golden birthday part one: wrapping paper
October 24th, 2011
Right before kcwc took off this year, we celebrated my daughter’s golden birthday. The theme was gold, because we are original like that. It was a fitting theme, but a little odd–not a lot of golden party games (oh I found one though)–so we went a little crazy with the decorations.
The giant golden 6 idea came from this post for a fringey monogram. The fringey detail is super cool, but it also takes quite a bit of time, so I took a short cut and used wrapping paper–glittery, golden wrapping paper! I drew a huge six on the wall with chalk, taped the wrapping paper over it, and then cut right inside the line I drew. The whole thing took about 1/2 hour + 1 1/2 rolls of wrapping paper. It looks wrinkley in the photo, but the paper (and my baseboards and my floor and my hands and my face) was so glittery that I didn’t notice until I took the picture.
The humongous glittery six looked a little plain, if you can believe it, so I added those shooty out lines all around it. Blazzam! Then with the extra bit of wrapping paper I made a golden paper chain for above the picnic table. You can see the crazy, glittery texture of the wrapping paper a bit better here.
The actual present was wrapped in golden wrapping paper too of course. I think it’s a sweater…
so awesome! you are totally the cool mom. :)
We’ll have a golden 6th birthday this January. What an awesome idea for a party!
Very cool glittery birthday.
I made the felt animal masks this weekend, two cats and a mouse, for a neighborhood birthday — THANK YOU! They came together fast and if I pull my act together and manage to buy some fabric tack that is fewer than 4.5 years old and not gloppy, I think they will be even better the next time. I doubled the mask part but not the ears and sewed ribbon closures, but I think elastic might be easier for little kids, except I wasn’t sure of the fit and my little kit (the try-er on) did not like the elastic or the trying on. I will definitely steal this idea again — fantastic!
Oh, I love the idea of a golden birthday party…unfortunately, I’m about 30 years too late on my own :)
How timely–I’m throwing my two-year-old a golden birthday party next weekend! I was always sad that I didn’t get to celebrate mine (like my daughter, I was born on the second), so I’m having fun coming up with ideas for hers.
I love the idea of incorporating gift wrap–I’ve been trying to figure out where to get a large quantity of gold paper, and that is perfect! I also like the gold writing on a black tablecloth and might have to borrow that as well. Thanks for your impeccable timing!
your birthday parties knock my socks off.
You had me at “Blazzam!”
Very original indeed! I’m digging the golden chain.
Birthday parties are the best! You did an awesome job – gold everywhere. I found this great website for making huge, pixelated pictures that you print on regular paper on your ow paper – just an idea for covering a wall for your next celebration … http://cameronhomemadetips.blogspot.com/2011/10/bigger-better-projects.html
Very cool glittery birthday :)
what a great theme! i love the big number!
I think a golden birthday is a wonderful idea! and it turned out pretty and so YOU! ;) and i love that she got a pirate ship (right?). birthdays are SO fun!
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