Category Archives: Creative themes

Bunny Party

25th June 2021

My new favorite, fast, easy, and cheap invitation hack is to take a picture and use Word Swag or a similar app to add text! I edited this picture and got my “invites” within an hour from Walgreens photo department for a cool 2.50!

So, we just moved into our house 3-4 months ago and we are renovating the whole thing so it’s not near done, but here’s the tablescape in a half done room.

Thirty minutes before the party, my little girl said, “Remember when you did Godzilla footprints for Crosby’s Godzilla party? We should do bunny feet for my party.” I free handed some prints, laminated them, and had them out for the party in 20 minutes. I am so weird. Don’t ask me how I attached them to the floor because when I say hot glue, you might judge me.

Dollar store cups, one dollar bag of cotton balls, and clearance Easter crazy straws equals, heck yes.

Both the plates and napkins came from TJ Maxx on Easter clearance. The plates are Meri Meri brand and if you haven’t seen their stuff, you should totally check them out!

For cupcake toppers, I ordered swirly bunny suckers from Amazon. They were actually pretty yummy and perfect for the party!

The best thing about having a bunny party, is that you can use some of your Easter decorations! I hung up this carrot garland and patted myself on the back for buying it 4 years ago. I knew we had something special between us when I saw it.

You’re only cool if you wear a bunny dress to your bunny party.

I found these rabbit candy dispensers at Easter and bought the only ones they had left. Dang, it wasn’t enough. Luckily, Mighty Dollar came through with these little glass jars for a dollar each and I just spray painted the lid. I bought bags of Double Bubble gumballs from the Dollar Tree and filled em’ up. Someone thrust their hips three times.

Home girl wanted straight-up box mix cupcakes for her party. What the bday girl wants, she gets. Hey, it’s super cheap so, good job kid. I didn’t have enough suckers for the extra ones so, mind your own business.

For a take home party favor, I used Dollar Tree tin pails wrapped in twine and the annual 10 for 10 succulent sale at Kroger to make individual bunny gardens. You don’t have to water succulents but randomly so I felt like parents would have no pressure from the kids to keep them alive.

I bought little bunny figures and mushrooms from Amazon, and little glass beads from Hobby Lobby. It was fast, easy, and not candy so yay!

Crappy quality picture. Cute kids.

No bunny party is complete without actual bunnies so one of our rabbits made an appearance for the masses. Ladies and gentleman, Kinder (like Kinder Egg), the bunny.

(Before someone sends me a message about trancing a rabbit, he isn’t tranced! He eats like this, lays on the couch like this, purrs and honks, when we hold him like this. I know not all rabbits do this, like this, or can do this. Peace and blessings.)

I hope you got some ideas for a simple and affordable bunny party! Let’s hear it for floppity loppities!

Starbucks Theme Birthday Party

3rd July 2020

This was my first attempt at a balloon garland. Other than when I got dizzy, saw stars, and had to sit down from blowing them up so quickly, t’was good. You can buy balloon garland strips at Hobby Lobby or on Amazon for under 5 dollars. You just blow up your balloons and they pop into the garland strip securely.

I wanted big old Frappucinos down the table and made these guys super easily. The cups are one dollar silver plastic ice buckets from Dollar General that I spray painted white. The brown balloons came in a one dollar pack from there as well and the stuffing “whip cream” came in a 3 dollar bag from Hobby Lobby. The drizzle is fo’ shizzle puff paint. I’m sure you have figured out that the straws are spray painted toilet paper rolls. WRONG! I made those from wrapping paper rolls all cut up. Tricky, tricky.

This is the cake that I made from all store bought things, including the cakes themselves, and the icing! The logo is edible and I ordered that off of Etsy from GlamourGlove and was very pleased! She is offering a discount code for you guys too so you can choose from many options an edible cake/cupcake image for your next party! Just use code BLOGTOPPER10 at checkout! Thanks, GlamourGlove!

You already know I made a coffee filter garland.

