Well, this weather is not helping my plans of just a little more yard work, boohoo. I did bake just one more rhubarb treat and I promise I will stop writing about rhubarb, I just can't help myself....
OK, so not only did it smell awesome, but tasted yummy, an apple, rhubarb, strawberry crisp, yup, uh huh, I made it late in the evening and ate a small bowl for breakfast once the kids were gone to school, accompanied by a perfectly brewed, warm, cuppa java, a great way to start my day.
Alright enough already, I know, I know. Since these grey, drippy clouds have me a bit down and unmotivated to create new things I thought I would share a little passion of mine. I love prepping for my kids birthday parties, the ideas floweth and consume my mind. My Mom and I have always decorated the birthday cakes for my kids, ever since they could shovel in cake with their fists. Usually rental cake pans are used and cakes are decorated up all nice and colourful, but sometimes the kids make requests that don't use a cake pan, and some just get me thinking even more about ideas to go along with the birthday 'theme'. I thought I would share some of those with you, maybe to help you with ideas as well, and they are just a lot of fun to show.
This cake was made with a cake pan and we decorated it as to my daughter's colour preferences. Hannah Montana was the theme, we sent out guitar shaped invites and the party was at a photo finishing/studio. The girls had a blast. The party included an hour long photo shoot to my daughter's chosen songs, (Hannah Montana of course) pizza, and we provided the cake. Their loot bag after the party was a picture of the group of them taken by the photographer in frames I purchased at the Dollar store and chocolate shaped guitars I had made up by a local chocolate business. I also gave each girl a glittery scarf for the photo shoot. (also purchased at the Dollar store). The girls had the option to purchase a DVD of the entire photo shoot, with special effects, music and all. The studio also provided a link for the families to see and share the video for a certain period of time.
My son's party was hamburger themed, as you might have guessed. The invites went along with the theme, and the food served was mini burgers (and hot dogs for those that did not want burgers) The cake was made with two Pyrex bowls and a circular cake pan. It is a large cake, just to let you know. We chose real sesame seeds for the top of the bun, way easier than dots of icing, and we used icing as the ketchup, lettuce and mustard, as I don't let my kids eat fruit by the foot, or otherwise, but you can cut different shaped licorice gummy type of things to look like the lettuce etc... if you wish. My kids remind me often that their friends get fruit by the foot
ALL the time (apparently) and why can't I just be a normal Mom....Yep that's me, abnormal. I think I've said that before in a round about way.
This cake was when my son was loving Lego, a short phase for him, thankfully really. He chose a costume party theme and had a joint party with his sister. Their birthdays are only two weeks apart, so that made for an interesting couple of hours. We sent out mask shaped invites, and had good old fashioned party games. The kind I used to have, the kind that kids nowa days aren't really aware of. Hot Potato, musical chairs, etc.... We rented our rural Rec Centre for a whole $45. Totally worth more, but shhhh, it's all good. The cake is 4 separate cakes covered in marshmallow fondant. So much more tasty than almond paste, bleh....Anyway it came together relatively easy, the little Lego dude is a little out of scale in comparison to the cake, but you get the idea. For the party we added a few more Lego people and I iced a couple of cookies with Happy Birthday written on them and his name and leaned them up like a sign on the cake Lego pieces. It was a hit with the boys at the party, that's for sure, I was like, totally cool Mom with this one. Oh and my son dressed up as a Lego man, easiest costume ever, face painted his face, good ole Lego yellow, purchased a red shirt like the Lego dudes at the Salvation Army store, and used a Sharpie marker to draw on the shirt just like the Lego dude. Ta Da....
These little ice cream cones are my daughter's cakes. It was an icy themed party. We had an outdoor skating rink in our back yard that year, so we sent out skate shaped invites and had a skating party. Her birthday is in February, the 13th, to be exact. I filled the ice cream cones only about half way with cake batter, some were a little more full and rose up quite a bit, but no biggie, it's cake, it's all good. Iced the cake cones to look like ice cream and added sprinkles. Awesome! The cones were a little soggy, not crazy soggy, more like a little soft after baking, no crunch when you bit into it, but they were still yummy. The loot bags were cookies in a jar, recipe attached and a bag of some already made cookies to sample for each girl.
These fun little bears are relaxing in their cupcakes pools under an umbrella, chillaxin. The theme, you guessed it, a pool party. Fun summery invites were sent out (made on the computer as my daughter's birthday is in February) and the girls swam and had fun. Easy peasy. Pizza was served to eat, as well as other snacks. A few girls slept over at the hotel and got in one more swim the next morning. My other daughter had a pool party one year too, and we planned ahead for that, giving away flip flops from Old Navy as gifts. Gift receipts were attached but I think we pretty much nailed the sizing for the girls. Old Navy just happened to have a flip flop sale weeks before, how perfect for us.
Finally one of my daughters last birthdays;
Larissa
Birthday Mall
123 Holly Lane
Anywhere, CA
(123)456-7890
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Store: 011
Cashier: mom007
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*Shopping special, one
day only*
Larissa is turning 11, it’s a
Birthday
madness event …….
Meet
at my house, we’ll have
Supper
at the Mall, shop for
Deals
and return home for cake
*Super
blowout special of the day*
Sleepover,
bring sleeping bag,
Pillow
and whatever else you
Need!
Total: $$ Lots of fun!!
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CUSTOMER
COPY
Date
(Friday, February 10th)
Time
(arrive around 5:00pm)
Pickup
(11:00am Saturday)
Thank
You J
Insert a picture of a bar code here,
I googled bar code images and chose
one to insert
So I'm not the most techie person and didn't know how to post my document of the invite we sent out, so, I copied and pasted it on my post, sorry. As you can see it was a shopping party. I did up invites on the computer to look like shopping receipts, cut them into the proper width, used our own address and phone number of course, and inserted a bar code at the bottom. we rolled them up and put them inside bags to give to the girls, kind of like a shopping receipt in the bottom of your shopping bag, lol. The kids thought it was a great invite, and when we returned home each girl got a pretty little cake of her own to eat. I gave each girl $10 to shop with, and at Ardene's they can buy loot bags 2/$5 for small ones, or 2/$8 for the larger ones. Which the girls then opened and traded and wore all the neon accessories and humongous earrings, and bangles etc...
Alrighty sorry about the length of this post I got a little carried away. My birthday planning days will soon be ending and I had to reminisce. Both my girls are now at the ages where they just want to go out with their friends, the mall is always a good choice to them, and my son who knows when he will decide to be done, his this year was only with a few buddies and they went all over the city doing whatever boys like to do, bowling, video games, ice cream, and home to run around screaming and getting scratches on their knees from tackling each other on the lawn.
We just had a momentary power outage here. Whew....Those darn leaky clouds...thunder and lightening, which, I am a storm lover, so I am not complaining.
Till next time my friends, hope I have given some of you a few ideas, and if not, hope you liked what I posted. I am always open to more ideas, I have neices and nephews still that I can plan for, heehee...leave me a comment please. Chat soon
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