Mine Craft 9th Birthday Party

My son asked for another Mine Craft party for his birthday this year.  Even after a full year, he still loves this game!!  This year I decided to focus only on the cake and leave out all the decor which he was fine with.   The design I went with was a single grass block from the game.  If you are unfamiliar with the game, the grass block looks like this:

I used home made royal icing for the green grass and for the brown dirt.  I then added crushed chocolate graham crackers to the sides to create the look of dirt chunks.  On top, I placed figures I made from fondant.  Steve, a pig, a creeper and TNT stood on the grass.  I made a diamond pick axe, a diamond sword and wording with Perler Beads.  I made a checkerboard pattern that you could see when the cake was cut into.  The checkerboard blocks where green, brown and beige.  Unfortunately I forgot to snap a quick picture after the first piece was cut.  

Whoops!  Looks like we are missing half of this picture!  LOL

A Creeper card made by one of his friends :)

Such a fun time was had at this party with only his closest friends!  Pizza, cake, gifts and lots of laughing and playing around!  It was a perfect afternoon!!

Frozen 3rd Birthday Party

My daughter recently saw the Disney movie, Frozen and LOVED it.  Well, she was terrified of the snow monster but other than that, the movie was a winner!  Her birthday party was a week after the movie was released so of course there were no Frozen party supplies available in stores yet.  We had her party on a whim because her uncle happened to be here for a surprise visit so I made everything the day of the party.  Luckily the party stores had plenty of snowflake decor since it was the beginning of December!  But thanks to Disney not being on top of things and filling the stores with party supplies for this blockbuster movie, I was left to come up with ideas on my own ;-) The planning and creating of everything but the cake was rushed into a 3 hour time frame but my little girl loved it all and that made me a happy mama!

 I used an antique silver platter as a centerpiece for the table.  I placed store-bought snowflake confetti and home made snowflakes which I made with a glue gun and glitter.  

I had some snow globes left over from my daughter's first birthday party.  So I printed out pictures of the Frozen characters and placed them inside.  

I made what I call "snow globe plates" using confetti, glitter and pictures I cut from a scrap piece of wrapping paper.  These were a HUGE hit with the kids!!

The cake was frosted to look like a snowy landscape complete with snow-covered hills and trees.  I purchased the Frozen mini-figure set and used the cardboard background inside the box as a stand-up background on the cake.  I placed the figures around the cake and had Anna and Elsa hold a Happy Birthday banner. 

What a fun little party for my big girl!

Duck Dynasty Birthday Party

My kids and I decided to make my husband's birthday extra special this year and throw him a fun birthday party!  Currently, the boys in our house love watching Duck Dynasty so I went with that theme.  I made a yummy, two tier chocolate and peanut butter cake.  I made Uncle Si out of fondant along with some cat tails, a duck call and of course, Si's sweet tea cup and pitcher!  I personalized signs using popular phrases from the show.  For the decor, I bought simple camouflage party items because Duck Dynasty party decor was still not available in stores.  

SURPRISE!!! LOL

Mine Craft 8th Birthday Party

Like most 8 year olds, my son LOVES the computer game, Minecraft!  I wanted to give him a Minecraft party for his birthday but there was nothing available in stores yet.  So it was time to get creative!  My son actually had two birthday parties this year: one was celebrated with family while we were on vacation visiting them.  The other was celebrated at home with a few close friends.


PARTY #1:  The "Out Of Town" party with extended family

I designed and printed this Happy Birthday banner.  

For the centerpiece I printed out pictures from the game and attached them to a pre-made centerpiece I bought at the dollar store.

I cut out a Creeper face from black paper and glued it to a green plate.  I then glued a clear plate on top of the green plate.  Instant Creeper plates!

I used Twizzlers to make TNT

Cheese cubes for Gold Blocks 

Pretzel sticks for Torches

 I drew Creeper faces on bottles of sprite to make Creeper Juice

 I designed a brownie cake using Grass Blocks made with brownies with green icing for grass and rice crispy treats for the Sand Blocks.  I put the cake together on a tray covered with part of a blue plastic table cloth to represent water.  The figures on the cake were printed from here and cut out by myself and my mother-in-law.  I then folded and pieced together the figures and blocks over a two day period (talk about tedious work!).  The cake turned out awesome and my son LOVED IT--which is the only thing that matters anyway, right?! :-) 

PARTY #2:  The "At Home" party with friends

 Again, I used cheese cubes for Gold Blocks

Pretzel sticks for torches

Twizzlers for TNT Blocks

Graham cracker squares for Sand Blocks 

Cups of chocolate pudding for Dirt Blocks

I decided to make a square Glowstone Block cake for this party

I love how the pattern turned out!