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The Couch Potato Costume

11th October 2024

When it’s book character parade time, we don’t play around. 😂 You can make this costume with a cardboard box, fabric marker, ribbon for shoulder straps, felt, glue gun, fabric, and a t-shirt! I added a cardboard controller and an old remote, as well. I made the t-shirt with a brown Hobby Lobby shirt, felt, scissors and glue. I stole a headband from one of my other kids and cut green craft foam to make the top greens of the potato. Pin, share, enjoy!

He tied for first with the same girl he tied with last year ❤️ She’s a mom after my own heart 😁

DIY Pet Valentines

24th January 2024

Second round of these cute Valentines! A few years back we did these with our guinea pigs and rabbits. When my son was uninspired for this year’s class party invites, I knew he would love these! All you need to do is take a picture with your phone, upload that image into Canva or the Word Swag app and use their free fonts, and add wording, hearts, etc. Print them from your phone at Walgreens and get them in just a few hours and then attached your favorite candy with a hot glue gun. Make sure to hold your pet’s paws in a way to make them look like they are holding the candy. Enjoy!!!

Inked Tile Ornaments

25th November 2020

Are these pleasing to your eyeballs or what?! Pick up some individual glazed small tiles at a home improvement store OR buy one square foot piece of backsplash or tile and peel each tile off. It’s so easy and cheaper chespersons.

I bought some pearlized alcohol inks in bright colors from the scrapbook section at Hobby Lobby. I didn’t use a dropper, but rather let it drip out on its own. Believe me, it’s like water and you NEVER want to squeeze it! Drip onto your surface trying not too mix the colors very much or you’ll end up with a brown swirl poop tile. Make sure to spray/cover each one when they are dry to seal your ornament. I didn’t and know I should have. I would assume a Modge Podge made for ceramic or glazed surfaces would suffice, but don’t call those facts in to the news.

We put stickers on them of my girl’s initials to be peeled off after we covered them with ink. Then we just hot glued on some silver elastic to the back so they could be hung on a tree!

You could do these larger as fun coasters too! Party on, Wayne. Party on, Garth.

Cotton Candy Cauldron Halloween Treats

27th October 2020

If I was a witch, then this would be my brew. Cherry cotton candy stuffed into mini cauldrons from Target is where its at! I bought iridescent bags from Five Below to put them in, tied with baker’s twine and the same “Hey Boo” tags I used in my last post. The tags are a free printable from Damask Love, if they tickle your creative fanny.

I love the the cotton candy is pink and that the bag reflects a pink in it’s iridescence. This treat really gives me all of the Halloween joy in my belly!

My recommendation for this treat in hindsight would be NOT to buy store bought cotton candy. It shrivels and dries out and acts sort of odd. When you touch it, it acts like what cotton candy does when it is touched with moisture. If you do want to use the cheap stuff, just make these treats right before the party or event. You have a good 2 hours with them being fine.

Let’s end on a high note with these pictures 😍. Pin, share, enjoy!

Class Party Halloween Treats

26th October 2020

Aren’t these the cutest?! The “Hey Boo” tag, which speaks deeply to my rap loving soul, you can download for FREE from Damask Love. I thought they were the most fun tags I had seen and free never hurt anybody.

My mom asked me if I wanted her old spice jars before she threw them out. Again, free, so of course, and also, I thought they had party favors written all over them! I washed those bad boys and filled them with gummy teeth and gumball eyeballs from God’s country, Target.

I tied the tags on with baker’s twine from the Lobby of Hobby, God’s other country. Target and Hobby Lobby stem from the original God’s country, Ikea.

Pin, share, enjoy! Happy Halloween!

Blippi Birthday Party

16th August 2018

If you don’t know who Blippi is, he is a YouTuber who makes fun educational videos for kiddos. They don’t have Blippi party supplies yet so if you do a Blippi party, everything basically stems from his outfit, color scheme of his outfit, and some details from the show that your child loves…in our case….diggers and construction vehicles! And…I was supposed to only do cupcakes and family so…nailed it?

I turned the kid’s table into Blippi’s costume with streamer suspenders and a giant felt bow tie and felt buttons. Why? Because felt is a gift from the crafting gods.

