My Monster Turns 2

Happy 2nd birthday
Sebastian!!!

LOCATION:

His sister did the gumpaste animals!!

Photo Corner: this was well loved by the children!

He loved his new broom and was helping cleanup the hay!

I won't post too much commentary, as I am trying to play catchup on this blog, haha. But if you have any questions at all, please ask!!!
His theme, as most of you know was BarnYarn. I have oodles of pics, of course but grabbed a few for the update. His whole weekend was spent having fun. We capped it off with a trip to ChuckEcheese as well!

Skylar's Piggy Party

OK, so this is really late. I'm sorry about that. Most of you know I was in the ER with Baby monster the entire night/morning before and got zero sleep. There was going to be so much more organization to this party. Desserts were highly rushed-so much so they had to be changed at the last minute, Decor was messed up, etc etc. BUT that all being said Skylar loved it all and that is what matters. here's what we have

Before

After

Dessert Table

Closeup of pigs

Food Table

*For an activity I bought each child a ceramic piggie bank they got to paint

Acting silly by the photo wall

Present Corner

As you can see, decorations and such were all rushed to get her party done before her guest arrived. Not bad considering!! I'm actually pretty impressed at what we were able to accomplish. It's times like these I am glad I plan ahead or NOTHING would have been done. Thankfully I had a general idea of what she wanted beforehand.
I have more pics if there's something you don't see just comment and let me know!

A Piggy Production Day 2

ok, so today I was able to complete the backdrop for Skylar's Dessert table. It was a simple design but hard on my hands, haha, since it took two coats of pink paint. I had considered making something in the middle section, like her name or something, but Skylar and I are both thinking the simplicity of it looks nice. Who knows? We may change our minds.
*Items Purchased
-Elmer's TriFold Foam Board (on sale!) $4 (normally $8)
-Big bottle of pink paint $3
*Items on hand
-hole punch
-white paper
-Mini Xyron (this is a fab item! If you don't have one, I highly recommend them. It will turn any paper item into a sticker. Otherwise you could always glue the dots on)
ETA: my Xyron is a mini and is now hard to find. Walmart has medium ones for $20 and large ones for $50, and other alternate machines go up from there.)
Total Cost: $7

Items for step 1

After 2 coats of pink paint

Items needed for step 2

After painting the foam. I punched out a tons of dots (didn't count them) and ran them through the Xeron to create dot stickers. Then I added dots to two sides of the board, leaving the center a solid pink

Finished display board. We may put an "S" or something, not sure. We are still liking it like this too.

Hope you liked it! Skylar's cupcake stands can be seen by clicking here.

Sebastian's Monster Bash Take 2

Hi everyone!! So I have been having lots of people ask me to show some more detailed pics of Sebastian's 1st birthday party. This computer is new so I didn't have any old pics on it. I hope I loaded what you wanted and this isn't pic overload ( I still have more from the actual party, haha.) Enjoy!
Getting Crafty:
First, we needed a theme. I could not think of the perfect theme for him. After much thought, I decided Monsters. He knew that monsters growled and let's face it, he IS a monster! After much research online, I found the perfect paper goods at this birthday supply site . I also got some great favors here. Then I had to make the rest.

The Theme and Inspiration

Then it was on to getting crafty!
The Banner:

The Cupcake stand: Hubby cut out the shapes and I put it all together. I covered the circles with a red linen fabric, then trimmed them with a purple satin ribbon. Next I drew a face on the small monster, painted him and attached him to the top. I also bought precut wooden letters that spelled out Sebastian and attached them to the top tier of the cupcake tower.

Next up we created some signs. Skylar (the most awesome big sissy ever) made his Welcome Sign. Hubby and I bought worked on the sign for the food table. (I have carpal tunnel so my hands start to really hurt after a while, so he was great to help out!)

(as you can tell we had a taco bar for the food)

Next I thought it'd be cute to have a little candy station. I bought some glass jars and attached ribbon onto then using hot glue. I also created some circles to attach to the centers. Sadly my printer was acting funny so this had to be hand drawn, but I was still content with the way my monsters came out, haha

I also wanted to have a place where people could sign, but did not want an actual guest book so I created this little framed photo. It will later be hung in his room.

Hubby cut some large pieces of wood for me to paint so that we could use them as decorations. The little face was used at the food table and the big one was as a photo prop. The kids all loved these!

I love doing favors and crafts at parties! This is the favor bags I put together for this event. The bags also contain the crafts they got to do. I first put everything (except their cups) into a gallon size Ziploc bag so they could decorate their actual bags with stickers, markers, etc, and then they got to dump everything into their true bags.

Every month, exactly on the 14th I took Sebastian's photo in the same chair with the same bear. I made a poster using these photos and displayed it at his party.

For my daughters birthdays I have always bought the cake, but this year I decided to try my hand at making cupcakes. I made 4 different styles of cupcakes (with the help of Skylar) and they were strawberry, chocolate, spice and funfetti. I first made regular sized cupcakes, then minis. I stacked the mini on top and used that as my foundation to create the Monsters. I did the fur and Skylar (using various treats like sprinkles and tiny marshmallows) created the faces.

We rented out our Community Building for his party. They give you the key the day before in case you want to go in early to set up. We took advantage of this opportunity and decorated the night before the party. This is the party room before, during, and after our decorations! (including a funny photo I had to add of Skylar. She decided Sebastian didn't need any pink balloons at his party, so she put them in a safe place! HA)

I hope this better shows his party, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts! Please comment in the comment box!