So the other news is that my friend, Tomi and I are going to sign up for a Wilton decorating class starting in two weeks... I really need help on buttercream decorations and I can't do an icing rose to save my life. The class is every Thursday night for 4 weeks. It should be a fun time learning new things and having some mommy and cake talk with Tomi. :)
*~* HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! *~*
"Savory" items included cucumber sandwiches, 
The cake--yes those are fondant shoes!
This was our gift (from Patti and me) to Kim...
I had this day-to-day origami calendar from 2006? (2007?) that I barely used so I ripped out all the orange and blue prints and used it for most of the decor.... Just like the banner above. I actually cut out the C-O-L-T with an exacto knife... (this was before I found out about Cricut... more on that later)
*the answer sheet to the Dirty Diaper Game (ya know, you melt various chocolates in diapers and the guests smell and try to guess what they are... horrid, but funny!)
And my other obsession last year were these poms and paper lanterns... Poms were inpired by Martha Stewart... and the lanterns were inspired by Amy from stem*. 
More poms and lanterns... and another banner--this time I found a wonderful device called the Cricut... A fool proof way of doing letters and stuff without meticulously and excruciatingly having to cut each letter with with an X-acto knife...
A single layer diaper cake along with red velvet cakes with orange cream cheese w/blue edible confetti.
sidebar: check out joshuatreephoto.com...
a little plug there for ya, Josh! :)
The Gabba Friends website gave me the idea to stack Brobee, Plex and Foofa and use marshmallow fondant. This was my first try at making MMF... after this cake, I was officially addicted to cake decorating! The bottom layer (Foofa) was red velvet, with a faux layer (otherwise we would have had too much leftover cake.) The middle layer (Plex) was chocolate and the top (Brobee) was yellow.
My husband and I wrapped water bottles with Yo Gabba Gabba characters and logos. Yes, he looked at me funny at first, but for some reason, maybe I had to bribe him--I can't remember, he ended up helping me gluing the little decals and different colors of construction paper.
The weather was a little chilly and super windy, so we had to have relocate it in our garage. The streamers, tissue paper poms and balloons made it look a little more festive! Not too bad for cleaning and decorating the garage 2 hours before the party!
Note the balloons with the different character facial cutouts. The paper I used were heavier so the balloons drooped and even some balloons didn’t float, like the ones stuck on the far wall...
At the food table, I made banners from cardstock and printed the logo and letters. Grayson's parents provided the food. At the bottom left corner of the picture, there were coordinating colors with partyware and the corresponding character cutout right beside it.
sidebar: Chamryn's pendant is STILL hanging in our garage. LOL
I made goodie bags by printing the YGG logo on a sticker label and a cutout of a YGG character. The bags were filled by Xander’s mom with candies and toys. I was going to add stickers on the sippy cups too, but I ran out of time.
At the cake table, I printed out the Gabba Land and attached it to foamcore board stands.
(that's our friend Kevin. LOL)
In the background, I loaded up my iPod with the fun songs from the Yo Gabba Gabba episode (especially the Dance, and Fun episodes) along with The Ting Ting’s Happy Birthday song and played the party soundtrack continuously throughout the party.
It was a fun party... I can't wait to do it all over again in May. :)
But this time, I think we're having separate parties... so it'd be 3x the fun! :)
