Real Parties: Mad Scientist Party

Brittany over at One Charming Party has one charming website and several charming parties, including this amazingly entertaining party theme for boys... a Mad Scientist party. However, Brittany does warn this party isn't for the faint of heart, as you must a restrain yourself from cleanup at least till the end of the party!

Brittany graciously offers:

• A complete list of experiments 
• Detailed instruction for the first five experiments and last five experiments 
• Easy DYI tips for personalized mad scientist lab coats, and 
• A list of party supplies and equipment

Check out more wacky experiments photo pics over at the One Charming Party blog. 

CHEERS AND HAPPY PLANNING, 

~ STEPHANIE

Real Parties: Carson's Robot Party

A couple things that I love about my friend Holly, besides being a creative person by nature, is that she always thinks outside the box and has a great eye for detail. So it was no surprise that she threw a fantastic robot-themed party for her son Carson's 5th birthday. Holly used random knick-knacks from around her house to make her own unique robots... spare buttons, plastic bottle caps, anything she found just worked. Great job, Holly! You are such a fun, creative person!

Between raising 2 beautiful kids (Carson-5 & Hadley- 1) and being the ultimate go-to person, Holly fulfills her love for all things paper with Simply Stated- a stationary and invite business.

Real Parties: Rockstar 4th Birthday

We finally had our Rock Star 4th birthday party this past weekend and aside from the quick planning- we had a blast! :)

Since the birthday girl is a fan of Hannah Montana, we used Hannah Montana colors: light blue, light purple, with a little pink & silver thrown in.

The colorful number four flags were downloaded from Fog and Thistle, printed and attached to tooth picks as cupcake toppers. Luck for me, the download was available as a free download!

Valeree, Cookies by Valeree, made these fantastic Hannah Montana guitar cookies for us. She did a great job. Due to peanut allergies, I had the cookies made with vanilla extract, instead of almond. 

It's quite obvious that i made the cupcakes myself. I used fluffy white icing and food coloring, however, next time I'll try for a thicker icing.

Party Favors

• Kraft boxes- found at Michael's
• Star-worthy sunglasses- found at Party City
• individually wrapped Hannah Montana guitar cookies
• Hannah Montana pen & paper - found at Hobby Lobby, and
• A pink candy-filled bag to coordinate with our theme: Pop Rocks, Blow Pop, Ring Pop, rock candy and a candy necklace. 
• Not shown in picture: homemade CD's with music playlist from party

Party Activities

• Create your own microphones: These were pre-constructed a couple days before (okay, the night before) the party by cutting 5" styrofoam rods (microphone base), then hot glued an aluminum foil wrapped styrofoam ball to the base. At the party, kids decorated with sparkly stickers and crayons or markers.
• Maracas/Noise Makers: For this we gave each child empty baby food jars and let them fill with assorted candy. Then they decorated with stickers.

Real Parties: Little Red Car Theme

Swoon... this has to be the most adorable boy's party EVER. Hold on. Okay, I think I've stopped drooling enough to post these pictures already.

Party details posted over at imprintables blog
This adorable Little Red Car Party theme was created by Scissors.Paper.Cake

Real Parties: I Might Even be a Rock Star

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm will be planning a Rock Star party for my 4yearold daughter, Emily. So as I trek through the party planning process, I will make sure to share about all the little party details until it all comes together.

First up, invites, of course! Since I'm running low on time (less than 2 weeks), I will not have time to special order the invitations so instead I will create my own.

This invite was created on Microsoft Publisher, utilizing a little clipart and an array of fonts.

One minor but important step down, many more steps to go! Here we go! :)