Vintage Barbie Birthday!

This was such a fun party to plan, and the actual party was such a blast. So girly and pink. I decided to use the Vintage Barbie Silhouette, it looked so cute with the pink, grey, and black color scheme.

The dessert table!

The Barbie cake was so much fun to make, and alot easier than I thought. My friend made the fondant for me! And she used THIS fondant recipe, and I used an actual Barbie dress mold.

The party was held at Alyssa's Bridal Event Center in Orem, it was such a great open space for the girls to run and dance around in!

We played pin the Bow on Barbie.

And had a Barbie Nail Polish Pinata filled with ring pops, I added the barbie on front of the bottle, since I couldn't find an actual Barbie Pinata.

Barbie even came to see the Birthday Girl. She read some books and took pictures!

The Birthday hats were made with my silhouette. I used THIS hat template, opened it in my silhouette to cut it. It made these hats so easy!

I used my Silhouette Machine to make the dot garlands, and all the cupcake toppers, and the birthday girls shirt.

My little Barbie girl chose her party menu, with all her favorite things!

Macaron's (I made them so don't judge!)

Yogurt and cereal in cups, powdered donuts, and chocolate pretzels.

cupcakes, marshmallows...

And Strawberry Milk! I got the paper straws on Amazon, 144 for around 6 dollars!

This little table was my favorite part. I loved that the girls could just sit around it on the floor, no climbing up and down off of chairs.

I bought a large 4 by 8 foot particleboard from Lowes, it was $11.00. I called my local grocery store Bakery (Maceys) and they had 5 gallon buckets I could have. I used 4 of the buckets to set the particleboard on and covered it with a table cloth!

It worked out so well!

The favor bags are from the dollar tree! I found them in the wedding isle, 12 in a package for a dollar!

I made her shirt, skirt and leggings. For her shirt I used heat transfer vinyl and my trusty silhouette machine. I added the lace ruffle to her shirt for extra girly factor. Her skirt was refashioned from an organza overlay that was on an old prom dress. Saved me some hemming! But the leggings are my favorite part. I just can't get enough of black and white stripes!

Happy Birthday Princess!

Barbie Birthday, Free template

Yes I have been a major slacker. It was the Holidays, and I got an iphone... need I say more?

I have a million things that I need to catch up on, but I will talk about what I am currently working on, I am planning Addie's 5th Birthday party, and thought I would share a free template you can use if you want to have a Barbie birthday! I made the Barbie invitation using my Memory Mixer software.

Also How cute is this Birthday Banner?

Go here for a free printable!

Here are a few good barbie silhouettes. You can download them and use the trace tool on your Silhouette to make cupcake toppers!

More Barbie Birthday goodies to come!

lemon ruffle cake

I had so much fun making and decorating my moms birthday cake! My first ruffle cake, which for my first I am okay with the imperfections!

I started with 2 cake mixes, one yellow and one white. I like to doctor up my cake mixes to make them here is the recipe for my doctored up Lemon Cake!

1 yellow or white cake mix

4 eggs

1/2 Cup water

1/3 Cup oil

1 Cup Sour Cream

1 package of Lemon Instant Pudding

Combine ingredients and Bake according to the directions on the cake box. I used tow 8-inch rounds for each cake. Since I did one yellow cake and one white so 4 layer the cake would look striped when we cut into it. When making the White cake mix, I used only the egg whites.

For filling between the cake's layers I used Lemon Curd. I discovered a new way to make it so it doesn't need to be strained and ends up perfectly smooth!

4 TBS unsalted butter

3/4 Cup Sugar

3 large eggs

1/3 Cup FRESH Lemon Juice

1 teaspoon lemon zest

Combine sugar and butter in a glass bowl, and beat until fluffy. Then beat in the eggs. Add the lemon juice. Once it is all combined, pour into your stove-top pan and heat on low-medium until it gets creamy and thick. Be sure to CONSTANTLY stir the curd and don't let it boil! You can freeze or store it in the refrigerator.

For the frosting I wanted something light, but still lemon flavored. Here is the recipe!

1 pint of Heavy Whipping Cream

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 package of Instant Lemon Pudding

Use your hand mixer to beat until it gets thick enough to pipe or spread, if it is too thick you can add a teaspoon or two of milk until it gets to your desired consistency. note* I should have doubled this recipe to make the ruffles work better.

Fifty is Nifty

My amazing mom turned fifty this week. My sisters, Dad, and I decided to throw her a big surprise party! We plotted and planned for weeks, trying to gather emails, make decorations, and order food.

The cake was my first ruffle cake! I will post more details about the cake soon!

