Here is how I made my own DIY Nightmare before Christmas Party. This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

Creating this look was pretty fun and super easy for you to replicate. I first hung a black plastic table cloth up and taped Orange, Yellow, White and Purple Streamers to make the stripes. The perfect Skeleton balloons (Party City) are among other color balloons to tie into the banner. You can find the “This is Halloween” Banner as a Freebie with your Nightmare Before Christmas Alphabet Banner. Don’t forget to add the spooky cobwebs.

Party Table

Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorite Spooky movies! I have always been a fan of the people eater wreath too, making it a printable was necessary. I used a black and Orange table cloth to ground the table, topped with a sheer dotted fabric and a simple black plastic table cloth. Last minute I decided it needed some cuts along the bottom. A easy change to make with a pair of scissors.

Table Decorations

From left to right, for the cupcake tower I used printable wrapping paper (you can find here) to make a stack of presents. The cupcakes are wrapped just like presents too! Each Cupcake is topped with an adorable Nightmare before Christmas Cupcake Topper.

I found these amazing Nightmare before Christmas gift wrap Printables as free downloads 2 years ago from Smakeupfx !

If you have been following us for a while you’ll know I have a DIY Sally Jars Tutorial. I have used the same jars in my table scape. Each jar is filled with simple Dollar Tree Halloween Flowers. You can find the table Character Cutout Printables in my shop to help decorate your table.

If your a fan of Halloween you already have tombstones in your house. I happened to have these ones and thought they would be perfect for the table. Jack ends up in a graveyard more then once in the movie, making them perfect for the party.

Food

DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Party Menu:

1. Zombie Cupcakes (Target) Orange icing and Halloween sprinkles
2. Pumpkin Jack cookies (Target) Guine and I made them ourselves
3. Boogie Candy (Dollar Tree)

I decided to keep this party simple since kids are going to be getting TONS of candy on Halloween.

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents . Character Cutouts . Wreath Banner .

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

The perfect favor for an Nightmare Before Christmas party are goodie pumpkins. Let your guests pick some candy and fill up their buckets. I found these cuties at the Dollar Tree. I attached thank you skull tags to each pumpkin to thank my guests for attending.

 Fashion

If your throwing a Nightmare Before Christmas party channel your inner Jack or Sally to add to the fun. Guine dressed up in the latest redesign of Sally and Archi is wearing the new and improved Jack Tee. These are available in Onesie (NB-18 Months) & Toddler Tees (2T-4T)

Thank you so much for joining us for my Nightmare before Christmas Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Nightmare Before Christmas Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! 

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Here is how I made my own DIY Labyrinth Party. This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

I am in love with this look! Everything started with a brown plastic table cloth (Party City), added a wood look to make the door effect. Then I taped the door knockers to finish off the effect. The theme of my baby shower was the crystal ball scene, I used various gold tone balloons and paper chandeliers (Dollar Tree, painted white) to create a elegant feel. I found all my pearls and strung them up just like the movie! Michaels had the perfect “Bubbles” (Plastic iridescent ornaments) to tie everything together.

If you don’t have a Dollar Tree (Not everyone does) check out these sites to make your own chandeliers.

feltmagnet.com/crafts/How-to-Make-a-3D-Chandelier

www.home-dzine.co.za/crafts/craft-card-chandelier.htm

raftyourhappiness.com/2016/05/10/diy-chandelier-from-foam-board/

Party Table

My Party table was based on Sarah’s Crystal Ball gown. I cinched the white table cloth in the center and draped the grey table cloth over. (Both from Party City). Adding the gold table runner was a after thought that I though would be just the right touch, and was right. Instead of the empty grey I layered a lace curtain topped with gold vinyl place mats. (Also party city, I couldn’t resist).

Table Decorations

For my party table I wanted sweet treats like a elegant tea party. I created a crystal clear cupcake stand. Awesome DIY project. I used old books as plates to add color to my table and to reference the movie. Don’t eat the peach Sarah!!! I had to include peaches in my party set up and the branches were PERFECT (Michaels). All over the table you’ll find gold statues of each of the main characters. These are giant playing pieces for the Labyrinth game. Super cool find!

