Cupcake Party

Thanks to http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ for Tablescape Thursday and http://lbratina.blogspot.com/ for Thrifty Thursday and letting me play along. I love seeing everyones blogs and would love to hear your comments. This table is set for my daughter's birthday party and filled with all my Thrifty finds!

Lily had a tea party/cupcake decorating party for her 6th birthday. She invited a few of her friends to bring their favorite dolls to join the fun. Here we are setting up the dining room table. That is her Bitty Baby (American Girl) sitting in the center on a little wicker chair ($1.50) from the Thrift store in Valley that I spray painted white. The back of each chair is tied with an apron for each girl to take home as a party favor. The chandelier is decorated with pearl dress up necklaces. It is hard to see the tableclothes but they are layers of white and lace vintage tableclothes. The ice cream sundae glasses were from an estate sale a few years ago I think they were $2-3 for a box of them! It is amazing how often we find an excuse to eat ice cream now!
The napkin rings are necklaces for the girls to wear and take home. And a small wand for their dolls are tucked in. The place setting cards are filled with chocolates and shaped like little purses. White napkins are one of my newest collections and seem to dress up every meal. The tea cups and pitchers were collected from several flea market trips and mismatched. The girls loved using "real china" and were so careful that nothing got broken or spilled! One girl even told the others "You need to hold up your pinkie like this..."

The milkglass plates (using them as chargers here) were from an estate sale and a dollar each! The pink plate is paper and has a cute cupcake on it from Target.

This is a 3 layer chocolate cake shaped like a cupcake to match one of the cupcakes on the apron fabric! It was adorable and delicious.

Here is Lily waiting for her friends.

Here is the other cake.... don't you love the cherry on top? This one has stripes and the other one has dots. The cake stand was from an antique store in Valley and was $10 with a domed top that I loved put couldn't use because the cake was too tall! I really liked the scallopped edges.

Lily in her birthday outfit. My talented friend Lynn (check her out at vintageswampgirl.blogspot.com) put the cupcake applique ( a button is the cherry!) on a Target T-shirt and ruffled the jeans. I save all of Lily's older brother's jeans. He seems to always rip a hole at the knees but that makes it a perfect length to ruffle for Lily! And look at the cute apron Lynn made for her! Who wouldn't want to cook looking so cute! (The cupcake fabric is from Hobby Lobby)

Lily and her friends with their dolls and wearing their new aprons. Did you notice that only Lily's apron has ruffles and that her doll (The American Girl Rebecca) has a matching apron? Her friends noticed and were a little jealous!

This party was so much fun! The girls set up a doll picnic, decorated cupcakes, had a tea party, painted tea sets for their dolls, and ate lots of sweets! I will have to do another post about the chocolate fountain! Two hours was not enough time to do all the things I had planned! Oh, to be six again!

Thursday Thrifty Tablescape

This is my first time posting to Tablescape Thursday http://www.betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ & my second to Thrifty Thursday http://lbratina.blogspot.com/. I have been reading TT for months now and wanting to set my table. But I was at a loss as to how to even start! I am amazed and jealous of all of your beautiful dishes and glasses and silverware! SO I have been paying more attention to tablescape stuff when I am out shopping. It looks more like Fall than Summer but I had to work with the dishes I had and my Dining Room wall color is a terracotta color. I was trying for a gardening/outdoors look. The table is filled with all my thrifty finds! But I am posting a Before picture so you will see that while it is not yet perfect it is certainly better....

Those are my 8 year old's lego creations. He took moving his stuff pretty well. I won't post a picture of his room - covered in legos. And here is the After...
My three year old helped set the table so it is a little off, but how fun that he wanted to help, don't you agree? The small plates are our everyday dishes that we bought for ourselves when we got married (Didnt have the big wedding , so there were no registering for dishes) 13 years ago. The lettuce plates are from TJ Maxx. I bought them a year ago because I thought they were so cute but never used them. The silverware is a gift from my mom. (Thanks mom!) I bought the napkins (World Market) and tablecloth (TJ MAxx, $19.99) to match the wall color.

Here is the Thrifty centerpiece. The wire birdhouse was $1 at a yardsale (I loved it immediately!), the pitcher was in my kitchen (I bought it several years ago at Big Lots for cheap), the scale was off ebay several years ago and $10ish, the fake apples & candles were stuffed in a cabinet, the metal rabbit is from Angels Antiques and left from Easter decorations, the little spray bottle thing was from a yardsale for $2 & the garland of berries was in my closet for some reason. I spent $1 on the birdhouse and the rest of the stuff was stolen from some other part of my house! I love that I could use and display stuff that was in my closets.

Thanks for letting me play along. So, while it isn't perfect, don't you agree it is better than the lego table it once was?