Yes, here we are. My little tiny baby girl who I thought would stay a baby forever surprised me a couple weekends ago by turning four. OMG. Can you believe that? Me either. Her birthday party was INSANE. My mom and I spent months planning it and it went perfect.
The theme we decided on was Flower Fairies. I wanted something beautiful but not cartoony and fun. I loved the look of these. Supringly months earlier my mom had set the theme by purchasing real plates and platters that matched the theme. I cant believe we both had the exact same idea. I was also able to find a place that sold paper products, table decor, balloons and even a huge vinyl banner. We also made full on Flower Fairy costumes for each girl with skirts, wings, wands, and head pieces. Yes, we made all of them by hand and it took a LONG time. The party would be held at my moms house because her house is super nice and super huge and she has a empty craft room and bonus room upstairs that were perfect to party in.
Invite- First was the invite we sent out to everyone. I put her on a black backdrop in a fairy costume and took her pics then my sister made the invite. This one doesn't have the writing but it said Miss G invites you to a Flower Fairy tea party and had the time and address on the front. It even had a note on the back with a cute rhyme and a pretty flower fairy printed on them telling them the specs and directions. I mounted them on a cute gray card stock and glued the info to the back and they turned out amazing!
Decorations- I could of killed myself for not getting pics of all of it better. I even missed the doorways she decorated with these pretty hanging fairies that are now in Miss G's room hanging from her ceiling. But you can get an idea!
Its too bright but you can see one of those cute fairies in the chair...this was at the top of the stairs...
The entrance to the room where we ate...hard to see but she had this woodsy stuff hanging down..
the kids table beautifully decorated with butterflies on each chair...
The cake table and the fairy cottage my mom decorated...you can see the favor boxes under the table. Her cute banner we had made.
Up close of the cottage...
finally the window where the food was. We did all the games and present openings in the bonus room which was lightly decorated but I didn't get any pics...sigh.
Costumes- Mom, sister and I worked weekends on the outfits but I did the main grunt worked spending probably 48 hours finishing them alone. I had so many burns from that glue gun my hands looked diseased. We made skirts out of tons of tulle and then hot glued flowers at the waist and added ribbon and gems, the wings we got at dollar tree and ripped off everything and then recovered them with new tights, added the flowers, ribbons and sparkles and attached them to the girls with ribbon. The head pieces were plain headbands that I wrapped ribbon around all over and then added flowers and ribbon. Last was the wands which we used wooden dowels and wrapped them in ribbon, added the same flowers on top and had ribbons streaming down. All the girls outfits had different flowers but all the flowers on their pieces matched. Oh, also all the flowers were sprayed with sparkly glitter. I didn't take any pics of them all together before the kids got them on and I could kick myself for that but you will see them shorty.
Menu-I also had bought fairy cook books and made so many cute food items. Like magic marshmallow wands which were pink or chocolate marshmallows on a dowel with candy melt on top with sprinkles. Then we had sandwiches which were sourdough bread cut into circles and then another cutter used on top in the shape of a heart or flower with preserves inside some, cucumbers in others and some with ham. I also made tiny cheese scones in the shape of hearts and flowers. My mom made pink fizzy punch and rainbow parfaits. My MIL made the beautiful fairy cake and bug cupcakes. There was surely enough sugar there.
Her pretty cake my MIL made. I made the mushrooms out of marzipan.
and bug cupcakes...
on the table and you can see my marshies in the back.
and finally the sandwiches and scones...yumm-o!
Games- We had several fun but easy games. I lucked out and found a game called pin the fairy on the flower. We also had a huge terracotta pot with 4 big plush flowers in it with plastic rings made out of tubing and they had to try to throw them over the flowers. We also made 4 flowers to put on the floor and with our fairy music we played musical flowers and the girls would dance and when the music stopped who ever wasn't on a flower was out removing a flower each time but I don't have any pics of that game. Last, I had a big teapot pinata that was filled to the top with tons of sugary candy. It had the string conversion kit on the bottom so they didn't have to hit it just pull the strings. At the end of the games I gave each girl a prize. We had magnetic paper dolls and other nice gifts for them.
Pin the fairy on the flower...
Miss G's turn...she won!
Musical Fairies...
Miss G when she lost the game..hey its her party..right?
finally, the pinata!!! Yeah!
all the candy!
Craft. We did a cute craft making simple fairies out of pipe cleaners, wooden bead, flower petals and yarn. But the kids were so busy they didn't want to sit still to do it so us moms ended up doing that. They were really cute though.
Favors- Finally the favor boxes. Even though at each girls table they got jewelry to wear, a bubble, stamp ink pen and a ceramic fairy at the end of the party they had to go around the two rooms and each find a little plastic fairy doll. When they found the doll they each got a favor box. They were cute boxes shaped like flower pots that I had put really special transfers of fairies on each one. There was so much inside you can just look at the pics. Miss G's box is shown but all the other girls got a tinkerbell pin and their dust had a wand. Her box kinda got the leftovers.
The box!
The goods inside with Little G trying to snatch it all...
The party went amazing. The girls arrived and my MIL was dressed up as the fairy Godmother. She sprinkled each of the with fairy dust and then helped them put on their outfits. They were sooo excited and then they all ran upstairs to see the fairy world my mom had created. She really out did herself and I didn't even get a pic of all of it and I could kick myself. She had made it so magical for them. They all came in a danced to the fairy music that was playing and then played the pin the fairy game. After that they ate some of the food and then played a couple more games. Then, it was time for cake and crafts. Finally, Miss G opened up her presents and then they did the pinata and found the favor boxes. The party lasted 4 hours and each mom joked that they left with more than they came with since they got to take home the costumes, prizes and favor boxes. Everyone said it was the most beautiful party they had every been too. It really was a four year olds dream come true. It was a ton of work and money but the memories she has of it and we have are so worth it. What an amazing fourth birthday!
Miss G getting dressed!
Getting wings...
Flying up to fairy world...
Up the stairs they goooo...
All the girls dressed up...yeah its not fun trying to get a group shot!
Miss G dancing....
All the fairies dancing
She wasn't impressed at all...not one bit!
Another of my big girl
Busy girls...
eating all that sugar!!!
Beautiful girl
Blowing out another year...she got them all!
All eating cake!
My favorite.
Opening gifts..
So excited to get her new mermaid bike...
Thats all for now folks. Wonder why I don't post more? This one took about 2 whole hours. My house is now trashed and the kids are starving. Life is impossible. It takes forever to upload pics on typepad. I hope you enjoyed!
One more so you can see them both...I took yesterday. He was a little scruffy.