Everybody got to order any Starbucks drink of their choice and I had my hubs pick-up and deliver them to the par-tay.

These little bags were cute, but plain on my simple table set-up, so I had to spice them up a bit. I bought Happy Birthday bottle label from Hobby Lobby to put on each bag and then used Starbucks straws and tissue paper to make them look drink-ish. The tissue paper is supposed to be the whip. Work with me here.

I put Starbucks/party themed gumballs in mini frap cups to send home in said bags with each kid. It was a cheap thrill and cute little detail. The main favors are below.

Aw yeah, boyzzzzzz! I ordered these Starbucks scrunchies from A Stitch Ahead Bowtique on Etsy. The shop is owned by a 10 year old little girl, which is cool, and the fabric and work was really good quality. The girls loved them! The only way to get a Starbucks scrunchy is to have them made so they were unique too. Bonus points…..

To say that I loved this take home craft, would be a drastic understatement. But first, I must tell you how I packaged it.

I’m a sucker for clear boxes. I bought a digital file on Etsy of Starbucks labels that I had customized to say DIY Frappucino. I printed them out at Staples, my jam, and hot glued them on. Inside I added paper shred, which you can by from dollar stores, and added in all the supplies needed to make a mini frap for each girl. Yessssss!

Oh my gosh…..using silicone, glue sticks, puff paint, communion cups, ornament halves for the lids, toothpicks, glass beads, mini Starbucks logos I printed off Pinterest, and Starbucks straws, you can make American Girl sized Starbucks frappucinos!!! I can’t. I love them. I made 3 for myself. That’s not a lie either, lol. I made a cool time lapse video of me making one that will be on my herpartypants Instagram account. Totally Rudy on YouTube has a whole channel of mini doll accessory DIYs, including these little drinks.

I will probably do a post on making these mini drinks, because I think everyone should make them at least once in their…..week. Weekly. They are the best.

They got to take home their creations in the little clear boxes I had at each place setting that originally held their supplies.

And a merry Starbucks time was had by all! Pin, share, and enjoy! Hope you liked it!

OBGYN Retirement Party

3rd March 2020

How is this old general store for a piece of Americana?! My Jersey born and raised OBGYN just retired and I was asked to do her retirement party! I know she won’t always live here in KY so I wanted to give her a solid and unique Kentucky party to remember all of her years here by. Meet Boyce General Store! Boyce Store is a running restaurant out in the county that is run by The Pie Queen. She has her pies in some Whole Foods locations and ships all over the nation! She gets the name honest and you should check her out. I literally….literally….ate one whole pie by myself the day after. Sad times. Great pie.

I came up with this wording two years ago when I was first asked to do this retirement party. The wording never gets old. Go-vary….the phrase of the future for all of your reproductive party needs.

These AMAZING truly vintage tablecloths are owned by the Boyce Store and can be used at your event. This store basically decorates itself. There isn’t a more charming venue in town!

I had no idea that sunflowers were my doc’s favorite flower. I just took a guess. Something about the way she gives a pap smears made me think, “Sunflowers. This woman loves sunflowers.”

I added latex gloves because every medical party needs blown up gloves! I first used blown up latex gloves at my daughter’s type 1 diagnosis anniversary, also known as a diaversary!

Those little tiny purple flowers are called wax flower and I love them around a pie and back.

FUN FACT ALERT: The square cake stand to the right was literally Duncan Hines’ cake stand!

We had a mix of homemade pies served with coffee and lemon and lime water. Chess, pecan, derby, brownie, chocolate silk, coconut cream pie, we had them all! They were yummy in my tummy.

“A Sweet Ending” over the pie table and “To A New Beginning” over the drink and scrapbook table. Swoon.

And the ovary puns just don’t stop……

In my hometown there is a bakery that has been here since the 40’s. Their most popular item are their famous tea cookies and they just so happen to be my OB’s favorite. These were supplied by a patient and co-worker who, like all of us, loves her dearly.

I hired a friend of mine to use her machine to cut these Kentucky shapes out of scrapbook paper for me. Also by hired, I mean for free.

