Dr. Seuss Birthday Party

B's 5th Birthday...Dr. Seuss Style



The invitation

The Cat in the Hat greeted the guests as they arrived

The birthday girl with her WHO hairdo

Seuss Style Banner

We turned one of the rooms into "Whooville" with pictures of the Grinch, Christmas lights and a Christmas tree.

The Menu:
{Snacks with Brown and Black} PB&J and Apples
{Red Fish * Blue Fish} Red and Blue Jello Jigglers
{Green Eggs & Ham} Rolled ham and Green Deviled Eggs
{Schlottz Knots}
{Poodles with Noodles} Pasta Salad

{Pink Ink Drink} Strawberry Milk

My Amazing Who Helpers


Dessert Table

{Horton Cupcakes} Vanilla Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
{Fish Cookies} Sugar Cookies with Fondant Icing and a little goldfish
{Yertle the Turtle Cookies} Chocolate Dipped Pecan Cookies
{Thing One Thing Two Cupcakes} Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Cotton Candy Toppers

Candy Bar

Goody Bags. Bought these from the $$ Store and added my own labels to them


Party Favors

I found cute flower pots at Tai Pan Trading after Valentines day {clearance!!}. I put a bag of dirt with some seeds inside and attached a poem from the Lorax. So each little girl took home a "Truffula Tree"



I bought some red fish, blue fish soaps from THIS etsy shop and added my own labels






Me & the Birthday Girl

The games were the easiest to plan...but I think the kid's favorite part!

We played pin the heart on the grinch
Thing 1 Thing 2 relay race
Cat in the Hat May I?
Horton, Horton, WHO! {instead of duck duck goose}
Truffula Fruit Bean Bag Toss
Make Horton Fly {then we let the kids play under the sheet}

Such a fun party for a fun little girl!!

Party Supplies {on a budget}

My twins are turning 4 in two weeks!! My babies are surly not babies any more :(. I asked them what kind of party they wanted. Well I ACTUALLY asked them if they wanted a dolly and me party. Nope...PRINCESS! I asked them if they wanted a jungle party, a monkey party, a ladybug party, a butterfly party. Nope... PRINCESS! {I don't know...I'm just SO over princess. But I really wanted them to be involved in the party}. Luckily my last ditch effort to stear them away from princess I asked them if they wanted a Pinkalicious Party. YES!!!!

Pinkalicious of course is based on this adorable book. I honestly think they just liked it because it was going to be a PINK party...their favorite color.

I have a pretty tight budget for this party so I'll be making everything and trying to use things that I already have.

One thing that can totally add up are party supplies...plates, cups, napkins etc. I priced them out at Target and Zurchers {local party store} and for my small party {12 kids} it would have cost about $16 just for the cute plates, napkins and cups.

At my dollar store however I could get the same amount of plates, napkins and cups for $6. So I did. But they are so plain...so boring...so vanilla!

Enter streamer ruffles!!! I saw this tutorial at My Paper Crane and decided to spruce up my $$ tableware with ruffles!

Since I'm going to be making a TON of ruffles for this party I bought the honkin rolls at the party store for $1.68 each.

For the plates I stacked the two pinks on top of each other and cut them in half.

To ruffle just sew a line down the center of the streamer and squish it under as you go.

Grab some hot glue and glue the ruffle around your plate and voila...ruffle plates. My little 4 year olds gasped with glee when they saw me making them. "So pretty mama!"...love my little ones.

Same thing for the cups except I didn't cut the streamer in half

While I was at it I had a silver cup that was holding scissors in my sewing room. A little hot glue...a little ruffles and I like it a lot better!

Stay tuned for more party supplies {on a budget}

Linking up to:
The Thrifty Home * Sew Much Ado * Blue Cricket Design * Seven Thirty Three
Someday Crafts

No Sew Rosette Headband Tutorial

{EASY PEASY}
No Sew Rossette Headband Tutorial

I've been having so much fun making these headbands for my girls {and friends}. They are so cute and cost less than $1 to make. Can't beat that!!

{Supplies}

* Fabric. You can use cotton, silk, fake silk, satin...really anything that you can tear long strips. Rip 1 1/2" strips by snipping at one end and then ripping down the other. Make sure you go selvage to selvage {those are the finished edges of the fabric}

* Headbands...I get 4 for $1 at the $$ store

*Ribbon

*Hot Glue Gun

*Fray Check {can be found at your local craft store}

{Step One}
Start at one end of your strip. Dab some hot glue in the center of the end and fold it into thirds

{Step Two}
Roll the little end of your fabric {now 1/2 wide}. Twist the fabric and begin to wrap it around your center...adding hot glue as you go. {tip...make sure your hot glue is put toward the bottom so that you won't be able to see it on the top of your rosette}

Keep twisting your fabric and gluing as you go. I like to twist it so you can see the fray and the print side of the fabric. Twist the fabric tighter or looser for a different look.

