My Birthday Party!

My birthday party was a blast! I spent the evening with family and friends and it was great hanging out with them. Everyone enjoyed the party and the details that came along with it. Here are the photos from my birthday party... enjoy!

Twilight themed favors

I'm really excited to post this even though I know it's such a spoiler! Honestly, I think it's so much fun to put these together and show everyone what they can bring home.

While searching for ideas for party favors, I wasn't too big on the bite size Twizzlers as a party favor since I'll be serving that as part of my candy buffet. Instead, I decided to go with personalized M&M's (see my earlier post), handmade chess pieces (queen and pawn as shown on the cover of Breaking Dawn), and beauty item to reflect the character, Rosalie. Besides - what girl doesn't love lipgloss?

I also have another beauty item as a favor to my female guests, but I decided to keep that one on the hush hush :)

So for the lipgloss, I didn't want to use a bright red since not all of us look good in that color. Instead, I chose to use NYX's Vamp Red lipgloss (the name is very appropriate with the party theme!) which is a dark burgundy-red. Even if they don't wear this color on a daily basis, they can always save it for Halloween if they dress up as a vamp!

For the packaging, I used a treat bag (Michael's) and just stuffed it with red paper shred (Walmart).


Now the 2nd party favor is the chess pieces. I made these out of chocolate wafers (white for the queen and red for the pawn). I actually flavored them since the chocolates just have vanilla flavoring. For the queen, I chose the cheesecake flavor and for the pawn I used cherry on some and apple on some.

I got the chess piece mold at a local bakery supply store and unfortunately they didn't have it at Michael's. I'm sure you can find it online if you don't have a bakery supply store close to you. For the packaging, I used the same treat bags I used for the lipgloss (the package I got has 100 bags) and again used the same red paper shred. But instead of the silver tie, I used red ribbon I bought at Target during the after-Christmas sales.


Now the last party favor is with the personalized M&M's. The M&M's are personalized with either 'Team Jacob' and 'Team Edward' and they're in red, black, and white. I just stuffed with the same red paper shred just to bulk up the organza bag. I only put a small handful of M&M's inside since there's not much inside the bags they came in.



I was thinking of adding tags and stickers, but I'm still undecided about that. If I do, they will probably be simple tags that say "thank you" to all my guests. I hope that my ideas inspired you!