Penny turns TWO!

I like to make things.  I like parties.  My original plan for Penny’s party this year was to convert our back yard into Pixie Hollow.  I was going to make fairy houses out of tents, flowers the size of Brett, and let kiddos run around our house in fairy wings.  I tend to go a little too far some times.

After chatting about Penny’s birthday with senor Brettles we decided that we could throw an epic Tinkerbell party…ooooor we could take Penny to meet the actual Tinkerbell!  Thus, the plot to take this little to Disneyland was hatched.

After looking at our September we realized there was just no way to fit a d-land trip in on her actual birthday, or even her birthday month at all.  Sadly, we decided to push it to a Christmas trip of sorts, let her see the snow and cheer and all that jazz.

So…now what?

My desire to throw a giant party in the middle of summer really has left me. so in lieu of such an event we’re going to just throw a tiny little party with or immediate family.

We have been finger painting up a storm and there are TONS of papers strewn around our kitchen table that look a lot like this.

I don’t necessarily want to save every single one (there’s like 50 at this point) thus,  a new theme was born!  I grabbed a giant circle punch (like we all have lying around) and some natural colored paper.  I cut a whole in the top piece of paper and made a little window highlighting Penny’s little art work.

Stacked the two papers on top with a little glue action and wrote in the deets with a sharpie.

This was a super fast little invite with about as much effort as I’m willing to offer up these days.  Penny did most of the work, I just helped assemble.  I sort of love the idea of us working on these sorts of things together from now on.  I can’t wait to hear the things she comes up for future birthdays.  She’s pretty creative already.

This is not the only project, theres a banner situation working its self out in my brain.  And I’m going to be pinterest-ing it up looking for painting party ideas.  We’ll see what comes out of this small burst of birthday planning.

Happy Friday!