I have something cool I’m doing with these now post-party that I will share in a different post.

I created a Facebook group and requested people send me pictures so that I could hang them up at her party.

These pill bottles make my heart soar on the wings of a hundred doves. These were grab and go favors and filled with those little tea cookies I talked about above.

The labels I customized on Etsy from the shop Bsquared and printed them at Staples where I do all of my party printing.

There are very few doctors on planet earth who have patients who love them enough to host a party for them. This woman is one of the finest doctors to practice medicine. She served us all with as much expertise as she did time and empathy. She comforted us through infertility, through loss, and through the magic of delivering our children. Dr. Kasica deserves a hundred parties for every late night call, 2 .am. delivery, thoughtful question, and for every treat she kept for my children and other’s in her office. Twenty five wonderful years of a career and dear lady we got to call our doctor. We love you, Dr, Kasica! Thank you for caring for and loving us well all of these years!

Series of Unfortunate Events Party

28th April 2019

I always appreciate when my kids want an uncommon theme naturally so I don’t have to force any creativity upon them, lol. It may be an obscure theme and if you haven’t watched the show or read the books, you may not know what everything is or why I did what I did so thank heavens above, you can read my comments on the pictures! I tend to do parties that you can’t buy any party supplies for so I have to really flex the creative muscles, which I love! I hope you enjoy this very unfortunate party.

One of THE BEST resources for your party’s customized goods is Zazzle! I make custom stickers and shirts, like this one, alllll of the time for parties. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are three of the main characters and my girl’s favorite. I saw a shirt similar to this on-line for around 28 dollars. Nope, pass. I used the Word Swag app to make the wording on a transparent background and then uploaded the image to a custom shirt on Zazzle. I made this shirt for 15 bucks, shipped and all.

Ahhhh, cake sniffer. It’s weird and I love it. It’s a name that a little rich spunky character calls the Baudelaire kid’s in one of the episodes and one many lovers of the show remember! I bought a blank garland and stickers from Hobby Lobby to make this banner.

I decorated the kitchen table with the books and these little toadstool mushrooms. I learned this year that these mushrooms that are in all of the cute fairy tales are actually very poisonous! In Series of Unfortunate Events, there is a deadly mushroom called Medusoid Mycelium. These red poisonous mushroom represent the toxic make-believe mushroom from the show!

While we are on it, I bought stamps and made my own napkins because, if they don’t sell it or you can’t find it, you have to DIY! I bought a round larger frame stamp and then the seperate toadstool stamp. Make sure to buy the good stamping ink: waterproof, smear resistant! I used this one. You don’t want a bunch of people wiping ink on to their mouths and hands! I use the right ink and I’ve never had a problem.

This set up it missing 4 amazing little white ceramic houses from Target’s one spot with orange and red paper flames coming out of the windows and chimneys. It’s from the show and ties in many ways, and it went awesome with the set up and color scheme, but, it ain’t in these pics, y’all.

I LOVED this part of the party and couldn’t wait for my daughter to see it! The theme song shows a board just like this where they link the characters to count Olaf with yarn as the show plays. I printed pictures of each of our party guests and the birthday girl and made a clue board just like the opener. I just used a foam board wrapped in newspaper that I taped down and the rest is obvious!

Lachrymose Leeches! There are two people that die in the series because of the Lachrymose Leeches so I made these gummies one of their movie snacks. To make these food labels, I googled the leeches from the show on an image search and found this picture. I took this picture and uploaded it into Zazzle and made custom stickers. HOWEVER, I didn’t get them on time so I took a screenshot of the stickers I made and printed them out like 4 by 6 photos and then hand-cut them out and taped them to toothpicks. The show must go on.

I printed a Lemony Snicket quote from an image search and put it in this cute Ikea frame. It was perfect all around, homies.

