Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Celebrations

This is another very backdated post. As mentioned earlier, we had a small party at home for CE’s birthday. I was really lazy to make balloon decorations. I told ah boy and he was okay with it (wah, so considerate hahaha). Then while he was napping, I felt bad so I pumped a few balloons and hung them on the curtain rail.

super simple deco
We had our usual “party food”. Bought satay, ordered pizza and Kakak fried bihun and nuggets (just a bit for the kids) and cooked curry chicken. After the kids finished their food, they played Wii games, as requested by the birthday boy (coz usually no pc/tv games on school days).

jie jie, didi, kor kor and mei mei

blueberry cake
presents




For the celebration in school, I bought a black forest cake for him and prepared party packs for his classmates. I planned to make the paper bags myself by referring to Sasha’s post. Thanks for the tutorial, girl! After buying the brown papers, I found it so tedious to cut the papers into the right size, fold, stick, fold, stick, fold some more and open it up. And I had to prepare 24 of them (including for jie jie and his cousins)! I wanted to give up so I went hunting for those ready-made paper/plastic bags. But can’t find any suitable/nice ones. There aren’t many choices around my area. The patterns are very girlish, not that suitable for his class where majority are boys. So I had no choice but to make the paper bags myself. Luckily I bought a steel ruler and a penknife (really sharp!) so it made the work a little easier. I cannot imagine the amount of work needed if I were to do exactly like Sasha. Cut out the alphabets to make the kids’ names? Oh, forget it. So I just printed some characters (decided by birthday boy) as decoration. I also eliminated the strings and just folded them over. Jie jie helped me a lot with making the paper bags and sticking the cartoons. The birthday boy wrote the names of his friends on the paper bags and put the goodies into them.

contents in party pack
party packs for friends
I also prepared some gifts (chocolates and sweets) for the teachers as they were celebrating Teacher’s Day on the same day as well. Got this idea from mom2ashley’s post. Thank you, D! Found some white plastic bags in the drawers, printed some wordings on coloured paper and cut out rectangular shapes from manila cardboard. Again, I got CE to write the names of the teachers himself.
gifts for teachers

10 comments:

wenn said...

that's nice..birthday celebration is a happy occasion.

Oliveoylz said...

CE must have been the happiest bday boy....being able to play wii on a weekday is a big treat on its own! You did well with the party bags...no easy feat with 24 pcs to complete! Good thing u have an assistant with very nice handwriting too...

MeRy said...

Nice birthday celebration.

mommy to chumsy said...

Lovely party packs you got there. Thumbs up to mommy for her effort :)

Anggie's Journal said...

happy belated birthday ah boy ... heh, see u this sunday :) hopefully no raining....

Health Freak Mommy said...

All DIY, good job to you!! I don't think I can handle all these by myself. Your girl is looking more like you eh?

Merryn said...

You could have just bought those brown bags from bakery shops. How did you get the names of all the kids? My anak can only tell me one or two..

slavemom said...

Anggie, c u this Sun! Hoping for a cloudy day n no rain. :)

Merryn, ahh.. bakery shop, nvr thot of that. I got the list of names from his teacher. Cannot rely on my anak oso, he can't even give me the exact no. of kids in his class. o.O

Mummy Gwen said...

Simple and nice birthday celebration for CE. Happy Belated Birthday To CE!

I give up lah if I were to fold the bags myself. You did a good job.

jacss said...

hello my fren...can't imagine how long i didn't dropped by *guilty as charged* !!
sorry but me actually giggling over yr attempt to fold the brown paper bag, hahaha...it's just
"so-not-you" with these artsy crafty stuffs, am i right?

anyway, aunty is wishing ah boy to stay healthy & clever :D