Pinkalicious!

I started this blog on Saturday night, but it has taken me (or should I say the computer) this long to get these pictures uploaded!  Needless to say, I've been really frustrated!

Saturday we celebrated Grace's 6th birthday with a Pinkalicious party.  She originally wanted to have a Barbie and the Three Musketeers themed party, but it is really difficult to find party supplies over here, and the only Barbie and the Three Musketeers party supplies I could find were from the UK and they were charging $75 for shipping alone!  So, that idea was out...  Grace loves her ballet, so the idea of doing something with tutus got stuck in my head (thanks to the fabulously cute tutus our cousin Rachael makes - check 'em out here: Fairytale Tutus).  I first thought of Fancy Nancy - Grace says "No, I don't like Fancy Nancy."  Why?  "Because she's not so fancy."  So then I thought about Pinkalicious, and what do you know - it was agreeable, AND there were party supplies and ideas for it!  I wish I could say that the entire party was all my idea, but I'm simply not that creative...  I took some suggestions from other bloggers and the Pinkalicious website, added a little twist, and voila!  This is what we ended up with:

Not only were the tutus party favors, they were party decor too.

It got pretty pink in our house!

We had to decorate the outside too so we were sure people knew where they were going.

And I really like to decorate for parties, so it was just a convenient excuse!

If you've never read Pinkalicious, here's the low down:

Pinkalicious loves all things pink, so she and her mom made pink cupcakes, and then she proceeded to eat a bunch of them.  So many that she turned pink (then eventually red), and the doctor told her that she had to eat nothing but green foods in order to return to normal.  So, all of our food was some shade of green - to include the fabulous green bread one of my girlfriends made for me.  We also had sweet pickles, grapes, broccoli, celery, and green peppers with green ranch dip, potato salad, and guacamole.  I decided that we should eat the green food before we ate the cupcakes (I made them just like the ones in the book), to insure that we didn't suffer from pinkitis too.

In addition to the tutus for party favors, I tied some ribbon to these wands (from Oriental Trading Co.) to make them look "just like the one Pinkalicious has!"  (I so love it when Grace gets excited about things)

We played pin the cherry on the cupcake

(again, not my original idea, but I did draw the cupcake and Grace cut most of the cherries out)

Even Tristan (the lone boy) got in on the fun.

We also played musical "thrones" while I read Pinkalicious.

They walked around and had to find a seat every time I said the word "pink".

Time for gifts!

(I get a little nauseated looking at these pictures with all the pink in them)

This is the purple boa that Tristan bought (with his own money) for his big sister.

It was the cutest thing - she leaned over and gave him a hug and a kiss after she opened it, and she did it in front of all of her friends.  I wonder if that will happen when she's 16...

Y'all know I love to make cakes, but Pinkalicious had cupcakes, so that's what I had to go with.

I just love this picture.

It shows just how much fun the girls were having.

It is quite impossible to get 10 little girls to look at the camera at the same time and all have smiles on their faces.  Then you throw in wands and tutus and decrease your chances even further!

Everyone seemed to have a good time, and I had a really good time putting it all together too - especially since I got to have some quality "girl time" with two of my friends while they helped me make all the tutus!  If only little boy parties were this much fun...