The whole series of Series of Unfortunate Events centers around the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf trying to “adopt” the children to gain access to their fortune. I made these little labels the same way I made the leech labels and hot glued them on. I bought plain white dessert cups from Hobby Lobby like these here and filled them chocolate coins, a million dollar chocolate bar and a ring pop. This, and the leeches, were their movie snacks and, of course, we watched the show as well!

Okay, so these are happy little sunshine cookies with bows….and fangs. There is a character named Sunny and she is a little baby girl with some sharp old teeth. Get it…sunshine…Sunny…..

I don’t know why I didn’t order an actual baby face with fangs, but these were super cute and delish! Mackin’ Made nailed the picture I sent her exactly and just added in a nice set of fangs on each one.

“Look Away” is the title of the theme song and I don’t want to throw anyone for any loops, but I also made theses custom stickers myself on Zazzle with the help of the Word Swag app. You are welcome for that awesome hack!

Zazzle + Word Swag= Party Dreams

Admittedly, this cute turned out, how you say, super ugly. I drew a diagram and color coded it. I use to make cakes and I draw fairly well so it was specific. Usually I love this bakery, but they are in the middle of the move and well, this cake. Let me explain it though. The aforementioned Medusoid Mycelium is a deadly mushroom that has a few cures in the book and one of these cures is the sugar bowl. The cake IS designed to look just like the sugar bowl and the top of the cake is the spy glass symbol for the VFD. I’ve been pretty committed to explaining most things in the post but it’s getting late so you will just have to google VFD if the suspense is killing you.

The top of the cake reads “Happy Unfortunate Birthday” which is similar to the wording on her invites.

This is not a fancy OR complete table for that matter, however, I wanted to show the black viper snake silhouette I made on the kitchen island. The viper is significant in several episodes so I pictured this for a table and simply cut it out of a black poster board.

Hope you like this unfortunate party for 13 rowdy 8 and 9 year olds!

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Mall Birthday Party

22nd April 2019

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This year I wanted to channel my creativity to the location and type of party versus all the detailed set up and, let me just say, I loved this party! Of all of the birthday parties that I have thrown, this mall party has to be one of the most low stress, fun, simple and affordable party of them all! Many of the girls that came to my girl’s party said that they wanted their next party to be at the mall so I think that’s what we call success!

The venue is free and the fun is built in and very inexpensive. You will love having a mall party as a parent and your child will LOVE it just as much, or more, than you!

Read on to see what all we did, how much we paid for the whole she’bang, where I bought some of the details, or how I made some of what you see here!

Buy these cute credit card invites from DigiDoodling on Etsy to edit and print at home for only $5.35!

The invites were cute as is, BUT I really wanted them to be even more realistic so I bought these self- laminating sheets made for credit card sized cards! I had my daughter sign the backs of the cards before sealing them and they were so easy to use! I trimmed the edges down to eliminate too much overhang and they were really stinkin’ cute! You can find them on Amazon here.

I have to throw in the shirt detail. I always find a cheap and easy way to make my kids a custom birthday shirt. I grabbed a glitter flecked Cat and Jack shirt from Target on sale for 5 dollars and a rhinestone iron-on number from Hobby Lobby for 2 bucks and some change and bingo! So easy, so cheap and she really thought it was special! I thought the glitter was good for a girly-girl type of party like this one, too.

We started things off with the good ole’ carousel! For 15 dollars, 8 kids could take a ride AND I earned a free ride at a later date because the 8 riders filled up one punch card to get a free ride next time!

We hit up Claire’s and I took advantage of the buy 3, get 3 free deal. For 34 dollars, I got 7 packs (added one extra) of jewelry that the girls helped pick out and every girl got one bracelet, one choker necklace and one ring of their choice! We were left with jewelry to spare!

For barely over 20 bucks, each girl picked out a jar at Candy Craze and filled them to the top! The price included the jars plus candy.

I gave the girls a choice between Candy Craze and the Spider Jump! Three of these little ladies wanted to jump so for 21 dollars, we had 3 jumpers.

The play center at the mall is free, of course, so yay! Even though this picture doesn’t end the post, it’s how we ended the party and the parents came and picked up their children from there. I set up our table right next to the play place to make it easy.

