Fire Flower Centerpiece | DIY

Supplies

Old Small Rubber Basketball

Scissors

Glossy Red Spray Paint

White Felt

Fuzzy Fluffy Fabric

Hot Glue Gun

2 ft skinny PVC pipe

Two opening bigger PVC pipe

Glossy Green Spray Paint

Rocks

 I found this ball at a thrift store for 25 cents. Using scissors, I cut 1/4 of it out.

 Spray paint it red.

For the white spots cut out white felt circles and hot glue them on randomly.
For the fuzzy white mouth, cut about a 2 inch wide strip the length of the mouth. I used some quilt batting because I had it here and it worked. I did two layers to make it extra fluffy. It all depends on what fluffy fabric you have.

  To make the green pipes, simply spray paint them green. 

To attache to the "flower head" I just cut an X in the bottom center and pushed the smaller pipe through. Because the ball is rubber and thick, I didn't even need to re-enforce it with glue or anything. Just make sure to not make too big of an X. Better to start smaller and have to make it bigger than to start big right away.

Yoshi Birthday Party

So this party was from LAST August. But since I didn't start this blog until recently, I am posting it now. Maxim (my middle son) fell in love with Yoshi from the Super Mario Brothers. Maybe its because he loves dinosaurs in general, but for some reason, last summer was ALL about Yoshi.

So for his third birthday we had a Yoshi/Mario Brothers themed party. This party was SUCH a DIYers dream! Almost all of the decorations were hand made. And they turned out so fantastic!

First off, food labels. Gotta have them! These were simple. Found the clip art from Mario Brothers online and used photoshop to just make simple labels. Then I used pinking scissors to cut them out and glued them onto coordinating cardstock. 

For these food labels I made up funny names that went with the theme. It was a family party and I knew that no one is allergic to anything so it wasn't necessary to put descriptions and actual names of the food on the labels.

Ok, so this might look a little off, but I promise its just food coloring! What Yoshi party would be complete without Yoshi Egg Potato Salad?

Here is the main table. Some apects from Nintendo that I wanted to have were the yellow question mark boxes, the green pipes, a fire flower and a Gumba (little brown thing on top of pipe)

This Cake was the base of the entire party. Maxim saw one online months before and was adamant about having the "Yoshi Race Car Cake". Lucky for me, my mother has a friend who is extremely talented in the art of cake decorating AND she owed her a favor. Works for me! Isn't it amazing!

This was MY personal favorite decoration from the party. Totally DIY! And made with things you never would expect. Tutorial {here}.

And then to make it even better, I stuffed it with Mario Brothers Fruitsnacks and Cinnamon Candy in the top!

Another DIY project. Bought the chair for $5 at Hobby Lobby. I used iron on transfer paper, printed the Yoshi and name on my printer and ironed it on! Special seat for the birthday boy!

We had a photo op made out of matt board and painted to look like a Nintendo game. I made foam mustaches and hats for them to use!

Me and a couple of my closest girlfriends just HAD to get in on a photo too!