Food

DIY Labyrinth Party Menu:

1. Macarons
2. Cream Puffs
3. Peaches
4. Cupcakes
5. Cheesecake Bites

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents. Gift Tags.

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

For favors it seamed meant to be to gift special tea cups! I added these adorable “ELLO! Thank you” Gift tags to each cup.

 Fashion

If your throwing a Babe with the Power shower you need to bring your masquerade mask and dress up!

Thank you so much for joining us for my Labyrinth Baby shower Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Labyrinth Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! 

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Here is how I made my own DIY AVATAR the Last Airbender Party. If you are a AVATAR the Last Airbender fan this is the party for you! It was super easy and inexpensive to achieve this look. Read on to do it yourself.

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

This was such a fun and easy party to set up. I think anyone could do it! It was super inexpensive to achieve too. I started with four plastic table cloths from the Dollar Tree and hung them like banners. I made the tassels from Dollar tree tissue paper, because I couldn’t find the colors I needed. I topped off the banners with “clouds” aka 8 large white tissue paper pom-poms and 1 string of mini pom-poms. I also threw in a few balloons to make it look poofy. You can get the Appa Printable here for Free!

I topped everything off with my Printable Alphabet Banner. I think it turned out so perfect!

Party Table

My table has been the easiest table to far! The Dollar tree table cloths were so long I literally just draped them over the table. EASY! For display I used wood slices, my metal tiered stand and my pitcher. I love to bring florals or nature into my tables, so I added moss, rocks and a few flowers. You can find my Aang Printable here for Free

My Centerpiece

My Centerpiece was my floating cupcake tower! You can find the Elemental cupcake liners and Avatar Characters Cupcake Toppers in my shop! My cupcakes were cream cheese and DELISIOUS! Publix cupcakes always are. My daughter helped me decorate them with matching sprinkles to the characters.

Food

DIY AVATAR the Last Airbender Party Menu:

• Cupcakes (Publix Vanilla and Cream Cheese)
• Donut Holes aka ROCKS!
• Cactus Juice (Sour apple skittles mix)
• Pork Dumplings
• Apple Pie with colored whipped cream (Prank Pies)
• Jasmine Tea

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents. Cactus Juice Sign

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

Thank you so much for joining me for my Sailor Moon Birthday Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Sailor Moon Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! 

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Here is how I made my own DIY Firefly Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Firefly Party for all my Firefly fans (Big and small). This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

Firefly is one of the most fun themes I have gotten to do! I had the pleasure of re-watching all 14 of the Firefly episodes to help me channel my inner Serenity. So I channeled those scenes in my background set up. To start I used the space tapestry from my doctor who party to set the scene for my DIY Firefly Party. I draped a copper curtain over half the space background to give the look of steampunk space. Then layered on my gold Star Banners, also from my Doctor Who Party (Wish) to bring in more space and whimsy. I finished off everything with a shiny Firefly Baby Shower Banner and large Serenity Cutout (Available upon request). It was simple but effective in giving off the overall ascetic I was looking for.

Party Table

Working from the Bottom up my DIY Firefly Party table scape was small but effective and SO EASY! anyone could DIY this is a matter of Minutes. I used a copper window curtain to make a table cloth. In front of my display I placed my Chinese parasol to add a bit more whimsy. I topped the table off with a sequins gold table runner that I borrowed from my Doctor Who Party.

Table Decorations

My table decor is a fun collection of Firefly items that I either borrowed or had on hand. Everything was printable or had a purpose. From the right, lets start with my Serenity Cut out. I made it as large as I could by printing from a office supply store on 11 x 17 cardstock. Serenity cut out was very easy and cost-effective, considering it only cost me around $1 in extra supplies. From Left to right, I placed red flowers that I had on hand next to my metal food tray, containing strawberries and chicken eggrolls. YUM! Next I placed my DIY Jayne printable yarn party hats and printable foodstuffs bar.

Moving on to the show stoppers. The Firefly cupcakes (Publix). The cupcakes turned out so fun and they brought the set up together! I must say that they really made my firefly Cupcake Liners and Cupcake topper really stand out.

My Centerpiece; THE CAKE!

