A Year of Holiday Outfits

Last year I decided that I would make some type of shirt/outfit for Bug for all of the holidays.  It started with New Years because I didn't have anything for him to wear.  Some were more involved than others, but he got something for all of the major holidays that we celebrate (including his birthday). 

I've shared most of them on my personal Instagram or Facebook, but it's fun to see them all together.  It's also amazing to see how much he grew and changed in a year. 

Pump It Up Tea Party: Ruby's Fifth Birthday

I haven't done a lot of blogging lately, because I haven't done a lot of baking and sewing.  One of my last big projects was my niece Ruby's fifth birthday party.

She had been talking about wanting a tea party for months.  My sister and I went into planning mode and had a ton of great ideas.  Then Ruby went to a party at Pump It Up and started talking about having her next party there. Always thinking ahead:)

My sister then decided to partner up with another mom to do a joint birthday party.  It was one of Ruby's good friends from school, their birthday's are days apart, and most of the same kids would be invited to both.  The final decision was to do a Pump It Up tea party. 

For the party favors I made tutus for the girls and appliqued tie t-shirts for the boys.

Since I always make Ruby a birthday shirt, I made the birthday girls t-shirts with teacups on them (somehow I didn't get a picture of them).  I made a matching outfit for her American Girl Doll.

The party guests got their shirts and tutus after the jumping part of the party, but the birthday girls wanted to wear theirs the whole time.  Tutus didn't stop them from doing the climbing wall.

For dessert I made cupcakes with cookie toppers.  I like cookie toppers better than fondant because they taste a lot better.

My sister thought it would be cute to serve the girls theirs in tea cups.  We were going to buy some, when my mom reminded me I had a whole set from my dad in my garage.  I then used the matching plates to serve the rest of the cupcakes.

The girls loved them and wanted to keep their tea cups.  I guess I'll just have to have another tea party for Ruby so she can use them again.

60th Birthday Cookies

Last weekend was my stepdad's 60th birthday.  He doesn't really like celebrating his birthday and doesn't like to get "stuff" as gifts.  My sister decided we needed to celebrate anyway.  She invited my mom and him over to watch football and have a little party. 

Sugar cookies are his favorite, so I made a batch as his gift.  I was just going to do simple round cookies, but then I remembered I had my letter cookie cutters and thought it would be cute to spell out Happy Birthday Gary.  It was the first time I used them and some of the letters were hard to get out of the cutters because they were so thin.

I saw a tutorial on using a stencil to decorate cookies at Sweetopia, so I decided to give it a try.  I went with a simple 60 and it was pretty easy.

My niece thought that he also needed a birthday shirt.  Of course I had to go along with her idea.  I made him a shirt with guitars (he plays the bass guitar)

I didn't think that he would wear it, but R told him he had to put it on so he did. 

He was very surprised and excited.  Happy 60th Gary!

Balloon Appliqued T-Shirts

My friend's son is obsessed with balloons. She threw him a balloon themed birthday party for his second birthday. As his birthday gift I made him two appliquéd shirts. She had him wear one for the party, so I guess he liked them.