A Fairytale party

Yes I know I've neglected my blog again! I'm sorry! I have been slaving away late into the nights for my daughters party. For 3 weeks I swing between, 'why do I punish myself this way?' and 'ooh this going to be awesome!' Then there is the party which seems to go by in the blink of an eye and it is over. Shame even my poor little sparkle thought it went too fast! Don't you wish you could just freeze a moment and make it last forever? Her party would be that moment for me. The kids had so much fun.

At least I managed to get loads of photos so I can replay my favourite parts and show you how I added some sparkle to her special day.

The front of her invite was sparkled by spraying adhesive on the edges (block the middle with some paper so you don't make the whole picture sticky). Then I foiled with salmon pink. The back I just printed out the words and oh so carefully went over with the glue pen and foiled in turquoise.

Her theme was fairytale so very broad. Last year we 'built' her garden so most people had seen it already so to turn it into something 'new' I just renamed each section with little signs on stakes and pictures I found here.The pictures were easy I just printed, added touches of foil and then laminated. 

 

The signs I wrote out with glue pen and foiled.

 I experimented with the 'mermaid cove' by writing out the whole word then I foiled the top half one colour, the bottom another colour.

On the food table, I gave my PERFECTionist husband the task of making a pirate boat out of watermelon.He did an amazing job and everyone was super impressed. For the sail I laid double sided tape down in strip and foiled with Salmon pink. I drew the R with the glue pen and foiled with turquoise. If anyone doubts the ship belongs to a pirates. The letter on the front is pronounced aRrrgh!haha!

I saw this cute picture here at catch my party, can I just say if you need ANY ideas for ANY party this website is the place to go for inspiration. So I measured my cones, foiled them flat then wrapped them up to glue and added the tails. I was really chuffed with how this turned out and worked so nicely because the children could just carry their cone with them all around the party munching away rather than all hovering round the kiddies table.

Now for some not foiled but totally amazing, excuse me while I brag pictures.

I made these cupcakes, placed them upside down then iced them, and placed marshmallow fondant (first time I used it, I will never buy fondant again), cut a slit and put a picture of my little sparkle in the top so it looked like she was in a princess dress. How cute is that? Well I thought they were gorgeous..until my sister in law, yes also Nikki, arrived with the cake...I was speechless!It was beyond amazing! 

 

Then my friend Nicole (the talent must be in the name ;) ) arrived and she had made Little Sparkle a beautiful princess dress. I'm so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing people. My mom worked so hard making the garden gorgeous and the night before she came down and helped me by just cleaning up all around me as I ran around like a chicken with my head chopped off. Don't lie you know you feel like that the night before a party too! And of course we were blessed with the perfect weather!

So now you know why I have been MIA! Do you think it was worth it? This week I'll be posting  Valentines cards and how to decorate a table for a romantic dinner for two. Keep coming back to learn more and be inspired.