Star Wars Party

Daniel turned 6 and we had a Star Wars Party.
I'll just let these pictures speak for themselves...

American Girl Craft Party

Olivia and most of her friends have an American Girl doll. They love to dress them up and take them places. So, Olivia wanted to have her 9th birthday (oh my) be an American Girl party...we decided to throw in crafts for the dolls as well.

We did some "research" at two of our favorite stores....Michael's and Hobby Lobby. We came up with four crafts for the girls to make for their dolls...clay food, felt headbands, little bags and little treasure chests. Molly & Emily are modeling their new gifts for you.

We found the supplies for the clay food at Hobby Lobby. Olivia taught them each how to make a doughnut and a peanut butter cookie. We popped them in the oven to set while we went onto the next craft.

Felt headbands. We found a kit at Michael's in the American Girl section to make felt pins. Instead of making pins,we used the felt supplies with ponytail holders to create headbands for the dolls by layering the felt pieces. I do not have any pictures of this activity, as I was the only adult and was pretty busy gluing the creations together! As I was gluing, the girls "introduced" their dolls to each other, too cute!
Next, we stopped for lunch....peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, pimento cheese sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, chips & fruit.


Then it was on to decorating our totes for the dolls. We found this kit at Hobby Lobby and used a 40% off coupon! It came with one tote which we used for a trial run. We found additional tote sets at Hobby Lobby as well. We simply cut out all of the iron on pieces and let the girls arrange them on their tote bag. I ironed them on for the girls.


Our last activity was to decorate "treasure trunks" from the $1 bin at Michael's. The girls used Sharpies and jewels to decorate their boxes. Somehow I didn't get any pictures of the trunks...I wonder...

The whole time the girls were making things for their dolls, they were whispering. As the dolls were having their own little party close by.

After all the crafting, it was finally time for cake & ice cream. A sweet neighbor is making delicious and gorgeous cakes, so we ordered a strawberry one and left the design up to her imagination. It turned out better than we dreamed! Olivia was thrilled!

Each of the dolls also got a "cake". The girls took them home to have later. I put them in clear plastic cups for safe traveling.

When Olivia and I were shopping for the party, we picked up a pack of the American Girl crafting/scrapbooking paper for 50% off at Hobby Lobby. We used this pack for lots of things....party hats, place mats, napkin rings...for the dolls. For the girls, we made place mats, place cards and napkin rings. The colors and prints were great! We've got a ton left over for more crafts.

Happy Birthday, sweet Olivia! Thanks to all of her friends for making this a wonderful birthday!

Whipperberry

Night Owl Pajama Party

The 8th birthday party was a success! With all of the snow and sickness going around, Olivia had six wonderful little girls show up for the party. Daniel was safely out of the house at Nanny's, to spare him from all of the "girlyness"!

We searched and searched until we found an idea for the party. A Night Owl Pajama Party. I'm not quite ready for a "slumber party", so the girls were here from 7 - 9, which worked out great.

The girls were invited to come in their pajamas. We set up the table like a bed, which we saw over at Hostess with the Mostess.
They started out the night dancing for a little "Kidz Bop" music, then played some Minute 2 Win It games. The biggest hit was probably playing pick up a bean with a straw and carry it across the room to your bowl OR eating the oreos after playing "chocolate unicorn".

It was a good thing we had a snow day on Friday, cause the owl cake pops took me all day. Bakerella certainly makes it look easier than I did! If you haven't ever heard of cake pops, you must check out this site. Basically you take a cake and crumble it up, add a can of frosting and mix it all up. Then you make balls of cake and pop them in the freezer for awhile. The difficult part for me was getting the pop to stay on the sucker stick while I dipped it in the chocolate. Luckily, I got enough owls made for the girls to enjoy at the party. They were very yummy!

The decorations were obviously lots of owls. We made our owls for the invitations and decorations on the cricut with the "hoot n holler" cartridge.

I found some cute owl Valentine felt stickers at Michael's. I turned those into barrettes for the girls. We used those as decorations on a tree limb until the girls choose one to take home.

The other gift for the girls was a sleep mask. Olivia and I luckily found enough "Dream" masks in the dollar bins at Michael's as well! These were a hit and most of the girls wore these out of the door when they went home. (It was my intention to wear them out so they would be ready for bed when they got home!)

Olivia claims to not be a big fan of cake, so we picked out 4 varieties of ice cream for the girls to enjoy. Of course, no ice cream is complete without sprinkles!
We rounded out the evening with a little nail painting and then all of the girls piled on Olivia's bed for a snippet of a movie.


Aren't they all cute with their sleep masks on their heads?

It was a fun party! I certainly learned that it is very difficult to be both the party hostess and photographer. Hope you enjoyed!

and more owls...

We're getting closer to Olivia's 8th Birthday Party. She's invited some of the girls in her 2nd grade class and Brownies.

Ready for some more sneak peaks?

I See Owls...

Olivia's birthday is 2 short weeks away. We spent some time this weekend preparing. Here's a sneak peek...