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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!

Among Us Birthday Party

27th April 2021

Can I hear it for my daughter’s Target “dollar section” light up board?! I love it when you can use crap from your kid’s room at a party! It looked cute lit up at the party, but you can never see that in pics. Dang.

If you don’t know anything about the game Among Us, it’s sort of like clue but with astronaut guys in outer space. They say people are “sus” for suspicious so I had to use sus in the party because everyone needs a reason to say that.

The little acrylic guy on top was actually a remote controlled light with tons of settings. I used the color strobe setting so the lights were always flashing a different color. I have a clip of it working on my her party pants Instagram, but not on here because technology hates me. You can buy these lights on Amazon for 15 dollars. Click here to shop them.

I bought the cupcake toppers here on Etsy as a printable file for just $2.90! I printed them for under two dollars from Staples using their on-line print ordering services. I picked them up same day and cut them out at home and hot glued them to toothpicks. I don’t know how many times I have said this but, hot glue is the craft medium of the craft gods. I can make anything with felt and hot glue! Bet it!

Hobby Lobby astronaut vibe plates for the party win! I scattered some Crayola star confetti on the tables that I found in the clearance aisle of Meijer. Po’ pimpin’ dem budgets.

I mean, this is what I mean by my site being “realistic Pinterest”. It’s cute, but it’s not over the top. It says, “I like parties”, but also, “I didn’t hire a balloon artist and do a 100 dollar table-scape because this is real life and a two hour party and I don’t own a Fortune 500 company”.

You can buy all of these balloons as a set on Amazon here. Mylar balloons are great and you can deflate and reinflate them to use again! I have Party City fill up the Among Us character balloons and I added a 3 dollar balloon tail that I purchased from there also. Imma save dat tail, too. I have a whole big ole’ collection of things I keep from other parties that I love reusing later.

So, we are renovating our house, and the room pictured here was supposed to be done by the party. Good thing it wasn’t because it rained all day and we needed a safe zone to make these reverse tye-die shirt aka bleaching method. What can go wrong indoors with 10 kids with straight bleach in spray bottles with little ventilation? That’s right. Nothing.

I got some cheap packs of craft stars in different sizes to go with the whole galactic theme since Among Us is set in outer space. It was a cheap and age appropriate thing to do with pre-teens so yay us.

I stretched out dollar store plastic table cloths and labeled each child’s name on a strip of tape next to each shirt. They laid out their shirt design and got to spraying. It’s such a simple activity and I think they turned out really cool!

BEFORE

AFTER

To end the party, they all played Among Us in real life. My husband secretly picked two impostors and they roamed about the house figuring out who had “died” and who must’ve been the impostor “Among Us”.

This now concludes the two part series of “parties right after a move that are not as crazy as some parties I’ve done before”. I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay here at Her Party Pants today. Travel safely.

Candy Theme Party

25th April 2021

Everything you see in this party, except for the cake (which was dirt cheap) and the candy, was either free from a dumpster (true, read on), or 5 dollars or less. Most things seen in this post were three dollars or less. Come join me on a cavity fun filled adventure!

I talk about some of these individual decor pieces down below, but let me just talk about the rainbow swirl candies here. I bought a 3 dollar pack of dessert party plates from Target and wrapped them in cellophane to make 8 different rainbow striped treats that I used in different ways for this party. Some were taped to the wall….that’s right….taped….just directly on the wall because I hear packing tape is good for paint. The remaining ones I turned into a garland. Wee doggies.

There are the plates I made into a garland. I cut circles out of card-stock from an old garland to add between each plate. Put it on a ribbon and ya done!

TIP: Buy a solid color store bought cake and decorate it at home. This cake was a big size and only 15 dollars from Sam’s. I decorated this one with a sprinkle number topper from Hobby Lobby, candles from Five Below, and candy from the Dollar Tree! It was a twelve inch cake and all in cost me 22 bucks! This is an example of being a winner.

PSA: You can always hot glue anything. This includes large swirly suckers that you drop and break.