The cake from Love Lorena Designs, is a masterpiece! The adorable outfit design of Malcom Reynolds burgundy and browncoat costume really tied the table together.

Food

DIY Firefly Party Menu:

• Chocolate with gold Confetti Cupcakes (Publix Supermarket)
• Large fresh Strawberries
• mini Chicken eggrolls
• Firefly Foodstuffs bars (granola bars, or chocolate Bars)

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents. Serenity Cut Out .

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card (available upon request)

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

For Firefly Baby Showers I recommend my Firefly Milestone Stickers to be the perfect gift that keeps on giving. If your planning on taking monthly photos of your baby brown coat in training I recommend these Fandom Stickers to help you show the progress your Big Hero in the making.

Firefly Fashion

Fashion is always my favorite Subject. Nerd fandoms make it so much fun to dress up. What makes it better is when there is a Fandom event where you can go to show off your Nerd Fashion.

Guinevere looked adorable in her Kaylee Firefly Toddler Tee , which is available in my shop!

Thank you so much for joining me for my Firefly Baby Shower Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Firefly Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! 

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Here is how I made my own DIY Gravity Falls Party. This was a surprisingly easy party to set up which is such a nice change of pace. I chose to throw this mock party for Mabel and Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls! It’s their mock 13th Birthday party for the end of Summer! This type of party would be so much for a set of twins!

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

Gravity falls is one of my favorite Cartoons! Just in general. So of course this was the theme to tie up the summer months! In my research for a party I noticed a lot of greens and forest themed Gravity Falls party and not so much Weirdmageton parties! So that was my theme! The main banner is a repurposed book (destroyed in the great merlin puppy days) and a large freehand Bill Cipher drawing! I sketched out the design first and then went in with a extra large sharpie. Then decided to make my very first balloon banner frame from Dollar Tree balloons ($3) total. To make this I went with two normal 25 packs and one 10 count marble pack to create the “bubbles of pure madness”. The finishing touch was my Happy Birthday Gravity Falls Banner (which is available in my shop).

Party Table

Working from the Bottom up my DIY Gravity Falls Party table scape was small but effective and SO EASY! anyone could DIY this is a matter of Minutes. I started with my trusty Space tapestry from my Doctor Who Party and draped it over my small table. Topped the table off with a plastic black table cloth (dollar tree) as my table runner to protect my space cover. The front of the table looked bear so we decorated the front of the table with one of my star cutout banners (wish). Very simple table but it gave the “it came from outer space” theme that I wanted.

Table Decorations

My table decor was simple and fun to make. I had almost everything on hand. From left to right:

I DIYd a centerpiece and used my yellow flowers from my Legend of Zelda party. Yellow for Bill, my Muse! To display my Gravity Falls Cupcakes, my trusty wood circle cupcake display. This display works for so many themes its crazy not to have one on hand if you like throwing parties. I pulled out my bag of moss and pinecones and the left was set. On the right side of the table I unearthed my wooden bows to display a small amount of food (remember this is a mock display). Showcasing my Gravity falls Place cards/ food labels. I printed a Extra large label for my “Mabel Juice” and bought a watermelon just so I could carve it into a Summer-ween Jack-o-melon! This was my favorite part! and it was so easy! I finished off the table with a couple of my Bill Cipher Favor Boxes!

My Centerpiece

Inspired by the Jar of Eyes on Grunkle Stans’ desk in the Mystery Shack, I created my Centerpiece. Since the end of summer is basically halloween I had no trouble finding fake eyeballs at the Dollar Tree. The vase was from publix and the flowers I had on hand. This whole piece cost me $5. It would have been amazing if I had put the money tag on the bottle. But I wanted to leave something for you to do for your party!

Food

DIY Gravity Falls Party Menu:

• Rainbow Cupcakes! I topped mine off with Cream cheese frosting and star sprinkles
• Dipper Smores: its not summer without Smore’s.
• Smile Dip (Fun Dip): here is my custom template to match the theme of the party!
• Bill Chips: Cool Ranch Doritos
• Mabel Juice: Kept mine simple: Pink 7up. To add some fair I added watermelon juice and chucks! Want to make real Mabel Juice? heres how! From FEAST OF FICTION  S5 • E9
• Summer-ween Watermelon: to make this I used a medium size watermelon. Next I drew my intended face with sharpie and then carved a whole in the side. (I chose the side so I could stand the watermelon up and scoop. Then did just that, until most of the watermelon was out. ( Stored all of the pink watermelon in a Pitcher). Once mostly empty I cut out the face. Thats it. Inside I placed a Small Dollar tree candle. Happy Summer-ween everyone!

