Bethany’s Sweet Shoppe Birthday Party!!! can i just say, AMAZING!!!!!! this party is the cutest party ever. seriously. i just love it ALL. the candy bean bags, the candy hair pretties, all the decor. like i said, EVERYTHING!! congratulations bethany on winning!!!! here’s the party…coming straight from the mouth/ blog {http://hissyfitsphotography.com/blog/} of bethany! …………………………………………………………………………………… Alrighty then…here is my jumping off point! Yes, I said during the months that I have been working on this party! I had originally planned on going with this theme for Gentry’s second birthday but was lured in by Target’s uber cute cupcake goodness for Valentine’s Day 2008 and and couldn’t wait to tackle this sweet theme this year! Okay…so how about we start off with the invite? That seems like a good place, right? I designed these in Photoshop with the help of my extremely patient and super smart husband!! I used several different digital scrapbooking kits and combined papers and elements to get the look I was after. Early on I chose bright orange, hot pink, bright purple, bright green and turquoise as my color scheme. I used those colors in everything from the invites to the balloons! As for the wording, I looked at various invites on the internet and pulled bits and pieces from different ones to create something that I loved and that fit Gentrys personality! There are some of my own thoughts thrown in the mix as well! There is really no order to this post so Ill just start with the favors since those are the pictures I have up first!! I absolutely adore gathering party favors!! Two years ago {like a month after Gentry turned one} I started thinking ahead and planning her next party, which at the time I thought was going to be the Candyland theme. Also at that time Target happened to have red, blue, yellow and green pails in their dollar bins. I wont tell you how many Targets I had to hit up to get the right amount in the right colors! Anyway, I ended up not using red and yellow in the overall color scheme because I changed from Candyland to Sweet Shoppe, but because I already had the pails, I obviously went ahead and used them! I am sure not a soul would have noticed had I not mentioned it first! {I wanted to add that I flipped from manual to automatic for these and just snapped away! I also had to use my flash a lot! The lighting in our house is not conducive to good photography!! I decided to just be Mom instead of photographer figuring it would make my life much more simple if I could just shoot and not worry about settings! And it did!! Although the focus is NOT where I want it on many of them, thats okay! We had a fun day and the memories are still priceless!} Because I have such a girly girl, I had to jazz up the pails for all our little girly guests! All I did was use bright marabou and my trusty glue gun and went to work! This is super simple but adds so much!! Then I stuck a sheet of colorful tissue paper inside and tied on a coordinating name tag with curly ribbon and was ready to fill em up! I should probably warn you that I am slightly high maintenance when it comes to party favors!! Not in a snobby way {at least I hope!}, but I just like nice goodies and things that are useful! I refuse to buy junk just for the sake of filling up a bucket! The past several years I have started making little treats and have really had fun doing that! But first up, the things I didnt make! One of the first things I bought for this party were Candyland pencils and stickers. Both came from Ebay. There are still several options for the stickers, but the pencils no longer come up. Of course I couldnt leave you hanging, so I searched online! Here is a link to the pencils! The little gingerbread guys you see are straws. They came from the Wal Mart Christmas decor a couple of years ago. There was also a little lollipop magnet in each bucket. They were actually cute little Christmas ornaments I found at Hobby Lobby last year and just snipped the ribbon off of and added a magnet to! All of the older kids also got a candy shaped soap. For these I just made a bunch of round soaps {in different colors and with glitter in them!} and wrapped them up in shimmery cellophane and tied the ends with ribbon to look like pieces of candy. Another SUPER easy project!! I have made soaps for a couple of other parties and they are one of the easiest little crafts ever!! I promise!!
