Kelly loves to read books, so much so that we read hours a week. I knew her first birthday party should reflect her sweet little passion.
My color and pattern choice was "Charming Country." I used mainly red, white, blue and yellow. When going for this look adding yellow significantly changes the color scheme from "4th of July" to "Charming Country."
I used some antique books as decoration as well as Ikea milk jugs.
The party favor was a little bookmark I made from library cards. I was able to buy a blank 50 piece stack from Amazon. I used a date stamp (from amazon) to put the date of her 1st birthday. I also added a quote by Charles Eliot, ribbon and old fashioned postage stamp, from Michael's.
I loved this quote so so much that I framed it. After the party I hung it in Kelly's room, not only to give to her as a lasting keepsake from the party, but so she can grow to believe these words herself.
Books were an inspiration of the food served.
I made deviled eggs based off Green Eggs and Ham. I decided to add green food coloring to just a few of the eggs because I know many people find food coloring unpleasant. Not pictured was a Ham, cheese and crackers plate to get the HAM from the book.
Picture garland with micro clothes pins and wallet size photos clipped to bakers string. The circle garland was made from old book pages (cant see the words well in this picture) that I punched holes in and chain sewed together. The final rosette garland was made from coordinated scrapbook paper.
There was a daring bunting banner that didn't get photographed.. Along with another circle punched paper garland :/ However we did snap some pictures of Kelly with her parents and grandparents. Notice: Sam, Kelly and I purposely dressed to match the party color scheme. My dad.... haha! I guess he did to!
