Tween Birthday Party

Today’s featured party is one I consulted on.  It was the 12th birthday party for my sweet next door neighbor Molly.  When her mom, Katie, contacted me about helping with the party she told me the party theme was “blue and peace signs.”  Not your everyday birthday party theme but we can work with that! 

Katie wanted to do cupcakes and a candy bar.  White cupcakes with all kinds of blue toppings looked very festive and made a great centerpiece for the table!
 

Oreos dipped in white chocolate with blue sprinkles were also very popular!  Katie used the peppermint Joe Joes from Trader Joes – so yummy!
 

The candy bar consisted of lots of fun candy.

Since Katie conveniently lives next door to me so we used my collection of white and clear glass containers to give a cohesive look to the table.  We grouped the candy into color themes – there was the blue and white/silver candy…

 

the blue and yellow candy….

 

and then the bright, rainbow colored candy….

 

We almost forgot the red licorice!
 

There were cute little Chinese take out boxes for the girls to fill with their candy and fun little smiley faces and peace signs to decorate the table.

 

The table looked darling!
Anchored in the center of the table were some balloons to help carry out the Blue/Peace theme.

 

What would a party be without balloons!
 

Other fun decor included this clothesline full of photos of Molly through her long 12 years!

 

When the girls returned to the house after a few games of bowling they munched on pizza and treats from the candy/cupcake bar.

 

The girls answered some questions to see who knew the birthday girl the best….

 

and played some other fun “tween” girl games like two truths and a lie!
 

Of course music and a little bit of dancing made for a fun party!

The girls each went home with one of these darling party favors.  I’d been looking for an excuse to use these darling Jones Soda labels I had seen over at Karyn’s shop – Pixel Perfect Boutique.  

 

Katie emailed Karyn some photos of Molly and some words that decribed her and Karyn personalized the labels.  Aren’t they cute!!!  What a fun party favor!

  

Thanks to Katie and Molly for letting me help with the party and Peace Out Molly – we love you!!

A special thanks to Karyn of Pixel Perfect Boutique for helping us create the perfect party favor!

Little Princess Tea Party} Food

This post is part two in a series of three.

As I mentioned in the first post , we were on a limited budget for this tea party.  

We also ended up feeding about 50 people although that is not how many I had planned on. There was a little communication glitch and I had actually planned on half that many!!

Thanks to the fact that I always err on the side of excess and  a last minute call to my sweet husband to fix some more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches we did o.k!

Our tea party menu included:

Heart shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Since we knew our tea party audience would be young we went for kid friendly food. I found this great heart shaped sandwich cutter at a Harry & David’s outlet store but you can also order one here. 

 

It is the perfect shape to take advantage of the entire peace of bread with very little waste!

White chocolate dipped strawberries with pink sugar sprinkles

Grapes

 

Cupcakes, of course!  I took the easy route with this one and used a cake mix but did make the frosting from scratch!  I did up one batch of white cupcakes with pink frosting and another of chocolate with white frosting and pink sprinkles. I found some cute pink and white polka dot cupcake liners that worked perfect.

 

We served lemonade to the little ones but the grown ups enjoyed some tea – a nice selection of regular and herbal!

 

Several of the “maids” from the show came down to help us serve – they were so cute!

Fairly simple and easy tea party food!

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