These little sequin coin purses are available on Amazon as well as the half pound bag of chocolate coins that I put in each purse. I tried to make them like real purses with “money” and Lip Smackers. Even though some girls had candy jars and all of the guests got jewelry from Claire’s, I still wanted them all to take home a little something extra and that’s where these guys came in. I bought a 7 pack for $7.39! Find them here.

These perfect little plates are awesome for a mall party, slumber party, spa party, etc. I bought them from Mighty Dollar, my favorite dollar store! I always get my throw away tablecloths from dollar stores as well.

One of my favorite ideas that I do for cupcake toppers is using pictures of people or, in this case, logos! I simple screenshot the images and then printed them like regular photos at my local Walgreens and cut them out at home! Tape them on toothpicks and, you done girl!!!

How cute are these receipt thank yous?! You can buy the template on Etsy from SIMONEmadeit for just $2.50 and edit and print them yourself at home! I like to take pictures of my party girl with each guest during gift time and mail the them as thank yous! This year they included these receipts. LOVE!

THIS ENTIRE PARTY and everything in it from plates, invites, food, activities, EVERYTHING was 153! You can’t even rent a party location for that and that is without any food, favors, activities, food, party goods, invites….just the rental, if you are lucky, will be 150!

Pin, share and enjoy and by all means, HAVE A MALL PARTY!

Creative Space Party Ideas

18th February 2019

I love this theme, but I ain’t gonna talk to you about it. We all know we all just come to these posts for pics and not commentary! I could type paragraphs here about how cats love bananas or how I ate a kangaroo for dinner. No one would ever know. So with that, I bring you awesome ideas and the sources of the awesomer people who created these things!

Pin, share, enjoy and follow me! Love you guys, you little ballers.

Source: LohantanLettering on Etsy

Galaxy Confetti by Two Little Cupcakes

Source: But First, Party

Source Lenzo via Feted Events

Source: And We Play

Source: Infinity and Beyond Party by Studio DIY

Source: Jack’s Party from Sara Westbrook Photography

Source: Oh, Sugar! Events

Source: Galaxy Jello and Sprinkle mix by Bakingdom

Source: Sugar Hero

Source: BlockMerch on Etsy

Source: I Want Candy

Source: Love You To The Moon and Back Party Printables from ThePartiesThatPop on Etsy

Chocolate Party

4th June 2018

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Soooooo it was a chocolate party this year for my sweet newly 4 year old! Last year, she had a ketchup and french fry party and wanted to play it close to the food game again with a chocolate party. I figured this party had been done a thousand times and every where on Pinterest and strangely, naw girl. Take a gander of this party! Hopefully it will inspire someone else who fancies chocolate as much as my girl does. (Like me….for example.)

I borrowed tons of things and got a load of stuff from the dollar store! You can rock this party, or any of it’s details, on a budget!

“Real food” hot fudge slime was the prize from a scratch-off game the kids played! Looks like hot fudge, smells like hot fudge, packaged like hot fudge but it’s not. I bought cute clear favor boxes, filled them with chocolate brown paper shred and my favorite…made bows from Hershey wrappers! I sliced the back seam of a chocolate bar off, removed the chocolate, (ate it…both of them…none of your business), and tied the center with some small white rope trim. Holler if you hear me.

I bought these scratch off game cards from Target in the one spot aisle months ago. I didn’t have a purpose for them yet, but homie, I was about to find a way. I bought a brown sharpie and added chocolate topping and sprinkles to take it from an ice cream party to a chocolate themed party treat. Easy, cheap, cute and, again, did I say easy?

I love to customize invites and typically, I look to Etsy but I just couldn’t find anything I was crazy about. Zazzle is another great site to make or customize anything under the sun and I found these precious invites there! I got them on a site wide sell for 40 percent off so yeah, I was super happy!

Alert the media! I made these cupcake toppers last minute by just jabbing candy with a toothpick or plopping a chocolate covered pretzel on top of the yummy marshmallow frosting. How cute did they turn out????!!!!