Might as well turn the homeschool chalkboard into something.

I know, I know, the balloon backdrop looks so small here. In reality, it was fine, Karen. Moving on, I hand cut a dollar store tablecloth into drips, which coordinated with her invitations that I bought on here on Etsy. If you’ve been around here a few years, you may remember the first time I came up with drip cloths for my third daughter’s chocolate themed birthday party. They are satisfying

I bought plain white paper boxes from Hobby Lobby and decorated them with large patterned letters in each child’s first initial. My daughter decorated each box with puffy sweets stickers.

Buckle up kitty cats because those swirly little fans are straight from a dumpster at Five Below. Yes sir! My mom dumpster dives in retail dumpsters and you wouldn’t believe what they throw out. She found these fans and other party supplies and I’ve kept them in a tote knowing I’d use them one day. Two hours before the party, I thought they would look like suckers on spray painted dowels, so that’s exactly what I did! I added ribbon and that, my friends, is how you turn dumpster finds into basically free party supplies!

The bigger suckers and the wrapped candies in the picture below is just one dollar pool noodles wrapped in athletic tape and sealed with cellophane. For the big suckers, I hot glued them on craft dowels I painted and for the individual candies, I just wrapped the rolled up noodle, and twisted up the ends of the cellophane and tied them tight to make them look like over-sized candies. The handing honeycomb ice creams were one dollar from the Dollar Tree for a two pack. Pimpin’. I hung them and opened them halfway and secured them to the balloon wall for a dimensional look.

They filled them nicely, bro.

So boat loads of candy can get expensive. We found the world’s cutest marshmallows from Walmart for 2 dollars a bag. They were just vanilla flavored marshmallows in cupcake shape with sprinkled sugar on them. They were so cute, cheap, and took up a bunch of space. I also used brownie bites from Sam’s Club that were manna from heaven! I’m not supposed to eat gluten, but I partookth.

Aw yeah, donkey butt, that is one of those cute glass jar gumball containers from the Target cheap zone that sold out super fast. I know a sell out when I see them so I bought one and I sprayed painted the red on the jar yellow to match the table. I bought many of these plastic display containers from Hobby Lobby and they were cracked so instead of 6-7 dollars, I got them for $1.50! When filled with candy, you couldn’t even tell and imma keep usin’ those bad boys until they fall apart or the good Lord comes back, one.

You are darn tootin’ that I used mini boxes of cereal! The mini box backs are cheap and cereal is truly the ultimate of trash foods. Everybody loves cereal AND they take up lots of space!

For the sucker display, Styrofoam can puzzlingly enough, be costly so I bought two circle discs of Styrofoam from the Dollar Tree, stacked them in this container, and stuck carnival suckers in them. It gave some variance to the look of the display and was cheaper than….something witty….cheaper than……I don’t know, Sarah.

Another big table filler: Cotton candy containers from Sam’s! It was really cheap, really. It’s way cheaper than buying smaller candies, like Skittles, that don’t take up much space.

I love coming up with neat ways to give a gift card and I made this large clear candy ball with an ornament and twisted and glued cellophane hot glued to each end. I got confetti from the Dollar Tree and cut it up to use as a filler. I mean, I love these like chocolate cake after midnight in my pajamas.This gift card was the prize for the ice card scratch off games. I found the scratch offs in the “dollar” aisle at Target a few years ago and bought a few packs to use at different parties. The ice creams went perfect with the theme. Here are the scratch-offs below. I love adding a gambling flair to elementary school parties. It just feels so right.

And the winner was…..Mrs. Emie!

I did this whole party for 12 kids for 100 bucks! That includes EVERYTHING! It was simple and fun. 5 stars. Highly recommend.

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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!

Flamingo Birthday Party

30th May 2019

Super small and simple Flamingo party that you can do with a quickness! A little dollar store, a little Target, a little Amazon…the triplets of easy and cute party planning. Here are a few details for all of you hoodlums out there.

Customized anything is the best thing in the universe. I customized this template on Zazzle that my 4 year old picked out. I ordered them in a tiny 3 by 5 size and they were cute and made the corners of my mouth move upward in a smiling position.

