Princess Tea Party

Boy this has been in the works foreva! 

I mean, I started preparing for it a couple of weeks before the party BUT in my mind, like a year. 

seriously.

And I was nervous how things would go down. 

Yet i have come to realize a few things:

-5 year olds could care LESS about the intricate details of a birthday party

-tried & true games are still TRUE.

But the OCD that I am, I could not allow her party to happen without it being PERFECT...in my mind at least ;)

Exhibit A:

I got these bird cages from Michaels for $1 each.  I cut out some birds and placed them in the cage then hung them from the chandelier.  The kids loved that. 

I do too. 

They are still up and I'm leaving them there.

 I made her another barbie doll cake, like the one HERE and if you want to try to make one, go HERE.

she wanted to use her "good" Belle barbie for it but I would not have it.  You know, I do try to have her toys last longer than a week...

So i grabbed some fairy doll at the dollar tree...

scary, isn't she?  but she was small enough to fit perfectly :)

 I wanted to have the girls bring home a party favor that didn't go straight to the trash.  So i thought it would be fun to make some crowns.  I asked their mom's beforehand what their daughter's favorite color was and went from there.  I am a felt crown pro now! (tutorial HERE)

 Ready to crown each girl as they arrive.  They also got to pick a necklace to wear ;)

 Food table, partially filled. 
I'm missing the fruit tray adn the chocolate pretzels (tutorial HERE)...they were there ready to eat but just hadn't been placed on the table.

On a side note, I had a lot of fun decorating this area. 
I found the plates and candlesticks at goodwill and made some cake plates (tutorial HERE)  i found that adorable cat/cookie jar there too. 
I used my cricut for the 5's and "E". 
I grabbed some doilies from the dollar tree. 
I had that table cloth that I got from my grandma. 
I used napkins from the Dollar Tree to make those puff balls that are hanging from the ceiling.  (I am a pro at those too.  I made like 20 of those! Tutorial HERE)

 So as the girls came in, I crowned them and directed them to the table to color.  I originally planned on printing out some princess coloring pages but my printer ran out of ink!  So I just had blank paper and they still did awesome!

Once all the girls were there, we came to the main room and played "Kiss the frog on the Lips" aka "pin the tail on the donkey"  Joe drew a large frog aka prince naveen ;) on some tissue paper.  I then traced it with a sharpie on green scrapbook paper.  And that's the end result!  It turned out aewsome.  I cut out red lips for each girl and initialled them.  They had fun seeing where their's ended up! 

Next was the tea hot chocolate party! 

I grabbed each girl a tea cup and saucer from good will.  I found a cute little tea pot too that I used to fill up.  I used the crock pot to make the large quantity of hot chocolate.  Then we had them go get food from the table.  I used pretty much crap food.  but I figured it was a party so I did'nt care.  The pink marshmellows were a big hit!

During this, I painted their finger nails.  They loved that!  I'm sad i didn't have pictures of the activities but I have only so many hands!  Speaking of, thank you Megas for helping me out!

Next was the singing and candles!

Then opening of the presents!

And at that point, time was up!
Emma was estatic about the whole thing and loved having all her friends there. 

Each girl was adorable all dressed up!

I had fun too getting creative since it's been awhile!

I have been definitely burnt out from this, but it was worth it!

LInked this to my fav Linky parties found  under  Linky Party button above :)

Barbie Dress Cake Tutorial

My daughter's 4th birthday was yesterday and recently become obsessed with Cinderella. I asked her what cake she wanted. She said, "cinderella cake"...so I googled it and majority of the finds were the barbie doll dress cake...

Most of the had you buy the special kit for it from Wilton's. But I didn't have time!

Luckily, I had dome-shaped pans to use for the dress. Anyways, here's what you need:

-1 box of cake mix, your favorite flavor

-1 can of ready-made icing, preferably white.

-food coloring

-a dome-shaped pan...even a glass pyrex bowl would work too!

-1 doll or barbie. My recommendations is going to the .99 cent store and getting a cheap doll since it's going to get sticky!

-Cake frosting tips & plastic baggie.

-Can of Whip cream

Step one:

Grease pans that you will be using.

Make cake mix and put in pans. If there are "do not fill above line" line, then obey that rule and put reminder of cake mix in a smaller dome pan.

Place in preheated oven, 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Step 2:

Take out of oven and let cool.

Get your barbie and strip her down...pardon the nudity ;)

Step 3:

Once cakes are cool, remove from pans and make sure it looks good stalked on top of one another.

Step 4:

Get 3/4 of the can of icing and put it in a bowl. Get the food coloring and try to get the right shade. I have the gel kind of food coloring and there was blue...but it came to 4 drops of blue and 1 drop of red to get the right shade for the Cinderella dress. But I know online or on the boxes, it can tell you how to get sky blue and stuff. So just follow directions.

Step 5:

Get out your knife and start frosting the cake!

I put a layer of frosting in between the 2 cakes then just started going nuts and putting it everywhere.

Also, where the 2 cakes are put together, there was a empty crevice that I filled in with whip cream from the can, then I just carefully covered it with the blue icing.

Step 6:

Take off doll's legs, so you just have the barbie body and stick her in the cake to her waist. The reason? the legs are too long for most pans, instead of keep piling on more cake, just take the legs off! Plus, the doll was less than a dollar...who cares!

Step 7: Start frosting the bodice of the doll.

Step 8:

Prepare the frosting tip and baggie and Place the 1/4 white frosting in it. I used a thin, circle tip and then drew her sleeves and outlined the white puffs on the dress...and also drew the 4 in front.

Step 9:

Fill in the dress puff with whip cream and also put whip cream aroung the bottom of the dress.

Serve immediately or place in fridge. If placing in fridge, wait to do the whip cream very last, like right before you serve it. It goes weird in there...

And there you go! YUMMY. My daughter loved it and it was kind of fun doing it too! It wasn't hard at all. Anyone can do it!