DIY Princess Birthday Party

I celebrated my princess's 1st birthday party last year in December (4 months ago) and it was a blast!

Proud to say that I didn't hire dessert table service. I did my own princess theme dessert table. Most of the birthday craft items were hand made with love. I paid for the buffet, photographer & venue but the sweet desserts and beautiful decorations are 100% mommy's efforts. All crafted with love for her only princess :)

I planned her birthday party 6 months before her actual birthday. I searched for the venue, emailed them & asked if I could do my own dessert table or not. And after I confirmed the birthday venue, I went ahead with the birthday theme and what were stuff I needed to create theme I liked.

And so I decided on a theme ''Sweet & Glamorous Princess Ballerina'' Simply because I think Calysta would look pretty and cute in baby pink theme :) and I was a girlie girl mommy too. So princess theme was a must to do! I added a bit of glamorous element like gold sequins table cloth and a bit of glittery elements inside to make it as the combination of sweet & glamorous party for my little princess :)

Everything started with an idea how the dessert table would look like. I found inspiration mostly from Pinterest and started to find materials to do the craft works. It was really fun and no stress at all!

Since I had many months ahead before her actual birthday, I took my time to find her dessert table decorations such as tutu table skirt, bird cage, beautiful flowers, glass jars, candy jar, etc. And I also took my time and slowly found the craft materials I needed to make a beautiful dessert table. Whenever I went for shopping, I eyed on something that could be valuable, worth of money and beautifully matched the theme. I didn't rush at all! I shopped a lot online too, particularly at Carousell where I could find cheap and value to buy materials or birthday deco. Daiso and stationery shops nearby my house were good places to shop for cheap stuff as well.

It was pretty easy to do, I wasn't very talented or creative but I managed to make simple but pretty enough decorations for her birthday and I was satisfied enough :) I hope I can give you some inspirations here should you want to try princess theme birthday for your girl ;) DIY is really fun & meaningful, trust me!

DIY Birthday Project :) Everything here was crafted and hand made with love from me for my little princess's 1st birthday. For the step by step how to do it, please visit pinterest app/website because it's actually pretty easy to do (sorry, a bit troublesome for me to write details on how to do it here hehee..) Materials were mostly from Daiso or stationery stores :)

I made many ballerina paper dresses (made by cheap tulle or just paper pom pom), I could use this as pretty cupcake topper or simply just birthday deco. Super simple & easy to do and very pretty :)

 

 

 

 

The white princess ballerina skirt was made by paper doilies. The colorful paper flowers I bought from craft store

 

 

 

Made by glittery gold paper :)

 

Super easy & pretty

 

Ballet shoes

Hand made bird cage

with little bird made by glittery gold paper :)

Paper chair, took a good few hours to hand craft this :)

 Super big paper flower

 Little secret garden, paper made 100% except leaves and white flowers

Her birthday banner design :)

 

 Handmade birthday goodie bag

 

 Practicing how to set up a nice dessert table at home a few days before her birthday :)

 

And the actual dessert table fully set up by mommy herself :)

If you would like to see more photos, here her first princess birthday post :)

Calysta is ONE!!!

My little princess turned ONE year old on 11th Dec 2015. Time flew so fast!

Dear Calysta,

Happy 1st birthday baby girl! One year ago on this date, I was already 40 weeks pregnant but you refused to come out and I was waiting for my induction date but you surprised me. You chose 11th Dec, exactly your EDD to come to this world. I remember I didn't get induced because you gave me natural contractions and 4 hours later, like fast & furious, you came into my life ~ so tiny & so perfect!

The first month wasn't easy, I struggled a lot with breastfeeding you but I refused to give up, I kept on trying and trying. In fact breastfeeding had never been easy for both of us until you turned 6 months old.

I worried when you were sick, I cried together with you, I couldn't sleep when you were having fever. I was always by your side ~ and I'm always and I will always by your side. To pick you up when you fall down, to wipe your tears when you are upset, to support you when you need me to. Will hug you tight when you are having tough times. I'm your mother, your supporter, your best friend, your partner, your biggest fan..

Baby girl, for the past 1 year, it wasn't easy but it's so worth it! Thank you for choosing me as your mother, thank you for making me a stronger 2nd time mum, thank you for being my sweetest daughter. And thank you for being so obedient. And thank you for the exclusive breastfeeding for 1 year. We made it!

You are my princess and are always my beautiful princess in my eyes ~ just like your name Calysta.

May you grow well, healthy and happy. Mommy loves you so much!

CALYSTA at ONE year old:

77cm 8.3 kg
4 teeth
Loves to dance, snack, being outside, play & fight with her older brother
Can do flying kiss, kiss mommy on her cheek, wave good bye, clap hands, pee-ka-boo, self feed, stand and WALK
Favorite song is anything mommy sings while latching her on
Can say short words like car, duck, throw, no no no, mama, dada, shirt, socks and many more
Yummy foods are anything offered to her like crackers, chocolate, pancake, fries, biscuits, meat and many more (all foods are yummy to her except soft porridge)

Her lunar birthday was on 1st December which we had a small celebration at home and we did some prayer too (Chinese Tradition) to wish her the best health & luck.

Chinese has this old tradition where a one year kid got to pick one item out of many provided to future out which profession the kid gonna be when the kid grows up.

And Calysta picked ruler at first, meaning she could be an architect or product designer in the future and later on she picked a pen, meaning she could be a writer or blogger (like her mommy) and she held both ruler & pen for a long time. Not keen in other stuff like chicken leg, calculator, money, etc hehee..

Eating a big chicken thigh represents good luck, good health & always have enough food when she grows up

Red eggs are MUST too!

Happy baby with her birthday ang baos

Simple birthday cake :)

Her actual birthday was on 11th December 2015 and we couldn't celebrate on that day because both kids were not feeling well & most of our relatives and friends were away for holiday, so we celebrated her princess birthday on 19th December 2015. But on 11th December, we bought her a birthday cake and she got to blow her birthday candle (yes again!) and again on 19th December hahahaa...

Her actual birthday on 11th Dec

We celebrated her first birthday with the theme "sweet and glamorous princess ballerina" at Fun at Giggles, Marina Parade. Her birthday was 100% DIY, meaning everything from dessert table decoration, goodies bags to sweet desserts were 100% made by mommy and her helper. It took me months of preparation but the final result was so worth it. Will blog more about DIY and stuff when I'm more free! :)

The pink goodies bags with little ballet dress were hand made with love :)

Dessert table mommy & her helper set up on their own :)

Yummy choco balls we made one day before her party

All dessert toppers were little ballerina tutu dress and ballerina shoes

A ballerina doll coming to celebrate her party too, with matching ballerina dress, shoes and princess crown

Home made marshmallow dipped with delicious chocolate and sweet strawberries (icing sugar coated) 

Delicious homemade butter cookies

 

DIY ballerina dress topper

 

Princess cake to match the theme

Homemade cheesy spaghetti for kids :)

Nice buffet by Neo Garden

Hand made goodies bags

 

 Family photo

Princess and her daddy

The birthday girl

 Activity for little friends :) I really appreciate what Fun at Giggles had done. Not only we had super smooth birthday but they did effort like this to entertain our little friends :)

And so now we officially have 2 toddlers in our family. A 2 year old toddler boy and a 1 year old toddler girl :)

Blowing birthday candle together!

We love you, Calysta!

 

Lucky princess and her birthday presents :)

 

Calysta's adventure as a toddler girl is starting now!