Party Recap
This was a party that I planned 5+ months in advance. Because of that, I was able to find a lot of things in Clearance Bins, Marked down, Using 40% off coupons at craft stores and hand make most things using my cricut and inspiration from various websites.
Party Highlights
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Best Dressed
My girl in her homemade tutu, candy wrapper hair bows, candy necklace, candy button bracelets, and glittery "Candy Girl" shirt.
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Desserts
Cupcakes, Mini ice cream cones,mini ice cream sandwiches and candy to take home
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Activities / Games
Pixie stick limbo (two giant pixie sticks taped together), pin the cherry on the ice cream, bubblegum machine guess,crafting candy airplanes , sugar sand art necklaces made from pixie stick sugar & plastic containers, decorating foam frames with candy & ice cream stickers. The adults played name that candy tune, finish that candy slogan and guessing the flavors of Jelly Belly Beanboozled jellybeans.
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Budget
I didn't keep track....on purpose.
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Party Favors
Candy Buffet: Assorted candy, Cookies, cupcake printed duffel bags, toothbrushes, ice cream & cupcake hair bows, bubblegum earrings, candy flavored chapsticks, lip glosses & nail polishes, Handmade Paper pinwheels on candy themed pencils from Target, cotton candy, mini metal candy themed lunchboxes from Target,
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Best Moment
All of my clearance, sale, and darn near free finds as I started shopping 5 months in advance. Bargains just kinda fell in my lap...
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What People Ate
Kids ate mini foods: Bitty Burgers (cheesburger sliders), Dinky Dogs (pigs in blankets), faux fries (apple straws), baby dill pickles, pink lemonade in glass bottles with striped paper straws, Adults ate: Deli Lollipops (deli spirals on a cocktail stick), Mac & cheese pops (mac & cheese balls on a lollipop stick, individual 7 layer dip & old fashioned sodas & water
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What People Drank
Water, Lemonade, and Soda
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Most Touching Moment
My precious girl said over & over & over "Mommy I LOOOOVED my birthday"
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Funniest Moment
When people realized they had rotten egg, pencil shaving, skunk spray etc..flavored jelly beans in their mouths
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If not for family & friends.....
When my closest friends found out what I was planning, they all chipped in (without me asking) with ideas, bargains that they had spotted at stores, moral support, loaning me things etc., all to help my vision become a reality.
Party Helpers
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Jilly Bean Kids
Decorations
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Shindigz
Decorations
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Shop Sweet Lulu
Decorations
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Catchmyparty.com
Ideas
21 comments
Pat B wrote:
Clings I put on Bathroom mirror
Pat B wrote:
Adult Candy Bar with Throwback Candy from our childhoods
Pat B wrote:
Temporary Tattoos for the Kids
Pat B wrote:
Big Glasses for Photo Booth Prop
Pat B wrote:
I Hand Stamped Glassine bags from Jilly Bean Kids
Pat B wrote:
Stamped Napkins
Pat B wrote:
Lollipops for front lawn
Pat B wrote:
Birthday Hat broke while were taking Pictures :-(
Pat B wrote:
Not entirely happy with how this turned out, but it was one of the last things I made & I was plumb out of creativity...
Pat B wrote:
My sis-in-law found mini ketchup bottles :-)
Pat B wrote:
I got paper food trays from Jilly Bean Kids. You can't see them in this picture. The striped paper is waxed paper from the craft store, and so are the cotton candy pics
Pat B wrote:
My son played "waiter" and wore a soda jerk hat & apron & took orders from the kids...
Pat B wrote:
This 'awning' is actually a tablecloth cut in half
Pat B wrote:
I made these for my daughter
Pat B wrote:
Setting up craft tables...
Barbara G wrote:
Hi! Where did you find these?
Pat B wrote:
I found them in Michael's Crafts in a Clearance Bin right after Christmas.
Tee T wrote:
where did you get the m&m tins?
Tee T wrote:
beautiful!
Pat B wrote:
On clearance in Michael's after Christmas
Pat B wrote:
Thank you!
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