Parties! 6 Year Old Bowling!

One of the things I love most about 5/6 year olds is how much they know what they love! This week I worked on a special birthday party for my friend's daughter who is turning 6. She called me a few weeks back and said, unsurprisingly, that there was really no great bowling party goods out there for her party. (I say unsurprisingly because in the past few years I feel like party goods in general have gone downhill and it is nearly impossible to find things in good themes!)

So we chatted for a while and I started dreaming up awesome ideas for her party. We decided to do a t-shirt with a small "pocket" design on the front and large design on the back. Thanks to my talented cousin, I made her matching hair bows with bowling pin centers. And for party favors, my favorite little water bottles with personalized bowling pins for each of the party guests! 

A few of my favorite things about them.... I LOVE the bowling pins, which I purposely put 6 of (even though no one will notice but me!) I also "bling-ed" them up a bit with glitter stripes on each of them, and a glitter-ed bowling ball. I think my most favorite part is this fun, retro-looking font. To me it looks like what you would see on an old bowling sign from the 50's! 

Super fun party to help with, I can't wait to hear how much the birthday girl loves her new stuff! :)

Parties! Winter ONEderland

Every once in a while I get a phone call from a friend who says "I know you are super busy, but my son/daughters birthday is coming up and I was wondering if you had time to help me make some stuff...... but no pressure, if it's too much, just say no." YEAH RIGHT!! Like I would ever turn down the opportunity to create something awesome for a birthday party-- or for any party for that matter!

Usually these calls end up with me agreeing to do whatever I can, spending at least an hour on Pinterest "researching," and then sitting in bed all night with ideas swirling around my head. Hundreds of ideas. Wayyyyyyy too many for a "normal" family party. 

I've had three of these calls in the last month, four if you count my phone call this morning that was really just a conversation but already has my head spinning with thoughts! (Thanks Kari!) ;) 

Since I haven't mailed all of the stuff away to the birthday girls, and some things are a surprise for an upcoming party, I can't share all 3 of them today, but here is one I did right before Christmas.

This was for a Winter ONEderland party-- What a super cute idea, right??!! (No, it wasn't my idea, it was the Mom's idea, I just created for it!) 

She bought the tutu, but I made her the shirt using heat-transfer vinyl, and then on the bottom photo these are a highchair banner (great idea if you are short on wall space to just have a small banner to hang across the front of your highchair tray!) and some little cupcake toppers (put on toothpicks and stuck into the tops of your cupcakes. Talk about simple and easy, but so pretty!)

What I love about all three of these things is that they are simple, classic, and took that little family party  and gave it that little extra touch of special! :)

Now, back to work on the bowling party I'm doing for a six year old girl.....