{Step 3}

Once you have the rosette the size you want, wrap the rest of the fabric around the back side and hot glue the tail. Snip off any excess fabric.

You can make any combo you want...one large one, three small ones, one big and two small. Twist and glue to your heart's desire.

{Step Four}
When you are finished making your rosettes...get a piece of felt and hot glue your rosettes to the felt. Then trim around the felt. You want it to hide underneath your rosettes.

{Step 5}
Since I buy $$ store headbands, I wrap them in grossgrain ribbon. Start at the bottom and add a little hot glue at a time to the TOP of the headband. Glue and wrap, glue and wrap.

Since I only had thick ribbon, I cut off an inch or so for the bottom of the headband. I glued the ribbon in half so the width would match the width of the headband. Finish the edges with fray check and glue to the bottom of the headband. This will cover the bottom edges of the headband.

{Step Six}
Sorry no picture! To attach the rosette to the headband, cut another piece of felt the same size/shape as the one of the back of your rosette. Hot glue the rosette to the headband and on the bottom side of the headband, glue the felt to the felt on the bottom side of the rosette. You could just glue the rosette to the headband, but if you add the felt, it gives it extra stability and it should last longer.

{Step Seven}

Enjoy the smiles you'll get from a happy little girl!!

Big Sister, Little Sister Apron Knot Dress

{my cute model}

Birthday's always inspire me to sew. My friend Ashley's little girls just turned 1 and 3 so I made little Apron Knot Dresses. Love these dresses...perfect for spring.


Dress for Big Sister








Dress for Little Sister

Love Bird Bridal Shower

I had the fun opportunity to throw my sister a bridal shower. I am so excited for her to get married in a few weeks! We stuck with her wedding colors since we already had lots of fabric in her colors...and since I might have a small obsession with birds I picked a "love bird" theme.

On the menu...Tortolini in a creme sauce, Caprese Bites, Garlic Bread Knots and Berry Pine Nut Salad

Clearance vase from Roberts + Rocks from the $$ store + Wheat Grass + Birdies found here = cute love birdie table topper!

What fun girls to plan a shower with!!

Canvas wall hangings...so easy! 4 Canvas {found mine at Walmart}. Cut out fabric, enought to cover the front and wrap around. Staple gun the fabric to the back of the canvas. Cut out coordinating fabric in the design you want. I used a stencil for the letters and used this template {printed 2 on a page so I got the size I needed}. Then just add mod podge to the front of the canvas, add your picture/letter and mod podge the front. I love how they turned out and since these are the colors she is also using in her home the also turn out to be a fun gift for the bride to be!

This is one of the funniest games I've ever seen at a shower {the maid of honor came up with this} and so perfect for my silly sister. So to "prepare" the bride for any challenges that may come up in the future, we blind folded her because the "lights went out on her honeymoon and she had to get ready to go see her husband...in the dark". We put a ton of silly items {including this awesome moo moo} in a suitcase and Steph put them all on. And we just all laughed...it was hillarious. But that is why I love my sister...she is so silly and has such a fun sense of humor.

For dessert we had a Ice Cream Sundae bar.

This was totally inspired by EatDrinkChic.

I made my own labels because her colors didn't match but I love how she put links to the fonts she used and I basically just copied her concept. {don't compare mine...her's is still soooo much better...but it was so fun...and yummy!}

My amazing dad made waffle bowls from scratch {42 of them to be exact!} And they were yum!

So happy for my sister. She is such a kind and thoughtful girl. So happy to celebrate her!

Santa's Workshop

Well, something happens this time of year...my office becomes a sweatshop. Every January I think that I'll get these gifts done throughout the year. Uh...nope. The procrastinator in me would just not like that. So when I realized that I had to get all of my gifts done by Wednesday...yeah I finally decided to get to work. 1 family done...1 more family to go.

And it isn't actually that I haven't been sewing. I just haven't been blogging...or sewing for Christmas! But here are a few things I've been working on these last few days...

This is Molly. Isn't she cute...my girls sure think so. I keep having to hide her because they Looooove this soft little monkey!

Some kimono style jammy/lounge outfit. I used Amy Butler's pattern from her "Little Stitches" book. At least the top.

Confession: These were the first pants I made. I haven't had a baby for a while...but they just looked like they might not be that comfortable. I guess I need a little practice putting pants together!