Pink poodle party!!

Party day has come and gone and what a party it was!!! My friend Sandie held her party at a park. Her colors were pink, black and white. This is the invite I had designed for the party!  I absolutely love this theme!!

I love the way Sandie displayed her cake and cuppies!!! So perfect!  And the banner really added a nice pop of color to the tent!

A silly request from the birthday girl!  Funny!  

I love the way the water labels look on Sandie's tablescape!  

The birthday girl, Valerie getting her face painted! Such a cutie!

Cake time!

Sandie even managed to find a Pink poodle pinata!!! 

Looks like even the presents were pink poodle themed!!

Sandie has a friend that made these cookies for the occasion!  These are actually what I based the invites off of!  

This is the entire package I made for Valerie's Poodle party!  I'm really proud of it and glad Valerie had an awesome party! Many thanks to Sandie for the theme idea and letting me share her pics!!! 

The circus is coming to town!

A new day, a new theme!  And yet another party for a friend!  I actually had a circus party for Matty's 3rd and was seriously obsessed (surprise) practically from the day he was born with having a 3 ring circus for his 3rd birthday.  My friend Lisa is having a twist on this traditional theme by making it a rainbow circus!  I made this package just for the occasion:  

and of course picture's from Matty's 3 ring circus! What's a circus without animals?  

The main table complete with tickets and peanuts!

 Matty's banner!  I sure wish I had created the digital version back then.  So much easier to assemble!

 Matty's cake.  I had planned to make adorable clown cupcakes but I was pregnant with my little one and super sick!  So glad they had this one at costco!

I bought a pack of the generic party hats at party city and added the streamers at the top and the circle emblems.

Our attempt to make the entrance of our house look like a big top!  We used dollar store table clothes!

 Pinata from celebrate express!  I added the 3 in the door way.

I used the wheel pasta mixed with some animals shaped pasta I found at Cost Plus to make 3 ring macaroni salad 

Close up of the centerpieces

I used the drink cups i bought from celebrate express for actual peanuts!

Popcorn bags I found at Cost Plus too!

I bought gumballs and Animal crackers for the kids too! The favor boxes are from celebrate express.

Clown nose favors were so much fun! 

I can't wait to see how the new rainbow version comes out! 

UPDATE: While I wait for additional pictures from the rainbow circus, here is a sneak peek! It was amazing!

Matty's Seusstacular 5th birthday!

I have been planning this party for my little guy for months!!!  I was literally ob-seussed! Back in February or March when it was reading across america month, I literally cleared the shelves at Michael's and anywhere else that had Seuss products! I was so happy when the big day arrived at it all came together perfectly!  These are the invites I obsessed over (obviously I editted out my personal info):

And the wreath from the previous tutorial!  Yes, I ended up adding the seuss stickers after all!  Our guests gushed over it and now I am absolutely addicted to wreaths!  Clearly i have an addictive personality! ;)

My Birthday boy The Matt in the Hat!  I made his shirt the night before and it came out so cute!

 I used my old falling apart copy of the cat in the hat for a banner!  It gave his life for a good cause and looked amazing!

Matty's favorite Seuss book is Hop on Pop.  it was the first he could read cover to cover and his absolute favorite part is the fish in a tree so we took 2 foam poster boards and made a huge exagerated version!  You can't see but, yes there were paper fish in the tree!

We made the cake from the cat in the hat!  It actually baked perfectly and it was a shape to have to make it lopsided but how cute is this! 

The centerpieces I upcycled from Matty's circus party.  They were plastic popcorn holders.  I covered the word popcorn with ribbon and stickers and filled it with seuss pinwheels.

I bought red favor bags from the dollar store and Matty added stripes to them to seuss them a bit! I bought a bunch of seuss craft sets to keep the kiddies busy but they never even touched them!  They were having too much fun!

Thing 1 and 2 cupcakes!  It was 102 degrees this day and the "hair" lasted about 10 minutes maybe.  They melted so fast!  Cute while it lasted though!

The snack table!  Always a huge hit!  I had 1 fish, 2 fish, red fish, GOLDFISH, chocolate pretzel green eggs and ham...

Dipped marshmallow "truffulla tree-ts"

Hop on Pop-corn, and caramel yertle the turtles!

 The backyard all decked out!  The hubby took the week before off just to help me make all of Matty's favorite characters and all the truffula trees! 

 The wind didn't let the centerpieces stay up but it was still super cute!

 Pink ink drink (Pink lemonaid)  I also had blue beezelnut splash but didn't catch a pic of it!

 My baby Andrew and his girlfriend made the perfect things 1 and 2!  Yes, I made the shirts! :)

Banner!

 Matty's pinata I ordered from www.celebrateexpress.com

 The things sharing a snack!

His water bottle labels.  I forgot to take a picture of the tub full of them so I had to gather the few left!

Trees!

Pasta salad in the perfect bowl I snatched from my friends 4th of July party!

I didn't get a good picture but at the entrance, I had a copy of Dr. Seuss' Happy birthday to you book with a special insert with a poem my older son wrote and a picture of Matty.  I had everyone sign it for him to keep from his special day!  They used a pink feathery horton pen of course! ;)