How is it possible that my baby girl is a whole 7 years old today?? It seems like just yesterday I was in the hospital having the birth experience from hell *shudder* lol. We are having a birthday party for her on the 17th (we are up to 3 yes's out of 9 now...still trying not to panic about not hearing from more...), so as I mentioned yesterday I will post about what we have planned, food, the draft etc and maybe some of you will find some helpful ideas for planning your own "Tea Party" themed birthday!
To start off I got these super cute Invites to send out! You can check them out HERE. They have a lot of cute tea party themed stuff, but I was only interested in the invites. :)
How cute are those right?? Next up is the food! Going along with the theme we are going to be having finger sandwiches. I am thinking cucumber ones, jam, tuna salad and cherry cream cheese ones. My friend Jen gave me this recipe and it sounds pretty good...
Cheery Cherry Sandwiches
16 oz. cream cheese
slivered almonds (optional)
large jar maraschino cherries with some liquid
Soften cream cheese. Cut up cherries and add to cream
cheese. Add enough cherry juice to make soft sandwich spread.
Add almonds, if desired. Spread on white bread, trim crusts, cut into
desired shapes.
Besides the sandwiches we will also be having fruit kabobs and juice straight from a teapot! lol I am hoping to get to IKEA this weekend to pick up a three tire stand. The look I am going for is something along these lines...
I decided against making a cake and wanted to make some decorated cupcakes instead. I decided to go with a recipe I found at PINK CAKE BOX. I LOVE the way her cupcakes look! I am going to try and recreate her frosting look and I picked up some very girly and pretty decorations to put on top!
I am going to be using her recipe for RED VELVET CUPCAKES AND CREAM CHEESE FROSTING. I am pretty sure I am going to tint the frosting pink though!
That bring us to the craft. I had a bit of a hard time trying to decide on a craft for the party. There were a lot of good ideas out there and we took a trip to the craft store in the mall and got some ideas. We finally settled on having the girls decorate their own masks...
I bought feathers, sequins, glitter, little plastic jewels and we will also have markers. I'll set out dishes of glue and brushes and let them have at it. LOL I am trying not to think about the mess I am going to have on my floor after, but at least the table will be covered. I think this will be a fun craft for the girls and they can set the masks aside to dry whilst we eat cupcakes and open gifts.
Lastly are the party favors, I wanted something that went along with the general theme and was cute and would hopefully last awhile. I found some cheap tea cups and saucers at the store and will fill one of those for each girl with little trinkets, stickers and candy. I found some cute girly yoyos, some ink stamps, stickers, some heart shaped candy and a few other types of candy. I am then going to wrap those in cellophane (note to self, buy colored cellophane) and tie them with a pink ribbon and name tag!
So that is pretty much what we have planned. The party is two and a half hours, so hopefully that is long enough to get everything we have planned done and hopefully the girls have a blast!! Now just keep your fingers crossed that a few more give me a "yes" they are coming! LOL So that will wrap things up for today. I hope you have a great one and until next time..TATA!!
sounds like a great party...Love all the yummy food you will be serving.
Wish your sweetie a very happy birthday !!!!
Posted by: sonja | January 08, 2009 at 09:45 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA!!!
Eve, you are simply AMAZING dearest one and I'm thinking if you send all of those invited, that have not yet replied, a link to your blog, they shall SURELY say YES, YES, YES, we would LOVE to come!!!
I ADORE the TEA PARTY theme and it is just PERFECT for such a young lady as Miss Sophia. How I wished I had of had more resources available when my children were growing up! Now, I can live vicariously through you and your family!!!
Hmmm ... am I on that invite list??? ROFL! It ALL sounds so DELISH and FUN!
Keeping fingers and toes crossed for more replies!
Hugs,
Linda :)
Posted by: Linda Walton aka bobbysgirlforever (Bon Scrapatit Designs) | January 08, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Very fun! Looks like it's going to be a great party. Happy birthday to Sofia, and happy birth-giving day to you too, Eve!
Posted by: barb | January 08, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Love your party plans Eve! Everything sounds so nice...she is gonna have an awesome birthday party! Don't stress about only 3 invites...if only 3 show up she will still have an amazing time! Kids are just like that. Can't wait to see pictures from the big event!
Posted by: KeeMacKayMom | January 08, 2009 at 01:21 PM
Sounds like it'll be a blast! Happy 7th Birthday Sophia!!
Posted by: Jennifer (Jennilyn) | January 08, 2009 at 01:46 PM
Sounds like it is going to be quite a party! Happy Birthday to you little girl!
Posted by: Jenn Page | January 08, 2009 at 03:58 PM
Oh my goodness! What pretty pictures! I was drooling over this post :)
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Babs | January 09, 2009 at 12:39 PM