We decided that doing a black theme was just too dreary! So we thought of something more cheery and bright and landed on lemons and limes!

We had mini Vanilla Cupcakes from Sweet Tooth Fairy. YUMMO. Best Vanilla Cupcakes ever.

We also had Coconut and Pistachio Macaroons from the Sweet Tooth Fairy. If you haven't ever tried a french macaroon, you must! They are light and fluffy and melt in your mouth.

Several of my aunts made gooey rice crispy treats. I love sticky melted marshmallows!

We got Citrus flavored and colored candies, and had them all over the table. Adding jars of colored candy helps decorate your party and adds an extra treat for your guests, especially if you have little kids! Using real lemons and limes in vases is a great way to decorate, inexpensive and pretty!

With the help of my Grandpa we gathered old photos of my mom and scanned them so we could make them black and white and order prints online. We used clothes pins and twine to hang them along the back wall for everyone to see.

Lemon water and Lemonade to drink, with grey striped paper straws. (which I found on Amazon for a great deal!) My sister printed out the cute labels using this free printable.

We used my silhouette machine to make the Happy Birthday Sign that we hung on the front of the table and the round paper streamers that were hanging behind the table. We cut our 150 scalloped circles and I sewed them together on my sewing machine!

Happy Birthday Mom! I love you!

Color Me Purple!

A purple party!

I started gathering Purple Supplies months before the big day, with a baby on the way I knew I would need to be prepared!

I got the cupcake wraps, and the cake stand around Easter time at Walmart. They had plenty of purple, and other pastel colors available. I dyed the cake and frosting purple of course!

I also had purple Jello Popcorn, a yummy way to flavor popcorn! Here is the recipe:

8 cups popcorn, I used my Air Popper (my favorite wedding gift)
1 cup light Karo syrup

1 cup Sugar
1 small box of Jello (any flavor, I used Grape)
2 tablespoons Butter

Combine Karo, Sugar, butter, and jello in a saucepan on medium heat. Bring it just to a boil and then pour over popcorn, beware it will be hot!

And of course a little grape Fanta

Some chocolate dipped marshmallows, purple Peeps, grape licorice.

We also had Sandwiches on Purple bread (my local grocery store will do this in their bakery, any color!) We also had grapes, purple kolaid, and grape jello jigglers.

It was VERY purplicous.

I used This tutorial for my ruffled streamers, and my sister taught me how to make the tissue balls, but you can go Here to learn how!

And of course everyone wore purple, We painted nails purple, and I found some amazing purple things at the dollar store to use, Fancy hats to decorate, Purple beads and bracelets, purple socks, and purple brushes, purple candy jewelry, all in little purple bags!

My purple princess sure enjoyed her special day!

Ruffles...

I have been trying to plan everything for Eliza's purple birthday before this baby comes, especially because baby sister is due the day before Eliza's birthday. I have seen these gorgeous ruffle cakes EVERYWHERE and I wanted to make a purple one for the birthday party, well I found a tutorial on youtube! So much easier than it looks, and so pretty and girly!image source


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Also, Anyone have any Ideas I could use for a Purple birthday? Games, or activities, etc? HELP!!!

Tangled Birthday

A Rapunzel Birthday Party fit for a Princess

This party was so much fun to plan, and much easier than Alice. I decided to go with a lot of store bought options, being pregnant I just don't have the energy I would need for anything else!

The Cake was homemade though... and it was a beast. It was supposed to have a tower, but it fell apart, and the first time I tried to make the fondant, it was a disaster. I accidentally grabbed the wrong size marshmallows! So at midnight the night before I made a quick run to the store, and it worked the second time. I used the same recipe on this cake, as I did the Alice cake.

I found watercolors at the dollar tree, and the table decor is from a local party store.

When the girls arrived, in their best princess atire, we did a Rapunzel braid with ribbons and a flower clip.

We had lunch, and then painted pictures of Rapunzel, just like she painted the walls of her tower. I got great printable pictures of Rapunzel HERE.

The sun bunting was a printable from Super Mom Moments. You can go HERE to print your own. She has some more ideas for a Tangled party.

We played Pin the Nose on Flynn, which was a hit.

My sister used THIS as a guide, but pretty much free handed the Wanted poster. It turned out awesome.

The girls also played a version of duck duck goose that my daughter made up for the party called, Flynn, Flynn, Rapunzel. It was pretty cute.

I used several of THIS printable Pascal to do a hide and seek treasure hunt for their little gift bags... since Pascal is great at hide and seek.

There are also some more great ideas HERE if you need them!

It couldn't have turned out better, and SHE loved it!