Tinkerbell Party

It's Friday! We're finishing out our week off of school with plenty of sun and warmer temperatures than we've been having lately, thankfully! The icky grey skies and chilly weather has had me constantly dreaming of warm breezes and the smell of spring flowers. I thought today would be the perfect time to flashback to a sweet birthday party we had when our littlest miss turned two. She was completely obsessed with all things Tinkerbell so I knew we would be having a Pixie Hollow party.

I chose lavender and sage green for the main color scheme and stuck with simple fairy accents rather than anything overly cartoon-y. My sister Kate let me borrow her Cricut (...again...it's on my list...) and her Tinkerbell cartridge. I used it to cut the lettering on the banner, the fairies on the tent cards for the buffet and also for the fairy details on the invitation. I set the beverages on the sideboard and hung the banner above. I also printed and framed a little quote, "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."

I collected some branches from our backyard and hot glued lavender silk flowers randomly on each one. I Cruicut-ed a few paper butterflies and hung those from a few branches along with some colored glass crystals. I put the branches in a green vase and added it to the buffet table.

We typically plan our parties for late in the afternoon so we can coordinate naps and avoid our kids having complete meltdowns in the middle of everything. Also, despite all of my crazy lady lists and planning, I always need every extra second of the day I can squeeze in. That all being said, for these late afternoon parties, we typically don't need to have a huge amount of food. For this one, we had Fairy Fruit Wands (grapes and strawberries on bamboo skewers with a star-shaped piece of honeydew melon at the top), Sugared Butterflies (iced butterfly sugar cookies), Twisted Twigs (pretzel sticks), Rosetta's Garden Veggies, Fawn's Acorn Treats (Mini Nutter Butter cookies with Hershey's Kisses), Pixie Hollow Hummus, Pixie Pops (large marshmallows dipped in white chocolate with purple sprinkles), and Fairy Berry Cupcakes. For beverages, we had Tinker Tonic (sprite and lime sherbet), Silvermist's Dew Drops (bottled waters) and Iridessa's Icy Lemonade.

I recruited my dad to handle this cake. My amazing dad, who happens to be the smartest man alive and can build and fix anything, has made countless cakes for myself and my sisters while we were growing up. Minnie Mouse, Jasmine, Nala, Pongo from 101 Dalmations, Anjelica from Rugrats, Shrek- the list goes on. I'm sure he figured he was off the hook once we grew up, but every once in a while we ask him to take on yet another. He cuts and pieces the cake into whatever shape of the character and then ices them, freehand. It's ridiculous. He will tell you he hates doing it and he will criticize every bit of it once he's finished, but it's always incredible. We just have to bribe him with Starbucks to do it.  

  

 

I ended up finding this template for the little Tink favor boxes. I found a lime green cardstock and cut and assembled them. Then I embellished each with vellum wings, a thin satin ribbon belt and paper flower. I added pixie stick wands with a small paper star on the end. Inside, I tucked some small candy treats, bubbles and a tiny jar of pixie dust. A couple years ago, Michaels carried a Recollections Vintage Romance line and I was lucky enough to find this six piece set of glitter in tiny corked jars, which were just perfect for pixie dust!

We have a little coat/storage closet off our front foyer so I decided to transform it into a little dress up room for the kids. I hung a tulle canopy inside along with some fairy costumes on the rack, added a few Tinkerbell accents along with a Pixie Hollow sign on the door. I placed a small table inside with a vase full of fairy wands for the guests to take home. I made the wands using wooden dowels wrapped in satin ribbon with light green and lavender tulle attached at the top. 

 

Our little miss absolutely loved her Tinkerbell party. We kept some of the decorations out until her actual birthday a few days later and I made a little coordinating Tink bunting to top her cake. She still remembers this little party and asked to have it again this year, nearly two years later! It was so much fun to put together and extra fun to look back on today!

Happy weekend, everyone! And remember, if things get tough all you need is "faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust!" (Probably coffee too.)

xoxo,