Here are the party pictures for the Vintage Glam Barbie Party. The birthday girl turned six, but she might as well have been 16. She was so sophisticated and knew exactly what she wanted for this party.


For this party the guests started out with a glam makeover and a photoshoot with the photographer.



See what I mean, tres sophistique.

Then the guests went to the bracelet table and made a bracelet.


Next was the sundae stations where guests drank pink lemonade, ate a mini cupcake, and put together their own pink sundae.




Last was the pinata, full of ring pops of course.


Here are the favors. They each contained a Barbie sticker, a lipstick shaped pen, mini bubbles, and ring inside the ring box.

Here’s the gorgeous cake again.

All of these glamorous pictures were taken by the hip and humble Casey Hyer Photography.

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{I know that it’s Thursday and this says “Tuesday Tutorial.” It’s been a long week.} When I was a kid, I totally had Barbie paper dolls. I can clearly remember playing with them on the floor at my friend Amy’s house. That was back before Barbie dot com when we had to actually do all of the work ourselves, like punch out the clothes and stand the dolls up and make them say silly conversations with our friends’ paper dolls. For this party I thought it would be fun to photocopy a few of my client’s vintage Barbie paper dolls. The finished paper dolls were given to my client after the party so as to abide by copyright laws, and were not used for commercial gain. Or whatever that means.

directions:

1. I took the paper doll books to my local copy store and had them color copied. I used cardstock for the dolls and the fancy, shiny paper for the clothes. Here are two links that I found that have printable vintage paper dolls: Scrapscene & The Bleu Door.
2. I cut out the dolls and clothes.
3. I had the dolls laminated for stability. But I didn’t laminate the clothes so that they would retain a more authentic feel.
4. Enjoy, just like the good ‘ole days.
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What girl’s birthday party is complete without tons of fresh, beautiful flowers? An easy and inexpensive way to accomplish this is to use flowers cut from your yard to decorate. These roses are from my client’s yard and the beautiful peonies are from my parents’ yard.

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I love, love, love these glass trays and cups. My client has a whole collection and showed them to me when we were planning this party. She gave me the hot tip of looking at thriftstores. I went right away to my local thriftstore and hit the jackpot, tons of them in four different styles. Plus I got them for a steal. Aren’t they so pretty? I showed my new collection of trays and cups to my mom and she remembers back in the day when they used to use these at luncheons. Unfortunately I think they’ve been replaced by disposable paper plates and cups at parties but I think it’s time for a comeback. What do you say?
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How to make a pink sundae {a special thanks to Martha Stewart’s Kids Magazine for the inspiration}

directions:

1. all natural strawberry ice cream
2. bowl, whisk, whipping cream & marachino cherries
3. to make pink whipped cream: pour whipping cream into a mixing bowl and add some maraschino cherry juice for sweetness and to turn it pink. whisk together until fluffy or use a hand mixer.
4. pink candy toppings & strawberry syrup
5. sliced strawberries
6. top with a cherry and enjoy!
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