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents. Smile Dip . Favor Boxes

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

From other parties I found these adorable moon and stars tulle favor bags on Pinterest and knew I needed them. They are still able to on Wish in a bunch of colors! I chose the royal blue ones to be the opposite of Yellow Bill. In each box I placed a set of Mix and Match Sailor Moon earrings from Cute Panda Co. These little stud earrings are so cute! You can Mix and Match your favorite characters. The Red and Yellow Bill Ciphers were the perfect fit! (Earring coming to shop This holiday season!

For Gravity Falls Baby Showers I recommend my Gravity Falls Milestone Stickers to be the perfect gift that keeps on giving. If your planning on taking monthly photos of your Nerd in training I recommend these Fandom Stickers to help you show the progress your Pinetree or Shooting star in the making. <3

 Fashion

Fashion is always my favorite Subject. Nerd fandoms make it so much fun to dress up. Guinevere looked adorable in her Mabel Pines Cosplay and Bill Cipher kicks from Sasi Shoes! Use code Mynerd15 for a sweet sweet discount on your own pair of Nerdy Shoes! Guine loves LOVES! her Bill Cipher Flats. Each one sports many many Bill Ciphers and the toes are topped with a cute little black bow tie. I pretty much died with I saw them! Even my Husband was inpressed. I can’t wait for our next pair!

Thank you so much for joining me for my DIY Gravity Falls Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Gravity Falls Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! Photos were taken by Cute Panda Co at CutePandaco.com  Please follow her on social media and love her as much as I do.

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Here is how I made my own DIY Doctor Who Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Doctor Who Party for all my little Doctor Who fans. This party set up was a future party in the making! Little Eliza just turned one and came to visit us here in Florida! Sadly the party wasn’t ready for her so I made it for her 2nd Birthday! I chose a Galaxy theme for my DIY Doctor Who Party to add a little Whimsy and color to the set up.

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

The Backdrop of my party set up has been the easiest so far! While party supply shopping I found these wonderful Galaxy tapestries on amazon and it was perfect! I was able to attach it to the wall using push pins. I added adorable yellow gold star garland. They were long so I only used two out of the three I purchased. Very Simple! I loved the effect it had with the Tardis cabinet. The most important part of the backdrop was the Printable Banner you can purchase in my online store.

Tablescape

This DIY Doctor Who Party table was also the easiest I have had yet. Simple yet effective. The Table was topped the table with three different table cloths from either Dollar Tree or Target (Party Section) topped with silver star confetti from the Dollar Tree. I used my party dishes and found a very pretty mirror plate to add some gold to the table while thrift shopping the weekend before. While doing some party shopping I found this throwback from when I was young, Gold Small Star Garland. I wrapped the garland around some of the display plates and to the area around the Tardis Cabinet. It was a nice easy way to make your dishes look themed.

To hold the cutlery I used the recycled vegetable cans from my last party because I feel they still fit the theme. If you didn’t already know this about me, I am an UCF Alumni with a bachelors in Fine Art and Animation. So of course I have a Human Skull model on hand. So I threw that on the table to highlight a few episodes of Doctor Who. I used the Navi Lights from the Legend of Zelda set up to wrap around my Tardis with some fabric I had on hand. Just scraps of clear shimmer fabric from when I made Tinkerbell wings for Dapper Day.

Food

I usually only do about 6 different party foods to show off (and fill) the table but for some reason we ended up with 8. I wanted something easy and simple to eat for the main dish. Of course! Pizza. I’m going to make a pizza and decorated it like a Tardis, or a Dalek or something. Yeah right.. Turned around at it was time to set up the party. Frozen Pizza it is I chose a 5 cheese plain pizza and opted to add the pepperiness in a “spacey” pattern. It ended up being a spiral. Oh well.

