Homemade Popsicle Birthday!

I was very disappointed at the party for this one main reason... I'd spent all this time on this montrosity of a birthday sign and the weather was way too windy for me to be able to hang it. So I sulked the whole time on the playground. Not really but it was tempting so instead I had to hang this in the most random part of my house where it would actually fit in order to take this picture. I had visions of it hanging from the pavillion we had rented for the party but anywho, this will do!

Close up!

I also made him this high chair sign that was going to hang from his high chair where he ate his cake! This one wasn't as great at being able to tell what it said! But it is what it is!

So there you have it. I'm turning the big Happy Birthday sign into a scrapbook for the little guy of either his party, or maybe his first year of life. Haven't decided yet...but it's all ready to go now... just add pics!

This is one of 4 popsicle shirts I made for this 1 year old party. I made one for Dad, one for me (Mom), 1 for brother and 1 for the birthday boy! I will upload those pics as soon as I can get a hold of them. They are currently in another state... but not that great to see anyhow.

First I got plain white T shirts from Walmart or somewhere and then died them the colors I wanted using fabric dye. I wasn't able to find T shirts in my kids sizes at the craft stores especially not in the colors I wanted to represent different popsicle colors so this was my only option. Cheap and do able! I cut out popsicles out of patterned fabric, and ironed them on the shirts. Then we used fabric paint to trace around each popsicle!

These were the popsicle invitations I sent out. I neglected to take a picture of the inside but that's beside the point anyhow. These were so much fun to make and create. I based them off of something I had seen online but of course did them my own way with my own "flavor"!
You can see all the different styles there was. I actually received the majority of these back in the mail because I didn't have the correct amount of postage on them. Some went, some didn't. Go figure. I guess some popsicle sticks weigh more than others. Lame! =) So this pic is for those of you friends and family who never received invitations. Now you know that I actually made them and this is what they looked like. That's all for now. I'll add those other pics eventually and I have TONZ more projects to post about so I'm going to try and be better at doing that. It's just I'm so busy doing projects I haven't taken the time to do one of my favorite hobbies - blogging!
Til next time...