A Tiny Party...

 Sophie turns ten this Friday but we celebrated early and threw a party for her and her friends. The theme? All things tiny, which together added up to BIG fun!

The invitations: 

I topped a little gift box from the charms I collect for my Chamilia bracelet and topped them with a pretty scrapbook paper, filled the inside with some pink glitter and this tiny message:

A tiny party      

for sophie

on december one,

proving small is all

you need to have

a lot of fun!

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1:30 – 3:00 pm

It was so much fun to think outside of the box and imagine tiny interpretations of typical birthday decorations, games and fare:

 Clockwise from center photo:

A tiny birthday cake from the grocery store with a miniature flag bunting made from scrapbook paper; playing the memory game and writing their answers; cake pops and mini ice-cream sandwiches; teeny tiny breakfast food made from...; cheerios/doughnuts, white candy wafers and mini M&Ms/fried eggs, stick gum/bacon, cinnamon toast crunch cereal/toast; memory game items: tiny items from around the house to be memorized and recounted later; the girls; table is set; tiny canvases from the Dollar store awaiting soon to be tiny painted masterpieces.

**(miniature breakfast idea found here)**

These cake pops gave me grief. I followed the directions exactly, but lo and behold if your cake is very moist, you need to really cut back on the amount of icing added. I found the how-to here. 

I truly am not a gifted baker...

Party Time!

The invitations we made, courtesy of a photo from my kind blogging friend, Angie Zino of Casa Mia

Today my little girl turned eight. At 1:34 p.m. to be exact. So it seemed fitting to time her party to include that precise moment. Turning eight, she had eight guests, after much angst and playing around with guest lists. Initially, she wanted to include every girl she plays with at school and at home, despite the fact that our house would strain at the seams with such a number. The number even grew as we decided we couldn't leave out any little girl in her class, as that would be hurtful. We planned the logistics of how we could fit such a large gathering around the table, and knew we just couldn't. When she reached the point of tears at the thought of hurting anyone's feelings by cutting back the list, I decided to make an executive decision: planning a birthday should not be so emotional, and we would stick to eight girls, and only those she plays with on a regular basis...swallowing our guilt at leaving some favourites out. It is a funny thing to see such little shoulders relieved of their burden when mummy offers to take the blame!

We decided on a "Girl's Day Out" theme: with a little Bingo, candy, and shopping (by way of the shopping game). The girls wore their favourite party dresses, and happily left with their bellies full of homemade ice-cream cake (fill a pan or square dish with ice-cream sandwiches, softened candy cane ice-cream, and your favourite toppings) and their shopping bags full of prizes. Sophie said it was her best birthday ever, which she says every year, but is still nice to hear just the same.

She loved all of her presents, and with a smaller guest list, I no longer have to wonder where I am going to put a pile of presents in an already overflowing little girl's closet!!

Happy Birthday, Sophie!!