I WISH you could have seen the floating glasses in person because I just couldn’t capture it well in pictures. Boooooo. I used fishing line to hang cheap plastic glasses in and around the balloons and they just looked like they were floating! I used an old bag of cheap plastic sunglasses from Amazon, busted out the lenses, broke off the arms, and spray painted them orange! I was probably my favorite thing. Maybe.

Mighty Dollar came correct with napkins and plates in construction theme! Blippi has songs about all sorts of construction vehicles and it makes Crosby’s heart beat to the sound of dirt, rock and engines. Cheap and perfect for this party….this party that I swore would only be cupcakes and nothing else.

Blippi wears an orange bow tie, therefore, so did all of our forks with orange napkins tied with ribbon.

Now these cars, trucks, etc. were the best thing to ever sit on a cupcake to these kids. They are actually small pullback toys and not cupcake toppers so they got to each take home a few of these small toys. I got the whole pack of these pullbacks on Amazon for under 10 dollars. HOLLLERRRRRR! And it still went with the theme soooooo, I’m excited. You could use these cars and construction vehicles for a ton of different parties too, from Easter egg hunts at Easter shindigs, pinatas, or loads of little boy (or girl) party themes.

Okay so truthfully, maybe this is my favorite thing and the floating glasses second. Since there are no such thing as Blippi cake toppers, I screenshotted images of him on Bing and sent them to Walgreens from my good ole celluar device. I printed 4 of each image and cut them out, turning them into cupcake toppers. The huge dancing Blippi is funny to make and I loved having a huge topper because usually, they are tiny old things.

I made his party hat with leftovers of things I had: leftover hat, extra felt from making the table decor, and a small strip of streamer. I mean……

50 cent suckers from Walmart in Blippi colors. All. Day. Long.

“So much to learn about, it’ll make you want to shout….BLIPPI!”

Pin, share, enjoy! Thanks, yall!

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!

Barnyard/Farm Theme Cake

16th March 2016

Many moons ago, I use to make cakes in my pre-children life. Making cakes is crazy, but I’m glad I did it for a season. I wanted to add some of my cakes to the detail category so here I go with numero uno.

I made this cake for my oldest’s 1st birthday which was “modern farm” theme. I will do the invites in another post because they were cute but modern and not too kiddish.

This cake is iced in buttercream and decorated in fondant and it’s all edible. It’s one of my favorite cakes that I ever made and I’m glad it was for my own! I love the details of the hen which I’m pretty sure isn’t accurate with it’s gobbler thing and the horses. Horses were on both sides of the cakes but only one set shown here! I think it’s cute which may not count since I made it….

Thanks to Joel Ham Photography for the great pics as always!

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Visa Card Winner…

11th March 2016

Congratulations to Jenn Iversen on winning the 50 dollar Visa gift card! I hope this makes you have an awesome day and thanks to all who participated!

Pin It To Win It Contest for a 50 Dollar Visa Card

8th March 2016

It is true that Pinterest is the single most powerful social media tool for bloggers. Yes, even more powerful than the great and mighty Facebook. Pins are like little commercials that work for you and your content so pin to wins are the perfect contest!

How to Enter:

Follow herpartypants on Pinterest
Create a board on your personal Pinterest account titled: HerPartyPants.Com
Go through my posts and pin some of my content to your board. THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS FOR ANY PIN….. When you pin an image, you must first click on the title of the post and THEN pin the image from that post. If you scroll through a blog and pin from the homepage, when someone clicks the pin, it will redirect to the blog, but not the post they are interested in. Pin correctly for Pinterest’s sake! Don’t you hate when you find a pin you like and it doesn’t take you to the content you want? I do. Friends don’t lead friends on a goose chase for Pinterest content.
You must pin at least 6 images and at least 2 must be parties.
Once your board is created, comment or email me {herpartypants@gmail.com} the link to your board as proof of your entry.
Winner will be chosen at random this Friday 11th and announced on my Facebook page. Failure to respond to claim your prize within 24 hours will cause you to forfeit and I will move to the next contestant. Happy pinning!