Next fun thing were the DIY Doctor Who Party Vortex cupcakes. They were originally meant to be beautiful galaxy cupcakes. But for some reason (I totally learned why just this past weekend) my frosting keeps falling flat. So thats why they are now Vortex cupcakes. Still cool with the sprinkles and still tasted really good. I chose Blue velvet cake mix to add a little more space to them. Those were the main events for the party and I’m going to make making a Cooking with Me video on the making of all this party food.

The Drinks on the other hand, worked really well with the display. My Husband collects decanters and I decided to borrow them for the table. They paired so well with the fancy plastic cups from the Dollar Tree.

DIY Doctor Who Party Menu:

• Spiral Pizza– Frozen 5 Cheese Pizza with double layer Pepperonis placed in a spiral.
• Vortex Cupcakes- Galaxy Cupcakes failed and turned into vortex cupcakes
• Chocolate Dipped Bananas– Frozen Bananas dipped in chocolate topped with blue and gold Sugar Gel
• Fish sticks with Custard– Snickerdoodle Cookies with Banana Dream Pudding
• Galaxy Lollipops: Sparko Sweets Galaxy Lollipops Spiral Designs with Space Foil Gift Pack, 10 Lollipops, Handcrafted in USA, 1 Pound
• Chocolate Stars: I used a star silicone mold and Milk Chocolate chips
• Jelly Babies: Jumbo size Gummy Bears (Dollar Tree)
• Drinks: Blue Hawaiian punch

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Favor Tags . Food Tents

Custom Printable: Entry Sign . Invitation & Thank you Card . Tardis Invitation & Thank you card

DIY Favors & Gifts:

DIY Sonic Bubbles

I had a lot of fun with favors to say the least. If you have been to the dollar tree recently (Spring 2018) they have these small bubble vials with little circle stickers on top. I snagged a few of those to make some custom stickers for Favors.  You can also get them from this Amazon link (Bullet Bubble Tube (1.4 x 5.1 x 1 inches) (Orange)I present Sonic Bubbles! this Printable comes with three kinds of sonic screwdriver stickers to apply to your bubble tubes. I originally tried it with my sticker paper but it had a hard time sticking once the bubbles started to get used so I coated the whole sticker in clear packing tape and it worked! so cute! I love them!

DIY Toy Blocks

For this party I decided to make a little DIY gift Idea using this DIY Toy Blocks Printable. You just need 8, 2 inch wooden Blocks (I found mine at Michaels) and some Modge Podge. The printable has a tiny bit of wiggle room to make them line up. The Blocks turned out so cute! Im going to be making a little tutorial for everyone so don’t you worry! This was a easy and adorable little gift idea for the new Timelord in your life. Here is a Amazon link for 16 blocks! enough to make two set! (WOOD BLOCKS (16PCS. WITH FREE COLORED MARKERS), 2″ WOODEN CRAFT BLOCKS, HARDWOODS, MADE IN USA, BY CROSSROAD SALES)

Fashion

DIY Doctor Who Party fashion is so much fun to play with. My fashion was a little casual for this party. I wore my new favorite “The Stars, cant do it, not today” tee from Nerd Under the Stairs. Paired with a mid length yellow pleated skirt, WITH POCKETS!.

Over that for my cooking and most of my set up I got to wear the beautiful Tardis Apron from Made from Oz on Etsy! Both of these shops are so amazing and I feel you should totally go check them out!

My Guinevere had an equally casual outfit for the DIY Doctor Who Party. I found these adorable puffy Royal Blue top with Gold spots at my Local Once upon a child. The yellow shorts were also found during that shopping trip too. So many fun possibilities for a little Timebaby. I topped off the whole outfit with a hat of my very own. It’s a little Tardis top hat that Bought maybe… 5 years ago. The light still worked and everything! I attached it to a elastic and placed it on her head. With some back and forth I finally achieved some photos. She’s starting to get into that always moving no matter what phase. Does anyone know how long that lasts or how to pause it for a second to take a photo? let me know!

Thank you so much for joining me on my little Wibbley Wobbley Timey Whimy DIY Doctor Who Party.

Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Doctor Who Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so!

