Space Ranger Nici turns 2!

It's hard to believe our little munchkin Nici turned 2 on the 29th April 2011.

We had a small party with a space theme not to mention 2 celebrations before that.

Here is the invite I created using some images I saw on the net as inspiration as I wanted the retro rocket vintage look and think I achieved it. I added ink on all of the edges to give it a vintage smoked effect then added glitter which the boys played with so will have to re apply and add a better image later.

All in all, I was happy with it and what made me more happy was the boys worked out what it was and ran around the house making rocket sounds and yelling rocket.... rocket!

I must have done an alright job.

Here are some pics of the decorations and games.

I think the Birthday boy, his brothers and Kieren had a fun time especially when it came to blowing out the candles.  Nici had his turn (being the birthday boy and all) then everyone else had their turn.  They had a hoot just blowing out candles!

The cake shape was inspired by something I found on the Internet. Will add when when I find it.
 

 

Our Beautiful Family!

(Taken by Ari, Thank you!) 

I will take another picture tomorrow showing you what I do with the decorations after I have finished.  To give you an idea.....the theme moves its way into the birthday boys room and stays there until his next birthday, next year.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Ciao for now!

All Aboard for a Train Party

I really enjoyed organising this party.  To see our boys faces when they arrived at the miniature railway all dressed up in their railway workers outfits was priceless.

 

I chose red and black as the theme for my twin boys birthday party.


Red and black balloons were punched out of paper then were scattered on the table.  The cutlery was wrapped in a black napkin then tied with twine. You can just make out a black box under the rectangular red dish.  I painted the tops of cardboard boxes and used them to elevate platters. Giving the table a little more height.


Two holes were punched on the right hand side of the lolly bag labels to hold a balloon.  That way every child left the party with a balloon.

Train cut outs from black cardstock adorned my cupcake stand.  The silhouette image was found on the internet. 

There were cupcakes with liquorice tracks and others with stars in the midnight sky.

This mini birthday cake banner was made to match the life size one I made for the party.  A little twine and skewers was all that was needed to finish the mini banner off.

I was inspired by other sites for the train cake and colour scheme but the mountain cake and mini banner was an experiment by me. 

Happy 3rd Birthday boys!