Pierson's 2nd Birthday Party - Transportation Theme

Used a version of the logo on my envelope to send out the invitations:

Thank you note: (paired this note with a chartreuse envelope and sealed the envelope with a LOGO sticker!)

here I used the logo elements to print out luggage tags to tie on the favors.

Again, I easily printed the logos on stickers and put them on the cups for guests to drink the "petro punch" out of.

Cups

We also used the logo on a little sticker that I put on the "airline boxed lunches". It had a description of the type of croissant sandwich inside. (Ham, turkey, tuna)

Inside the box lunch was a bag of chips, croissant sandwich and a fruit cup. On top of the fruit cup, guess what was on the lid? You guessed it - a party logo!

Logos could also be used for food cards/tents. In this case, I didn't use the exact logo because I had a punch that I used, but I would have used the logo had I thought of it!

"ships ahoy" cookies:

Train Track Trail mix

Junk yard (cake, cookies and other sweets) - again you could use your logo at the top of the cake!

Again, the logo was used for the cookie wrap to seal the top of the bag.

Here is my little birthday boy. Yes, I appliqued a little jon jon that I made. Yes, I am anal. Yes, his car does match the car on his logo. I am showing off now,... sorry.

Bye for now! ;-)

Bonus round - here are some fun things I did for the party:

Baggage Claim (favor pickup)

Cake

Lastly,

.. meet the ANDERS.... You can tell we are all pretty wiped out! Peanut especially (Peanut is Pierson's nickname)

Jeffrey's Sports Party Details

Jeffrey's sport party was a HIT! ;-)

Start with the sweet stuff... The fun cakes that I made.  4 Cakes! (Golf ball is not shown here)

Here is the table with the "goodies".  I made baseball, tennis ball and basketball shaped cookies and cupcakes.  Then I made a golf ball, tennis ball, basketball and tennis ball cake.. all positioned on a football field table cloth.  We had plates that were baseballs and footballs.

 

 

 We had popcorn (like at a ball game!) and served hotdogs in those cute red/white striped trays.  I had pennants all over (here it says "Jeffrey is 3")

 

This was a HOT day.

Outside tables (It was SUPER hot out there!)  The bouncy house got hot to the touch and the kiddies couldn't even play on it!

We had the baseball pinata (which was a HIT, no pun intended) under the tent.  The kids LOVED it!

Jeffrey takes a hit!

The kids were so hot, the fruit cups were a great way to cool off!

Favors are my favorite part of the party planning!

We had velcro ball mitts for the boys and whiffle ball/baseball bats for the girls!

I didn't forget the "sweet spot" ending.... cookies for everyone (Packaging says "good game!") and Big League chew for the adults!

We had Duke and U of Michigan pennants, too!  Supporting J and my alma maters!

The colors worked out well - blue and yellow for Michigan (my alma mater!) and blue and white for J (Duke alma mater!).  The blue wasn't as dark as I would have liked, but oh well!  I learn something new with each party!

I had signs all over (not pictured - why didn't I take more pics!?) - the front door said "batter up!", the back door headed inside said "time out"... and lots of others!  So fun!

Overall, his party was a HIT!

Pierson was sleeping the WHOLE party... poor guy wasn't even in our family photo!

Jeffrey's Sport Themed 3rd Birthday

I am a way "out of order" unorganized blogger!  This should have came BEFORE Jeffrey's 4th party post (The arts and crafts party)....

This was before I got my "good" DSLR camera, so bare with the bad photography!  I didn't take nearly as many pics of the detail as I wished!

Here is the invitation.  I made a baseball card invitation.  Jeffrey was turning 3 so I put a pic of him with a baseball bat and wearing a (handmade) "3" tee.  The front said "topps" like the cards and the player's name.  The back had stats (in scoreboard font) with all the details for the party as well as Jeffrey's height, weight, age etc.

U of Michigan and Duke's team logos were featured on there (my and J's alma maters!)

To "topp" it off, I put them in clear vellum envelopes and included a stick of gum (just like the old Topps baseball card packs! Except mine weren't as stale as the real ones)

I'll post the party details in another post!

Missing art

Its been a few months since I have done a paint chip collage.  I LOVE doing them.  Its a HUGE and time consuming job, but totally worthwhile.  Just thought I'd share a few snapshots of my favorite pieces from the past...

"Big Bang" for Suysel

"Imagination" for Cecilia

"24/7"

Piece for my living room:  I used some metallic paint chips, so it looks different from different angles. (Hard to capture on camera).... this is pre-hung!

Many more to come! ;-)