One of my first “visions” for this party was creating drip tablecloths. I bought brown, round tablecloths and cut the drips into the cloths AFTER I put them on. I would estimate that each table took me 10 to 15 minutes. Not too bad and was PERFECT for the theme. As always, these are just dollar store tablecloths. Can’t beat it. I’m trying to be creative, not Martha lol.

I purchased a jumbo paper craft 4 from Hobby Lobby, painted it and used fine glitter and glue to cover it in “chocolate”. Supercalafragalisticexpealldohshish.

Etsy did pull through major on these party favor boxes! These came from Paper Glitter on Etsy. If you want to get some for yourself, just click on their name and I linked it there! I printed them off at a family member’s office and purchased the whole file with several different type of drink box favor files for only 5 bucks! I folded each of them to construct them and wasn’t as tedious as you would think. I hot glued them all together to hold their form because hot glue is the gift from the heavens of crafts. You can totally use double-sided tape though.

Each box had a few chocolates and these dollar store chocolate scented and flavored chapsticks. When I found theses guys, I was so excited and bought 11! The boy favor boxes had chocolate drizzled characters that you squeeze and their eyes pop out because, you know, boys.

We had to have chocolate milk at this party, of course. I wish these were cheaper, but I just couldn’t pour milk from a gallon like some sort of party barbarian. I needed the cute cartons for decorations. #should’vegonetoSam’s

Mixing bowls, foil, ribbon and scrapbooking letter stickers = giant Hershey kiss decorations!

I should take this time to tell you that Mendel rhymes with spindle. You know, just in case you said MenDELL and a piece of me died inside.

Little plastic paint palettes make the world’s cutest tray for cupcake toppings! You can get a 12 pack for under 9 bucks! There was no cake at the party; just a stand and decorate your cupcake tables. My girl would decorate it, lick off the toppings and redecorate it. Work. the. system.

Hope you liked this chocolate goodness! Follow me on my social media accounts and on here for more ways to put on those party pants!

Lochness Monster Party: Her Party Pants Original

14th August 2017

I geeked out big time on this party with word play and details that doubled for my son’s birthday and the existence of Nessie. Rarely do I geek out…this was full on geek. I prefer ganster rap, but every blue moon, I get nerdy….

I loved doing this party, aka the first one I’ve ever done for a son! I did a little party for my friend’s son (Food Fight Party), but other than that, this is the only other boy shindig I’ve ever done.

I for real believe in the Lochness Monster, but don’t let that run you off. You have to at least believe in him for 5 seconds with me. Come on, it’s magical.

For those of you that don’t know, Lochness is a sea dinosaur that has been spotted hundreds of times over decades from Scottish locals around the Lochness Strait, to tourists, to images from Goggle Earth. It’s basically my favorite mystery.

Check this party out, buddy.

I drew these Lochness guys freehand on scrapbook paper while looking at shilouette images on-line. I was pretty proud of them, because even though I am somewhat artistic, the more life-like, the harder. And for an even sweeter detail? Read the caption on the picture below!

I wasn’t sure if anyone would say anything about me using a gold glitter banner for a boy’s birthday, but since my son can’t talk or have opinions….gold glitter it was! I had this custom made from Contagious Events on Etsy. The quality was great and I love the black and white baker’s twine it came with that the letters hung on. HIgh five team, Contagious Events.

I was super giddy at how the “so happy you exist” idea was perfect for a birthday and for believing in Lochness. I’m not gonna lie. I stole it from a greeting card. Good job, whoever you are who thought to put that on a card with a creature like this. You win today’s favorite person award!

If this cake doesn’t give you all the monster feels, than you must not have feels. I drew a detailed color diagram of the cake that I wanted for 3 reasons:

1- I am a past cake decorator and I have a specific vision for my cakes.

2- It’s the only way to almost guarantee you get what you want! I recommend drawing your orders if you can if it is a cake you are creating. If not, definitely bring a good picture of what you want.

