My Son's Mickey Mouse 3rd Birthday Party!

 Hi, everyone! How was your weekend?

My son's third birthday was on Saturday and we had his birthday party yesterday. He LOVES anything and everything Mickey Mouse, so obviously that was the theme for his party this year. I busted out my Cricut machine for the first time since his birthday party last year and made all the decorations myself. I also made his birthday cake from scratch. This was time consuming and a little bit stressful (especially assembling and decorating the cake), but I love baking and crafting and making all these fun decorations. Seeing the pure joy and happiness on my son's face was 100% worth it.

This was my very first multi-tiered, detailed cake. I've never worked with fondant or used a dome cake pan before, but I think it turned out good for my first time! The "red" tier is four layers of cake. I made two layers of chocolate and two layers of vanilla. Then, I filled the dome pan with Rice Krispie's treat and I covered the Rice Krispie's treat with black fondant for "Mickey's" head and I used two pieces of corrugated cardboard for the ears and covered those in black fondant as well. Next, I used small wooden dowels to connect the ears to the head. The shoes are Rice Krispie's treats as well.

As far as decorations go, I decided not to go overboard. My son loved what I did make, but he was mostly interested in the food and playing with his cousins. I made Mickey's head and pants and glued on the phrase "Come Inside It's Fun Inside" on them and taped the two pieces to my front door.

I had two banners and I just realized I forgot to get a picture of the one I made, so I'll have to pull it out again and snap a picture later. I purchased this Mickey Mouse banner. I was going to make one that was similar, but I ran out of time.

For the gift table I used one black plastic tablecloth and one red plastic tablecloth to, again, resemble Mickey Mouse. I purchased Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse headbands for each guest to wear and take home, and added that to the gift table.

For food, I arranged the fruit to resemble Mickey Mouse, I made "Mickey Mouse" Oreo's using red melting chocolate and mini Oreo's, I made Jell-o cups using red Jell-o, whipped cream, and mini Oreo's, I used little puns for some of the food (pictured), and I arranged the black plates and bowls to look like Mickey Mouse as well.

That's everything I did for my son's 3rd birthday party. Have you ever done a Mickey Mouse themed party? What fun things did you make?

 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful week!

 

 

Branching out...

 Hello, everyone!  How are you?

I've been considering expanding the range of topics on my blog for a very long time now.  I really do LOVE makeup and beauty products, but that's not the only thing I'm interested in and I really want to post different content.  Of course, I'll still upload beauty related posts and my seasonal empties (to help keep me accountable for using up the products I've hoarded over the years), but they just wouldn't be the only type of content I post anymore.  I'm very much into crafting, cooking & baking, decorating, fashion, and of course being a parent.  Incorporating my other interests into my blog is something I've longed to do for a while now, and I've decided to just go through with it.

For my first post away from beauty, I thought I would show you my most recent project.  I recently planned my son's second birthday party.  It was just with close family, so nothing huge and crowded and it happened to be nice out that day so we were able to be in our backyard for most of it.  We didn't get to have my son's first birthday party due to covid, so I was very excited to plan this one.  The party was train themed since my son loves trains.  Also, I saw posts on Pinterest that said, "Chugga Chugga Two Two" and I loved that.  Of course, after I started planning and making decorations, my son got REALLY into Mickey Mouse.  He literally showed no interest in Mickey Mouse until after I started making train decorations.  lol  I *could* have changed the theme, but I hate wasting things (especially my limited time) so we went ahead with the train theme anyway.  My son honestly didn't care.

 

My husband gave me a Cricut Explore Air 2 last Christmas and I'm definitely putting it to use by making all of the decorations myself.  I found a train image that I cut out using my Cricut machine and then adhered pictures of my son throughout the last two years to them to make a picture train.  I love this idea.  In fact, it's still up in my hallway.  I'll probably take it down when it starts to fall off the wall.

I scoured Pinterest for ideas for the train themed birthday party, and someone way cleverer than I am used two glass jars to hold straws and plastic utensils.  For the jar of straws they labeled it "Chugga Chugga" and the utensils were labeled "Chew Chew" and I cracked up like a lunatic.  I knew I had to borrow that idea for my son's party.  I had my cricut draw the outline for the letters and I used a blue highlighter to fill them in.  I tried to cut the labels out to look like steam.

 

 

The next decoration I made was a "Happy Birthday" banner.  I wanted the banner to look like a train and on each train car there would be a single letter to spell out HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

*I'm just going to add this here - My husband and I rent the house we're living in and the walls were painted this green when we moved in.  We do plan on painting eventually (we were given the OK to do so when we moved in) but we just haven't gotten around to it yet.*

 

I was originally going to use red card stock for the engines and cabooses but decided on black at the last minute, so I used an extra red set to add to the wall because why not.  lol  It only occurred to me just now that I should have put a picture of my son in the car.  Oh, well!

 

I had my husband place black electrical tape to our floor to look like train tracks.  My husband did his best, but he thinks it looked more like hopscotch than train tracks.  We only had it in our main hallway from the front door into the hallway.  Having it go throughout our entire house seemed excessive.

 

Finally, I used my cricut to cut out letters to spell "Chugga Chugga Two Two" and adhered them to our wall.  I used card stock when I probably should have used vinyl because I had to use A LOT of tape to keep them up on the wall.

 

I made white and chocolate cupcakes in the shape of a 2 and used green frosting, black gel icing, and Kit Kat bars to make them look like train tracks.  I purchased this little train from Target, washed it, and then placed it on top of the middle of the 2.  This is something else I saw on Pinterest and I'm very proud of how it came out.

 

I had all of the snacks in bowls and was going to label all of the bowls to look like train cars, but time got away from me and I wasn't able to.  But that's everything I did for my son's birthday party.  I can't wait until next year to be able to do it all again!  Hopefully by then more people will be vaccinated and we can have a bigger party with more than just family in attendance.

 

Do you decorate for your children's birthday parties?  What's your favorite that you've either done yourself or seen?  I'd love to know!

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you enjoyed this non-beauty related post!