Star Wars Birthday

Star Wars Birthday

You can never go wrong with a Star Wars birthday.  This is what my son asked me for this birthday and I LOVE Star Wars so, of course, I said yes.

I had my son dig up a Luke and Darth Vader Star Wars Lego figures to use as candle holders. He happened to be turning 11 so this played right into having both figures hold a candle like their lightsabers and still look like an 11.  I did have to whittle down the ends of the candles to make them fit into their kung-fu grips. And before anyone asks, yes, that is Darth Vader in a Christmas sweater, my son said the only Lego Vader he had was from a Christmas set.

The cake was another cupcake cake in the shape of lightsabers. Pretty easy and I used candy pieces for the "buttons" on the handle.

The best thing I found were these extra large glow sticks that I could use to "light-up" the lightsabers. With the lights out they looked pretty cool. 

I tried to make a paper Mache  Death Star piñata ala this post but it was a complete failure so I won't be doing that again. I'll stick to my cardboard piñatas.  It was SUPER time consuming, small and did not hold up to any hitting.

I actually bought these pool noodle lightsabers from Target as a cool fun toy for the kids but as you can see the adult found them pretty fun also.  There are a lot of ideas on how to make these and I was going to go that route but I found these on clearance so...

Shopkins Birthday

Yes my daughter has been bit by the Shopkins bug.  Those tiny little plastic things that have faces, sorta weird but what can you do.  She has a ton (aka I've spent a fortune on them) so a Shopkins birthday party was in the cards for the big number 8.

cheeky chocolate cake

I basically followed the direction here on how to make the cake. I also usually use her recipe for buttercream frosting also. 

Kooky Cookie

What can I say, it's a chocolate chip cookie in a cast iron pan....with eyes....

Another DIY piñata  D'lish Donut this time.

super easy but time consuming

The birthday girl with her cake

 

Olaf Birthday Party

My daughter, like every other girl child in the country is crazy for Frozen....or more specifically Olaf. I can't really blame her he is kinda cute and has a great attitude. There was plentiful Frozen decoration but I was looking for Olaf centered things.  Since he really has a simple outline it was actually easy to make some myself.

First the pinata because it usually takes me the longest to make. I free drew the head which was a big step for me because I can't draw. The two circles for his body are just two nesting bowls I had that I traced. Made it easier to make sure the sizes would be graduated. Paper cone for the nose and real sticks for his arms.

As you can see I really probably made it too big (expensive to fill, lol) it

s about the size of my daughter

DH got a bunch of these size plastic cups for free so I try to use them when ever possible. I printed a picture of this and then placed it in the cup to trace.

White balloons which Olaf face, which I again free handed but he has a  really easy shape

Cupcake cake, on tin foil cover Rubbermaid bin lid (because I don't own a cake platter). Oreos for eyes, licorice for the mouth and a cone filled with Reese Pieces for a nose. I drew the arm directly on the foil with Nutella because that's what I had in the pantry

She looks pretty happy with it!