Little Man

I started thinking about my son’s first birthday party when he was 6 months old.  Anyone else in my boat?  I think it was my way of coping with the fact that my baby was growing up.

I have read on other blogs that you can look at a 1st birthday party 2 ways.  It was be solely to celebrate the child or to also celebrate the fact that the parents have successfully survived a year of parenthood.  I decided to do it the way I wanted to because this is the only birthday that he won’t have a say in what he wants the theme to be!

I went with a little man theme.  I wanted it to be mostly bow ties but I kind of love the mustaches too so we did both.

Here are the invitations.  I designed them myself on Photoshop and ordered them on Vistaprint (They always have great deals – use this referral link and get $10 off of your first order.  You can upload your design and then order them as postcards which is the cheapest way I have found).  I made the bow ties on my Cricut machine and glued them to popsicle sticks.

I wanted to make sure the invitations were unique so I even glued a picture of him inside the envelope.  I traced the entire inside of the envelope that you can see.  It turned into a diamond shape.  You could use this as a pattern and cut out the pictures individually, I chose to take the measurements from my pattern and draw it out on Photoshop.

Here is an example of the pattern I created on Photoshop.  You can see that it isn’t perfect, but that doesn’t really matter because I had to cut it out for the envelopes anyways.

For centerpieces, I bought vases at the dollar store and filled them with cheerios (what baby doesn’t love cheerios?!).  Using my Cricut machine.  I cut out bow ties, mustaches, hats and some 1 numbers out of cardstock.  I double sided them on a wooden skewer.  I used vinyl sticker paper with my Cricut for the vase number.

I strung the left over faces on fishing line and used them as a banner on the windows in my kitchen.

For food I went with a Taco bar tying in the mustache theme with my display sign. 

I made the napkins into bow ties by folding them lengthwise into quarters and wrapping them in a piece of cardstock (1″ x 3″) and tape.