Car Party Decorations and Activities

Here are some of the decorations and activities I had for E's party:

Banner, and his #2 (I'm going to do one every year to match the themes of his parties)

Stoplight Beanbag Toss - none of the older kids came to the party, so nobody actually played this. We've had fun at home though!

Monster Truck Bowling - Again - nobody touched it, but I now have some bowling pins for home!

E loves anything that moves - so I made a collage of all of his pictures and made the banner that says "on the move"

Favor cones and Mater cake (made by Tracy and Sydney) from the websites listed at the end of the post.

Close-up of the bottom of the favor cone.

Close-up of the favor cone

Street table cloths using dollar store plastic cloths and yellow cardstock, and checkered flag banner from the dollar store!

Stoplight (borrowed from school) and checkered fabric as table runners

Links:

Traffic Cone Favors:  Here
Mater Cake: Here

Car Party Food

Here's a list of the food I had for E's Car Party... Some I have pictures of, some I don't.

Antifreeze (lemonade w/ blue food coloring)
Motor Oil (grape  Hawaiian Punch)
Wheel Pasta Salad
CAR-viar (Cowboy caviar - I had so many requests for it that I had to make it)
Dipsticks (Carrot and celery sticks)
Stoplight Brownies (using m&m's)
Apple Cars (grapes as the wheels)

Car Shirt

This year for E's birthday shirt I found a cute idea on Pinterest here. I was wandering through the grocery store and found a dog toy shaped like a tire! Perfect! I used black puffy fabric paint so it would have a bit of texture when I rolled it on.

 

Quilt in progress

Here is the baby quilt so far. I'm probably not going to get around to binding it for a few weeks, and I'm really proud of the progress so I have to share.

Here is the top. I followed the instructions found here:

My friend has a long arm machine and graciously let me come take time on Saturday to quilt it. I was scared to death, because I'm a bit of an OCD perfectionist, and there is very little control of the machine. But we finished it and it turned out FANTASTIC. I stand back and look at it and it's perfect. Now I just have to find time to bind it!

Changing Pad Cover

I couldn't find anything in the stores that I liked, so I bought some pink dot minky and made a new cover for the changing pad. I followed this tutorial and it was a piece of cake. Well, besides the fact that I chose minky! The nursery is really starting to come together! Now I have to decide what to do with the baskets on the changing table!

Fabric Flower

I took a quick break from sewing for the nursery to do a 15 minute project. We were having a luau at school, but thanks to the large tummy I've got going on I can't fit into my Hawaiian skirt or shirt. In fact, I haven't fit into the shirt for 6 years,  but I've held onto it because I bought it on vacation there and couldn't part with it. So I decided to cut it up and make a fabric flower to wear. It was perfect, because it matches the red earrings that my parents got me from their trip to Hawaii. The flower was a piece of cake, I followed the tutorial here. The tutorial says to use ribbon, and I can see how that would work better. This fabric was stiff enough that it worked, but regular cotton wouldn't have worked as well.

I attached it to some shell necklaces I had, and I loved how it turned out! Ignore the cheesy look on my face... this is what happens when I ask my husband to take a picture!

Sewing for Baby Girl

I have been in a sewing frenzy to get things ready for baby girl's nursery. I have gotten so much done, but I haven't completely finished a thing! I have a quilt top done, a valance done but not hung, a changing pad cover 1/2 done, a crib skirt cut and ready to sew, and a bumper pad bought and ready to be altered. I'm also planning a pillow with my fabric scraps, and some decorations to hang in the room. It's all coming together SO well, and I can't wait to get it put together. It's been so much fun to gather ideas, find fabric, and really make this nursery come to life!