A boy's PJ party!

For my son's 5th birthday we had a PJ's party at our YMCA. It was a late party so we had all the kids (and some adults too!) wear their pajama's and have some fun with us. When I started planning for the party I couldn't find hardly any items that would fit a boys PJ party theme. There were a ton of pink, frilly sleepover decorations but none for boys. So I decided to make up my own! Dylan's favorite color is blue and so I went with a blue and red theme. I made his birthday sign, suckers, cupcakes and pretzel chocolates to go with the color theme. I also made some specialty cupcakes that looked like little kids under their blankets! Everything turned out so well!!

The dessert table: cupcakes, stars suckers, candy covered pretzels sticks, fruit kabobs, strawberries

Tables were covered alternating red and blue. Plates were alternating colors and then the silverware alternated (red spoons with blue plates, blue with red) and the a blue polka dot napkin!

I did just a dozen specialty cupcakes of the sleeping kiddos! These took a lot of time but added a lot of character to the table

I made some other cupcakes with blue and white swirl frosting and red sprinkles. I also wanted to add a tiny bit of nutrition so I did the fruit kabobs with strawberries and blackberries!

Little Ballerina

I had the pleasure of making Natalie's ballerina cupcakes for her 8th birthday. I teach 3-4 year olds bitty ballet so this one was so fun. She had vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla frosting but the toppers I made were what made them so perfect!

Tom and Jerry

I remember watching Tom and Jerry as a kid and loving their craziness! I thought it was so funny when my kids started watching them. It brought back such great memories. So I was thrilled when I had a Tom and Jerry themed order! But, although they are loved in my house it was not a popular theme at the party store. So I looked up some images and went with a few of my favorites. I took the red, orange, yellow color from my top choice for the frosting. The cupcakes were a carrot cake and the frosting was cream cheese. They turned out great and Alice loved them despite being sick on her birthday! Poor thing!! Her mom said she was a trooper though and was still eating the cupcakes a week later!!

Skulls and Slime

These cute mini cupcakes were for Kailee's 9th birthday party at her school. She wanted vanilla with lemon slime filling (like the ones with the eyeballs on top). Her mom thought that the teacher would appreciate some mini cupcakes for school and so I topped each with a skull ring for the kids to be able to keep. They were a big hit with the kids and the teacher!

Somebody's Watching Me....

Have you ever felt like someone is watching you? Well these cupcakes are sure to give you that feeling! These were a Vanilla cupcakes with a "slime (lemon curd tinted green) filling and a green vanilla butter cream frosting. And on top, a big ol' gummy eyeball!

X-MEN

For Xavier's 7th birthday he was doing an W-Men theme. Hmmm, what to do? I had talk to his mommy about putting an X on top but I wanted to add a little more for him. So I did a bi-color frosting with black sprinkles and made him some toppers to go with his theme. The X's that I did put on were made of chocolate! Fun times

Red Hat Lady

For those Fabulous "Red Hatters" perhaps cupcakes to take to Bunco, tea, or heck out to live it up! I would suggest a red velvet cupcake of course, with purple vanilla frosting....

Here is the poem by Jenny Joseph for those of you that are not familiar with it. It goes a little like this:

Warning
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick flowers in other people's gardens And learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph