGG. Which in my case was RED since I couldn't find a golden one... They seemed to love it.... and it gave the adults a little something to do instead of just staring at the kids all afternoon!

The adults (Everyone over 18! LOL) scratching there tickets.... My mom seemed to be the big money winner!!! You can see some of the kids baskets got double duty use from the parents! :)

This is some of them running the perimeter of the yard to ensure no eggs were missed! :)

No one missed out on the fun! Everyone participated!

Some of the Teenagers were even wishing this was there Easter Egg Hunt! :)

I set up all the Easter Egg dying up outside..... No reason to have dye dripped and spilled all over the house. The kids got out of the pool and straight to the dying tent!~ It worked perfect! I did simple decorations outside as well! Old Easter Baskets filled with Grass and Plastic Eggs topped with Easter Balloons... Simple and Cute!

I bought the kids there own Egg Dying Trays to help contain the mess and Plastic Gloves... I HIGHLY recommend using gloves to dye ALL eggs in the future!!! They dyed all the eggs they wanted and left them to dry while they enjoyed the sun a little more! This was definitely a SUPER EASY and FUN party to plan and host! Everyone left with a Smile and an arm full of goodies!!! I think this will be added to my annual party events!

This is My Precious Angelle and Connor working hard to make the PERFECT dyed egg!

Ice Cream and Cupcake Party

2012-02-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

What kid does not love ice cream?

This party for Angelle's 6th Birthday was so much fun to decorate

and even more fun to attend!

YUMMY!! YUMMY!!

The Birthday Invitations were my biggest challenge and ultimately ended up being extremely simple and cute!

The Ice Cream Bar is an essential part of any Ice Cream Party! I turned my Dining Room into Angelle's Ice Cream Shop! We had three different flavors of ice cream to choose from and all the toppings you could dream of!

The cake and cupcake toppers were made by WalMart. They were very accommodating in designing my melted ice cram cone cake I had in my head! And much cheaper than a specialty bakery! Cake Topper made special by ME! :)

Brownie Ice Cream Cones made special by Grandma!!! Simply make a brownie pop and instead of using a stick put it on top of a small ice cram cone!

Decorations were paper balls, balloons and paper Ice Cream Cones I found at Hobby Lobby!

The cake table with presents for the Birthday Girl!

The Birthday Girls hat was made special by Me! Regular Party Hat from Dollar Tree with Ice Cream Cone and Marabou Glued to it! A few letters for her name and she had a custom birthday hat!

What better way to end the day, then to let the birthday girl and a few friends have a balloon release!

Candy Land Dream Party

2011-08-12T11:30:00.000-07:00

For Angelle's 5th Birthday Party she wanted a Rainbow Party.... After Goggling ideas for a Rainbow Party (which I would not recommend doing that search :) I decided to do a wonderful Candy-Land Party which has all the colors of the Rainbow in it!

The invitation for this party was so fun and bright.. I printed the circle on card stock paper then glued a stick to the bottom and added some curling ribbon. Easy and Super Cute.

I wanted this party to be everything candy you could dream of... The first step was to make some edible party arrangements.

This gum ball wreath was the perfect accessory to any wall.

Get a foam wreath, tons of gum drops and tooth picks and stick each gum drop with a toothpick and add to the wreath. Tie a bow around it for hanging and your done.

Dum-Dum Topiary

This Topiary made the perfect addition to the food table! Buy a foam topiary, bags of Dum-Dum suckers (I cut the sucker sticks in half so it was easier to push into the foam) and just push suckers in all over the topiary. Add a bow and your done!

I added signs around every edible arrangements... so the party guests could be assured that they were edible and to please eat them!

Angelle's outfit was the perfect addition to this party which I purchased at Miss Things Boutique online... She has every kind of Pettiskirt you can imagine.

The cake was made by a friend of mine. I think she did a spectacular job bringing everything Candy Land into the cake.

The Desert Table consisted of a Fruit Dray which could be dipped into the chocolate fountain, gummy bears, gumballs, cookies and more.

My mom made these cute edible cupcakes and ice cream cones. The oversized cupcakes are made out of rice crispy treats and frosted with your favorite frosting.

Lollipops! Big and Small are easy to make and add there extra special look to your party!

My sister in law made these using round Styrofoam she covered with cellophane and add a wooden stick and Curling Ribbon!

To make the perfect candy! Blow up a balloon wrap cellophane around it tie each end with curing ribbon!!! Perfectly Cute Candy!

This party was so much fun and the kids loved every part of it. We had fun games outside a candy land path through the house and a candy shop for the kids to put together there own thank you bags....

