Jered's 18th BDay

One of my son's turned 18 in Oct. this year and I have been bugging this kid for the last 13 years to let me throw him a Halloween themed birthday party, and he always said no. This year, his girlfriend thought it would be a good idea to have a Halloween themed birthday party...doesn't matter how I got it the point was I got to throw him a Halloween themed birthday party.  Now I had all these plans, and I was going to make so many decorations and goodies, but unfortunately I started back at work Oct 9th...and I couldn't hang.  Although I didn't do all that I wanted to, I think that he had a good time and his friends did too and that's all that matters!  But here is what I managed to accomplish. Most everything I saw on Pinterest so just check out my Pinterest Halloween board if you are interested in doing any of these.

I made little goodie bags shaped like pumpkins.  They were filled with chocolate candies. I didn't hand them out, we just left them on the table since these were big kids  :)

Mummy and eyeball cupcakes.

Finger shaped sugar cookies, don't worry that's not a real one in the middle, it's a prop.

Since I made cupcakes, I went with a small cake.  It's better with the bigger kids, they seem to be messier with cake than cupcakes...go figure.

I made candy holders out of glass candle sticks and glass votive holders I bought at the .$99 store.  I then made faces on my Cricut with vinyl.  Really easy, really fast.  I filled them with the appropriate color candies to represent Frankenstein, ghost, and pumpkin.

I made trophies for the costume contest.  This was a challenge and not as easy as it seemed on Pinterest, of course.

The whole little spread.

Dragon Ball Z Party

I'm back.  I started working and boy is it way harder than I remember.  I could have used a little more time off, but oh well!  Now I'm playing catch up with my blog that I wasn't very good at to begin with and I'm craving that creativity even more :(  Anyway!

It was my son's 9th birthday and he wanted a Dragon Ball Z party.  If anyone is familiar with it, and I doubt it, it's very hard to find anything Dragon Ball Z that doesn't cost you an arm or a leg.  At the time of his party I was still out of work, but already officially hired, so I was (and am) counting pennies.  I decided to make whatever I could.

I started with the goodie boxes.  I used my Cricut cartridge Sweet Tooth Boxes and made these cute little Chinese take out boxes. ( I know it's Japanese, but Origami was to hard!)

The baby blue was for the girls and the purple was for the boys.  My son specifically asked for Gohan, but I thought the girls needed another girl.  I put some fortune cookies, candy, Dragon Ball Z characters I found on ebay, and Dragon Balls in there (bouncy balls)

I tried to make some Dragon Ball cake pops, using dyed white chocolate, but they weren't exactly round. They tasted good and they all got eaten.  I had them as a centerpiece on each table and at the main table.

Next I made some candy sushi.  It's way harder than it looks.  I took the idea from this website, http://pinterest.com/pin/53480314296200758/, but I had to improvise on how I made them.  I ended up just rolling the rice krispie treats with gummy fish inside, cutting in half, then wrapping the fruit roll ups around them.  The kids loved them, a little too sweet for the adults though.

Finally was the cake.  I tried this method of course from Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/pin/53480314295742969/, and it worked wonderfully.  I would recommend it to anyone that is fondant challenged like me.

Here's the overall pic.  I was limited because it was at Pump It Up and they don't let you put anything on the walls or ceilings, so I kept it simple. My son and his friends had a great time and that's all that matters!