Okay, so I did end up making another cake. I couldn't go out like that. The party turned out nicely. We didn't show up early enough to decorate so we had help as people started showing up.
These fabulous rainbow cupcakes were baked by the amazing Kristina. The cupcake wrappers were made by moi using the Cupcake Wrappers Cricut cartridge, polka dots wrapper in purple, pink, green, and orange.
This sad cake actually was quite tasty. rainbow layers with
Fluffy White Frosting and tropical twizzlers (inspiration found
here)
I LOVE this banner. Made it using George Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge and Cricut Craft Room software.
A combination of projects here: rainbow dot sewn paper garland (inspiration
here), along with a timeline of Bean from birth through 12 months, and the bottom third tier of the Happy Birthday banner (see above).
I think this might be the only picture I have of the amazingly awesome and fantastical ribbon topiaries I made for the tables. Each topiary was done in rainbow ribbons and put in a bucket in each color of the rainbow (instructions
at Polka Dot Birthday)
This curly ribbon wreath took a beating before guests even showed up. We don't know how it happened since it was hanging on the door. I was quite sad. But it was still a cute addition. (Instructions
right over here)
I'm also pretty sad that our photographer (Hubby) didn't get any pictures of the candy buffet (drowned out by the presents, anyway) or the time capsule, or the fruit tray (which was so good it was gone before anyone touched the candy).
Happy Birthday, Bean! (topiary!!)