3- I’m a dork about cakes. Here is one I made for my daughter’s 1st birthday party many moons ago. But let’s get back to Nessie…

This cake was made by Sweet Temptations, a local bakery in my hometown that I use for all of my cakes when I can’t muster the strength to make one…which is almost always.

The detail on the face was a million times above and beyond what I had hoped for. I drew the most simple Lochness head of all fondant times. I ADORED this little guy!

I deserted the “Happy Birthday” for “Love You A LOCH”….get it….wordplay….fun for days. And don’t miss the tail detail on the side of the cake there. LOVE!

These Target plates by Cheeky were perfect for my party because not only was the color scheme correct, it looked like waves/Nessie hump.

DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’

AND my favorite….

I NEVER LOOK GOOD IN PHOTOS

Ha ha, get it…people are always trying to get good pictures of him….

I found some Lochness stamps on Etsy at The Crafty Carvery . They were very fast and 3 cheers for them providing something unique! The Lochness was whimisical enough to add some childlikeness to this 1 year old birthday party.

Using waterproof inking pads, I stamped Nessie and each sentence individually. It actually doesn’t take that long and after I made my own napkins with stamps for the fiesta baby shower I just threw, it’s become a love of mine! Whenever you can, go custom! Keep it original!

In case you missed it above, and I can’t allow you to, “I never look good in photos” is what these high five napkins say.

I found this Lochness figure (Elasmaosaurus) on Amazon and made him appear to float in the chocolate milk for the kids. It looked like he was right at home in his lake water.

Somebody call the doctor! I’m going to have a stroke for these little favors I gave to the guests. I bought these little glass candy jars from Amazon and spray painted the lids to be color appropriate. It took less than 5 minutes to get them all coated and finished sooooooo that is pretty super. I purchased these stickers that I used on the side of the jars from my favorite custom, has anything you want site: Zazzle. This image is of the famous scam picture taken many moons ago that became famous. I know that because I’ll give you a hint about me and Lochness and it rhymes with…week. No, it’s not that I’m on fleek. But this party might be…

These super sweet jars hold 5 Hershey Kisses and the stickers on the bottoms with my son’s face, hold about all of my dreams! I found them at Silly Wise Kids on Etsy. This shop offers several face customizable party products. I thought it was an unexpected and fun little detail!

I simply cut the huge letters out of gold poster board that i laid vertical for extra height. If you aren’t too good at free-handing, and trust me, I didn’t want to freehand these, I have a stellar tip. Go with a pencil in hand to Hobby Lobby to purchase your poster board and while you are there, go get some of their huge wall letters and trace them on to your poster before you buy the poster. I meant to but I left my pencil, because something always goes wrong when I go on kid free errands. Truth.

The Nessie details I cut out of left over scrapbook paper from the Lochness famiy I made for the backdrop.

The kid’s table was sooooo much fun! A grass tablecloth underneath a blue flowing water tablecloth, which is just a plastic one I cut a bunch of curves into. This grass cloth here is really a heavy plastic lined printed one from Party City, but I really wanted a textured grass one like this one here on Amazon. It is technically a rug but thin enough to be on a table.

Last but definitely not least, I bought a Styrofoam cake dummy, cut it in half, and spray painted it to make look like humps coming out of the water. When this idea hit me, I couldn’t wait to find something to make the humps with and these cake rounds were perfect! I bought my cake dummy from Hobby Lobby, but you can buy one just like it here on Amazon for 9 bucks and some change.

I used plastic tablecloths to turn the adult tables into huge Scottish flags. Hip hip hooray!

If this balloon garland doesn’t change your life, nothing will. I don’t want to throw anyone for any curve balls here, but I had the colors customized and ordered it from Twigs and Twirls LLC on Etsy. In my heart, I hoped it never deflated, but in real life, my kids ripped it apart after the party and had a blast with it. I love this Etsy shop/site and I will use them again for a party source!

Since Lochness is all about sightings, I used the stamps I used for the napkins and stamped 45 of these critters and cut them out to hide around the room. Whoever gathered the most sightings, won a Target gift card!

