Circus Party - Under Construction!

In a little less than two months from now, 

our little Jordan will be having his 1st ever Birthday party!!

{I started planning his 1st birthday while I was pregnant with him}

Nuts... I know!
Jordan's Birthday theme is CIRCUS!

I've been tackling projects over the weekend(s) to try

and get a head start on this fabulous event!

6 - 8 weeks before his party, I sent out his Circus theme invitations!

I created them myself. 

I found some cute circus tent clip art,

downloaded a circus type font,

and then let my imagination/creative juices flow!

Here's what I did for his invitations:

I printed out the invite on yellow paper, and then
attached it to red cardstock that I pre-cut.

I found some CUTE popcorn bags around the house.
{Yes... around the house}
I've got everything over here!

I thought it would be cute to slide the invitation into the bag!

I sealed the bag, and used it as the envelope.

So cute!!

I mailed them out, and I must say,

LOTS of people loved them!

My next project was to wrap the plasticware!

I saw this idea on many websites, and thought it was cute.

I just LOVE these glue dots!

I use them for just about everything...

Here is the finished product.

Really cute & festive for his Circus party!

My most favorite project so far for his party has been

this child's kitchen/hutch transformation!

My Grandma had this sitting at her house.

She was more than happy to send it my way!

Once I had it in my hot, little hands,

my creative juices came to life!!

I could kick myself for not taking a picture of 

what the kiddy hutch looked like before I started...

But here, you can get a little idea.

I started painting away. No rhyme or reason.

Of course, I had to use the best paint around ~

Dunn Edwards!

I went to their nearest location and ordered sample colors in my choice.

All done with the painting portion!

Now to add all the fun stuff...

Letting my creative juices get the best of me...

This is what I came up with!

Pretty cute, huh?!

I was SUPER duper pleased with the finished result!

This will serve as the drink station at Jordan's Circus party!

Bake Sale!

Saturday, Nina & I were supposed to get together with some friends

and hold a Bake Sale/Yard Sale together!

As luck would have it, the weather proved trouble-some.

It was drizzling pretty good, and we had to cancel our sale.

Of course we were all a bit disappointed.

But what I didn't take into account was that I had stayed up until

3am the morning before, to bake & decorate our goodies!

Now don't get me wrong... I enjoyed every second! {nuts I know}

I was scrolling through 1 of my most favorite party websites,

and came across the most darling bake sale printables.

You can find them here:

thetomkatstudio.com/free-printables

Because I spent so much time preparing for the bake sale; weeks actually,

I decided to set it up anyway, {in our house} and invited a few friends over!

I couldn't pass up the fun opportunity to display such a cute bake sale!

Here are some pictures I snapped. Enjoy!

The cupcakes!

Aren't the toppers just adorable?

My cake pops.

These are my new favorite thing to make!

And the brownies.

I think the cute little printed card makes them look even more yummy!

I also made some lemon bars.

I had a great time putting this together!
Some of the cutest colors too!

Lemonade ~ Mmmm

Thank you for checking out my Bake Sale!

And a BIG thank you to the TomKat studio for sharing

these adorable bake sale printables!!