Girl Trip Party Ideas

I've been tossing a few of the details from my friend's 50th Girl Trip online.  We took a day away and headed two hours up the road to Waco.  Even though it was a day trip, I still wanted to make it special and personalized.  

Sande told me almost a year ago this is what she wanted to do, so I've been collected gold and black totes from Hobby Lobby and Amazon and I personalized one for each girl.  

I also made tumblers with "Hello 50" on one side and our names on the back.  

I'll pull all the details together in my next post.  :)

Breakfast To Go Party Idea

This past week, I went with a group of girls on a day trip to celebrate my friend Sande's birthday.  Even though most of our day was going to be spent out of town visiting shops and restaurants, I wanted to do something party-ish to celebrate her birthday and make it feel more like a party.  So...I made a tailgate breakfast box for each gal who came along.  

I found these gabled boxes at Hobby Lobby in the party aisle and I added each girl's name with my vinyl and my Cricut.  

Each box included silverware, a bagel (in a pink bag, also from Hobby Lobby), a little container of fruit (I bought these little domed container on Amazon) and a cookie.  One of our planned stops was a cupcake shop, but I wanted some sort of personalized dessert.  

Typically, a cookie wouldn't be most people's idea of dessert, BUT I figured with the box idea, people could nibble along the road (we had a two hour trip ahead of us).  

 

Easy Personalized Cookies

 

     This Tuesday, some friends and I took a day trip in honor of my pal Sande's birthday.  One of our planned stops was Magnolia Bakery for their cupcakes, BUT I wanted to have some sort of fun treat that was personalized for her birthday, so I decided on cookies.

      I love baking cookies, but the date for this event coincided with the end of the busiest year of my life as a teacher, so I found that you can purchase edible rice paper cookies online.  You can order all sorts of shapes, but I went with some circles.  It was really easy-I sent a picture and the message I wanted on the pictures.  

I used my favorite cookie recipe and the rim of a cup to cut out circles the size I wanted (a little bit larger than the cookies, though this isn't necessary if you don't want to decorate the edges).  

I cut out a circle using regular scissors and I left a little white around it since my icing was white.  There is a clear paper on the back you peel off.  

I put a glob of icing down and the picture adheres right to the cookie.  

I put a ring of icing around the cookies and rolled them in sprinkles.  

I let them dry and then bagged them up.  

DIY Dinosaur Party Projects

I recently helped a friend host a birthday party for her daughter's 7th birthday.  The goal was to do as many simple/diy projects as possible.  I tried to pick things that weren't intimidating.  One thing we made were these pudding cups.  We did this in place of ice cream and served them next to the cake.  We crushed oreos and made layers of oreos and pudding.  On the top I also placed a little plastic dinosaur in each and some chocolate rocks and we called it prehistoric dirt.  

I also made this banner.  I googled an outline for a dino skull and then just placed it over construction paper and cut out the shape.  I punched out the birthday girl's names and strung them all together.  I love layering banners so I also added the pompom puffs from the dollar store, and some dino punches.  All for less than two bucks.  

I also decorated a frame and made some picks and took pictures of each kiddo.  They loved this.  I put out some stickers and paper 'frames.'  They glued the picture to the middle and decorated the frame.
More to come, but...so far-minus some construction paper (you can grab for pennies at back to school sales in the fall), most of these has been practically free.