It's party time

Mila decided that her doll had to celebrate her birthday with a big party for her doll and her doll-friends. 

 Mila made invitations and started decorating a corner of her room, with small baloons (water baloons), cut out happy birthday and asked me to sew a small banner. As you might know i like organizing parties so I helped a little. I made a small table of cardboard, a paper cup and pretty paper. I used a paper napkin to make a table cloth and some tiny napkins. The cake we cut out of a big one with a cookie cutter and decorated it with a tiny banner made of tape&toothpicks. The girls and dolls enjoyed the party and Mila's doll got some cute gifts from her friends.

The cute party outfit of Mila's doll was made by Sofie(sofiehutsepot) a pink party dress, blue wings and a birthday crown!

A birthday theme

Some of you might know already that I love organizing & decorating the birthday parties of my daughters. Although it's still january we already started planning the party of Mila (23 of march), we started to talk about themes and came up with a vintage bird theme ( the vintage twist coming from me of course!). Mila's birthday is in the beginning of spring and Mila loves nature and animals and so we came up with the birds theme. We are now collecting ideas for decoration, food, craftprojects and games, a great way to start a party theme is to make a moodboard, not a real one but a board on Pinterest ( my new love.....), it's a great way to bring all the ideas/ looks that you find on the internet together.

Frida Give away

I had so much fun planning and crafting for Sofia's Frida Kahlo party, I'm very happy how everything looked and most importantly Sofia ( and friends) were very pleased with the results. To thank you all for the sweet and supportive comments I have a little give away for you to share our party fun.

What to do : leave a comment and tell me what you liked best about the party and what theme we should do next ( you know I'm already thinking about Mila's birthday.....)

Winner will be announced :on saturday morning the 20th of June......

enjoy your weekend

The Frida Kahlo goodie bags

So I hope you are not bored with all the Frida Kahlo party pictures, I promise it is almost over, but I could not keep this from you. This is the goodie bag we made for the party guests, Sofia made this drawing of Frida and together we designed a colouring book, we added some coloured pencils and cute bird pins and some candy. I have printed some small and big paper bag and also some cards and listed them in my etsy shop so you can have your own Frida party...... or you can come back tomorrow for the Frida give away.....

if you want to see more pictures, go here and see the Pinata's and more....

Presents

This is the present we gave Sofia for her 8th birthday, a wooden sewing box with her own Frida drawing gocc-ed on the outside and a drawing from her sister on the inside.

8 years already

Today was Sofia's birthday, 8 years already, it's going tooo fast!! We made some gocco-ed bags with a Frida drawing made by Sofia filled with some taco chips and a small gift for her classmates.

Frida Kahlo party.....the decorations

Some of the party decorations we have made.....

The Party

Here the result of two of the activities we did during the kidsparty, they painted their own portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo and we did a photoshoot with them. I really love how it turned out.

The party was great we had so much luck to have a sunny day and spend most of the time outside in the garden ( so much better....) In the morning we had the kids party with 9 girls in total and in the afternoon we had a party for our friends and family with mexican food.

I will post some more pictures soon of the Pinata's and the other decorations and at the end of this week there will be a little Frida Kahlo party give away !!

Before the party......

The moment just before the guest arrive, all dressed up and waiting what the day will bring....

Frida Kahlo birthday party 5# the invitation

Today Sofia handed out her invitations....

Frida Khalo birthday party 4# work in progress...

Very busy making the invitations, here you can see the photo shoot. I bought a cheap canvas and painted it blue to use as a background. We will also use the canvas for the party to make photos of Sofia's friends dressed up like Frida Kahlo, I think that will be lots of fun.

Frida Kahlo birthday 3# Paper Flower Tutorial

I think that a lot of people already made these or know how to, but I just had to share this, I love making these flowers and that's good because I plan on making lots of them for the party decoration. Want to see how to make them in a more detailed tutorial, just go to

Martha tutorial or watch this video. Have fun!!

Homemade Happiness

Yesterday I was drinking tea with Caroline and she told me about the new web-shop she started with Diana. Homemade Happiness is a website where you can find very cute 'print it your self ' party items and decorations like paper party banners, invitations, games and much more....I really like the illustrations and the fact that you don't have to leave the house for fun party decoration!! Go and take a look.

The Birthday girl

Today my little girl turned 6, I cannot believe how the time flies.

I hope you all enjoyed our circus party preparations, tomorrow is back to normal, some new bags for the shop and I hope to share the improved website+new webshop very soon.

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if you want to see even more pictures of the party you can go here

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Mila's circus party part 7#

The party table....

Ringmaster Sofia gives a performance

Last Saturday we celebrated Mila's 6th birthday, with lost of family and friend. It was a perfect day with lots of sun, presents, happy faces and of course lots of circus shows!!!

Mila's circus partypart 6#

More party decoration.....

Mila's circus party part 5#

I made some garlands for Mila's circus party. A fabric garland in the party colours red and blue's and a very simple garland made with some baker's rope and vintage playing cardsI found on Etsy.

Mila's circus party part 3#

Saturday is Mila's Circus party so time is running out. One of the things we needed for the party was a ringmaster coat and of course a hat. I had so much fun designing and making this coat that I ended up making two, they are completly lined and can be worn inside out so we have 4 coats now, the coats will also be great for the clowns I think!!

Mila's Circus Party 1 #

We are preparing Mila's birthday party and we decided on a circus themed party, we are busy with the preparations and found a lot of inspirational images on flickr.

...more party preparation...

Sofia and Mila in the bakfiets on our way to school this morning...

treats for classmates and teachers


goodie bags for the party tomorrow