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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