Firefighter Party -Invitations

Yep, straight into another party to plan here (YAY!) My little guy, Harris, turns 3 in just 2 short weeks so after a flick through the much loved cake books I seem to be accumulating Harris chose a fire engine cake and from there the theme was decided - Firefighter!!
With a firefighter uncle and Grandfather Harris has a few firefighter bits and pieces already that will come in handy for decorations etc but first we had to think about the invitations. Out came Harris' real firefighters helmet and his dress up firefighters jacket (just a black jacket I put yellow duct tape all over) and I snapped a handful of pics.


I then found this Firetruck Custom Photo Birthday Invite by
Mohr Invitations for Less on etsy. A quick email sent with the photos, a request to change a few words around and to add some more yellow to the invite and we had our invitations ready to print.


Cute hey? I love the wording:

Sound The Alarm,
Slide Down The Pole,
Get Fired Up,
We're Ready To Roll!

It's time to celebrate,
so grab your gear.
Fireman Harris is
Turning 3 This Year!

Friday 2nd March from 5:30pm
Costin Fire Station

RSVP to the Fire Chief

Invites went out late last week and were received very well - looks like we'll have a house full of little Firefighters on March 2nd - woohoo!!

Butterfly Party - Invitation: Part 2!

Step 1 of the invitations for Milla's Butterfly Party posted HERE was lots of fun and super easy so now to tell you about step 2 of the process... getting that photo and the party info to come together!!

I like the idea of having a little fun with the words on an invitation, it's a great way to get the guests in the mood for the day. So while blow drying my hair one morning (that's when I seem to come up with all my ideas) I played around with some butterfly words and the party details and came up with the following for the invitation....

My oh my,
we'd love you to flutter on by.
To celebrate with the little caterpillar,
who is now 4 year old butterfly Milla!

Join us for afternoon tea on
Saturday 3rd Dec at the butterfly nest
address
From 1:30 - 3:30 for fluttering butterfly fun!

I know, I know, total win with Milla rhyming with Caterpillar!!

So then off to Etsy I went on the hunt for someone, much better with graphic design than me, to turn all these bits into a pretty invite. I fell in love with THESE Butterfly Number invitations from Luna Petunia Designs and grabbed them right away. Denise, who is the clever one behind Luna Petunia Designs, was absolutely wonderful with the designing - I just emailed her the photo and the wording, told her our colour theme and away she went - I'm thrilled with the result and Milla thinks they are rather fabulous too - what do you think??

Butterfly Party - Invitation: Part 1!

Now before we go too much further into party plans for Milla's 4th Butterfly Birthday we need to think about invitations of course.

I wanted something fun & simple but something that passes on the butterfly feel to guests and most importantly an invitation that Milla can help me create - thinking caps were on!! Then I saw a THIS via Pinterest (seriously, I LOVE Pinterest) and just knew we would be able to do our version of the fun photo then turn it into an invitation somehow.

So with 2 packs of sidewalk chalk (the thick stuff not the regular thin chalk that breaks every time you try to use it) and a patch of concrete, Milla and I got to drawing HUGE butterfly wings together. We didn't worry too much about making them perfect we just had fun and made them a good size so once Milla was lying down between them they looked in proportion.


Then with me standing on a chair so I could get all of the newly coloured wings and Milla in the photo I just snapped away while Milla had a giggle - so much fun!! These are just some of the pics I managed to get... And of course Harris wanted a turn too.


I think this is the one that we'll go with for the invitation... I'll show you it once it's all finished ;)

Happy Friday Find

Weddings, weddings, weddings! Over the next 13 months our family will witness 3 different weddings! My Father in law's in early May, my brothers in November and my Sisters in April next year.

I can't wait for each and every one and have marked my calendar with the dates of these 'big days'... which lead me to this weeks Happy Friday Find: Bunting Banner Save The Date from Grey Likes blog


Seriously, how cool is this?! so original and fun for your guests to receive!! I'm thinking I need to stash this idea away then tweak it a little to make them party invitations!!
Happy Friday xx

Soccer Party Planning

Yep, another party!! hehehehe!
This time it's for my little man, Harrison. Harris turns 2 in a few weeks time and is a lover of all things balls - if you can kick it, throw it, whack it, catch it - Harris wants to play with it... So a soccer party was a pretty obvious answer for this years birthday celebrations.


After a little google searching I had an inspiration board thrown together in green, black and white so I sent an email off to Samone from Cake Ink to help me with invites. I LOVE what she came up with and especially love the wording 'Kick Off' for party date & time 'Ground' for address and 'RSVP to Referee Amy' - cute!! (I've edited out the personal details like phone numbers)


I'll let you in on little details of the party planning as the party date gets closer but thought I'd start with the obvious - the bunting!