This was from a recent custom order. The customer was planning a watermelon themed birthday party and wanted an invitation to coordinate. Remember that if you do not see what you are looking for, you may always contact me to inquire about a custom design—I love working on new things!
This new design is perfect for your “green” baby shower, or for a gender-neutral or baby boy shower. Modern owl is super cute and is also available in orange or blue.
Finish off your theme with coordinating thank you cards---again, these can be done using any of my owls!
There was also a little lollipop magnet in each bucket. They were actually cute little Christmas ornaments I found at Hobby Lobby last year and just snipped the ribbon off of and added a magnet to!
In the buckets for the girls were Starburst chapsticks and hair pretties. I found the chapstick in with the Easter goodies, but have since seen Skittles flavored chapstick in the teeny bopper make up section at Target {on an end cap}. And now the little candy hair pretties I made! I told you I am all about making things if I can!! For both types I used small styrofoam balls from the craft store. It took a little experimenting on both to figure out what worked and looked best, but once I figured it out, I managed to whip up a whole bunch! This is what I found worked best for me! On the lollipops I hot glued the stick in first. Once the glue was set up, I covered them in Mod Podge {one at a time} and then glittered away. It would probably be best to stand them in a piece of styrofoam to dry, but I didn’t happen to have an extra piece just sitting around so I was doing all sorts of crazy things to stand them up! Anyway, once they were dry, I tied on a tiny little ribbon and that was it as far as the lolly itself goes!! Once I covered the alligator clips in coordinating ribbon, I hot glued the stick onto the clip. And that’s all! From what I can tell, because of the sticks, these don’t work very well for pigtails but better as just clips! For the candy pieces, I just played around and cut little fabric squares until I got them the right size to wrap around the ball and leave some excess. I then just glued down the edge with my glue gun. After that I tied ribbon on each end and then used pinking shears to trim the edges with. Then I just hot glued them onto a matching alligator clip! Easy peasy!
The boy pails were a bit more empty since they didn’t get chapstick or hair pretties! But because we had a candy bar as well for all the kids to load up at, I didn’t worry too much about it!! I did change things up for the four kiddos under two that we had! Way back when I ordered the pencils, I only ordered twelve. And I only made twelve soaps and only had twelve straws left after my kids got into them!! So, for obvious reasons, the tiny guests didn’t get soaps, straws or pencils! Instead, they got a fun, yet practical, little lollipop treat! I actually saw these baby spoon/washcloth lollipops on a blog a long time ago. I pulled the picture off and stuck it in a folder on the computer for future reference!! I have since seen them on Etsy and admittedly went back to Etsy the night I made these to get some inspiration!! So, if you aren’t too crafty, you can certainly buy ‘em! They make cute baby gifts as well! 
Pin the Stick on the Lolly
Dum-Dum pop topiary
the balloon arch we made for the front yard... 
the walkway leading to the BIG TOP circus...
let the fun begin!
i made/painted the ticket booth...it used to be a plain wooden puppet stage!
the cupcake table inside the tent...
the clown cupcakes i made... 
a cute lemonade cart i found on ebay...
here's my snow cone cupcakes and popcorn cupcakes! 
and here's the cake i made {more detailed pics below}. since this party was suppose to be last week {we got rained out BIG TIME and had to cancel/postpone it a week} the bottom part of the cake was kinda hammered. i re-made the top part though. i made the fun happy birthday banner in photoshop {the paper was a mix of adorable circus paper}... 
the clown bibs i had out for the little ones...
we rented a clown {joy-geous} to do face painting and balloon animals. she was GREAT!... 
we also rented a popcorn machine. the air smelled SO GOOD with this baby going...
the fun circus photo op... 
the cardboard megaphones...
they won goldfish soap at the goldfish toss {i made the soap out of glycerine, scented oil, and plastic goldfish, and small plastic bags!}.
the kids won tickets at each booth to redeem for 
circus tattoo's....
circus frog tic tac toe & an elephant toss... 
you just can't have a circus/carnival without cotton candy 
my make shift ball pit {i found the child awning at dan's!}...
some of the circus crowd {you should have seen our lawn afterwards. hehe}!...
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