Sophia's 2nd Best Day Ever Birthday Party: Mommy's DIYs

Little S turned 2 last April 3. Two. Already. Can you believe it? Wasn't just I pregnant with her?

So yeah, she’s already two and we gave her a Tangled Theme for her birthday, obviously for the reason that she’s glued to “tita Rapunzel”…. She adores and loves the movie so much that she makes us watch it at least twice a day.  I can hear me speak the lines without stutter already. (bravo to mommy)

Unlike her First Birthday that was a bit grand, we threw her a simpler birthday party. We celebrated her birthday with close friends and families. So tangled alright, the only problem I had was that there weren’t enough party supplies for our theme and that I had only two weeks to prepare for the party.

I did the impossible, and made a lot of DIYs in two weeks’ time. Good thing I have few happy helpers who are inclined and happy to give a hand. I could have done so much better if I started planning early, that’s a lesson learned but then again my mind and body seems to work better on the 11^th hour. Hhehehe…

But nonetheless Sophia’s 2^nd birthday, like the first was a” Mom’s and Dad’s work of love”.

We held her party at Kaka and Mimi's ( my parent's) House. Thanks to the ever stage grandparents we've saved a lot of mulah !!! 

Let me present to you Sophia's tarpaulin. It took me a week to make the layout. It was brain wrecking, promise. But I was very happy and contented with the outcome. When Sophia saw it she jumped up and down with adoration and delight. She was so happy. I was so proud of myself. (patting myself for a job well done) 

Oh the Buntings, I made them too. I got the idea from  here.

The Invitation and the mini standees:

I made a tower invitation for Sophie, got the inspiration from here. I just inserted her picture and instead of the blond hair Rapunzel has I made her a golden brown hair out of embroidery yarn to match her natural hair color.

The mini standees were so fun to make, and it was a hit. I made 7 mini standees with different pictures of her, after the party everybody took it as a souvenir and some asked me if I can make more so they can all have one each. But hey it was part of the centrepiece not a souvenir lol.

Every princess deserves a castle. Now this one I give credits to Maury. He built it for her unica hija.

I made her standees the night before her birthday. It seems complicated to do but it's actually easy only time consuming.

DIY Cake and Cupcake Toppers, Lollipop Topiary, Pascal Blower and Sophie's Picture for more personal touch.

Sexy DressToppers 

I also made her a beautiful centerpiece but didn't get to take pics of it. I wanted to show you guys pa naman sana.

Doing a DIY home birthday party is fun but very challenging especially for working moms like me. I've learned a few lessons, first to plan ahead of time like 3 months maybe. Second is to hire or assign someone to do the photography so nothing is going to be missed out, because at the middle of the party Nikky (our DSLR) died on me because I forgot to charge it.... Arghhhh.... And lastly, ask help from your friend or family because even if we are super moms, we only got 2 hands and we can only do so much.

PhoebeCarla

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Sophia's 2nd Best Day Ever Party: Castle Photobooth

Every princess deserves a nice castle.

If you've read my previous posts before, you now know now that our little girl is super into "Tangled' the movie. Thus the Birthday theme. Thus the making her a castle.

'Making', because we want to stick on our budget and besides, I like things handmade because they always represent labor of love plus the fact that I'm so into kuting things...

I made the standee, but I'll talk about it more in my next post and maybe a little 'how to' if time permits because it seems complicated to make but they are really fun and easy.

The Castle Photobooth, I give credits to hubby for taking time cutting out and making her princess a castle, knowing how busy he is, he managed to make time. That I call love :)

Photobooth

Maury made the photobooth 2 days before the party. We just made used of the carton from an old Ref, painted it some cartolinas, decorative papers and plastic plant decors the ones found in any home section of the department store. And lastly let's not forget Rapunzel's Golden hair made of crochet yarns. 

Even Kuya Icee helped out.

Sophia was there to supervise daddy the whole time. 

She adoring her even undone castle was such a joy.. I know we made her happy. I can see her eyes twinkle as she looks at it. And during the actual party, she bragged about it to everybody. 

She's just so adorable. 

The photo booth was a hit. The guests love it. But most importantly we made our little princess very happy with her castle.

Queen Lalah and princess Sophie

Have a blessed weekend you all. Stay Safe :)

PhoebeCarla

Icee's 9th Super Mario Birthday Party

Icee's 9th Birthday party last saturday, July 16 was a blast!!!!...  Our parent's garage were filled with classroom full of kids from Icee's class. Thankfully the kid's parents allowed their children to come and celebrate with us, we picked them up at school around 2 pm and brought them back 5:30 pm at the same place.

Given the conditions he set for the party, I'd say it was a success, Moreover because I made him one Super happy celebrant, everybody had fun and won't stop talking about the great party we throw for my nephew Icee. :)








The invite, thank you stickers and tarpaulin:
The invites were given 3 days before the party, to his classmates. I had fun making the layouts for both the invite and tarp. For a week, Mario and the cast gave me constant nightmares... lol



added Icee's pics for a more personal touch



Candy Buffet and favor buffet

These are mostly DIYs, (party hats, cupcake toppers, star nametags, favor boxes and layouts for the thank you stickers) due to lack of Super Mario party supplies in our place or maybe due to lack of time, to look for supplies. What a girl to do? be resourceful and be creative. :)

50 Favor Boxes (here) were filled with candies and goodies.

Mustache and Lollies

Cupcakes

Nope I didn't bake the cupcakes, baking and cooking, that I still need to learn. But I made the cupcake toppers though, heheheh :)

The Games/ Activities

I printed out Mario Character, poster size for the "pin the mustache" and Yoshi for the egghunt. I forgot to take photos of the plastic eggs before we hid it for the kids to find, but it was a hit and now Icee wants to play egghunt this weekend.

Here are few pics of the Pin the Mustache Game:

this is how Mario looked after the game (poor Mario) hahahahah

the all time classic game, Pabitin and Pinata:

Since there were no costumes available, I had Mario, Luigi printed on my Kuya (Icee's dad) and Icee's shirt and made a matching "mario-luigi" party hat.

And lets not forget, "princess peach" aka Princess "S" with her matching crown

Few more pics:

Best Cousins: Super I and Little S

Happy Birthday Super Kuya Icee

PhoebeCarla

P.S.

Found a lot of inspiration  from other mommies in the net. I would like to thank all of them, how I wish I could remember each, but I will be updating this from time to time so I can give credit where credit is due. I will be posting individual posts on the DIYs soon :)

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