Beauty Day Soiree

     With all the holiday gatherings and traveling we ended up putting Mikayla's birthday party off until January.  I actually think it worked better because it gave me a little time to recoup from the holidays and pull together all the ideas for her party.  Mikayla loves to read and one set of books she is getting into is the Fancy Nancy books.  They are very cute books that introduce kids into some bigger words, mainly fancy ones.  I used this party as inspiration, but did not want to go too overboard.  We invited some of Mikayla's friends from school and hosted a "Beauty Day Soiree."  I got ideas for the activities from the book Fancy Nancy:  Beauty Day.  We were planning on setting up three different stations, one for pedicure/manicures, one for decorating their goodie bags, and one for learning how to braid.  All the girls had a lot of fun.  It was so cute to see them all dressed up in the princess attire.  When they came in the door I had set up where they could pick out their own boa, sunglasses, earrings, tiara, bracelets, and necklaces.  All of which they got to take home with them.

The Invitation:  I used purple cardstock for an outline to the invitation and attached a bow to the top.

The Birthday Banner

Goodies

Decorating the bags

Finished Bags

Mini-Manis

Game Playing

Birthday girl in all her fancy fare

Enjoying cupcakes

Thank You Card