LalaLoopsy Birthday Party!

Can you believe it? My little baby bean turned four this week! When asked what theme she would like for her party, she picked her favourite toy of the minute – Lalaloopsy dolls! Over the past year my girls have amassed a fairly large collection of these adorable dollies.

For those of you outside the little girl loop, these super cute dolls is created with a fictional theme, reflecting the day she is born, the fabric she is sewn from, and her pet. 

Google was my friend when designing Miss E's birthday party invitations.  I found a Lalaloopsy image and put the party details into a text box.  I printed out the invite, used double sided tape to attach the invite to cardstock and then glued on some buttons to liven them up a little.

After scouring Pinterest for some ideas, I got straight to work! I used dessert plates, black cardstock and a circle punch and created buttons. I tied them together into a row and used them as the backdrop for the party. 

I created Happy Birthday Eila labels for the water bottles and juice containers, to add a little cute factor to the food and drink table.  We went simple with the food, just fruits, veggies and the kids favorites - cheetos and popcorn twists!

The first day we started planning the party, Miss E picked out her cake. It was super easy to put together. We made this chocolate cake and made marshmallow fondant. I ordered a button candy mold to make the decorative buttons on the sides, and popped a few Mini Lalaloopsies on top of the cake.

I used a button lollipop mold to make these yummy bites for the kids to take home after the party.

A quick and easy Happy Birthday bunting came together with Valentine hearts and printed letters, and printed out pictures of the Lalaloopsy dolls taped to some craft twine became our party decorations.

Check out this cutie playing a fun game of pin the crown on Jewel Sparkles.

 Since the Lalaloopsy dolls slogan is “Sew Magical” I created a gift tag to put on the outside of the goody bags thanking Miss E’s friends “SEW” much for coming to her party. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the goody bags.  They were pretty easy to put together.  Candy, candy and more candy filled the bags!!

The kids played games, and did crafts, and had a LOT of sugar and a great time! It looks like this sweet little girl had a really great party!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by to read today. 

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Miss A's Birthday Party Extravaganza!

Two weeks ago, my firstborn little princess turned six! To go along with a sixth birthday, all little girls need a party!

 

Miss A requested a Hello Kitty Cupcake Decorating Party. And that’s what Mama gave her!

Inspired by Pinterest we made a backdrop out of crepe paper and plastic table cloths to hang behind our fantastic cupcake and candy buffet.

Instead of goody bags, each little girl got to pick their own apron and bring it home after the party.

We decorated boxes to bring cupcakes home.

We made five colors of icing to top our cupcakes.

We had twelve kinds of candy and sprinkles to top our icing.

We played Pin the Bow on Hello Kitty.

don't mind the blue teeth- the girls raided the candy buffet and had Ring Pops!

There were presents!

We had CAKE!

It was a wonderful day filled with amazing family and friends and it was a day Miss A will never forget! 

Unplugged - August Hiatus

Can you believe summer is almost over?!? I promised myself that while I was on vacation that I would try to “unplug” from online life and spend more time being present with my family. 

Aside from the post about Miss A’s 6th birthday, I did not even turn on my laptop the whole time I was on vacation!

Uncle Robert with my Mom :)

We had some wonderful family visitors from across the pond – My uncle Robert and cousin Ciara came to visit from England for three weeks.

We went to the waterslides, to the beach, to the water park, to the trailer,

we watched a movie outside,

ate some home grown veggies,

oh, and there was party in the mix!

Eighteen little girls, 100 cupcakes and a candy buffet!

Miss E got training wheels and a two wheeler to ride around on… Miss A learned to ride her two wheeler without training wheels!

On her last day in Canada, we did a fun photo shoot with cousin Ciara, she’s such a doll, we are going to miss her!!

I’m working on the recipe for some amazing cupcakes I made on my Quest for the Perfect Cupcake, it should be up tomorrow!

I have so many things on my list to do this week, so many blog posts on my list to post, so many photos to edit and add to the blog for the projects we completed in the past few weeks, and a good few easy recipes to put up here too – I’m actually looking forward to September for Back to School, and all of the early bedtimes, routines and normalcy it will bring!

Custom Water Bottle Labels

This week is party prep week in our house! Miss A is turning SIX years old on Thursday, and she has requested a Hello Kitty Cupcake Decorating party for herself and 15 little friends.
Along with the variety of flavours of cupcakes that I need to find time to bake this week, and the five crazy bright colours of icing that have been requested by Miss A, there is also a big, bland clubhouse to decorate.
We started our first party decorations project on Sunday, while watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics as a family. While the hubs controlled the remote, the girls and I got to work making custom labels for the water bottles to be served at the party!

First things first, buy a flat of bottled water and find a helpful assistant. 

Have helpful assistant remove the labels from the bottles. It's alright if the gluey stuff stays on the bottle, it's actually helpful for lining up the labels later.

Next up are the labels - super easy! I removed a label from one of the bottles, measured the dimensions and then created a table in Microsoft word where the label dimensions were the size of the table cells. I found a pretty pink damask design on google image, used it as the background and then added the 6th Birthday info to the front using a text box.

I cut out the labels and passed them to my lovely assistant to line up around the side of the bottle. I used a little strip of scotch tape to seal the paper around the edge of the bottle. Then I did it again. And again. And again.

I think they turned out pretty cute! 

What do you think?

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