Mom's 55th Birthday Party!

I have been wanting to blog about this for MONTHS! But considering it was supposed to be a surprise. I couldn't until we had the party! SO here it goes....Enjoy!

My mom Elisa, is my hero. She is a breast cancer survivor, a great teacher, a wonderful mother, a fighter, and one of the smartest people I know. She does everything for our family and ever since I became a mother, I have a new appreciation for ALL the work she really had to do dealing with me, and my 2 brothers. && now to make her even more awesome she is the best Gigi (grandma) to my son! He loves her so much. I have learned soo much from her. One of the things I can thank her for is my creative side and the ability to match things and create a theme! We love a theme.


Her 55th birthday was fast approaching and I just couldn't let another year go by with out doing something special for her and honoring her with her OWN party! I was on a mission to not only do this all myself, but to do it as a surprise and really give her a special birthday! 

First I had to come up with a theme. She loves Paisley so it was and easy pick when I found this cool pattern at Party City (partycity.com)

Look familiar? You may have seen it in the E circle at the top of this post. Since I was buying plates, napkins and a banner from the website I figured they wouldn't mind if I used their picture as an inspiration for the items I needed to create to tie everything together!

I was creating this party on a budget so I needed to be thrifty and creative. I copied the image so that I could use the pattern to create the invite, cupcake toppers and water bottle labels.
I am a self taught graphic artist which really means, I do the best I can with copy, paste and the paint program. ;)

I used a website called picnik.com to create the invitation. Love this site. It's great for picture touch up's and editing as well as creating things. I can spend hours there!! 

Jax Super Friends Birthday Party: Part 1

So the theme was picked a few weeks ago around the time we let go of the "binky" 

Jax & I went to Target & I decided to get him a new "big boy" toy. He choose batman. && so it began. 

The toy came with a DC Super Friends DVD && Jax seriously overnight has become OBSESSED with anything SUPER! 

After searching online I found the cutest idea!! to make it more super BAM BOOM! than about a specific character. Some of the party will have characters and stuff but not focusing on any really specifically!

Using Pinterest.com (my new OBSESSION!! ) i found some REALLY cute ideas and things I will DIY for cheap..so I have to start NOW!!! <3

The Invitation is complete!! && I am soo siked. It took me forever to get it right, but with Picnik.com I was really able to create the PERFECT invite for Jax's 3rd birthday party!

The Hall of Ruffin was a MUST! I like to have a area for phot ops at my parties. With our capes we would be making there MUST be a city to save!! 

I collected boxes for a few weeks and when I had the right amount and sizes then I got to painting.

I picked cheapest grey spray paint at Home Depot. I think around $1 a can. I bought 10 cans! :)