It was Sofia's second birthday, and it was a Minnie Mouse themed birthday party in the red/black color scheme. I didn't realize how hard it is to find red/black Minnie mouse party anything. Most of the Minnie Mouse items are now in pink. But luckily, we all made a lot of her party items, to keep the color scheme.
I made her shirt with the embroidery pattern I found at
mysewcuteboutique on Etsy I just love the Disney font as well. Very cool set! Since the shirt was so small, I had to do some creative hooping, I like hooping with sticky stabilizer, and putting the shirt on that, sewing the fabric onto the hoop to hold it. And like usual, I pull the back of the shirt up out of the way of the sewing area. But since this was so small, I had to actually hold the fabric out of the way of the sewing area while sewing. I've never had to do that before.
I think it came out really cute, and she paired it with a red and black polka dotted skirt. Heather had been working on a really cute tutu, but since Miss Sofia didn't want to wear it, she went with this option, which I think was just as cute. :)
My next project was a foam ball Minnie centerpiece. This also was a bit of a challenge. I thought that spray painting the foam balls would be much easier then hand painting them, but I didn't realize that you need special spray paint to paint them, because the regular spray paint tends to melt the foam balls. And after watching a
youtube video, I realized it was because of the chemical it uses to make the paint sprayable. If you spray too close, it melts the foam, but if you spray further away, no problem. I would test it out on a small item first before using it on your real project so you know the distance you need to be at to not melt the foam.
It turned out really cute! I found the white bucket at JoAnn's Fabrics, and the flowers were from the dollar store. I didn't realize that foam balls can be kind of spendy, so I used my coupons from JoAnn's to purchase those. They really do come in handy. The flowers and the green foam blocks on the inside were from the $1 store. Which helped out a lot on the cost.
Sofia's Poppa made the really cute Mickey Mouse frame for everyone to take photos with. Just love it! It was great cause he put handles on the back to hold it easier. So very cool!
Her cake was adorable! One of Heather's friends made the cake, and it looked awesome!
The goodie bags my sister-in-law and niece made from red bags and cut out black and white paper. They turned out really cute.
Sofia had such a great time!
