Lexi's 1st Birthday, Part 1 - The Plan

As I was driving around town today, I heard them discussing the after-Christmas blues that inevitably start creeping up after the whole holiday wonderful-ness tapers off ... They wanted to know what people do to help ease the after-Christmas blues (which I think is a made-up thing, I don't remember ever suffering from such a thing ... It may have something to do with my birthday being 6 days after Christmas tho, hmmm...)

Anyways, having just come from the Dollar Tree where I dropped a whopping $37 on "stuff" for Lexi's birthday party, I decided that the best way to beat these so-called blues is by having your baby's first birthday party to plan in January, it's working for me! =)

I won't lie, I have been scouring the web, magazines, pinterest, any site I can find related to "baby girl first birthday party ideas" in search of the perfect theme. I have come across ideas like owls, john deere and of course, princesses. But each idea I found just wasn't quite right. Some had obvious flaws in my eyes (I mean, who really throws their baby girl a pink John Deere themed party anyways??) ...

The owl theme was witty (sayings like "look whoooo's 1" and "owl be 1") but, maybe it's just me, when I think of owl, I associate them with the oldest and wisest characters in a Disney movie... Just doesn't scream 1-year-old baby to me ...

Then there is the princess theme. As much as I absolutely LOVE all things sparkly, it just seems so cliche to do a princess party. (I'm not gonna lie though, there will be a tutu for my little princess at her party regardless...)

 

So, what to do? 

Finally, in a burst of pure genius, I got it ... who needs a real theme? Ok, granted maybe that isn't genius, but I did decided to just go with random shades of pink as my "theme" ... I even have a name for it, "Pretty in Pink" so I guess that makes it an official theme. =)

After coming to this conclusion (some might argue that it should not have taken me weeks to stumble upon this idea, however to those people I say, it was still totally worth the searching because I love planning things like this =) I started searching for "pink" ideas. It has been a gold mine (or rather, a "pink" mine ... ok, too corny) of ideas and I can't wait to put them all to use! Things like giant pink marshmallows and strawberry wafer crackers for the tiny guests (really, it's perfect) and hot-gluing glass candlestick holders to glass jars to make apothecary jars ... for $2!

Here are a few of my inspirations ....

So excited! I will be sure to take pictures of my crafty endeavors and keep you posted in Part 2 

(coming soon ... relatively speaking =P)