January of 2012 I was faced with the same 1st Birthday dilemma as so many other Moms. What theme do you do for your only little girls First Birthday party? Do you go with the classic #1 balloons and decor? Choose their “favorite character” before they even know where their nose is? So for my little girl, Isabella’s first birthday I did what every 30 year old wanna be crafty Mama would do, I took it to Pinterest. My favorite of all of the themes I founnd was Winter One-Derland. Now Isabella’s birthday is in January, so the winter part did apply. However, we live in Florida. We have no winter. Not a real one anyway. So in my search I started looking at different Disney themes, and came across this adorable silhouette of our dear Alice. *LIGHTBULB!* Alice in ONE DERLAND!
I tend to be a less is more, keep it simple and classic kinda girl. So I chose 3 colors, and went from there, bright and colorful green, pink and blue. I worked with an Etsy seller, All Thats Pretty to create the art work. There were several Alice themes that were similar, but I wanted to add our color palette and turn it into One-Derland as opposed to the traditional Wonderland. All Thats Pretty was good to work with. There was a huge and I mean HUGE issue with receiving the shipment of the decorations. I actually ended up receiving them the day before the party via Fed-Ex overnight. There was a point where I thought we were going to have no decor. This was more the US Postal Service and the sellers local post office’s issue than the sellers, but as a business owner their problems turn into your problems and Amy understood that and in the end they made it right and the decor was beautiful.
I made the tissue paper poms, and the Eat Me cookies. The cake is from our favorite Tampa bakery, Alessi Bakery.
We rented a Disney Princess bounce house to keep the kiddies busy (which I somehow took zero photo’s of). We’ve used Games For Fun Party Rentals for several parties and they’ve always been awesome. Greatprices, very pleasant to do business with. We will no doubt use them again in the future.
Isabella had a One-Derful time at her first Birthday party 🙂 Its her first event showing her #Disneyside 😉
~Nicole
