It has been forever since I blogged, but that comes with being a new mom. I can only hope that Scarlett is better than I was during Remy's first year. It went by quickly, and without much sleep. And now that we seem to be in a decent place (may only last a day), I am trying to catch up on some of my projects over the past year (starting with the most recent).
When we started planning Remy's first birthday, we didn't know which direction to go for a theme. I knew I wanted one, but not too commercialized, or one that he would want down the road, and started asking for help to come up with a theme. One day, I was talking to a co-worker, and she said I just needed to come up with something that Remy really liked. My first thought was "boobs" and briefly considered a "Last Hurrah at Hooters" theme for his first birthday, but passed. Wings aren't for babies. The next best thing was Cheerios. He loves them (them being the Hy-Vee version)! And down that road we went.
After browsing Etsy and Pinterest, we mashed some ideas together and created these invitations that were printed locally.
When we started planning Remy's first birthday, we didn't know which direction to go for a theme. I knew I wanted one, but not too commercialized, or one that he would want down the road, and started asking for help to come up with a theme. One day, I was talking to a co-worker, and she said I just needed to come up with something that Remy really liked. My first thought was "boobs" and briefly considered a "Last Hurrah at Hooters" theme for his first birthday, but passed. Wings aren't for babies. The next best thing was Cheerios. He loves them (them being the Hy-Vee version)! And down that road we went.
After browsing Etsy and Pinterest, we mashed some ideas together and created these invitations that were printed locally.
Even though the first birthday is a big deal, we didn't want to spend a lot of money. Who does? But of course, we wanted it to be nice. So some of my cost cutting measures:
- Skip offering a meal, and offer snacks (we were really lucky and our family all offered to provide dishes
- Make the cupcakes and smash cake with a doctored up cake mix (I made a practice batch to perfect them)
- Make my own Cheerio banner ( I bought a cheap plastic banner and used cutouts from a Cheerios box to replace every other pennant)
- Hang pictures of my son on twine to make a banner display of his 12 months
- Hacked the basic yellow birthday hat with ribbon and a #1
- Skip offering a meal, and offer snacks (we were really lucky and our family all offered to provide dishes
- Make the cupcakes and smash cake with a doctored up cake mix (I made a practice batch to perfect them)
- Make my own Cheerio banner ( I bought a cheap plastic banner and used cutouts from a Cheerios box to replace every other pennant)
- Hang pictures of my son on twine to make a banner display of his 12 months
- Hacked the basic yellow birthday hat with ribbon and a #1
It was a great success and we have great memories from it!
Thanks for reading!
Jessica
Jessica