Hello Kitty Birthday Decorations

When it comes to birthdays, it is very easy to get carried away with buying decorations.

If you are like me, the last thing you want to do is to shop all around for them.

There are aisles and aisles of everything you need and so many more things you don't.

Besides the expense, the time and the driving, it can be overwhelming looking for just the right color, size or design.

So instead of shopping at multiple stores and driving all around town, I decided to make our own.

Why not, after all I used my Hello Kitty Cricut Cartridge to make the invitations

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It was surprising simple once we made the decision to make them.

We had all the supplies, so it was just a matter of picking what we wanted, cutting, assembling and glittering.

We made it an afternoon project for my daughter and I.

It was fun, simple and full of glitter.

We made about 50 Hello Kitties in pink, red and black and we glittered them.

We made about 50  large cupcakes and we also glittered them.

We made 50 smaller glittered cupcakes.

Hello Kitty was glittered on her face, body and heart.

We used the Hello Kitty as decorations on the walls, the table, and the food table.

We decorated the walls and door all over the house. 

We even decorated our front door with Hello Kitty.

Aside from using the cupcakes for decorations we made goodie bags and decorated them with glittered cupcakes.

This was very simple once we had everything cut, and then it was assembling, glittering, and cleaning up.

The best part was not only did we have decorations that fit the color and character we wanted but once the day was done we ended up with decorations that were ready to go for the scrapbook.

This year we will be doing the same, making our decorations but as for the theme that has yet to be determined.

Hello Kitty Doll Comforters

When my daughter was 5, we were shopping at Ikea, and we bought her this adorable doll bed and comforter set. 

She still has it and she is 17. 

She has taken great care of the doll bed,  and the doll bunk bed my dad made her and the doll comforters on them. 

After 12 years the comforters were looking old, so I decided to match her doll beds to her bed set, because her entire room is Anime, Hello Kitty and Pink.

I made Hello Kitty doll comforters for both her doll bed and her doll bunkbed, to match the pillows I made for her bed.

To make it, I just used the Ikea doll comforter.

I folded it in  half - length wise and used wax paper to create a pattern.

It was so simple and only took an afternoon.

Here are the comforters:

Hello Kitty comforter for doll bed.

This is the original Ikea comforter that I used as my pattern.

On the doll bed and bunkbed:

 
 Hello Kitty Easter Comforter

Hello Kitty Christmas Comforter

Hello Kitty Valentine Comforter

When my daughter was 5, she told my dad her babies could not fit on just one doll bed, so my dad being a carpenter he made her a doll bunk bed.

The Ikea doll bed.





This was my first attempt at making doll comforters.
After I saw how easy and cute they were, I made one for every bittie in our family, and they love them.

Hello Kitty Waterfall Albums

 Birthdays can bring many memories and many photos. 

If you are like me, you can end up with 100+ for each birthday.  Sounds like a reasonable amount, till I factor in I have 3 kids and their birthdays are back to back and during the months  of big holidays.

For my daughter's birthday I took so many photos that I ended up with a huge album just for her birthday.

One of the things that i struggled with, was how do I fit all the photos of the opening of the gifts on to one or two pages???  I knew that was an impossible task.

 In my family we document the gifts as well as the party.  It's a tradition and a way we can look back and remember what we liked, the style of the times and who we were at that time. 

My problem was I had 19 photos of my daughter opening gifts. I wanted not only to document who gave her what, and the photo of her opening it, but i didn't want to take up several pages for it.  My solution a waterfall album on the page.  I ended up making two of them.

Problem solved. Woo Hoo!

The red and smaller Hello Kitty waterfall album, was made for the who, what, when and where of my daughter at this age. Each page  has a question  about her on a coupon. I then gave them to her and she answered them in her own handwriting (which I love). When she was done, i put them in the waterfall album and added it to her now, huge Hello Kitty birthday book.

  The large pink Hello Kitty waterfall album, was made for all the photos of the opening of the gifts. In this album I place a photo of  my daughter opening each gift and then I had her tell me about who gave it to her. I then place a small photo of the friend who gave it to her. For me having the story of who gave it to her, and how it made her feel, is the true gift. 

Here are a few photos from her Hello Kitty birthday book.

 She loves Hello Kitty, Anime and Cosplay. So we combined them all.

This pocket holds a few of the decorations we made. 

Each tag described the party schedule and activities. 

On these tags my daughter and I both answered questions about her. 

A total of 7 tags. 

 Mini Hello Kitty waterfall in birthday book.

 My daughter's answers in her handwriting... I love it.

 Big Hello Kitty waterfall album for the gifts.

Here is one of the pages in the Hello Kitty waterfall album for gifts.

In the end I ended up with 32  wonderful pages in her birthday book. The mini waterfall albums were a perfect way to fit many photos in a small space and to keep them grouped together. I think this will be a keeper on the birthday books.