I don’t want to surprise anyone, but those cute mini lawn flamingos came from Target in the dollar spot, which is actually up to a 5 dollar spot. That is also where I found the cute metal cake stand a year or two back. The two lacey containers and the solid ceramic pot are from Ikea where I hope to be laid to rest one day.

Fishing line and balloons helped me finish her party reallll quick in the final 15 minutes. I taped a napkin on to the light pink ones for cheer and good measure.

The napkins are from Target and the plates you can get at Mighty Dollar and feel mighty about your one dollar plates. The runner is from Hobby Lobby and I’ve used it for 3 parties and counting: Disney Zombies, Series of Unfortunate Events birthday, and now, Flamingo party. It went back in the party trunk and lives to see another celebration.

You can buy these lights at a ton of places. This particular one is from Target, BUTTTTTT I got this Target light at Bargain Hunt for 2.50 so two fingers in the air if you’re a gangster.

These food picks came from Oriental Trading Company in packs of about 5 million. I scored each pack for a little over three bucks, one of each, and ripped the idea straight off of their site. They were too cute and I thought they went well with the neon light flamingo. You can also buy these same picks on Amazon. Click to find the flamingos here and the palm trees, here.

Holler if you hear me on these cups/favors from the dollar store. That’s right, one dollar. Don’t hate the player.

Inflatable drink floats used to serve ice cream. That’s it. I’m done. It’s my favorite. I’m sure everyone has seen these little floats in the Target cheap spot and I had to have them. I had to have 6 exactly, and then figure out how to use them at my child’s party. I bought clear pedestal dessert cups for another party and they so happened to fit perfectly in the drink holders! How fun is this, Sally?

You can pay 100 dollars a cup for Dippin’ Dots OR get this brand for 99 cents a cup from Kroger. I vote Kroger. I not only voted, I bought 9. This was another super fun unexpected birthday treat!

The balloons came in one pack from Amazon and the girl came from my womb.

Also, this decor is weak sauce but so is your mom.

Sand dig! I did this years back at my two oldest daughter’s 5th and 2nd Easter themed birthday. It’s an activity and a favor all in one. These favors are all Spritz from Target: glow in the dark ooze, flashing rings, and flamingo erasers that you can take apart. Actually, I lied. The erasers were from the Target bargain area. (I’m trying to see how many different things I can call that spot in one post.)

Each guest went home with the favors they dug from the sandbox, their Flamingo cups, and one of these pineapple doughnuts from Krispy Kreme! I tied the boxes with black and white baker’s twine and they were perfecto. It was so easy and perfect that they have these as one of their summer doughnuts! I thought, “Rebecca, the kids might think these are gross.” Then I thought, “These kids don’t know what’s good for a party.” Then I felt better about buying them because they were special in my party heart.

This cute watermelon/flamingo float/pineapple shirt is from Walmart, their Garanimals brand. Listen, Walmart has upped their game in the clothes department from kids to grown stinkin’ ups. Get it, Walmart. Thanks for all you do for affordable cotton materials.

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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!

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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!

Disney Zombies Party

8th May 2018

 

Disney Zombies movie has been a huge hit, but it’s so new, there is nothing available! While character and movies arent exactly my favorite themes….I figured I’d help someone out in my boat and share my ideas. Let’s start with my favorite part: cheerleader blow pop suckers! Play up the cheer theme side for easier DIYs. These suckers were little party favors and they are awesome! Get a bag of Blow Pops, pipe cleaners, ribbon, a bag of pompoms, and hot glue and gurllllll, you good!

 

For display, I got this super cheap cake pop stand from Hobby Lobby for less than 4 bucks.  They were a booger and a half to make stand up because they were top heavy so I ended up hot gluing them into the holes. Next time, I’ll buy a real deal cake pop stand because there are some awesome ones out there.

