We celebrated Miss Melody's fifth birthday is crafty, home-made style yesterday. With a small group of little school friends, a heap of home-made party food (Alex presented the party girls with an
amazing array of goodies he made himself: home baked cakes, old-fashioned toffees, home-made lemonade, hommus and guacamole dips...) and some crafty inspiration from the blogosphere, the birthday girl had a ball.
The pictures above are from the party craft table where the girls rocked the scissors, textas, glitter and fabric scraps to create these cute little party-girl pictures. The idea came from
Cath who had blogged about this idea years ago and kindly sent me a photo to jog my memory. My teenager then drew the figures for the little ones to colour in and "dress" in fabric scraps. It was a hit with the girls, and I'd highly recommend it if you are looking for an inexpensive and fun party (or
any day) craft activity.
And these photos are of my crafty contribution to the birthday festivities : bunting made from my collection of thrifted hankies. Again, another crafty mum I know inspired this idea after gifting us something similar a couple of years ago. I actually went looking for that bunting to hang for the party only to discover I'd lost it somehow, perhaps in the packing and clearing when we moved up to the hills last year... so I decided to make some of my own using my collection of mostly vintage hankies and a couple of rolls of bias-binding I had in my supplies.
Someone at the party commented that the bunting reminded them of Tibetan prayer flags flapping in the wind. They do look lovely in the garden and I made enough (7.5metres!) that I may leave one length out in the girls' play area and bring the smaller length inside to decorate their room.
We ended the scorcher of a summer's day here, at Melody's favourite place in nature. All up, a perfect summer's party day for my little summer baby. And, with that, we can sign-off on this season of back-to-back birthday and Christmas festivities... phew!
x
5 comments:
Happy birthday to Melody! What a fab party, Megan. I love the bunting and I especially love the crafty theme. x
I love love love the bunting. I love the pictures and that you remembered seeing it on my blog so long ago. Busy walked in and saw your blog just as I was reading it and wants the same for her birthday. Easy! Thanks!
Love the paper & fabric dolls & the bunting-great ideas! Happy Birthday to your daughter! Holly
Simple but creative birthdays are so special I think. The picture idea is a lovely one and one I will keep in mind for our birthday here at the end of the month when Julia turns 7. Pretty hanky bunting!
What a great use for vintage hankies (I actually recognised some from my own childhood!). I also love a crafty theme at parties, the decorated pictures are so cute. For my youngest daughter's 6th birthday last year I had the kids decorate their own party hats with feathers, fake flowers, pipecleaners, stickers, sequins etc etc...wow, I think we saw some fantastic future milliners...lol
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