Lalaloopsy Tea Party

My little girl turned 5 last week and this weekend she had a Lalaloopsy Tea Party with a small group of friends. I had a great time decorating and getting everything together to make this party super cute and fun.

Decorations were a combination of bought, handmade and stuff we already had. I found a great link on Pinterest from Design Every Day to make these awesome tissue paper flowers. There is a great tutorial on her blog. The buttons are made from small paper plates and black construction paper circles. The other flowers on the wall I bought for a buck at Michael’s.

From the dollar store I bought the paper plates, napkins and felt flowers in the mini vases (the vases are actually vodka glasses that we got for our wedding, I think they have been used for flowers more then vodka. I mean I like vodka and all but I usually don’t drink it straight).

The tea pot I found at the good will (second hand shop) for $4, it’s perfectly cute and simple. The lace table cloth is a round crochet one that my Oma made that I’ve folded in half - it works perfectly for pretty setting.

And the pretty neon flowers are from Walmart, the girls have oohed and aahhed over them before (they are soooo pretty). They just matched the colour scheme so well I knew I had to get them.

Above the china cabinet I edited our display to fit her theme, filling the ice bucket with tissue paper, large lollipops, felt flowers and another confetti 5 I made. The buttons in the vase are from the dollar store and were used for a craft at the party as well as decoration.

I think all the little touches worked together so well, I was really happy with the colours. And this afternoon I put the tissue paper flowers up in Isla’s room above her bed, it looks super cute and I’m glad to reuse the decorations.

I’m also in love with the cupcakes, they were fun to make. They are a combination of large and mini cupcakes, decorated with icing, sprinkles, jelly beans, jube jubes and chocolate buttons. I found a chocolate mould at the Bulk Barn along with melting chocolate wafers so I made many batches of buttons. The icing is simple butter cream that I coloured with neon food colouring.

I made the cupcake cake stand with a combination of stuff around the house. The bottom layer is a lazy susan which made it easy to arrange all the cupcakes, then I have an old cookie tin to lift that layer and then used a cake board that I covered and glued paper confetti to the edges. The top layer is a glass vase (actually the ice container for the vodka shot glasses). I put white glue on the top (or bottom) of the vase and covered it with paper confetti also, thinking the white glue would dissolve in water so it can be removed afterwards (I just soaked the confetti in water and they all came off along with the glue)

Also I made tea cup ice cream cone cups - another cool Pinterest find from Disney Family. I made them a little different based on what I had available but still think they looked super cool. The other tip I saw was to pre-scoop the ice cream and put in cupcake tins in the freezer. So at the party I just had to put the ice cream in the cups - much faster.

All the treats were a big hit with the kids.

The party was so much fun. I’ll share some of the games we played in another post.