Once Upon a Time 1st Birthday Party

And Just like that our little princess is 1!

We had such a wonderful time celebrating our babies 1st birthday. The weather was so warm and sunny. I love that Keeley’s birthday is in June and it’s warm enough to have her party outside. Outdoor parties are so much fun because you don’t need a lot of decorations to make a gorgeous impact. I recently discovered meri meri party decorations and feel in love with all of their whimsical designs. With that being said I would even throw my self a party use their party décor, it’s just simple beautiful!

Since we did a mermaid party for Emilia I wanted to switch it up and do a princess party. Most of the décor is stuff I already had such as, the tables, blanket, pillows, glasses, cake stands and table chargers. I like investing in reusable items that I know I can use for future parties again and again. The backdrop I diyed using pine boards and cut them to various lengths. I then cut the boards into rounded or half circle tops and painted them in two different shades of pink. I love how they turned out and since the board are wood I could paint them different colours as I need to.

The cake I made myself, I used faux flowers from Michaels and a small princess doll from Enchanted Afternoon to decorate the top. I also found small edible rice flowers at the balk barn to decorate the bottom of the cake. I created 2 different sized cones and covered them in Ferrero Rocher’s. Surprisingly it takes a lot of Ferrero Rocher to make these and I did not have enough so I only decorated the one side. I just used hot glue on the wrapper to hold them on the cones. But this did not work very well and we where finding them all over the ground. We ended up having so many Ferrero Rocher’s left over I made a chocolate cake for my Uncles birthday with them. It was heavenly and I great way to use the left over chocolate.