DIY elements of the Pony Party

Following on from my post about the Pony Party yesterday, I thought I would follow up today with some of the DIY elements of the day. I had lots of fun playing around with the beautiful fabrics I found and different things form all over the world (thanks to my best mate etsy :) ).

The fabric backdrop turned into a labour of love, cutting fabric strips and tying them onto a piece of dowel. Very simple and very effective. I really loved how it turned out and now want to hang it in Molly's room!

To match the fabric backdrop I also made a 'scrap' wreath for the front door...

To further tie in with the fabric backdrop I made some cake bunting out of just one of the fabrics to adorn the cake...

Finally I covered a 'M' with the same fabric as the bunting to add a personalised touch to the table. Again this is heading straight to her room!

To personalise the hobby horse party favours, I ordered some initial badges from etsy and attached them to some rosettes I made out of scrap fabric, lace and buttons...

The Happy 3rd Birthday sign hanging from the dessert table was another easy DIY using doilies (soon available to buy at Little Spunky Monkey) and printed card, pegged onto jupe with mini clothes pegs...

I had sooo much fun making all of these little elements for the party and am so happy that they all tied in together so well. So many of them can be used as either decoration around our home or in Molly's bedroom.

I hope I have inspired some of you to have a go at making similar pieces for your upcoming parties- please do not hesitate to contact me for any further informatio on any of the above mentioned ideas.

Rebeca
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Sorry its been so long...

... since I posted- its hard trying to keep up with blogging, facebooking, madeiting, websiting and, well, living! I have 5 weeks to go until out 3rd baby is due so it has been all a crazy couple of weeks (with more to come I am SURE!).


We have just had a party extravaganza weekend with Molly's 3rd birthday on the Saturday and then her party on the Sunday. Molly has been talking about having a pony party since Ned's party back in July last year. She never swayed from the theme in that time, so collecting little bits and pieces for the party has been going on for months!

I wanted to create a vintage/cowgirl-feel to the desesrt table and selected foods that fit the theme.

They included rustic apple and rhubarb and pear pies...

... peanut butter cups (Molly is peanut butter MAD!)...

the recipe can be found here
I cheated on the ginger kisses and donuts and bought them...

the chocolate bars were wrapped in printables from the Hobby Horse Party Printable Pack (available soon)...

... the sultana and oat cookies were fun to make with the kids and tasted great too...

grab the recipe from here.

The scrumptions cupcakes were from Lulu's Cupcakes- they always look too good to eat!!! (but taste delicious :) )

Alexis matched the colours in my fabric choices perfectly- I was so happy with them.

Then there was the cake!!! Mum baked the 3 layered cake for me and dad lovingly iced it- they kind of work in a tag-team and are the unofficial birthday cake makers in the family! We gave Molly the horse figurine for her birthday and I made the bunting on top- overall I was so terribly happy with it- exactly like what Molly and I wanted :)

Overall I was deleriously happy with how it all turned out- could not be happier.
Tomorrow I will do a post on all of the DIY elements to the party - so easy and so effective.

Rebecca
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