A Girly Party

In January my daughter turned 5 years old.  After two boys, let's just say my "girly-ness" cannot be contained or repressed.   This all became completely clear when I began putting together her birthday party.

Eeeeeeek!   

All the ideas out there, oh great internet!  

I hated even narrowing down what to do but I had to so my husband wouldn't be tempted to call in the authorities.

When I saw this post on Dana-Made-It I knew I had to do these napkin flowers and that they would be the basis for all the decorations.  So fun & easy.

I don't remember where I had seen how to make that garland but it was absolutely my most favorite project of the party.  I took my 3" punch and punched out a million a lot of circles out of some paper I had picked up to coordinate.  I then put them back to back and ran them through my sewing machine.  Bonus: I felt like a seamstress.  You should have seen how fast I sewed them!  And could it be any cuter?  No.

And what kind of girly party would it have been if I didn't have some tissue paper balls hanging from the ceiling?

I decorated the kitchen in a smilar way with the napkin flowers and paper garland.  I also taped little loops of crepe paper to the chandelier chain.  It may look like that would take a long time but it really didn't.  10 minutes, tops.  

  

I so wish I could take credit for this adorable cake.  I did make the tiered cake stand by using gorilla glue to glue candle sticks between the 3 different sized plates though, so that's something, right?  But no, my super talented friend, Ann, made the cake & coordinating cupcakes (click on the pictures to see all the detail).  I will definitely have her on here to do some tutorials.  She is an artist whose preferred medium is frosting.  No question.  When she came in holding this masterpiece I may have gotten a little teary, that's all I'm saying.

I gussied up the $1 buckets with some hotglue & ribbon (those are pink puppies sticking out of the buckets in case you're thinking "What the heck are in those buckets??").  And I fancied up the cheap earrings that were in them by clipping them to some cute paper & cardstock cards I made.

And finally, this wreath....

... this is the project that made me realize that some craft bloggers are liars!!  

"It's so quick & easy!"  

"I just whipped this out in 20 minutes!"   

Lies.  All lies.  

These crepe paper rosettes take FOR.  EVER.  Do not be deceived.  Yes, it's adorable.  But I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this one.  

The little pennant banner was super easy though (not lying here!).  I just cut some paper into triangles (the patterned paper slightly larger than the white) and sewed them together with bias tape.  A few letter stickers later and I had something adorable for the front door.  Thank goodness my hand cramps from those dang rosettes had subsided by then.  

Girly Party Activities included: making bracelets, decorating heart-shaped sugar cookies, and painting finger & toenails.  

I'd say it was a very budget friendly party & the girls loved it.  I can't wait for next year.