This video is just a small look at all the fun I had putting this party together!

School Bows "Made Bayou"

2011-08-09T08:11:00.000-07:00

School is starting this week and if you have little girls you know how much buying bows can cost.... Why buy bows when you can make your own for MUCH less.

Here are a few easy steps to make the perfect bow and ponytail ribbons!!!!!

To make Ponytail Ribbons is the easiest..... Pick 2 or 3 or 4 different Grosgrain Ribbons and cut 3 strips of each about a foot long. So you will have 6 - 12 strips of Ribbon.

Trim the Ribbon's edge and simply knot around a pony-tail holder.

Super cute and only takes about 5 minutes to dress up any ponytail!!!

The next bow can be as many layers as you would like it to be. I like the two layer look! You can add buttons in the middle or just a cute knot. I will show you both. Here is a picture of the supplies you will need. Ribbon (Grosgrain is the easiest to use), Floral Wire, Hair Clips or Alligator Clips, buttons if you would like them, Hot Glue Gun and scissors!

You Loop the bow to look like this. Then secure the center with Floral Wire.

If you want to add a second color follow the same process of looping only make this bow smaller than the first and secure with floral wire.

I like the knot in the center of the bow. To do this take about a 6" piece of ribbon and tie in a loose knot.

You will then just tie this knot onto the center of your bow.

Hot Glue your Clip to the Back of the bow and trim the edges.

And your finished!!! One perfect bow you did not have to spend $15.00 dollars on!!

If you would like to add a button or some other type of center. Do not tie your center piece into a knot, simply wrap it around the bow flat and tie in the back. Then hot glue your favorite button to the center!!!

He's The Man

2011-08-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

For My Husband's Birthday this year I decided to throw him a "He's The Man party". I seen this wonderful idea on karaspartyideas.blogspot.com.

Cory loved He-Man as a kid... And in general is always trying to get our kids to watch the "Good Old Cartoons" - Needless to say pretty much everyone younger than about 25 had no clue who He-Man is (so sad)!

Cory's birthday falls right around 4th of July Weekend so I like to combine the two special occasions and this idea worked perfect for that!

The Invitation made everyone wonder what we would be doing for the "Competitions" everyone was kept in the dark until they arrived at the party, including the birthday boy!

The Birthday Cake! I had so much fun shopping for vintage He-Man Stuff. The Cake Topper was actually an old vintage He-Man Bank it worked perfect And easily let me incorporate my Red and Blue theme for the 4th of July also.

The old He-Man Lunch Box and Thurmas were the perfect addition to the display table.

No He man Party is Complete without Sh-Ra and Cute Cupcake Toppers!

For the He's The Man Competitions... I bought the Large Jaw Breakers and put them in Small Mason Jars with a cute bow and Strong Man Candy Label!

The Table Display!

The Jousting Ring I rented from a local Bounce Place. Tons of Fun!

Who will be "The Man" of Scrabble! Cory again.....

No 4th of July Party is complete without "Super Hero Fire Work Glasses"! My kids for the longest time were scared of the big fireworks we would pop on the 4th, until last year... I made the best discovery ever.... Foam Glasses that the kids can decorate themselves and then at fireworks time put on! Somehow it makes everything all better!

Out of This world Monster Party

2011-08-03T11:46:00.000-07:00

Connor recently turned Four years old. So I thought what better way to celebrate my little man's birthday than to have an out of this world party. When my party planning started months ago, I initially thought to use all things robot, alien, monster and more. The more and more I pulled ideas together tough, the more it turned into focusing on monsters. This party was a ton of fun to put together and my little boy absolutely loved it.

I gathered some of my ideas from "j at your service" and through in a few of my own.

The invitations were my favorite! I used the Monster Cartridge for the Cricut and cut the shapes for the invitations then added the wording and a large googlie eye! Once the legs and arms were fan folded they fit in the standard size mailing envelope!

The Monster Photo Booth provided loads of fun for the kids and the adults!

Me and My Little Man with Our Monster Shirts!

Me and the Girls having fun in the photo booth! Yes we used it way more than the kids.

Our Wallpaper of Monsters! I had washable crayons around the house so the kids could color a monster during there down time! If they had any! Once again... I think the adults took way more advantage of this than the kidos!

My special helpers.... Helped the kids make Monster Masks of there own!

Connor's Cake topper! Custom Made by Mommy!

Monster Dust! To Keep all the scary monsters away!

Monster Treat Bags!

With Monster goodies inside!