Woodland Gnomes and Fairy Waldorf party

It seems I have been a bit obsessed with Gnomes and mushrooms as of late.  Since the day that Livie was born, literally my one night in the hospital, I started dreaming of her 1st birthday party.

Planning the party was so much fun.  I found a few really cute inspirations for cake and decorations at a few of my fave blogs, here and here.

These toadstool cake bites by Bakerella are genius.

Her birthday this year as last year was a cold one.  While the world outside was cold and dreary, the inside of our home was colorful and festive.  I had originally and until this very morning thought of a party outside under our majestic live oaks, I mean what’s more woodlandish than oak trees and acorns.  Unfortunately it was way too cold to be outside for a long period of time so everything had to be moved inside.

I spent weeks making ribbon wands and tiny mushroom pendants for the invited fairies and gnomes to wear.  I love to write crochet patterns and this tiny mushroom was so easy to come up with. The girls were given ribbon wrist corsages and I made a beautiful red and green tutu for the birthday fairy. In the winter Living Crafts magazine I saw a toadstool hat made out of wool felt which I dreamt about for a few days and then spent a week coming up with a crochet pattern for it.  The pattern will be up on crunchycrochet.etsy.com soon.

 

The cake was put together in only 3 hours so don’t expect too much.  My children always get these ratty cakes because there is also a party to put on.  One of these days I will treat them like a customer and really give them a cake like our customers would get.  By the time this picture was taken you could see where little fingers had picked at it.

 

We made these gorgeous Waldorf window stars,  this was kind of tricky to do with so many children but luckily I had alot of older helpers, thanks girls.  You are supposed to make these out of kite paper but I just used tissue paper instead.  If you would like to make some here are the instructions from GardenMama.

The cake table was decorated with the cutest gnomes and mushrooms which will be used in the girls future woodland themed bedroom.  I made these cute toadstool mushroom stools out of upside down beach buckets and the seats are sewn out of felt.

It turned out to be a wonderful day though after the party I discovered that I had forgotten to serve our guest the mini toadstool appetizers made from cherry tomatoes dotted with goat cheese to look like the spots, the candy snails and bugs I had made for the food table.  Food served  were mini cuban sandwiches, hummus and chips, ambrosia salad and of course Waldorf salad.  I had a huge explosion in the kitchen while trying to make the magical punch, word to the wise.. never add sherbet powder to a bottle of Sprite.  We had to wipe it off the ceiling, cabinets and it makes a really good hair gel which lasted all day : )

By late afternoon, the day warmed up enough to go out and play.  Alexandra sprained her ankle so bad her ankle was as big as a grapefruit (no pictures please) during a soccer game and Poppa had to carry her in.  Kids ran and twirled with their ribbon wands and chased my poor chickens. Those girls did not lay an egg for a week.

 
Yet another crochet pattern had to made for the outfit.  I made these toadstool shoes to go with her toadstool hat and outfit and then decided to put her leather red shoesies on because of the cold. I need to redo them because I did not stuff the toadstool and it got a little flat as you can see.  I still want to revamp these a lot more before I offer the pattern for sale but these were from party day so… there you go.  I have noticed that this gnome phase has extended to everything I make for Livie, alot of her clothing is red.
 
 
And here is the last shot of the day… a chubby little fairy all tuckered out.
 
 
I can’t wait until next year’s party, I am already planning though I may not be over my woodland gnome phase by then.

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12 Responses to Woodland Gnomes and Fairy Waldorf party

  1. Elizabeth May 22, 2013 at 11:19 pm #

    Oh my goodness, this is an old post I see but I just had to comment as those pictures of your little girl in her outfit are sooooo precious!!! Incredibly cute!! And what a lovely party. 🙂

  2. dionne August 19, 2011 at 12:16 am #

    That all looks so beautiful. I love the toadstool seats as well.

  3. Erika August 12, 2010 at 5:22 am #

    I was so excited to see your pictures. My two year old daughter has recently decided she wanted a "Gnomie" party. I have been scouring the web for ideas of how to make it happen. Thank goodness for etsy and your pics. I might be able to make this work after all!

  4. Artistmama June 11, 2010 at 5:33 pm #

    Absolutely adorable! I love the crocheted hat! I made that hat out of fleece for my little one and he wore it all winter. SO much fun! I've been thinking of giving my son a magical themed party, especially toadstool party. You've given me lots of ideas! ThanksBecca

  5. Sherry May 27, 2010 at 2:21 am #

    Those little crocheted shoes are adorable. We were looking for some little slip-on tinkerbell shoes for my neice's 3rd birthday and these would have been perfect in lime green with fuzzy white yarn to make the puff. So when you do pattern for retail 😉 be sure to include a picture of tinkerbell. (oh and sorry on that last post I did anonymous. I don't blog so don't know how to work these things.)

  6. Bev March 18, 2010 at 4:16 pm #

    What an amazing party…just darling. It is obvious that a lot of love and work went into this celebration!

  7. Anne St. Louis March 17, 2010 at 11:44 am #

    That is amazing!!! LOVE it!

  8. Castlequeen March 16, 2010 at 6:42 pm #

    What a lucky girl – the party organisazation, ideas and crafting are amazing – you did a wonderful job. I followed your link from waldorf_craft@yahoogroups.com.Ali – NZ

  9. knitngreen March 16, 2010 at 4:39 pm #

    So adorable. I loved the toadstool seats!!

  10. Rena Dein March 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm #

    I made many, many mushrooms for our Leprechaun Land for Wee Folk event in Fremont, CA – basically a lifesize Candyland board game but it involved leprechauns, elves and fairies and a magical woodland forest! If you go to http://www.createartnow.org and look at the photos you will see the mushrooms I made out of a plastic bottle, pie pan, stuffing, tablecloth and white duct tape!Rena

  11. melody March 16, 2010 at 2:49 pm #

    Wow! What an amazing party! You did a fabulous job! I have to go back and look at all the details in the pictures again…

  12. Anne March 16, 2010 at 1:35 pm #

    Oh my goodness, what a beautiful party! You did an amazing job, and please don't apologize for that incredible cake!

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