“You’re my favorite Monster” so sweet for a 1st brithday! This is a tiny bag I stamped and stuffed for the prize for the Lochness sightings game.

Just like for my daughter’s Ketchup and French Fry Party and my oldest’s Diaversary party, I bought a custom party shirt for the person of honor which was this little man this time. I bought this shirt from Zazzle, one of my 2 favorite custom sites.

This just in: he’s been caught! I knew I was right.

Happy birthday my sweet boy!

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Food Fight Birthday Party by Her Party Pants

28th February 2017

All photo credits to Joel Ham Photography

Before I found out I was even pregnant, much-less with a BOY, I told my good friend and photographer for lots of stuff on my site, that I had the most fun party idea! Being a mom of 3 girls, I had never really dreamed in boy for parties, but the idea of a food fight party came to me and really got me pumped! We decided to do it for my friend’s son’s birthday and it was the perfect, affordable summer, boy-approved theme to date. All you need to achieve this is a water hose, clothes you can ruin, goggles, and some cheap throwing food!

I have a friend who can get perfectly good shirts for free that were considered slightly defective by the manufacturer, so I headed to him to get colorful over-size t-shirts that would be perfect for….destroying. Goggles are a necessity for a party like this to protect the eyes from flying who knows what. Each shirt was wrapped in, yes, dollar store goggles. Perfect to wear for the fight and perfect to toss when it’s done!

Hit up Aldi or any food discount store for cheap food fight weaponry. Boxed spaghetti, dry cereal, whipped cream, ketchup, mustard, rice, flour, chocolate sauce…the list goes on and on. A little goes a long way and you can get these things for next to nothing.

Before

Line them up on the hose line, set 2 table food stations on each side for each team, count em’ down and let them go!

You really can’t help but smile when you are launching spaghetti at your friend’s heads….

Birthday boy for the win!!!!!!

They had a blast and they were quite the food tossers.

Have every guest bring a change of clothes, line them up, hose them off, and toss the goggles and shirts. So simple. Believe it or not, they got really really clean from the hose off.

The messiest of them all won the 1st Place Mess Bucket full of silly string, slime, water bombs, water balloons, and candy because….kids love it. Here I used a paper popcorn bowl from the dollar store that I spray painted gold and embellished. All of the items inside the bucket are from the dollar store as well. Easy peasy and cheap!

I was going to make a crazy cake for this party but 2 things happened: I was 37 weeks pregnant with crippling insomina in one of the hottest summers of my life and 2: I saw this hamburger cake at Meijer for 12 stinkin’ dollars!!!! What is better than a hamburger cake for a food fight party? Unique AND cute! Just stop it already…. If you have a Meijer in your town, this is cake they have that you can order year round, even if it isn’t in the display case or cake book.

Other fun party details were a taco pinata and napkins that looked like pepperoni pizza. The tablecloths and plates were yellows and reds to match the hamburger cake. Let’s break for a cell phone picture from Target. Either pinata is cute, but I used the taco one since the cake was a burger. 15 bucks doesn’t get much cuter!

You can use any hodge-podge of food looking products for a food fight party! I had a few party details that didn’t get done for this one because of the aforementioned about to give birth and not sleeping. Another party, another time… Lacking from this post are invites and the container idea I had to package the candy from the taco pinata. Just pretend like you saw it and it was everything you had hoped for.

If you have a little grass, a good hose, a small budget, and an adventurous boy…or girl…. I highly recommend recreating this food fight party! Please pin, share and enjoy!!

Awesome Food Theme Parties For Kids

13th June 2016

Food parties are the best because you can get as quirky as you want! I dream of the day that my child wants a sushi party or peanut butter and jelly party…. Anything your child just LOVES, can turn into a party and food is no exception. Here are some cute food theme parties to get your wheels turning and don’t be afraid to diverge into weird or random foods! That’s where creativity starts! If you need help, ask me!!

Strawberry Theme Party