Surprise For a Another Birthday Girl

My daughter (no.3) celebrates her birthday on December 27 (she turns 12) but every time we hold a party at home, only a few comes over. Of course, it's the holidays and everyone is busy. I came up with the idea of celebrating it in her class on the last day of school before winter break. It was a secret between me and her teacher.
Oh boy, was she surprised! I never (I mean never!) see her smile in photos, except today!

She's on the right, another birthday girl on her left.

Our future leaders

These are the cupcakes I made. Looks like they were store bought but no, I worked all night long! I bought the cupcake boxes from our local grocery store. I didn't know I could do that. I paid $1.00 for five 12 slot cupcake boxes. Awesome!


I ran out of cupcake liners so I ended up using little cups which I cut using vintage zigzag metal scissors. They ended up using spoons to eat these little babies.

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I have two days left to turn this house into a Holiday getaway (meaning super clean and super pretty), my sister and her family (who I haven't seen in four years) are coming over for the Holidays. So excited and kind of scared of all the projects, cleaning and organizing I have to face! Wish me luck.

Carnival yummies

The menu was simple. We made homemade burgers and hotdog sandwiches. We wrapped them in sandwich paper and tied twine around them.
I also cooked spaghetti,garlic bread  and we ordered chicken wings from a local Chinese place.

We also had cupcakes, birthday cake, I also made chocolate mousse cups, ice cream cake pops and cotton candy!

I didn't get to finish these pretties but I think they look good enough and they were really yummy!

Alphabet healthy cookies with mustache stickers.

Old fashioned cheese popcorn and different snacks and blowing bubbles in vintage style popcorn bags

The chocolate mousse cups I made. Everyone loved these!

Burgers and hotdogs

Part 3 coming soon!

Carnival party

The party is over. There's a lot of cleaning to do but oh my what a fun time we all had! We had a terrible heat wave yesterday (and today and tomorrow) but that didn't stop us from having a great time. I forgot to take out the popsicles and ice cream but that only meant that we didn't really mind the heat because we were having so much fun!
I made a photo booth out of a polkadot vinyl table cloth and made mustaches sticks.

The photo booth was a big hit!

Photos of food, the birthday boy and the cake will be posted soon! So come back and visit my blog again!