But i finally got to throw a little girl (well, maybe not so little now) Party! Woot woot! Yes i was very excited :) There was no 'theme' as such, i just had lots of random ideas i wanted to use. The colours were loosely lavendar, light turquoise and just a splash of fushia. I didn't get a whole lot of pics, in all the business, but i did manage to snap a few instagram shots...
This was thier little sitting area where they had water in cute little jars and sweets from the dessert table.
Speaking of desserts....
I set up a craft table with little jars filled with craft goodies for each girl. My friend Bec and I also made them each a little mini album and notebook to decorate. They LOVED this bit, even more than i thought they would. I loved watching them craft and chat away happily. It kept them busy for almost 2 hours! They each decorated thier albums and notebooks, and each made thier own hairclips from felt, buttons and flowers.
My favourite idea was the 'Milk and Cookies' bar i set up in the loungeroom for when they watched their movie (Alice in Wonderland). The couch was covered with blankets and pillows and we had a few blow-up matresses' on the floor as well. Above them i (the Mr.) had hung some light blue and white balloons, just for fun. I was going to hand silver stars as well, but we ran out of time :(
The "milk and cookies' bar had little bottles of milk, stacks of freshly baked oatmeal choc chip cookies and little boxes of freshly popped popcorn. I made some little clouds (tutorial to come) and hung them above the 'bar'. It looked so sweet. Unfortunatley i didn't get any photos during the day as i hadn't popped the popcorn yet. So the pictures don't quite capture the real feel. But it looked SOOOOOO cute! And at night, when we turned the lamp on, the starts were so sparkly and glittery!
The girls were awesome. I have to admit i was a bit nervous about having 7 girls staying over, but they were just great. They did stay up ridiculously late, but i guess thats part of the fun, right? One of the girls had her own iPhone, and Tat thought it would be fun to send me text messages all night while i was trying to sleep. (it was kinda funny). I don't know how they all had so much energy the next morning though. I was dying.....sooooo tired.
And would you believe that i ran out of coffee beans! I went to make a coffee and couldn't because i had no beens left!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I called mum to see if she would go pick me up a take-away coffee and bring it to me, but to no avail (she didnt answer)
So i opened the coffee bean grinder and scraped up all the beans i could, pulled the machine out to see if any beans had fallen behind, checked the fridge to see if any had fallen out of my last bag. I searched EVERYWHERE! Kinda like the way we used to scour the house for spare change as a teenager to be able to get up enough money to catch a bus/buy some ciggies(yes, i used to smoke, shame shame)/ grab some junkfood. I managed to scrape up a pathically small handful, but still not enough to grind me a shot of coffee. Why oh why don't coffee places DELIVER?
Anywho....somehow i made it through the day without coffee. All the girls were gone just before lunch, and my exhausted little 11year old had a VERY long nap.It was a good day.
Now i just need to get through Entoni's party tomorrow!
