Buggie and Jellybean: cute fruit

I really never know where some of my ideas come from.

They live deep in a dark corner of my cerebral cortex and I pull them out as needed.

I wanted something fun, different, and colorful for Buggies 5th birthday party {just like her}.

After a little back and forth on the theme I went with a "A Very Cute Fruit Stand".

Hubs and I mapped out a plan {well mostly Hubs, I helped a little} to build the canopy out of PVC. After a little red spray paint it was perfect, then added yellow fabric and a little strawberry fabric ruffle to the front.

Buggie was in love. Makes my heart happy.

{scored her dress from Target for 8 bucks!}

I teamed up with Kori from Paper and Pigtails {you know she is my paper goods go to, not just cause she is a friend, but she is super creative and so much fun to work with} to make the invitation and signs.

These are pineapple shaped cups I purchased from Rhode Island Novelty. They had a little hole for a straw, super cute.

I knew I wanted to work with Renee from Bees Knees Creative. So I ordered the cutest strawberry cookies. {you will see more of her work below}.

I was stumped on watermelon, until I did a little Etsy search and came across Lather Tech. I knew I was wanting her soap to hand out but was not sure on the size, so Kathy was kind enough to mail me out a sample 2oz piece and it was perfect. This soap looked and smelled so much like watermelon, hubs made sure we told all the parents it was soap, haha.

I purchased some banana fabric and made little sacks and filled then with banana chips.

For a little fruit cocktail I went to Doodle R US and ordered some fruit shaped crayons. They were quick and easy to work with. And they paired perfect with the coloring sheet of Buggie my Uncle made for her.

I had seen something in a Martha {Stewart that is} mag, after attempting three times, I realized I am not Martha or her staff. SO I racked my noodle and thought how cute would it be to make cherry Dum Dum lollipop cherries. For these I ordered a box of just cherry Dum Dum's , thin floral tape, leafs cut out of cardstock and hot glue. I just wrapped the lollipops together to make them in pairs, then hot glued the leafs on. Done and done.

Fresh fruit was represented in apples, oranges, and little cups of blueberries.

And you remember those gumball flowers I made.

For the cake I went we a good old favorite, simple sheet cake with strawberry filling from Publix. All I did was have them do the basket weave in red. For $26 bucks it was so yummy. But for some added cuteness I took some bite size cookies Renee made and stuck them in. Along with a name cookie!

I had originally wanted fondant topper for the cupcakes I made, but then I thought how cute would little bite size cookies in stuck in cupcakes?! These cookies melted my heart the mintue I laid eyes on them. The little faces, I mean come on. I really wanted to shellack them and keep them for ever!