Simple Lego Star Wars Party

This is a super fun and simple Lego Star Wars birthday party. Simple decoration and simple colors tie it all together.

I found these amazing Lego Star Wars prints from Pixelated Plus. They went with the color scheme I was using. I started with black and white and added light saber red, blue, and green.

I went really simple for this party.

Besides the posters the biggest wow factor was this giant number eight balloon. I love that you can buy fun number and letter balloons now.

We didn't have a lot of party guests, so I was able to make each guest an "I am with the resistance" tee. I made them in the red, blue, and green. I also found bubble wands in the right colors and turned them into light sabers.

Each place setting had a coordinating color plate too.

The food was one of the most fun parts of this party. There is all sort of inspiration for Star Wars party food out there. I used some of those ideas and I came up with some of my own. I also made my own tags using PicMonkey.

My boys' favorite idea were these Obi Wan Ka-Wiwis (Kiwis). I may or may not have giggled for quite a bit after I came up with it.

Everything else was pretty basic. Hutt Dogs.

Jello Carbonite.

Luke, I am your WATER.

This juice was pretty hilarious too.

Rock Candy made perfect light sabers.

My favorite treat were probably these Death Star cupcakes. They are simple chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting. The Death Stars are Oreos dipped in melting chocolate and piped with royal icing. I LOVED how they turned out.

The party games consisted of light saber tag using these pool noodle light sabers. We also built paper droids. Then we battled a pinata Darth Vader with a large dowel painted like a light saber.

We gave these buckets filled with treats for our thank yous. I had originally planned to cut out storm trooper faces from vinyl and put them on the buckets, but homegirl ran into a snag with my Silhouette and I didn't have time to fix it. Whatcha gonna do. Like Elsa, you are going to let it go.

This was my second party in three days. I was so glad when it was over. So grateful The Hubs puts up with my party planning ways. I enjoy it so much and I love the creative outlet throwing parties allows me to have.

My boys are getting older and I am throwing less and less birthday parties, so I am really happy when I do get to throw a party.

Where I got my party supplies:

Star Wars Lego posters-- Pixelated Plus

banners-- Michaels

paper products, balloons, cupcake wrappers, candy-- Zurchers Party Store

wrapping paper table runner-- Hobby Lobby

Sticker Decal Art

 

One of my boys' rooms is a Star Wars themed room. This room has literally been a work in progress since we moved here over three years ago. A big reason for that is the photo wall. My vision was to have a wall full of frames and different kinds of art that were eclectic yet fit into a more big boy Star Wars room. 

I have had THE hardest time finding things I like (that I can afford of course). I have searched. Slowly I am finding things I like. I also find myself thinking outside the box. 

Like this art for instance. 

I was walking around the aisles of The Mart seeking some creative revelation. I do that sometimes. Just walk around a store seeing what screams at me and what project is just waiting to be discovered.  Anyway, I was walking the party aisle and this sticker practically jumped into my cart.

Right away I saw a framed piece of wall art that could be added to the Star Wars photo wall.

I bought the sticker. I scrounged up a frame I had at home and I grabbed a black piece of paper.

How cool is this sticker?! Guys, this was just a couple of bucks. That is crazy.

In less than five minutes I put the whole thing together. After centering the sticker onto black paper, I cut the paper to fit the frame and mat.

Bam. Done. I love how it looks on the wall. I LOVE how easy it was to make.

The key to all of this...think outside the box when it comes to decorating. Who would have thought that a two dollar sticker would look so fabulous in a frame? This gal. Ha!

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Star Wars T-shirt

We love, love, love ourselves some Star Wars. After all we do have a houseful of loud, rowdy light-saber wielding boys. Our Halloween Costumes of 2012 show just what a big deal Star Wars is around here.

I loved I Am Momma's Subtle Avengers Tee. I loved it so much I made not only one but two of them. One for Middle and one for a Superhero Birthday Present.

After I made them, I kind of had this light bulb moment.  I decided I would take the same concept and make a Simple Star Wars T-shirt.

The hardest part of the making the shirt was making the design for the shirt.

I made all of the images using PicMonkey by morphing together different geometric shapes until they resembled the well-known Star Wars images.

It took a little time, some hair-pulling, and a smidge of chocolate, but I got the design how I pictured it my head.

Then I cut out the image using my Silhouette and flocked heat transfer vinyl (my new favorite product) from Expressions Vinyl.

I ironed it on to a blank t-shirt.

Bam, instant Simple Star Wars T-shirt.

I think he likes it.

Even if he was growing weary of the photo shoot.

This look says, "OK Mom I am done!"

I seriously love this shirt. I had an immediate request from Oldest for one too. In no time at all I whipped out another one. Now that the image is saved, the shirt is super easy to make.

