Lalaloopsy Birthday Party

For my daughter's 3rd birthday we decided to do a Lalaloopsy doll theme.  My daughter loves Lalaloopsy dolls!  It is quite possible that mommy loves them more, but all the more fun for me to create the party decorations!
I decided to use pink and sort of a Tiffany blue.  I found great Lalaloopsy stickers at Target, which were great for "Lalaloopsifying" everything.
For the favors, we did bubble gum and candy necklaces in little plastic bags from Michaels and stapled them closed with color coordinating paper and a Lalaloopsy sticker.  You can see them in the top right of the picture.  I also made pink popcorn using air popped popcorn drizzled with melted pink candy melts.  It was delicious!

A family member who is an awesome baker and cake decorator made the cake.  So cute and tasty!  She used the bottom side of colored candy melts as the surface of the "buttons" and white chocolate for the button holes around the edge of the cake.  What a great idea!

I got a bunch of dress-up items from Dollar Tree and set up this Lalaloopsy tent for dress-up time.  The girls had so much fun!

Party favors.

Party hats & blowers decorated with Lalaloopsy stickers.

I used Lalaloopsy items my daughter already had for centerpieces.

We went very simple with the food.  The party was at 2pm so we figured most people had already eaten.  I cut out a few Lalaloopsy dolls from the covers of coloring books my daughter already had.

I made this pennant Happy Birthday banner out of scrapbook paper.  It photographed terribly, but turned out super cute!  I used the pattern at this site.

I got the idea from Pinterest to get helium balloons and hang pictures of my daughter from birth to 3.  Fun memories!

While planning the party, I spent a lot of time googling pictures of Lalaloopsy parties and wow, people are so creative!  What great sources of ideas and inspiration!  I got a lot of my ideas and inspiration from this site.  So cute!

Simple Monkey Diaper Cake

I made this diaper cake awhile back as a baby shower centerpiece. It was my first diaper cake so I went super simple. I used ribbon, paper shreds, monkey stickers, and a fake green gerber daisy for the top.

I didn't plan on posting to a blog at the time of the shower so I, unfortunately, didn't take too many pictures. Here are the few I have:

Cupcake Toppers

Framed Bible Verse with Curious George

Monkey Vine Clothesline

(This was done by one of my baby shower co-hosts.  Isn't it cute?!)

Dr. Seuss Diaper Cake

I went to a baby shower today which was a gender reveal party for a couple who love Dr. Seuss.  My perfect chance to make a Dr. Seuss diaper cake! I got some great Dr. Seuss scrapbook paper (two different patterned papers for the borders and a cat in the hat paper for the cut-outs), red & white ribbon (which was not totally necessary because I could have repeated the blue paper border from the bottom layer), and yellow paper shreds at JoAnn's.  Once, I got the pack of diapers, I had everything I needed.  Fun!

(Note: I taped the 3 cut-outs on top to a straw and stuck the straw into a top layer diaper roll in order to create some height.  I also added a few other straws to hold the layers together.  I cut a circle out of cardboard to create a base under the diaper cake for easier transporting)