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Here is how I made my own DIY Legend of Zelda Party. A lot of work went into this Legend of Zelda party for all my little Legend of Zelda fans. I found this wonderful couple (now engaged) who had just announced that they are having a little girl by the cutest means. They had made an adorable purple stuffed rupee and revealed the gender to everyone by opening a little chest. My heart stopped.  This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

All of the Decorations were made by me doing DIY projects or online video tutorials. You can find all of my printable products in my store and DIY Tutorials on my YouTube… eventually. Lets start with the backdrop. I wanted something really themed after Legend of Zelda and decided to make a Great Deku Tree. I thought it could do double duty and hang in a nursery. I used brown construction paper for the trunk and black construction paper for the face. The entire thing was attached to a Dollar Tree round light blue tablecloth. I attached roughly 6 packs of light green pom-poms (cut in half) to the table-cloth by Staples. I tried taping first but that failed horribly.

Tablescape

Table decorations I made myself. The Triforce shelf was made by me. Super Proud! I love things that have multiple purposes. Here you see the Triforce as a cupcake stand but now its a shelf for my husbands amibos. Heres the video of me making it (coming soon)

In my party stash I happened to have a bunch of wood cuts to display food on, (borrowed and had). I love the wood texture for the Legend of Zelda Party and paired them with moss I bought at Hobby Lobby and Leaves and Acorns from my Where the wild things are baby shower. I got some yellow and white flowers to help stabilize the Triforce. I made the shelf pretty deep but I wanted to make sure it wouldn’t fall over during the shoot.

Another fun party of the display was my Navi Pinata paired with my little lighted fairies that I DIY. You can follow these directions to make them yourself.

Things you need:
Small Jars with corks (I got mine at the dollar tree, but I know hobby lobby has them)
Candle holders (Dollar Tree)
Pink or blue air dry clay
Glitter Sticker paper (hobby lobby) its in the scrap book aisle. or clear packing tape
Fairy Lights (amazon or department stores during spring)
hot glue
wire or paper clip

1. Hot glue jar to candle stick(s)
2. roll air dry clay into small fairy balls
3. fold over your tape/ glitter paper to create a clear square, cut butterfly pattern from tape to create wings
4. Once the clay is dry hot glue wings to ball
5. unfold paper clip and insert one end into the clay ball and hot glue the other side to the underside of the cork to the top of the jar.
6. once everything is dry, insert fairy lights and place cork.
7. optional (hot glue cork to jar)
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A cute little addition to my little Legend of Zelda baby shower were the Koraks masks. I didn’t want to have little hide in seek printables (because that would be too simple. Instead I printed out masks and got Guines Stuffed animals involved in the fun. I’ve hidden them all over the display. (6 total).

I wanted a center vocal point for the table so I created this Gold foil triforce table-cloth. Heres the video to create your own (coming soon). I also recommend layering your table cloths. If your like me you get the cheap dollar tree ones and I think they look much less cheap when you layer them. Here is the light green rectangle table-cloth from Target and a dark green from Dollar Tree.

Food

I made a simple dinner menu for my husband and I since this was a stage table (aka an elaborate dinner) I like to typically stick to six menu items to display all my food tents. So here we go.

DIY Legend of Zelda Menu:

• Lan Lan Milkshakes
• Rupee Cupcakes
• Cucco Wings (Chicken Wings)
• Cucco Puffs (biscuits)
• Navi Cookies
• Fishing Hole Jello Cups

Artwork & Invites:

All of the art was created by My Nerd Nursery and is for sale on Etsy in a bundle or individual sale in the shop. This staging was for a mock baby shower for Baby Evangeline. I like to have a themed baby book, but since there is no real children’s book for legend of Zelda I made a sign poster with the Great Deku Tree, This is a custom product. I also made the entry sign as a custom product with some embellishments.

Favors & Prizes:

Favors consisted of these adorable burlap pouches with Rupee Gift Tags. Inside each bag I put homemade Rupee Candies as a thank you for all my Mock Guests.

Games

Since this was a Baby shower mockup i wanted low-key entertainment. I made the Great Deku Tree Sign in poster for cute messages and well wishes. I also make printable koraks masks to put on stuffed animals for your little ones to play a little search and find game. Sweet and Simple. Another fun game for all the kids you invite to your DIY Legend of Zelda party would enjoy this adorable DIY Navi Piñata, I used it as a table decoration until we got to smash her. Sorry Navi.