ALWAYS look on Etsy for hard to find theme items.  Disney Zombies is so new so there is next to nothing you can find in this theme.  Etsy never fails and pulled through with this edible cake image.  You can also customize it as well to add names etc.  I bought mine from funtoppers4cakes on Etsy.  It was less than 10 bucks all in and ANYONE can put these babies on.

This candleabra candle holder does something joyful to my eyeballs.  I purchased it on clearance a few years ago from Target and then was lucky enough to run across a few more for a dollar each on double clearance!  I love it because it is perfect for princess parties to tweens and teens.  It makes my heart sing.  Walmart has a cheaper version you can buy right now in their party aisle.

Again, Disney Zombies is heavy with the cheerleading deets so anything cheer will do for a Zombies party.  I used a one dollar plastic tablecloth, cut it in strips, tied them to a ribbon and made them into pompoms to hang.  Cheap and I didn’t have to search for the right color pompoms because I made my own!

GREEN hairspray for the win for the Zombie theme.  This stuff was great and didn’t transfer on to anything.  It washes out with shampoo.  I bought mine at Walmart in the party aisle for just a few bucks each.

We did a DIY candy necklace bar because I LOVED it as an activity for my 2nd daughter’s Lalaloopsy party last year.  I am always down for an activity that can also second as a take home party favor! It has nothing to do with Zombies, but it’s the cutest party activity on planet earth.

This is so simple, but sometimes, even details people need a breather, haha. Eventually, kids ask for a movie/character party and well…so be it! Party on, Wayne. Party on, Garth.

 

 

Unicorns and Rainbows Party

2nd May 2017

 

So every year I have tried to have a party at the in-laws horse farm…it rains.  I tried to have one there on my eldest’s daughter’s first birthday and then again on the 7th.  Both parties were cold and rainy.  I had some BIG plans for a unicorn party at a horse farm.  All in all, it turned out cute either way.  Plus, I felt a little like jumping a plane and heading out of the country with my original plans anyways so, all’s well that ends well!

When you see this cake…do your bones light up with magic?  If I could take this cake to bed to look at it every night, I would.  Believe it or not, this is not a hard cake to make!  Okay, so the fondant horn and ears maybe, but you can buy these on Etsy and add it to a cake you did all the icing work for.  Icing swirling a bag is easy peasy and then, it is just simple, simple rosettes.  I believe in you!

Tall birthday candles for the win!  Target…you are my hero.  You always are…

Next up, face painting!  Hire a friend or artsy college student like I did and it will be good money for them, but savings for you!  I snagged and printed some unicorn and rainbow face paintings from Pinterest, printed them out and let the kids choose.

 

Now is where the big plans came in and got smaller real fast, y’all.  BUT, it was still magical!  I made this horn/flower headpiece and fitted it on our mini horse.  The fact the HE, yep, a dude horse, is mini, made it even more magical.  The fact that when they came to the barn, they didn’t know a “unicorn” would be there?  Even better! Every guest took a picture with the birthday girl and the unicorn…boy…the unicorn boy.

The DIY unicorn horn I made below took only about 15 minutes.  I didn’t follow any plans.  I just went to Hobby Lobby and looked for anything horn-like.  I settled on a Styrofoam cone that I shaved down with a bread knife.  I wrapped it in 2 white felt sheets, added fake flowers to the bottom, and wrapped the finished horn in a skinny gold ribbon from the trim aisle.  I added two sturdy wide cotton ribbon to the underside at 12 and 6 o’clock.  Those straps were used to tie the horn to the bridle of the horse so that nothing was attached to the actual horse.  I used hot glue to make this whole horn which is perfect because hot glue has the power of 20 marines.

For one of the party activities we did sand art!  Why is this awesome 80’s/90’s craft forgotten??!! Kids LOVE to do this!  It isn’t near as messy as you think and the kids have a blast doing it.  It’s colorful, creative, and something the children have either NEVER done or haven’t done in a while.  It’s an activity AND a favor!  Double duty party details are MY FAVORITE! JUST LIKE USING CAPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THIS PARAGRAPH!  Hobby Lobby has all you need to make your sandy dreams come true!

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