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 Birthday} Sophie's Style: Birthday Photoshoot

1 week before Sophia's 2nd Birthday I scheduled her photoshoot so I can finalize her Tarpaulin and I needed a good quality picture to make her a standee.

We didn't hire a professional photographer I just took her pictures with hubby's DSLR. The photoshoot was chaotic, as in. Super Duper to the highest level. Little S had so much fun. Maybe too much fun making me run after her. She wouldn't stay still. As in. I kept telling her, "anak, we are running out of time". To no avail, she was running and laughing and I was still all chasing her.

In my mind, i kept telling myself  "Patience is a virtue"


But really who could get mad when she's all looking like this.

Sha sha sha....I decided to just had fun with her and took her pictures, snapshot after snapshot... 

Until finally she stood still and said, "Mommy, picture". O diba Bongga bebe ko. She takes her time talaga. hahahah...

Sophia is having a Tangled Birthday Party. I searched anywhere for Rapunzel gowns but there was just none. At the mall, they only have Belle, Snow White, Cinderella, Jasmin, even Ariel but wala si Rapunzel. Why why why? Diba Disney Princess din naman si Rapunzel?  It was really so depressing because 2 weeks isn't enough to customize Rapunzel's gown.

Luckily I found this gown by IHA in Ayala Cebu. It isn't really a Rapunzel Dress but it's purple and she looks pretty on it. That made it perfect for the D' Day

This is going to be her standee

this will make a good mini standee

I was planning to make Mini standees for her as well to add to the centerpieces I'm making for her birthday, here are other pictures I took from her in a span of 1 week.

We reused the gown she wore at her Tita Jet and Tito Lloyd's wedding. She just loves this gown. I love it too.

Sophie’s Style:

Purple Gown:  IHA

Shoes: Rustanette

Gown # 2: Flower Girl Dress from here

Happy Monday, you all. It's sooooooooooooo nice to be blogging again.

PhoebeCarla

Love Notes for Sophia: First Birthday Cake

Sophia is one year old and 11 months today, which means, exactly a month from now she will be turning 2. 

I should start planning her birthday. I know I said I'll plan early as early as six months but here I am again.... 

My Ged.... I hope I can pull things off. I'm a little pressured because everybody is expecting a great party, because we threw one big First party for her last year. (Parang nag debut lang naman ang anak ko last year.)

We have our reasons why we had it grand, after the miscarriage I had before Sophia and the waiting and praying for another baby, and then I finally got pregnant with her again, for the whole 9 months I was scared to death of losing another baby, so when she turned one we just have to celebrate, our way of thanksgiving.

This year, we want to throw a simpler one for her. My mind is full of ideas already and I can't wait to start planning. I am in love with parties and small details. I'll be sharing it here in my blog and I'll be sharing Sophia's long overdue first birthday last year too in my next post. (crossing my fingers) It's going to be a fun post with lots of DIYs

Let's all have a great weekend :)

PhoebeCarla

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Love Notes for Sophia

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Birthday Cake

An earthquake hit Cebu last February 6. On my 30th birthday. 

It was horrifying but more on that on my next post, I'm still too shaken with the experience and honestly we still feel a little of its aftershocks. I hope it will go away soon. SOONEST.

My cousin posted in my FB

 "Ate, The world surprised you with an earthquake for your birthday, Fireworks are too boring na daw."  

At least, that made me laugh. 

Despite the tsunami scare, my mom prepared a cake for me. Seeing it on the table made my heart clap for joy.

Pink cake, with colorful tops... ah... I so miss this cake. Nothing beats a home baked cake made out of love. I used to have cakes like this when I was younger. And it's so nice of my mom to prepare one for me. It brings back good childhood memories. 

This is an inexpensive cake, but this cake means Happiness to me. Whats a birthday without a cake right? The best present I got so far. Thank you mommy for making me feel like a kid again. :)

PhoebeCarla

The Big 3-0: Oyster Bay

My Birthday is on February 6. But my birthday celebration has already started.

Last friday Jan. 20, I celebrated my 30th birthday with my dear friend Ann who turned 30 herself last Jan 7, we met halfway to celebrate together along with good friends who are like family to both of us.

Ann and I have been friends for 6 years now, we started as dentist associates and now we are business partners but more than that we are very very good friends, heck I see her more than Maury, so we're basically family, we are sisters.  I only have few friends but I'm so proud to say that I'm surrounded with wonderful people who cares and loves me. Ann is one of those friends, I can tell her anything good or bad and she knows I only mean well and it's vice versa. No pretentions, we can tell each other anything and we know we are not judged. 

Yes we are 30... and fabulous still... Remember age is just a number. :)

We dined in at Oyster Bay. I love it there, especially when you are going to do a lot of catch up with friends. It has a good ambiance, a beach set up with coconut trees, sands, a lagoon and sharks. Yes sharks but only small ones and harmless. 

I'll give you a little tour first.

Tables with umbrellas are located nearest to the lagoon where the sharks are. The floor is covered with white sands. If you want to have a romantic date with Hubby, this place is really nice, you can star gaze together, have private sweet conversation and when 7:30 pm comes for fish feeding, you can go ahead and  feed them together. 

You can choose where to eat, they have tables inside the air conditioned room which can accommodate 80 people, or you can dine al fresco style like we did. 

Since Cebu is still hype with Sinulog, thus their centerpiece.

We were a group of  8 and we all fit in their low, orange, and very comfy couch. (which I wanna take home together with the outdoor table with umbrella) 

Dr. George, Julius, Jao, Ann, Yads, Danver, Me and Hubby

We filled our hungry stomachs with these:

If you want to know more about Oyster Bay, visit their website here.

Short Chika.

Dr. George: Wala lang jud hibali Carl noh mu 30 ra jud diay mo. 

Me: As in. I can't believe I'm 30, I still feel like I'm 21...  

I remembered when I was still 23 fresh from Dent School, fresh from passing the licensure exam, I would have all my patients age 30 up to have their BP's taken. They always give me a shocking face, dropped mouth "WHAA"

I always ask them if they have maintenance drugs for Hypertension and Diabetes, again the shocking face and dropped mouth "WHAT"

Now, I'm 30 and I understand. 30 isn't that old pa diay noh? hahahaha...

Anyways, time for some birthday wish...  I'll blog about it soon

 

Happy Birthday to us.

More birthday post coming soon...

PhoebeCarla