Riley's Ocean Fairytale 11th Birthday Party

 

Hello, here is a birthday party from last year with an unusual theme for my cousin who loved the beach and (I think) reading stories: "Ocean Fairytale" is my preferred theme title, but it basically combines ocean/beach/story/storybook/fairytale/book themes all into one. 

Looking back, I don't love the color palette but I wanted something unique at the time, so it was a blue to green gradient (mainly turquoise and a sky/baby blue) contrasted by a brownish, mustard-yellow-type orange and enhanced with other neutral browns. 

Handmade elements and DIY clam and pearl party favors:

-The giant palm-like leaves were painted and cut paper.

-The backdrop was made from painted and cut posters.

-The castle was also made from a poster, combining watercolor and pen.

-I had made the banner for my classroom by tying together strips of fabric to a string, cutting and hot-gluing triangular book pages, and for this party I taped on top hand-watercolored ocean pictures I outlined and shaded with ink pens. The signs were also handwritten on top of watercolor swatches on cardstock. 

-For the chocolate 'pearls' I bought a box of Whoppers.

-The 'sea snails' were cinnamon buns.

-For the clam and pearl favors, I bought a pack of mini wallets in the party favor section of Walmart. I drew shells on cardstock with gel ink or Sharpie pens, cut them out, and stapled them on top of the wallets. I placed a Whopper in each one, packaged them, and that's all there is to it! 

I hope you found this post useful, thank you for visiting! 

-Lauryn 

Easter 2025

 This post is extremely short, but here are three photos from our Easter 2025. The decorations were very simple because I also did a birthday party on the same day and it felt wrong to combine the two, so I decorated our house for Easter and another house for a birthday. I painted the backdrop, which was an ordinary poster, used sticks outside for the cross, and went for a dramatic complimentary color scheme of dark red and dark green (although the backdrop turned more blue than planned) for the symbolism those colors hold. And also simply because I love that color pairing, and had not done that palette for Easter before. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

-Lauryn 

Louie's Golf Club Birthday Party

 

Hello, I hope everyone's summer is off to a great start! 

My summer has not started off so promising, and while I have hundreds of posts to share and have fallen so far behind, I wanted to start with this one featuring a birthday party for my uncle. 

He could use prayers for healing urgently, for a miracle, so if you're reading this and would pray for him I would be so grateful. 

This elegant golf club party was back in September (I think), and below are the details on all of the handmade elements: 

-The backdrop was made of cardboard tri-fold boards painted green, and I used gold puffy paint for the logo. 

-The golf cart cutout was made of cardboard and either painted or drawn on with Sharpie. 

-The metallic and brown golf balls were from a pack at Dollar Tree (along with the small golf clubs) that I painted with acrylic paints. The mini flag also came in the set, and was likewise painted. 

-The signs reading "Thank you for swinging by Louie's Part-Tee! Please take a favor" and "Have a donut hole in one" were drawn on cardstock with markers. 

-I just wrote "Thanks fore swinging by!" on paper bags with party favors (which I think were candy though I don't remember for sure) for guests to take. 

Everything else besides the balloons (from Dollar Tree) and tablecloth was already on hand, and my grandparents made the strawberry angel food cake. 

Thank you for visiting!

-Lauryn