Hello, my blog followers it’s time to recap. The Wizard of Oz theme party was a Success!! Like I say if you can do a lot yourself go for it!!! The things that I decide to try on my own were the balloon rainbow, all the food, cake, centerpieces and majority of all decorations. The decorations are always hard especially when you’re dealing with such a unique theme. You want it to be obvious what the theme of the party is but not overwhelmed where you picked up everything you can find at your local party store. Pick certain themes of the story and go with it. The centralized themes I choose from the story were the rainbow, the haunted forest and the poppies. So when you see the decorations you can appreciate them for the detail that you put into them as well as your guests. The centerpieces I choose to do cupcake bouquets and put them in baskets that were similar to Dorothy’s basket in the story.
I have tried to make these bouquets in the past and it was a total disaster, this time I used a different idea that I learned from this great website MyCakeSchool.com. If you are interested in cake decorating or cupcakes this is the site you need to check out. She does have a blog that is open to the public, but if you pay $30 you get a year subscription to her website. This website includes her recipes and step by step instructions on how to make amazing cakes and cupcakes. I highly recommend this website and it’s not like the wizard behind the curtain (pardon my pun) she interacts with her participants and answers all questions and concerns. She did help me with how to make the gum paste poppies and they turned out amazing. So…back to my main topic lol! I also wanted to incorporate the rainbow duh you need the rainbow.
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| My Dorothy! |
When you price out balloon arches in can cost a pretty penny, a penny that I can spend on something else. At Party City I found a balloon arch maker and all you need is to buy the balloons. This took my sister and I about an hour but well worth the effort and time. The next task that I decided to take on was the rainbow cake. I found this recipe on WhiskKid, this cake kept me up at night with the stress that it would be a disaster. In true Jessica form I did not try to make this cake beforehand (always do things to try them out lol!!!). The cake came out beautiful and was quite delicious, I decided to make a tiered cake and it really set it off!!!
I also decided to do a candy bar, this is something that I have never done before! When you look online for the jars or decide to price them out they are so expensive! So to cut down the price I went Goodwill shopping I bought a variety f jars and bowls and it looked very cute if I don't say so myself!
The food is a whole other reason I started to find grey hair during this process. Like I mentioned in my last blog my biggest fear is to run out of food and people are like “ohh you don’t have any more food”. Hello….that would be horrible! Food I decided to make BBQ ribs, chicken, potato salad, baked beans and pasta salad. This is the tip that will save your day, find friends and family that can help, if your aunt makes bomb potato salad ask he very nicely. That is exactly what I did my most fave aunt *wink wink* made the potato salad and the BBQ chicken and they both came out AWESOME. The stress that something so little can take off you is worth everything! Last thing I decided to take on myself was decorations. This is something you either put all your effort in or just buy some streamers. I like to work with plywood it’s easy to paint and isn’t that heavy. I made the trees and all signs with cute sayings from the movies.
The trees also had branches applied to them using butcher paper and some staples (thanks to my sis who had to bring out her teacher decorating abilities). I will guarantee that all these elements will make your next party no matter what it is will be the best party on the block!!
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| Another Sweet!! Rainbow cupcakes! |
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| You can never have to many cupcakes! |
The food is a whole other reason I started to find grey hair during this process. Like I mentioned in my last blog my biggest fear is to run out of food and people are like “ohh you don’t have any more food”. Hello….that would be horrible! Food I decided to make BBQ ribs, chicken, potato salad, baked beans and pasta salad. This is the tip that will save your day, find friends and family that can help, if your aunt makes bomb potato salad ask he very nicely. That is exactly what I did my most fave aunt *wink wink* made the potato salad and the BBQ chicken and they both came out AWESOME. The stress that something so little can take off you is worth everything! Last thing I decided to take on myself was decorations. This is something you either put all your effort in or just buy some streamers. I like to work with plywood it’s easy to paint and isn’t that heavy. I made the trees and all signs with cute sayings from the movies.
The trees also had branches applied to them using butcher paper and some staples (thanks to my sis who had to bring out her teacher decorating abilities). I will guarantee that all these elements will make your next party no matter what it is will be the best party on the block!!
