Inspiration – Breezy Productions

May 4
2018

Unicorn Theme 1st Birthday Party Prep

by Breezy

Our little Florence’s first birthday is fast approaching and now that I am back at work, spare time to get ready for her party is at an all time low! So whenever I get a spare moment I am making sure i’m prepping for her birthday. Today that included making a small prop for the table for her party. I have seen a few of these on Pinterest so after a trip to Spotlight I was ready to go.

I’m slightly obsessed with Pinterest by the way, especially for birthday party themes. You just type in ‘unicorn party theme’ of ‘first birthday unicorn theme’ and you have millions of options from the ‘smallest touch’ to some ‘out of this world amazing I don’t know how they do it or afford it options’.

Whenever the girls have a party, after choosing the theme I pretty much work out table decorations and that’s as far as my ‘theme’ goes. I find if you just put together a gorgeous table it creates the centrepiece for your party.

So the first item I am creating is a ‘ONE” table piece. I picked up most of what I needed from Spotlight. The paper mâché letters were about $4.99 each, I got a unicorn headband, I needed the gold paint as I didn’t have any in my stash. I did have the pink and purple. I got some white paint to add to my colours to help make them look a little more pastel. I then got a bunch of fake flowers to add the find touches.

I also had a glue gun from home, which is the best option for this project as everything sets quickly which is what you need.

To start with I painted all letters with 2 coats of paint. The middle gold letter would love great with glitter but I didn’t have any so I just went with a metallic gold. Then I cut the unicorn headband to get the horn and ears. I then pulled all the fake flowers off the stems.

Painted Letters

Once the paint had dried, I got my hot glue gun and applied the unicorn horn and ears to the letter ‘O’. Once they were set in place I got the flowers and one by one glued them around the horn and ears. I also decided to place one on the letter ‘E’ to balance it out. And there you have it, I am SOOO not a crafty person but this was super easy and I’m sure it will look great on the party table. Be sure to come back and visit our blog to see the party blog x

Unicorn Horn and Flowers

Sep 10
2016

In The Night Garden 2nd birthday party

by Breezy

In The Night Garden Party Theme

Our youngest daughter Rosie recently had her 2nd birthday. I find that 2 is a tricky age, in that they are not really into anything from a ‘theme’ perspective just yet. They are not diehard Frozen fans, wanting to be the next Elsa. It’s that stage before they can sit for more than 10 minutes or so without getting distracted. So when I thought about what theme to do for Rosie’s birthday there was really no other clear choice than, In The Night Garden (INTG).

Now i’m not sure what this show is really all about, it’s got words like Pinky Ponk, Ninky Nonk, Makka Pakka just to name a few. But hey, i’ll take these weird words because Rosie just loves the show and dances around the living room while she watches it. Iggle Piggle happens to be her favourite character, so there we have it, a party theme is born.

Themed Water Bottles

I have found that the easiest way to create a party theme is to simply create a table at the centre of the party that is themed, add some balloons and a cake and you have yourself a party theme.

Once you have your theme, it’s the small details that make the difference. These days you can easily find what you need to make signs and labels online. I found a lot of templates online for free, just by searching ‘in the night garden part theme’. They even had lots of items you can download from the INTG website. For the water bottles I downloaded the free template and got the labels printed at Office Works and used my paper cutter to trim them.

Iggle Piggle Cake

I had some plastic frames from IKEA that I had used at a previous birthday party and created some signs for the food using Canva which is an online design tool (it’s awesome, don’t get sucked into the vortex that is Canva, sooo addictive). I called the flavoured milk Pinky Ponk Juice, and made some other signs for other food I was serving. All the images I found online on the INTG website.

The hardest part of the organising was probably the cake. I started with a large slab of sponge cake from Woolworths (get amongst it Mums, it will change your life). I cut out a template on paper first to cut all the shapes for the cake. I also put a layer of fresh cream in the middle just to make it extra tasty. I thought I would try and be clever and use fondant, by 9pm the night before the party I gave up, the colour was awful and the taste was just as bad. So I had a glass of wine to recover from the first Iggle Piggle attempt then regrouped on the morning of the party and went with buttercream icing instead. Much easier and it tastes great! A little bit of blue colour and some red felt that I picked up from Spotlight for a couple of dollars and he was done, you have an Iggle Piggle cake.

I set up a colouring in table using templates that I also printed from the INTG website (it’s amazing how many free templates you have access to for theme parties) and also created a ‘Pin the blanket on Iggle Piggle’ using another FREE template. I got all my printing done at Office Works. It’s affordable and they offer the ‘trim’ option which is very useful.

One of my besties made gorgeous cookies as the party favour and I also handed out some bubbles, by 5pm the party was done and we all got to sit down enjoy a champas and celebrate our little girl turning 2.

Cookie Cutter Love

Pinky Ponk Juice AKA Flavoured Milk

Aug 28
2016

When your organising skills meet your kids special memories…

by Breezy

As a working mum, I am constantly juggling and balancing our lives, hoping to give everyone what they need while still being able to do what I’m passionate about.

I find that my super organised personality is serving me well lately with the limited time I have to dedicate to anything outside of our normal weekly routine. Creating memory boxes for the girls falls into this ‘outside of normal routine’ category. So this week, since I feel I am on top of everything at work and at home I gave myself a little project to get some of the clutter organised.

Do you ever wonder what you should do with all the certificates, pieces of art, ‘first drawing’ ‘first time they wrote their name’ ‘ first time they coloured in a picture’ ‘birthday cards’? Well I do! I have things filed away in lots of places and with my eldest starting school next year I felt there was no better time to start before all the report cards and everything else starts flowing in.

I dragged my partner in crime and the kiddies to Office Works on the weekend and picked up all these goodies to get these memory boxes started.

It didn’t require much, and you don’t even need the label maker (let’s be honest that’s the OCD in me loving that all the labels are the same, ha!). I got a plastic tub for both girls, they holder suspension files. I then picked a colour for each of the girls (who knew there were so many suspension file choices these days???) and I was done!

I labelled each folder from Birth through to Post School and threw in a General folder for… well you know all that general stuff 🙂

It was super easy, doesn’t take up much room and now I have all their achievements, memories and little creations all in one place that I can eventually give to them when they are settled in their own homes. Happy Memory Making!

Trendy Filing from Office Works

Dymo Label Maker

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