Free Father's Day Printables

{Freebie}

from The Spotted Canary

from Denna's Ideas

from the mombot

from Sweet Memories

from Sweet Scarlett

from Papercraft Inspiration

from Dress My Cupcake

Happy Father's Day!

It's finally time for POPSICLES!

I love popsicles (and ice cream,) but it is hard for me to indulge in these treats unless the sun is shining. Popsicles mark the official start of summer for me and to celebrate the first day of my kids' summer break from school, we have invited some friends over for a summer popsicle party today.  (More on that in another post.)
Popsicles are not just for eating though.  I hope that my Etsy Treasury inspires you in your summer fun.

Popsicles for Wearing:

Necklace by Pink Island

Ruffle Tee by Julianne Originals

Earrings by One Ugly Unicorn

Popsicles for Crafting:

Popsicle Sticks by Sucre Shop

Flat Back by Bling It 2

Popsicles for Playing:

Felt Popsicles by Katie Fish Designs

Wooden Play Food by BYOI

Popsicles for Partying:

Invitation by Petite Party Studio

Cupcake Picks by Sweete Steele

Favor Stickers by Bellezaeluce

Graduation Party Supplies

Its that time of year again.  Celebrate your 2013 special graduate with cupcake wrappers, cupcake stands, washi tape, stamped wooden utensils, tissue pom poms, paper straws and more, available now from Little Bird Celebrations.  Order soon to receive your shipment in time for your graduation party!

Unicorn with a Mustache Party

{Real Parties}

My middle child, Holden is a horse (or a unicorn,) of a different color.  He is fun, kooky, quick-witted, silly and humorous.  For his 9th birthday he dared me to base his small party at home on the following theme:
a unicorn with a mustache that poops rainbows.
Okay.........take a look at what I came up with and let me know if you think I hit the mark!

As soon as the theme was announced, I received this drawing from a talented cousin who quickly created this using his cell phone!  This is the image that I used for the invitations and various other parts of the party.

As guests arrived, they were asked to look the part by donning a unicorn horn and a mustache. (I threw some pink ones in as well as a special request from my dear daughter.)

When I searched Etsy for unicorn with a mustache there were few results, with the exception of this adorable, handmade stuffed animal.  Even cooler, the Etsy shop is owned by a 12 year old girl that makes these cuties!  Great job Maya from Twelve Stitches! 

I hung our new little mustached friend above the food/treat table along with some sky themed tissue pom poms.  I also used some rainbow tissue pom poms in the other room.

I figured it would be easy to just go with a rainbow theme and was lucky to find supplies such as napkins, plates and mini rainbow cocktail forks at my local Target store.  I stamped wooden dessert spoons with little mustaches and ordered some rainbow polka dot candy/nut cups to serve the rainbow sherbert in.

We set out individual bottles of colorful sodas like Jones and Izze donned with mustache drink markers so that the kids would know whose drink was whose.

We served rainbow colored food including fruit loops and goldfish crackers.  I made rainbow colored kettle corn and served it in the old fashioned looking popcorn machine that it was popped in.  I had read about someone else using Bugles as "unicorn horns" but I couldn't find them in the store so I substituted with these rolled up Dorritos.

For dessert we made Unicorn Poop Cookies.  You can find the recipe online but basically it is your basic sugar cookie dough divided into as many bowls as you have colors of food coloring.  Mix with the coloring. Take a pinch of one color dough at a time and roll between your hands (like when you were a kid and made playdough worms or snakes.) Do this with each color and then stack one on top of the other. Twist the colors together and continue to roll out into a "big snake."  Then coil the snake up in a clump of "poop."  Bake at 375 for about 12 minutes.  When the cookies come out of the oven, top with decorator gel and sprinkles.

Unicorn Poop Cookies

Instead of a traditional cake, I wanted to finally try out my Push Up Pops recipe book that I bought from Courtney Dial Whitmore.  So we made Rainbow Push Up Pops with bubble gum and cotton candy frosting.

Doesn't this picture of him just make you feel like you have to smile when you look at it? 

For activities I didn't want to do a ton of pre-planned things since in the words of my son, he just wanted to "hang out." But at the request of my party planning daughter, we did have "stick the mustache on the unicorn" using mustache magnets.

As additional time fillers, my eldest son helped me put together a playlist of their favorite you tube viral videos including "Charlie the Unicorn," "Nyan Cat," "Tobuscus," and "Llamas with hats to play in various rooms.  My kids are also obsessed with looking at memes, so we ran a slideshow of memes such as "Grumpy Cat," "Philosoraptor," "Baby Godfather," "LOL Cats" and "The Walking Dead."

My birthday boy is quite the ham/performer so I thought it would be fun to collect photos to remember him and his guests by by making a makeshift photo booth area. I hung crepe paper streamers to the wall and put out props like boas, big glasses, mustaches, hats and masks with a sign saying "I mustache you to pick some props and strike a pose."

These photos will be my favorite keepsakes from the party and I hope that Holden will look back at them someday and it will make him smile.

I think that my husband and I had some fun with the props too!

Yes that is me.  No those are not my real eyebrows.

Guests hit the candy and treats table before their departure.  (Don't mind my messy office as the backdrop.) They filled their candy bags with skittles, unicorn lollipops, was mustaches, rainbow gumball tubes, colored licorice, sour gummy worms, unicorn stickers, mustache buttons, whoopie cusions and rainbow tears (a little capsule of rainbow glitter.) Whew!

Each guest also got a unicorn beanie baby, complete with a mustache of course!

Go ahead, thrown your crazy party theme request at me and see what happens!