Minnie and Mickey Mouse Party Decorations

This year Chloe and Elliot had a joint birthday party for Chloe's third birthday and Elliot's first. Since we don't really know anyone with kids and Chloe doesn't have any of her own friends yet we figured we could get away with them having a party together before either of them wants their own themes and own friends at the party.

So we did a joint Mickey/Minnie mouse theme. Every time we saw any little thing while we were out shopping we got it - months in advance. But I'm glad because everything worked out so well together.

We had the party at Armando's parents house since it's a lot bigger than our place and most of Armando's friends live in that same neighborhood so it was easier for most people to go there.

Here's the decorations:

This is the little hanging decoration I put on the front door, I made it just out of cardboard and cotton string. It isn't perfect by any means but I was proud of it none the less. 

Two piñata's, one Minnie and one Mickey. I actually thought they were just going to be black not with faces but oh well. It took us ages to add all the sweets to them!

All the wall decorations. Red and black balloons dotted around the whole room. There was a Mickey helium balloon, we did buy a Minnie one too but sadly it hit a fan and popped the day before the party. I made the banners, the same as the hanging decoration on the front door - just with cardboard (the string for these one's was actually from when we bought Chloe some clothes at the disney store last year so it had little Mickey heads and writing on it). 

We used two table cloths. A white one underneath and a red one over the top that I'd added holes to so it was like Minnie's dress. We got all red, white and yellow plates/napkins/bowls. Most of the food was just bought and laid out but I did make fruit on a kebab stick which seemed to go down pretty well so I was happy about that. 

Last but not least was the cake. I designed it and got the bakery to make it. It took some explaining and they said the black part of the cake would have a very bitter taste but I think it tasted just like the rest of the cake when we ate it.

Well that's all the decorations from the birthday party. Simple looking but a lot of work went in to it all. I'm glad it all looked good together in the end and we got complimented on our creativity too which is always nice.

Chloe's Second Birthday Party Decorations

Saturday 17th August 2013

This years birthday party was a LOT smaller than last year. We had it a few weeks before Chloe's actual birthday.
She had a pink princess dress so we decided to make that the theme of the party, very girly. Some of the decorations went up the night before but mostly we spent the morning cleaning our flat, decorating and preparing food. It was only very simple things really.
There were only a few guests that turned up - some of my friends, one of their children and my sister with her two boys.
We just ate food, had music on in the background, talked and let the kids play together. It was a very simple little party but Chloe enjoyed herself and that's the important part, she liked the balloons quite a lot this year too.

Party Decorations

The theme for Chloe's birthday party was purple and white.

First up is the little flower arrangement that I made and put into the middle of the table. It was so simple yet I'm still pretty proud of it. We just bought really cheap bunches of fake flowers in purple and white, I cut them apart to mix up and cut off the leaves. Stuck the leaves around the outside of a clear plastic bowl then arranged the flowers on top to place in the middle of the table.

I'm glad we decided to get the piñata because everyone was complimenting us on how unique it was and I think it made a really nice decoration too.

The rest of the pictures are pretty much all the balloon decorations. On one wall I stuck a range of sizes randomly and although it's simple I think it looked pretty effective.

We stuck up a few Happy Birthday banners over the walls of the house with balloons around them.

We also made a few flower balloons. It wasn't the easiest thing to do and a few times we had balloons pop trying to get them all the same size and stuck them on the wall but I think they look really pretty. We did one in each colour.

One of the best but easiest parts was just sticking up balloons with a string from the ceiling with some of the string curled. Very simple yet a really great way of decorating.

And last but by no means least; Chloe's birthday cake. We looked through the sample books at the cake shop, picked out a pretty design and told them what colours to do. I was kind of worried they would spell Chloe's name wrong on the cake because obviously it's not a common name (or I should say it's NEVER ever used) here and I always have to repeat it at least five times when telling someone what she's called. But they wrote it right and the cake turned out to be even prettier than I had expected.