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For Melody's second birthday party, her theme was "You are my Sunshine". So when trying to decide on a party favor, sunglasses seemed like the perfect idea. I did have my own criteria before deciding the favor, and that was that it had to be something I could make well in advance (opposed to the cotton candy ice cream cone favors I did last year). I didn't want to be up late the night before trying to put together favors. And these worked out perfectly for that purpose!
For Melody's second birthday party, the theme was "You are my Sunshine". I made a sun using my Silhouette Cameo for Melody's invitation, so I decided to use that sun throughout her party.
For Melody's second birthday party, I did "You are my Sunshine" theme. I sing her the song before bed each night, so it seemed fitting. I did some searching online for invitations ideas. Last year after her birthday party, I swore I would buy invitations. Well I never found anything I loved, so of course, I made them.
When we went to Disney World back in December, I wanted Melody's Bitty Baby to have her own Disney dress. I couldn't find anything already made, so I made my own. See how I did it below.
My best friend Emily did a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed birthday party for her daughter Lydia who just turned 2. It was a very adorable party, and she did a really great job without going too overboard which could have easily been done. It's not as easy of a theme as one might think. There are so many different things you can do and directions you can go. One of the things she wanted was a banner with all of the characters "headgear" on it. I was able to make it for her using my Silhouette Cameo.
So here is a part two to my original post regarding my Silhouette Cameo projects. Check out what I have done since my original post below!
As you have probably read, we went to Disney World back in December. I wanted to do one last post that included all of the things I wrote about in regards to this particular trip. Check them out below.
In preparation for Disney, I made both Melody and Lydia happys. I give Lydia hers at our Disney Party, but I gave Melody hers the day before we left for Disney. It was actually the last thing we did for our Disney countdown.
For our trip to Disney in December, I made all of us different shirts to wear on certain days of our trip. For one day, we each one wanted to do different family shirts. In addition, we made the girls shirts to wear on another day. Check them out below.
In preparation for our Disney trip last December, we had another Disney party. As you may recall, we did a Disney party in the past for a trip we went on with Emily and Justin to Disney. We wanted to do something fun to get everyone excited about our upcoming trip. Since it was near the holidays, our focus wasn't entirely on the trip. So I wanted one day where we spent a little time thinking about Disney!
For our trip to Disney in December, I made Emily and Justin a countdown. We had a Disney Party to get hyped up for our trip, and I gave them this as sort of a "favor". I wanted something semi simple but still super cute.
This isn't a brand new post in that I posted about how I made a stroller tag for Melody's first Disney trip. Instead, this is just me showing you the Disney stroller tag I made for our December Disney trip.
This is by far the easiest countdown that I have ever made for a trip. Of course this countdown was made for our December Disney trip. Simply design something in Word or any other document editor that you prefer. I simply drew a Mickey head, added a bow, and this was where the days would be listed. Then I added wording to better explain what the countdown was for. I printed the countdown on regular printer paper. Then I cut it to the frame size that I was using. I literally just found a frame around our house that wasn't being used. I framed the print out and each day, I changed the number using a dry erase marker. Easy-peasy!
Every Disney trip I try and come up with a fun countdown. I had an idea to do a sort of advent calendar but as a Disney countdown. I saw where people made an advent calendar using a muffin tin, so I decided to make something similar for Disney.
I recently hosted a Baby Sprinkle for my sister in law. For her last baby shower, I made bookmark favors. I considered making a favor that incorporated sprinkles to continue with the theme. I thought maybe actual sprinkles, or some sort of food dipped in sprinkles and served in cute snack bags. But I really wanted something people would use. So I decided the favors should be ponytail holders!
For my sister in law's baby sprinkle, I bought a large box of diapers to make a diaper cake. I had so many left over, I decided to use them to make something else. I opted for a diaper wreath. I had never made one, so I thought I would give it a try.
For my sister in law's baby sprinkle, I really wanted to play on the sprinkle theme. This included the invitation. I decided I wanted the background of the invitation to be covered in sprinkles. I went back and forth about how many sprinkles to put on it, but I opted for the most amount of sprinkles I could fit! I printed them on white cardstock and cut the page in half.
My sister in law is due with her second little girl at the end of November. I know it is not customary to through a huge baby shower for the second baby, but I still wanted to do something for her. I decided to throw her a sprinkle. She just invited family, and we kept it small and simple. I will post links to a few posts later going into the details of how I did a few things, but overall you can check out the Baby Sprinkle below!
Brad bought me a Silhouette Cameo 3 for Christmas last year. I wanted one for a while, and I was ecstatic when he finally bought me one. I started doing projects almost immediately. As you may have read, a lot of Melody's first birthday was done using my Cameo. Below are some of the projects I have done so far!
Greeting cards are so expensive to buy these days. We usually buy a large box set from Costco containing a large variety of greeting cards to always have on hand. However, I like to give Brad something more personal. For his birthday, I decided to make cards for him from both Melody and me. See them both below.
