February 2012 - Oops! I Craft my Pants

Last Friday, I decided I wanted to throw a surprise party for my husband Tyler. So, I hurried and whipped up a party invitation. Then, I invited a bunch of Tyler’s friends, who all graciously accepted. Seriously, Tyler’s (and my!) friends are the greatest.

I made the invite look like a ticket. This totally wasn’t my idea, though. I just googled and saw some invites I liked. Then, I just mixed them all together into one that I reeeally liked.
See how they’re orange and black? Yeah, that was me being a “cool” wife and having the party be Giants (Tyler’s fave team) colors.

That lasted about .2 seconds, though. Because orange and black reeeally weren’t working for a cute party. Like, at all. It was looking like Halloween up in hurr. So, naturally, I changed the colors to fit my aesthetic needs.

Anyway, here are some pictures of the shebang. I’m completely awful at taking pictures these days, so I missed a lot of pictures and all the decorations aren’t here. Dang! Oh well.

Also, sorry for the awful lighting! The party was at 6 and umm.. It was dark already when more pictures were taken.

Okay.

This wreath was one of my favorite projects to make! I love that it was the first thing all the guests saw and it really set the theme for the party.

When you walked in, there was a big pennant banner, but I have no pictures of that. You believe me though…Right? Phew!

And, on the wall was this lovely sign. Can you tell I am awful at straight lines? I hated it at first, but I ended up loving its quirkiness by the end.

There was also a little baseball for Tyler’s friends to sign, and a little line with pictures of Tyler (side note: baby Tyler looks SO much like baby E…It’s nuts. I’ll post the picture in a post later this week!)

Then, on the right there was the treat table, which included different homemade popcorns, candies, and a (lame) homemade cake.

I also made some printables for those frames behind the table so that everything would stay in the theme.

Here’s a pictures of the cake I made close up. It was pretty lame. I just put a ribbon on it and slapped a baseball on top and called it good. Whatever. I saw one like it online. But uhh…Mine didn’t turn out as great at all.

For food, we had hotdogs. My mom bought the best ones from Costco, and we loved them. She also provided some jdawgs sauce to go along with them YUM!

My favorite part of all the decor was the drink station, though!

I found these perfect cocacola glasses for each of the guests. I loved how they looked all lined up on the counter.
I totally forgot to tell everyone to take one home, though. So, now I’m stuck with 20 glasses. It’s a little ridiculous. Want one?

I love how it turned out. And, I was pretty dang proud of myself for making all the printables, decorations, and flavored popcorn all by myself. It felt good to accomplish all of that and see everything come together.

Seeing Tyler’s face as he looked at everything was so great. I also loved that he got to see all of his friends in one place. We haven’t seen some of our friends in a while, and he loved talking with them all and catching up.

He is the greatest, and I’m so happy that I was able to surprise him!