Do you have any Star Wars fans in your house? Would you like to make them a shirt?

Well, here let me cut out the difficult time consuming part by giving you the images to download. There are two different sizes for a small or larger shirt.

Download HERE

What is that you say?

I am a gem!

Ahh...why thank you.

May the T-shirt Force be with you.

Hehehe...sorry I had to.

Have a glorious day.

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Luke Skywalker-Star Wars Halloween Finale

This young Jedi in training wishes you a very Happy Halloween.

This was the costume I was finishing yesterday exactly 45 minutes before our Halloween party.

I left the Skywalker costume till last because I figured it was the easiest...

Hahahaha...

Sometimes I am delusional...

Okay most the time I am delusional.

My mental stability aside, it got done and I super love how Luke turned out.

Again, I sewed everything but the accessories out of a lightweight fleece. Now if you ask my machine if the fleece was lightweight, it would probably "Hurmph" at me. My machine definitely did not like sewing all this fleece.

Tiny Chewbacca probably broke my machines will right off the bat.

Skywalker's faux boots also seriously strained my machine. I am really happy though with how that part turned out. We seem to always be making costumes that require boots. I have made shoe covers before and they always get trashed. So for the last several costumes I made the bottom of the pants look like the top of the boots. Then the boys just wear regular shoes.

To make Luke's faux boots I sewed on individual strips of felt onto the bottom of the pants. I layered them a little like mummy wrapping. I totally think that they look similar to Luke's boots.

Unfortunately all of those felt strips being attached to my "lightweight" fleece made for slow and tedious sewing.

My machine and I were fighting by the end.

Thank heavens, she hung in there and all the costumes got done. There was a minute or two where I had the very real fear they wouldn't.

Luckily Oldest was able to be a Jedi and didn't have to squeeze into his Wolverine costume from last year.

Not a huge Star Wars buff, but even I know Wolverine doesn't really seem to fit in.

We almost didn't have a light saber either. I had plans to make some...I still might try my idea some day. However, time, um kind of, um got away from me. So yesterday morning I was running around town looking for a light saber.

Luckily it only took a couple of stores.

Luke wouldn't be Luke without one.

I even made a belt out of felt with a loop to attach his light saber too. He looked pretty legit.

Finishing the Luke Skywalker costume rounded out our Star Wars Halloween of 2012.

I am not sure which costume is my favorite. Which one do you like best? If you can choose that is...hahaha.

I got one picture of them all together. It was rouuuuughfff. Hence the not-so-perfect shot. Still I thought it would be fun to see them all together.

So grateful to be the Momma to these Little Men.

Looking forward to our little Halloween.

Happy Halloween to all of you. Be safe and have fun.

Thanks for reading.

Luke I am Your Father

Happy Halloween friends!

A day for tricking. A day for treating. A day to dress up and gather obscene amounts of candy.

A day to pilfer candy off your children. Hmm...yum. I can already taste those fun size snicker bars.

A day to kick up your feet and shout "Hallelujah!".  A day when the costumes are actually done and ready to use.

I finished my last costume literally 45 minutes before we had a church Halloween party last night. Forty-five minutes people!

Cutting it close much?!?

With all that sewing and pulling out of my hair, it didn't leave much time for photo taking.

However, I dragged my little Darth Vader outside so I could snap a couple of pictures of his dark side cuteness.

He is quite intimidating is he not?

There will probably be another post today. After all, we have a very important Jedi to introduce you to. That will round out my little Star Wars crew.

Baby Chewbacca Costume

First...I just want to say thanks to all of you who left me comments and sent emails in response to our recent bleh week. It meant a lot to me that I could take some time, disappear and take care of my little family and that you guys would all be here when I got back.

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hopefully now that we are all on the mend I can buckle down and finish all our Halloween and birthday funtastic tasks.

I wanted to share with you our first family costume. The theme this year is Star Wars.

The teeniest tiniest costume in our family is this to die for...I mean TO.DIE.FOR. Baby Chewbacca.

Are you kidding me with how cute he is??

Happiest Wookie ever.

I knew this costume was going to take the most time, so I started my Halloween sewing parade with Baby Chewbacca. I made the costume out of fleece. I toyed with just leaving the fleece as is but I really wanted some kind of fur texture. So I cut strips of "fur" out of the fleece and sewed it on in rows. Instant fur.

Instant Wookie.

Instant cute.

Chewie wouldn't be Chewie without his bullet pack sash thingy mabob and the tiny pouch...yup those are the technical  names. I made the teeny tiny accessories out of felt.

One Baby Chewbacca costume done. Woohoo.

Now all I need to do is add our Yoda, Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker and our Halloween will be complete.

I think I can, I think I can. Hahaha. Stay tuned!