Fashion

Fashion is almost my favorite Party topic! I found this Etsy seller who makes adorable Nerdy themed Aprons!!! We’ve started a collaboration project featuring her aprons every month! (p.s. if your interested in collaborating with me please email me @ mynerdnursery@gmail.com. Anyways here is a link to her Etsy! I got the wear my super cute apron all during my cooking and table segments. it was very comfortable and was perfect for my Legend of Zelda party.

Guine got to dress up too, I wanted her to be something simple and comfortable so I picked Princess Navi! I found the perfect blue dress to represent the fairy Navi at a local Once Upon a Child. and I actually had a matching headband from my baby shower. I made some little DIY Fairy wings and IT WAS PERFECT! Here is the DIY Fairy wings video to make your own

Thank you so much for joining me on my little DIY Legend of Zelda Adventure.

Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Legend of Zelda Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so!

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First and foremost I didn’t want to normal colors. My favorite color is green so I wanted that to be the girl color and Mary chose Orange to be the boy color (Like a fox). We had our guests dress in the color they thought would win, which was a lot of fun for photos.

I worked with my talented friend Laura (owner of Tregeek) to make bows and bowties for all my guests. I went to Joann’s and bought different Blue/Orange Fabric and Pink/ Green fabric. Eventually I’ll get around to posting a bow tutorial but for now here’s one that I really like. (Link). I brought the stuffed animals that we have gathered for Guine and they were on display. Along with this possibly NSFW cake topper (link) that my Other Mother thought was the funniest thing! It happened to be a crowd pleaser in our house. Would it be in yours?

– I love how in this photo it looks like the red panda is censoring the word.

She also found this cute tally chart for bow and bowties. Looks like the girls were winning at the time. She found bow and bowtie pins for everyone to wear their pick. Mary did a wonderful job hosting this party and everyone had a wonderful time!

How to reveal the gender?

We decided to only tell my Mother and other Mother what we were having by having the gender hidden from us and placed in a green envelope. Mary took it upon herself to have several different ways to maybe surprise us with the gender. We chose to try the pinata first. To keep with the Bow or Bowtie theme It was in the shape of a bow and sported the Green and Orange colors! The Piñata turned out  to be pretty hard to open so Aaron gave it a try! We found it was filled with orange and green candy! No reveal there! Next we moved on to the cake! It was huge! Topped with fondant animals and the cake topper. At this point I would like to point out that Aarons family always has boys. There hasn’t been a girl on his side of the family in several generations. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw Pink and Green in our cake! I’m pretty sure I was just vibrating with excitement! And there you go, my simple Bow or Bowtie Gender Reveal Party.

p.s. please enjoy these photos of when Merlin was small. He was so small and cute and light. <3 I miss that.

Origin Story

I’d like to end this post with a little story about my husband and I. We first met on the school bus, I was introduced to him from a friend of mine and we always sat behind them every morning. I started to develop a crush and would draw in my sketch pad some of the things they would be talking about. One day they noticed and we started talking. Moving into his senior year he got a car and didn’t need to ride the bus to school anymore. I was heartbroken. Since we were in separate grades we never saw each other during the day. I thought it was over.

Later the year I found him again one morning sitting in the band hallway. from then on we always hung out there and chatted. We went on a few dates and he later told me he wasn’t interested in me as a girlfriend. So I was content with just being friends. <3 On my 18th birthday we were hanging out at his house and he walked me home, that was our first kiss where he decided I was worth taking a chance on. <3

We dated all though college and he asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes! We were married the September after we graduated college, together I might add. Our wedding was beautiful! let me know in the comments if you would like to see photos and a post on how we stayed in budget and how I DIY-ed most of the wedding. Here we are 5 years later with a little one on the way. All thought out our adventure our favorite animals have guided our way. Me, a Panda and Him a Fox. That is how we came up with our under themes for both our Gender Reveal and my baby shower.

Photos were taken by Sury at Lalalu Photography  Please follow her on social media and love her as much as I do.

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