Gracefulskinny
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Disney World Themed Birthday
As I posted a few weeks back I recently celebrated my birthday by throwing a Disney World Themed Party. Unfortunately I don’t have many pictures from the party itself because we were all too focused on having fun but I did manage to get shots of what I served. I thought I would still do a post on it to give others ideas.
For the invitation I dug through my now quite large Disney clipart file of backgrounds I find here and there on the boards and Pinterest and found a good background image and put text over it. To save money on printing, once done with the invite I saved the file as a JPG and ordered prints from Costco as photos. I then got nice blank envelopes from hobby lobby and added a Disney sticker to it. Quick, Easy and Cheap.
For the drinks (which apparently no one got pictures of) I wanted drinks that could be flexible for the amount of alcohol added since not everyone could have alcohol. I ended up making Orange Bird Punch {Pineapple Juice, Orange Juice, Orange Sherbet blended with a splash of ginger ale added at the end}, and Snow White’s pick your poison Appletini’s {Sparkling apple cider, alcohol of choice}
The food cards were made with backgrounds done by the wonderful Pixiesprite here on the boards. For the food I tried to focus on attractions. So I decided to do an Epcot World Showcase of Flavors and a few other ride representations:
Tomorrowland-Space Asteroids
Toy Story Mania- Smashed Mr. Potatohead
Mexico- Queso {Apparently not Pictured
}
Norway- Jarlesburg
Italy- Fresh Mozzarella
China- Steamed Teriyaki Buns {Apparently not Pictured}
Germany- Gherkin Pickles (I was going to do pretzel bites with this but ran out of time to make them)
America - Spinach and Artichoke Dip (Oddly this was one of the hardest countries to do for some reason. I ended up just picking something easy to make and something I enjoyed.)
Japan- Mochi
Morocco- Hummus
France- Croissants and French butter
U.K. - Banger Rolls
Canada- Maple Sugar Candies-- Word of warning to those that want to try these, while good they are also VERY SWEET and RICH. Little Miss was the only one to pop more than one in her mouth. (She used my distraction trying to get things on the table to sneak a few before the party started. And she was WIRED for half the night after!
)
Animal Kingdom Trees of Life and other Veggies
And of course because Cinderella’s castle is probably one of my favorite parts of Disney World I decided to get as close as I could without spending an arm and a leg for something custom. My local grocery store bakery was able to do this rather cheap.
Overall the party was a hit and I was able to pull off the theme without going too far into Kiddie territory. And while exhausted it made for a nice birthday indeed.
EDIT: How silly of me I forgot! Because this was a Disney World themed party and Everyone knows Walt LOVED trains We left out our christmas train and just decorated it with Little Misses figurines. This circled the front room that guests can put their stuff in to keep it away from Little Miss. It was quite the hit.
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As I posted a few weeks back I recently celebrated my birthday by throwing a Disney World Themed Party. Unfortunately I don’t have many pictures from the party itself because we were all too focused on having fun but I did manage to get shots of what I served. I thought I would still do a post on it to give others ideas.
For the invitation I dug through my now quite large Disney clipart file of backgrounds I find here and there on the boards and Pinterest and found a good background image and put text over it. To save money on printing, once done with the invite I saved the file as a JPG and ordered prints from Costco as photos. I then got nice blank envelopes from hobby lobby and added a Disney sticker to it. Quick, Easy and Cheap.
For the drinks (which apparently no one got pictures of) I wanted drinks that could be flexible for the amount of alcohol added since not everyone could have alcohol. I ended up making Orange Bird Punch {Pineapple Juice, Orange Juice, Orange Sherbet blended with a splash of ginger ale added at the end}, and Snow White’s pick your poison Appletini’s {Sparkling apple cider, alcohol of choice}
The food cards were made with backgrounds done by the wonderful Pixiesprite here on the boards. For the food I tried to focus on attractions. So I decided to do an Epcot World Showcase of Flavors and a few other ride representations:
Tomorrowland-Space Asteroids
Toy Story Mania- Smashed Mr. Potatohead
Mexico- Queso {Apparently not Pictured
}
Norway- Jarlesburg
Italy- Fresh Mozzarella
China- Steamed Teriyaki Buns {Apparently not Pictured
}
Germany- Gherkin Pickles (I was going to do pretzel bites with this but ran out of time to make them)
America - Spinach and Artichoke Dip (Oddly this was one of the hardest countries to do for some reason. I ended up just picking something easy to make and something I enjoyed.)
Japan- Mochi
Morocco- Hummus
France- Croissants and French butter
U.K. - Banger Rolls
Canada- Maple Sugar Candies-- Word of warning to those that want to try these, while good they are also VERY SWEET and RICH. Little Miss was the only one to pop more than one in her mouth. (She used my distraction trying to get things on the table to sneak a few before the party started. And she was WIRED for half the night after!
)
Animal Kingdom Trees of Life and other Veggies
And of course because Cinderella’s castle is probably one of my favorite parts of Disney World I decided to get as close as I could without spending an arm and a leg for something custom. My local grocery store bakery was able to do this rather cheap.
Overall the party was a hit and I was able to pull off the theme without going too far into Kiddie territory. And while exhausted it made for a nice birthday indeed.
EDIT: How silly of me I forgot! Because this was a Disney World themed party and Everyone knows Walt LOVED trains We left out our christmas train and just decorated it with Little Misses figurines. This circled the front room that guests can put their stuff in to keep it away from Little Miss. It was quite the hit.
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I'm proud of her. Don't waste time going for the vegetables. When mom is distracted, go for the good stuff!!!!
hi there!
thanks for joining in. 
)Because I've been sick with this bad cold and asthma flare (Which I am finally shaking off!) we ended up not getting any pictures of this movie night. 
