Preparation for Phoebe's thanksgiving party

If you know the Tan family, you will know how we LOVE events planning and running. Having no more weddings to plan and execute in the family made us so sad! Hahaha we need excel spread sheets! Programme rundown! Job description for everyone! Walkie-talkies! Briefings! So now we shift our focus to birthday celebration for family members!

Elvin had his Star Wars theme party when he was thirty! Boy both Nathan and Elvin got their Jedi costume and light saber. Everyone had a mask of the different characters in the show and we had games! My sister was yoda and she spoke with the inverted sentence structure the whole night! 

Ok, And also the yearly graduation ceremony for our family's Childcare centre. :)

For Phoebe's full month celebration, we have been thinking of a theme and we decided on a crown. A princess crown. 

Firstly, a song that spoke with our hearts the most and saw us through the whole delivery process as well as when I had to be re-admitted for another surgery, is called Victor's crown. God will rule and reign over every situation because He wears the victor's crown! :)

Also, Phoebe's Chinese name is 玺恩. 玺 (Xi) means the imperial seal, also royalty. :) 

With this in mind, we had the invitation card! 

**Tip: just print the card with any photo printing shop! Only $0.25 per piece and 4R is a good size, paper also not so flimsy. :) I am a member with Harvey Norman photo centre so it's only $0.18 per piece!

Next is door gifts!

Previously at Nathan's 1st birthday, we had keychain making station using shrinking paper. This time we decided to give something useful!

Shower lilies!

Preparing these was surprisingly manageable even though we prepared 140pcs.

We got the shower lilies from Japan home. Man.. Digging for the preferred colours were TEDIOUS. 

The tag and crown were all easily cut out using paper punches. Best invention ever. :)

Love the words: from Phoebe's shower to yours!

(Baby shower!)

For the photo, we did a mini photo shoot for phoebe. Hahaha she was so uncomfortable because the lilies were slightly scratchy on her delicate skin. 

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I used meitu to edit the colours and add in the words as the app has my favorite Chinese font and fuzel to collage.

Then again, head down to photo centre and print!!! 

We also prepared bubbles bottle for every kid at the party! :)

As, we didn't want to have a big cake and have to cut for everyone, so we ordered muffins. To add some personalize touches, we did these!

My circle punch comes with the stamp so when you punch the paper, it stamps at the same time! But for 80 pieces, the more time efficient way is punch all the circles you need, THEN stamp on it separate. 

Lastly, we did a guest wish card! :) got the idea from Pinterest.com

 We got the funniest responses from the guests! Of course some are really heartwarming. Nonsense ones too, from our most beloved friend, Jason Oon! :)

These are just some ideas for your party! I have another friend who is really good with craft and I love her blog!

Visit http://flowerinthewilderness.blogspot.sg for more vintage and interesting craft ideas! 

Cheers!

Esther the mama