{Great Gatsby Party}

It was my birthday recently... {two months ago "recently"} One thing I love is the 1920's! So I figured it's my last year in my 20's let's go Great Gatsby style. So I took a little trip over to Pinterest to start my inspiration board. Since it was just a few friends over I wanted to keep it simple. However, "simple" always ends up being more stress. I just can't seem to have a stress free party. There's never enough time to get all my details hashed out before guest start arriving. I got simple decorations from Ross, Walmart, and Party City. I made the sparkly bottles out of recycled bottles and glitter spray paint. Overally it still worked out in the end... I might need to hire an assistant though.. I am now taking applications. 

menu

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Baked tortellini with marinara dipping sauce

mini veggie dips

pesto chicken and tomato kabobs 

pepperoni caprese bites

Sparkling cider

Strawberry pineapple shaker-upper

Mother Mocktail {Juice Blend}

 

{Pirates and Pixies} ... First blog post of the new year!

As it is now 2013 and My baby girl is officially 4 YEARS OLD now! I thought it was the perfect time to blog about her birthday party we had last month in California. Since we were going out there for vacation we decided to have an early birthday party for her since all her cousins are out there. All nine {soon to be 10} of them! I started planning this party since August or September. I wanted something that could be coed since she's got an even amount of girl/boy cousins. Since she's somewhat into Tinkerbell right now. I decided on a Pirate/Pixie party.. a little Fairy, a little Neverland Pirate-esque going on.

I made this Birthday sign from Martha Stewart :)

"Pixie Hollow"

Wings and Swords table after the kids got to it already

Purple Lemonade

The Spread yum

I got lot's of inspiration from Pinterest of course, a lot of great party blogs out there too. I just took my color scheme and went with it. I have to say though planning a party from another state is hard work and not everything turned out the way I had pictured in my mind unfortunately. I probably won't do that again haha! However, the kids had a blast and Riley loved it and that's all that matters right!?


Food: We got a couple of Riley's favorites. Pizza and french fries! I did individual servings of fries in cups with ketchup at the bottom that was a big hit. I wanted to have healthy foods besides the candy buffet and cupcakes. So we did a veggie platter, fruit and graham crackers with cookie dough dip and these super yummy skewers with tomato, mozzarella cheese. I wanted to make little candy acorns but we didn't have time so someone just put the little cookies out on a plate and we just had those.

Games: We had pin the treasure chest on the map that I got from the dollar tree. Thank you Dollar Tree!
As well as a treasure {scavenger hunt}
We had candy bars as the prizes.. {so much for the healthy part on that one...oops}
We also had face painting for the kids {some adults too}

I really wanted a mini candy buffet to go along with the wings and swords as favors. I got the candy from Ohnuts.com and they have really good prices for bulk candy.

 

That's it... Thanks to those who made it out we all had a blast with everyone! Hope you did too !