Selected as Party of the Day on January 10th!
Blake's Vintage Birthday Celebration
ByParty Recap
This unique and special party for Blake this year incorporated mostly hand crafted items that I custom made or re-purposed using things and materials I mostly already had. I did do some bartering for the cho cho train cars that held my ice cream toppings glasses by providing some embroidery services to the man who made them to scale with my ten dollar Ebay train engine I sourced. The venue location was also a barter in return for a hand painted Welcome sign for the venue incorporating the parlor's logo. The party cans were made from old gift cans that received new coordinating labels I printed on my printer. The cake toppers, cupcake wrappers, thank you bag labels, and bag toppers were designed and crafted on my computer as well. The table cover was made from 25 yards of fabric that was given to me a couple of years ago and since there was not enough yardage of one color, I chose to mix the fabric in the ruffled skirt. Dipped pretzel sticks were so quick and easy but the sugar cookies were really intense! The games were also hand made. The Pack the Suitcase game was a fun relay race that the kids really enjoyed playing. It was a different style of party than what you typically see for a 4 year old. The Birthday Boy and the guests had a lot of fun and this mom was super proud to plan, design, and create it and stay on a reasonable budget.
Party Highlights
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What People Ate
Mixed Deli Sandwiches, Chicken Salad, High Roller Pinwheels, and mixed varieties of mini chip bags to choose from.
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What People Drank
Sodas, juice boxes, and bottled water placed in a giant ice bucket stand.
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Desserts
Cake, cupcakes, ice cream, ice cream topping bar, candy, and decorated sugar cookies.
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Party Favors
Wrapped sugar cookies, goodie bags filled with small toys and candy, hats, whirly pops, chocolate airplane on a cloud of cotton candy favors.
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Activities / Games
Pin the propeller on the plane, Junior Cornhole, Pack the Suitcase Relay Race, dancing to the vintage player piano.
Party Helpers
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Walding Station
Venue
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Memories By Lala
Photographer
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000529360293&fref=ts&ref=br_tf
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Semi Sweet
Sugar Cookie Gas Pump Tutorial
http://www.semisweetdesigns.com/2014/06/06/fathers-day-cookies-vintage-gas-pumps-tutorial/
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Spoonflower
Custom Printing of fabric, wallpaper and wrapping paper
This is the website I used to upload my artwork for the fabric to be printed that I used to make the shirt and the pockets and hat for Blake's birthday outfit. www.spoonflower.com
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So Dang Cute Blog
Tablecloth Tutorial
http://www.sewdangcutecrafts.com/2012/05/ruffled-tablecloth.html
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Anderstuff
Dessert Table Backdrop Tutorial
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Hobby Lobby
Cloud Paper for backdrop and game
http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/pacon-48-x-12-cloud-design-paper-roll-711077/
2 comments
Genie S wrote:
Where did you find the cookies? I absolutely love them. We're planning a Drive-In themed party for my sons 10th birthday and we're incorporating old cars. This would be perfect.
Alisha B wrote:
Love!
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