Camping - Woodland Birthday Party

A camping themed birthday party for a great-nephew who turned 1 Easter Sunday and his grandpa who turned 50 three days later!

 I made this fun camping cake for my nephew and a giant chocolate chip cookie for his grandpa (my brother).

Here's some pictures of the decor that I did for their combined party.

The decorations I made/used for my brother.

My nephew's part of the party:

I made the chalkboard printable and the tent. I covered the "E" with denim and made little hobo bags (with prizes inside) for my three great-nephews out of bandanas. 

Here's a closer view of the chalkboard printable I made:

• You can find free chalkboard fonts (and background) here
• The graphics I used on the chalkboard printable can be found here and here.
• You can find the free animal tracks printables here.
• I made the banner from this digital kit.

This post linked to:

Roses of Inspiration

Tea Party

What's more fun than tea party with friends?

It's not often I get the chance to have an all girls party with my "fancy" dishes and fun little foods.

Candy skewers for favors and pretty place cards.

Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites

Pineapple Lush Dip

Fruit

Cheese

Summer Sausage

Honey Mustard Wheat Thins --- Chicken N' Biscuit 

Yogurt Raisins

Little Smokies in Crescent Rolls

Mini Reese Ice Cream Cakes

Sock Monkey Shower -- Food/Printables

Here's the menu for the shower food:

Hot Beef Sandwiches

Hot Ham Sandwiches (close to this recipe)

 Fruit Salad

Spinach Dip

Homemade Snack Mix

White Chocolate Popcorn w/peppermint

Dark Chocolate Popcorn w/sea salt

 Chocolate Covered Strawberries (with a few plain ones for the people with milk allergies).

 Here's my trick for getting them to turn out w/out flat sides:

 Prop them up to dry on a wire rack w/a toothpick!

Maybe you noticed the little spools with tickets naming each item?

 (Another Hobby Lobby purchase)

I added the red thread and made up some name tags for the food dishes.

Here's a freebie for you to customized and enjoy!

 I also made customized napkin rings with the baby's name on them

Here are some freebies for you to use

Here are some other sock monkey freebies from around the web:
Sock monkey clip art
Sock Monkey coloring page
Sock monkey head shot coloring page (scroll down) 
Boy and Girl Sock monkey coloring page


This post linked to:
Roses of Inspiration Link Up #3

Sock Monkey Shower - Clothesline

For a background decoration I did a baby clothes line in a monky/red-brown-white theme.

Here are the customized clothespins I made to hang the clothes with:

I painted the pins

Red,

Brown,

White,

before covering the fronts with scrapbook paper (from Hobby Lobby).
In order to find the exact kind of clothes I wanted for on the line I ended up shopping new stuff on ebay!
Thankfully I found some pretty good deals and was very pleased with my monkey themed sleeper/onesie. 
Since I ran out of time, I paid Christa (from Sophias Sundries) to custom make my sock monkey hat.
If your interested in making one yourself you can find a FREE pattern (in six sizes!) on the Repeat Crafter Me blog.

Sock Monkey Shower - Cake

I decided to do cupcakes instead of a big cake and in keeping with the sock monkey theme they have monkey faces on them.

Here are links to the recipes I used:

Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe

 Chocolate Buttercream Icing

To make their little faces you use:

1 vanilla wafer for the mouth

1 mini vanilla wafer (cut in 1/2) for the ears

2 chocolate chips

1 tube of red icing for the smile

(Note: when cutting the vanilla wafers you can't "chop" down on them - you kind of have to saw them in 1/2 ---otherwise they break into a million pieces!)

This post linked to:
Roses of Inspiration Link Up #3 

 

Sock Monkey Shower - Favors - Banner

 For favors we (my sister-in-law and I) did a candy bar.

I made the personalized banner above the bar - she took care of the candy/jars/favor bags.

Here you can see the burlap wraps and labels she made to go around the jars.

Here's a better view of the favor bags she made up using brown lunch sacks.
(Here's a great tutorial on making them!)

Here's the banner I made using papers from Hobby Lobby

For the monkey in the center I used the free pattern from chickabug blog.