Friday, April 20, 2012

Princess Tea Party

The Princess Tea Party in the Park that Eryn had been planning for nearly 5 months did not quite go as planned, but was fun and somehow worked out.


Due to SNOW we had to abandon the park idea and have it at our house.  This shot down Eryn's planning on playing on the swings and slides with her friends and "Chase the Princess" which is her version of tag.  Yes, she's IT and everyone has to try to catch her.

We frosted and ate tiny cupcakes.



The party favors that Eryn helped me put together.

Awesome all red Starburst Jellybeans in a container that once was home to roasted red peppers equals roasted red jelly beans.  Yeah, they were strange.  Not gross and not great, but different.  Lesson learned though.  Rinse out things like that with a little vinegar and that will kill any overpowering flavor that lingers in a jar.

Oreo Cookie Balls.  WOW!  These were super easy and amazing.

Cake balls made out of the large cupcakes that didn't turn out.


Princesses CAN have their elbows on the table.



The tea cups and plates were collected from thrift stores over the last few months.  It was a fun game finding them in all of the dishes and having REAL cups for the party.  The best part though was that because they were bought from second hand stores nothing really matched and if something broke it wouldn't have really mattered that much.

The girls had fun playing Duck Duck Goose.


Eryn really wanted to have silly pictures with her friends.  They were quite the hammy bunch!






Then, it became a dance party with LOTS of twirling and spinning and the same 3 Disney songs over and over, but the kids never seemed to mind.




Little out of order, but this is the Cake Batter Chex Mix that I made for the party.  Oh yeah!  It was a lot easier than Muddy Buddies and with white chocolate and cake mix in there, how could it go wrong?  I may have found a new favorite.

Recycled cans with a little scrapbook paper glued on them and dollar store flowers.  Eryn had so much fun picking out what paper to use, gluing it on, and choosing flowers.  I swear she loves projects so much that she was born to the wrong mother!  It's kind of nice to have her help push me more into making things like this.  They are now on display in her room because she was so proud of them.

Eryn's party did not go as envisioned, but it worked.  After all of her planning and her ideas over the last few months that went into a very small gathering like this I can certainly say that I might NEVER be ready for her wedding!  In the end, she was happy and had a good time with a few of her friends.

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