Crafting All Things New...My Crafty Adventures: Patience's First Birthday (Zebra print, hot pink, lime green)

I am a little behind the eight ball in posting about my daughter Patience's 1st birthday party. She is now 19 months old and is not living up to the name her daddy and I so lovingly gave her! But we love her non the less!!

Patience reaching for her birthday candle as we all sing "Happy Birthday"

For her 1st birthday we decided to go with the ever so chic zebra print accented by lime green and hot pink. I figured that eventually she would want to do some sort of cartoon character as her party theme so I wanted to stray away from that.

THE FOOD

Yummy!! For the food we wanted to go with items that would be easy for our little 1 year old to munch on. So we went with pizza bagels, mini corn dogs, fresh strawberries, pineapple and grapes and of coarse pink punch. We also had some bite size chocolate mints (they reminded me of Andes mints and were a BIG hit!) I made them using candy melts/wafers that I bought from Hobby Lobby. The tablecloth was constructed of 2 basic plastic lime green tableclothes and zebra print wrapping paper! I know...ingenious right??!! The placemats are non other than the ever so versatile, 12"x12" scrapbook paper. And the feathers you see...they are boas!

The cake before the attack!

The cake after halfway through the attack!

By the time the party was over there was only 2 pieces of cake left!

The cake had 3 tiers made with 3 cake mixes (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry.) I made homemade buttercream icing and chocolate marshmallow fondont to decorate it. I used the fondont to make the zebra stripes on the cake. It is hard to see but there is also pink sprinkles on the cake.

She was not shy about having her cake and eating it too!

THE OUTFIT

Her outfit was made our of fabrics that cordinated with her party theme! For her shirt I bought a onsie and appliqued a 1 on it. I also made her a cute pair of ruffled bloomers and a matching hairbow.