Another birthday party has come and gone. This time is was JP’s 6th birthday party. My little cuddly, quietly pensive but sensitive boy is a whole 6 years old. I love that he still loves to climb into my lap and let me squish him but there have been days lately when he has decided to remind me how big he really is.
A few many weeks of preparation went into this party. I have been dreaming, scheming and prepping for this party for months. It all started with some black and white striped fabric I found at my favorite thrift store and with a price tag of $7 for about 10 yards, my mind starting going. A few weeks later our builtins fridge and freezer needed to be replaced and when I saw the boxes I remembered my mental note regarding big boxes. If I ever got my hands on some I wanted to make the boys a pirate ship. The rest is now craft history.
The pirate ship is made from 2 pretty big fridge and freezer boxes and the canons were made from some concrete tube forms which were really inexpensive. Everything was put together with nuts and bolts. I remembered seeing online that there are some plastic doo hickies which you can buy specially to put together these ships but this was simple, cost very little and held really well. My goal when putting together a party is to make it look like it cost thousands but not spend more than one hundred (of course the fact that I am a cake designer helps : )
Every boy was given a burlap vest, sash and eye patch to wear. The girls received a burlap vest, black and white corsage and an eye patch with a little bling on it.
I am pretty happy with his cake, of course I see all the wrongs in it but mostly I am pleased. I have stated in previous party posts how unhappy I usually am with the quality of cake that my kids usually get since I also have to put together the party and can’t just “do the cake”. I will be adding this one to my portfolio and hope to make it again in the future.
We ended up with a little over 80 guests and half way through the party the heavens opened and the great deluge fell upon us. The rain was so hard (the whole afternoon) that it forced the party inside and every square inch of my house was stuffed with party goers. Among the casualties were my musical islands (my pirate take on musical chairs), a game of walk the plank in the barn and of course what kind of party would I have planned if it did not include a treasure hunt. All told it turned out to be a fun and not soon to be forgotten party.
