Princess Party Planning

Well I didn't know whether to go for this subject or that of Rowan. The latter is a bit upsetting so I thought I'd give you party stuff.

Well, Scarlett's getting two 'dos' - Saturday is the tea party for 6 school friends (all invited are coming - I was surprised!) and Sunday is time for some out of school friends; Sally and her boys, Maria and her daughter. Sarah was invited with her daughters but unfortunately can't make it.

I've been planning planning planning!
You should have seen the invitations, actually, you can here;
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12810462@N05/2198331450/ (hope that works)
although the picture isn't too good. I addressed them all 'To her Royal Highness Princess .............' and followed the rest in the same theme, fancy font. Then I used a rounded off piece of card a bit smaller than the invite paper, to spray bronze paint over as a border. I made a note to parents (Kings and Queens, lol!) with directions to give to your carriage driver and telling people that we have princess dresses available here if girls don't want to come in their own. They got scrolled up and tied with pretty pink ribbon, but as you then couldn't see who it was addressed to, I made little tags to go on the ribbons - pale yellow card with a pink shape stuck on; an apple, a glass slipper, castle, diamond, a crown.....
Well, they've gone down well anyway - I've had a few people compliment me on them, which I admit to being quite pleased about as I stayed up until about 3am two nights running finishing them off! i only wish I had one to keep now, to put in to a memory box.

Next thing i did was start shopping - ebay has been a friend of mine! Pink and purple balloons, plus a foil Disney Princess one - I'm going to get some helium from Asda. i have the Christmas icicle fairy lights trailing down the stairs and I hope to be able to do a chair up as a 'throne' for S. which reminds me - I need to re-cover the other chairs or it will look pretty pants in the kitchen. I have one of those mosquito net things, a lilac one - that's going to go over a 'throne' (decorated chair) for photo posing at some point. Pink table cloth hopefully with purple crepe paper over it. I've drawn a big Sleeping Beauty's castle to stick on the front door as a welcome. I also want to make some signs to stick along the little road to our door as people get lost finding us!

I Loved an idea I read of a real tea party style, where a mum found lots of old china tea set bits for the girls to use and they served themselves milkshakes from teapots. I can't find a boot sale I can get to to look for these things though, so I'm settling for plastic wine glasses and pink lemonade - I might put sugar frosting around the tops of the glasses too! A fab idea for fancy ice is to put a rose petal in each ice cube, looks lovely. A strawberry might be better for little girls though! Fantastic news is that a friend - Ali, thank you so much honey! - has tracked down and bought Scarlett a drinks fountain (pink no less!) after my failed attempt with Tesco (they sold me and empty bloody box!) so of course Scarlett is very pleased and I'm sure it will be a perfect attraction for her little friends.
i thought flowers would be nice - real ones, am I going OTT yet?

i have it planned that they are going to sit around the table like dignified little ladies! Whether they act up to it or not I don't know... I have food planned, thinking mainly pink bits (candyfloss is my favourite so far!) and am trying to theme some bits around Scarlett's favourite princesses;

Cinderella - chocolate mice and lumps of cheese
Belle - Magic Roses (thinking those tiny sugar roses placed on sweets or fairy cakes)
Ariel - Watermelon? (bit vague I know!), sea-salad? (regular salad, new name ) Frazer suggested seaweed which he and I think is yum but I'm not sure the little girlies would agree! Liam suggested crabsticks but I told him that would be cannibalism for Ariel.
Snowwhite - sliced apples, of course!
Mulan - some little chinese snack food.
Jasmine - fruit kebabs (had no idea and this seemed sweet)
Aurora - Sleeping Beauty's kisses (those little red lip sweets)
Frog prince - frog sweets!

I bought reduced in tesco gold princess wrapping paper that's actually Christmas paper but doesn't look like it - this is being used for pass the parcel - I plan to alternate it with another colour paper so people can see what to rip!
Not definite on what other games I'm playing apart from this yet, but I have plenty of prizes I've been picking up bit by bit! Where I'm only having 6 girls I can give better gifts, like a pink feather boa, or princess powder puff wands (both bought in sales)

Oh and I'm making a castle cake! Wish me luck! Baked the middle bit and bunged it in the freezer with the swiss roll 'towers' I need to work on the icing though as I've not tried it yet. I've bought a heart shaped cookie cutter to make pretty sandwiches and Scarlett wants to make some cakes and cookies for it. another idea i liked was to dip marshmallows in melted white chocolate and then roll them in hundreds and thousands mmmmmmmm.....

I'd better leave it there as I have loads to do, like a 'pin the kiss on the frog' and a 'magic mirror', the signs I mentioned etc.