J. At Your Service: My Parties

If you've been a long time follower, you know that my son doesn't always want the most popular birthday party themes. He's a trend setter! Haha! Always ahead of the trends that kid. So for his 7th birthday party I wasn't surprised at his theme choice. This kid is afraid of his own shadow but for some reason, his interest are on the creepy side. I should probably be concerned but eh, I'll deal with that later! Any ways, he chose The Joker this time around. If you are a comic book buff or into these kind of characters, you know that there are different variations of the Joker. Of course my son wanted the more scarier of them, the Arkham Asylum Joker. He's so creepy!

Well, I decided to give my son what he wanted and since I too am a little off, I went with an asylum take on it. Proceed with caution and Welcome to the MADHOUSE!!

Fun centerpieces using Joker theme deck of cards, number 7 cutouts and a Joker smile of course.

My dessert table is SICK!! Continue on and you'll see how sick. Ha!

I made a head cage. Don't judge me.

It's a little unorthodox but if you're going to do something true to the theme and yourself, you gotta do it. That is why we had plastic syringes filled with jello. NO vodka of course! White cotton candy in biohazard bags seemed great too. The kids LOVED them and parents were disappointed that there wasn't any vodka in them! LOL.

Candy meds? Why not? I'm already going there!

This cake is so perfect it's SCARY!! Silvia's Cake Creations keeps blowing my mind and that's why I keep going back to her! I added the Joker topper, which I purchased on Amazon. It's actually a plastic money back.

No one could create cookies for this theme better than Bethany at Auntie Bea's Bakery. She did an amazing job!!

Each prescription is perfect for each criminal.

My backdrop for the dessert table is BEYOND perfection! This was painted for me by a local artist named Gabriel Gutierrez from Corona California. He's extremely talented!

This standee that I purchased from Shindigz was PERFECT for my favor table!! So scary too!

I cut vinyls to make Joker like facial features on white favor boxes.

The photo opt area is one of my favorites! I built a padded wall, because after all, this IS an insane asylum. I got my hands dirty to get this looking a little grimy and painted in red for that bloody effect.

My girls look for the party is frighteningly fitting for them! Hahaha! No. Seriously.

I made them them, myself and Nate Inmate shirts. Cool right!

These masked, hat, mallet and straight jacket were super fun photo props for my padded wall.

The cute inmate of honor!

We really are very normal. I promise!!

I was only able to find a plain number 7 piñata, so I vandalized it with "Ha ha ha's".

He's insane but oh so cute!

Vendors:

Custom Cookies: Auntie Bea's Bakery
Cake: Silvia's Cake Creations
Arkham Asylum Painting: Gabriel Gutierrez
White favor boxes: Paper Mart
Joker Cards, plastic syringes, Biohazard bags, Joker bank cake topper,
Harley Quinn mallet, Bang toy gun: Amazon
Joker child mask: Spook Shop
Riddler and Two Face Mask: Ebay

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This past weekend we celebrated my middle childs birthday. Tahlia turned the big ONE O! She's been playing softball for about 2 yrs now, so it was no surprise when she asked for a Softball themed party. I really wanted to do something special for her. She is such a great student and works really hard to maintain Honor Roll status. She can be very sassy but her drive is what makes us so proud of her. That is however, why we went for a more edgy character. It suites her personality and she's not very girly. The girl can't stand pink! Her colors are red and blue, so I went with that and added black.
Long story short.... mama went crazy over the summer, wasn't prepared, had her computer crash, ants invaded the house the week of party and I put it all together in 2 weeks! Phew! We survived and Tahlia loved her party, so I can't complain. It doesn't hurt to hear from Tahlia, that her friends couldn't stop talking about her party the following school day! :) Check out T-Money's (her softball nickname) birthday party!

It all started with an AMAZING, angry softball girl graphic that the even more AMAZING Michele of Intrigue Design created for me. I told her what my vision was and it's like she was in my head! I designed the invitation using her graphic.

I created this chalkboard like scoreboard (available in my shop)for the backdrop of my dessert table. "Rivas Field"....I love it! I also hung bunting that I made from each side.

My girl DeAnna at Pink Laundry Events made this adorable softball hair bow to match the birthday girls attire. You can find it on her shop Pink Laundry Shop

I can't say enough thank you's to my AWESOME friend Claudia of Tini Posh! When my pc crashed, just days before the party, she saved my life and created these super cute flags for my centerpieces! They were perfect! She's truly an amazing friend!

Ms. Tini Posh, also recreated these button pin images (that I thought I lost in the great PC crash!). I love hers better!! Tahlia's friends loved these little favors btw.

I set out eye blacks for the kids to wear. These are great because you can write your own little message on your eye black pair!

Bought these cool mini foam fingers for favors as well.

The favor boxes! I created the labels with the graphic from Intrigue Design and adorned them with hair bows (very popular in Softball) and washi tape on the corners.

Bought this old helmet from Goodwill and spray painted it red to match my theme. 2 bucks!

I created my first piece of subway art and I totally LOVE it! Look for it to be available in my shop soon.

The favor table.

Created this "Sanck Bar" sign for the hot dog stand.

My oldest volunteered to "work" the snack bar and here she is, hard at work!

The dessert table:

Made labels for Gatorade bottles.

Made this letter "T" with softball paper, Mod Podge and a wood letter.

Forget David Sunflower Seeds, we got Tahlia Seeds! Hehe!

These delicious softball theme chocolate apples are from MKR Creations. They were soooo good and so cute!

I was totally inspired by an image I seen from Soiree Event Design and decided they could be great "bat" candies.

Used a glove to hold yellow gumballs. Yes, it was clean! ;)

How amazing is this cake?!?!

This cake topper by Sugar High just blew my mind!! She took the image I sent her and totally brought it to life! Brenda is amazing!

My friend Silvia Morales (who made Nate's Robin cake) also made this cake and it was awesome! She is so talented and you must go become of fan of her new FB page Silvia's Cake Creations! The topper and cake came together perfectly!