Firstly, I am doing really great right now - the weekend away to the Christian Women's Conference - Colour - in Sydney was awesome, but I will get onto that in another post.
SO..... On Sunday the 1st of March, Amelia had her 5th birthday party - a Princess Afternoon Tea - great theme and I was in my element in party organising mode!!!
So I created the invits in photo shop with (shock horror) digi princess elements I downloaded. they were printed onto card and bling was then added and of course filled with sequins and glitter inside.
Each birthday, I display my favourite photo of my birthday child of the their past year - a little birthday love I call it - so let's start with Amelia's photo stand...what a year - what a GIRL!!!!
We still had the garage set up from last year, so I found the Disney princess backdrop and we hung it around the wall, so the room would look like a ball room. We also got great big princesses that I glued to cardboard and cut out as well as a castle or two.
With the left over cardboard, I painted a throne and decorated it with bling - it was then tied to a wooden chair that was draped in fabric - there is so much you can do with 10 metres of girly fabric - Other chairs (old ripped ones) were covered with fabric to create royal benches too.
I draped fabric over the table and added glitter tulle over to top, I found a heap of silverware bargains at the salvos for less than $2 each, including a glass and silver "bay marie" that held chips. One bargain had once been a candle holder, but with ribbon and fake flowers and a few scrapping supplies it became the menu
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Food was so fun to make... The favourite food of the party was actually the easiest to make - Fruit kebabs - that had watermelon cut with a heart cookie cutter and we called them princess wands - the kids loved them. 
Another big hit were the teacups - made with marshmallows, freckles, life savours and melted white chocolate - so SUPER cute!!! I made all the favourite party food - but with girly colours - princess mars bar slice (sprinkled with fairy sprinkles) rocky road, coconut ice (Will's fav) etc.
I made very lush cupcakes in gorgeous pink spotty paper cases, piped icing and heart shaped marshmallows on top - yum - they were presented on a wire cupcake stand adorned with flowers and ribbon.
When each guest arrived, they were given a princess badge with their names on it (for me really!!) and I took each child's portrait too (before they got all hot and sticky) these were later used for thank you cards and extra pics were tucked inside - here a couple of the gorgeous guests...
Instead of pass the parcel, we played pass the glass slipper (which was a glass slipper Christmas deco that I had cut off the cord) each child carefully passed it to the next and when the princess music stopped they got a prize from the prize chest, they were not to open it till everyone had on - this worked perfect, as then at the end they got excited to open their prizes together.
We also did Princess corners (using four big princess pictures (that were from a Disney princess calendar from last year!) and they had to all run to a princess, we'd shout out a princess name and that group were out - down till we had two winners. The prizes (for all 20 kids) were notebooks that I covered with paper and fabric.
and while they ate, Will hid 50 lollipops and then they had a treasure hunt.
Of course, the most important thing for princess Milly was the jumping castle, I hunted down a company that had Disney princess ones and it was awesome - such a big hit!
Party bags were actually clear boxes that I glued feather boas across the handle, and "scrapped" their names on the front, we then tied helium balloons to the tops of all 20 of them.
They were filled with only a couple of lollies and lots of princess "stuff".
Mum outdid herself with the cake (and she also made some cupcakes) Amelia had specified she wanted a castle cake that was like a tower - and it had to be pink.... Everyone LOVED it!! and it tasted awesome too!! 
We set up a "dressing room" in the play room with mirrors, and gowns and crowns as well as each little princess received a little wand too.
And I have to end with this gorgeous pic of my birthday girl - I snapped it right before her guests began to arrive - twirling in her princess gown and totally in the moment!
Can you tell I LOVE to party coordinate?????
I am on a mission now to get this blog updated - back REAL soon!!
JEN xoxox
