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Gracie's FROZEN dress and Birthday

I know I'm a little late with this... Apologies... Considering Gracie's birthday was in MAY. Thanks to Pinterest and everyone's lovely blogs and ideas I was able to come up with great ideas for Gracie's birthday and dress. We ended up doing her birthday at the pool since we were living in an apartment at the time... that limited decor and space a bunch which I think was a blessing in disguise. (I'm a little crazy with birthdays...)

 

Okay, so before there were all these lovely patterns and fabric choices I had to be super creative with Gracie's FROZEN dress and if you have a 4 year old (or any age daughter), I'm sure yours either has an Elsa dress or is BEGGING for one... like mine did. Here's my crack at it... I used a dress pattern I had with elastic in the back. Since the shear material didnt stretch so well (and it was summertime) I decided to ixnay on the sleeves. Instead I made finger"less" gloves...

 

Isn't she sooo cute! I used a super cool freezer paper teqnique I found on Pinterest. first I cut snowflakes in freezer paper using my cricut. then ironed on the negative. After it adhered I used Martha Stuarts sparkly teal paint (can be used on fabric) to paint on the snowflakes. Peel the freezer paper when its dry and voila, snowflakes!!!

 

I found a Scandanavian type laser cut frame at Michaels, super cheap BTW used the same Martha Stuart paint for the frame below and photoshopped Gracie into the "Elsa" scene for the invite (see below). I ended up using Evite, so this was the pic on that.

 

 



Now for party favors and decor. I used silver floral wire for the Elsa and Anna crowns as shown below. The Elsa ones were with white sparkle foam and a template I found online. I just used sticker jewels, some tulle and pretty ribbon and there you go. Anna crowns: I used the same wire, wrapped floral ribbon as I inserted fake flowers. Tied ribbon at the ends for pretty flower crowns.

For the boys, I made Sven and Olaf wear/thingies... I used a Sven (deer Antler) template and brown foam to make antler crowns. For olaf I got the smallest width elastic and made orange cones out of orange cardstock for noses.

the standing Elsa and Anna below are just printed from paper. (sorry, I'll try to find the link)

 

Okay, so apparently I'm the worst person at stepping away for a minute to take pics of all my hard work... Here's some pics of our activities (pin the nose on Olaf and throw bean bag snowballs (round ball bean bags made from white flannel material). I just painted these on white foam poster board.

 

Oh and this is the coolest activity, so mix a TON of epsom salt in HOT water (you have to keep adding salt and stir to get a thick consistancy), paint on dark paper and it makes ice crystals as it dries! SOOO cool!

Another activity we did (I don't have pics) is snow globes out of baby food jars, we put water and glitter in the jars. I glued small trees (found on etsy) on the inside of the lids prior to the party. The kids decorated the outside of the jars with FROZEN stickers. they had a blast with this.

Of course the main dessert was snow cones.

Here's the birthday girl ;)

 

and cake pops!

 

Here's one of the take homes... "SNOW Dough" (homemade playdough with lots of blue food coloring and glitter) Blue for elsa and white for Olaf

 

 

BTW a little trick for the banner. Instead of buying super expensive sparkle cardstock I just spray painted sparkles on blue cardstock. worked the same with the cricut! Enjoy!

 

Gracie's Candycorn dress

I'm not huge on Halloween. I know... big shocker... I love the holidays, decor and having fun, so I was thinking, How can I do a little decor, dress up Gracie (my dolly) and have fun with Halloween without submitting to demonic creepiness? Thanks to Pinterest, I found a cute pic of the Candycorn burlap banner (behind Gracie on the bench) and this cute pillowcase dress. It was super Easy to make BTW (Great for a first time sewing project...)

 

I'll try to find the Pinterest links and put them up here...