Knights and princess party on a budget

So my son decided he wanted a knights  and princess birthday party for his 7th birthday. Unfortunately we where moving to a new town and had a tight budget. So we first had to pick a place to have it because we moved and our house was to far for people to travel. So we decided a park near our odd house. We went for a drive with our boys on a Saturday around 12 o'clock to get a feel for what the parks would look like on the day and time we had planed. This give you a look on weather or not it's to busy or not. I look at the play ground to see if it was age appropriate for all 3 of my boys and my son guess and the siblings that would attend. After I look to see if there where enough tables then I had to see how clean the bathroom where, I know for some people this is odd but this lets you see how often the parks are kept up. The park we chose was very clean and small enough to keep an eye on the kids. I love that the benches where close to mingle and talk to the parents but still keep a close eye on our children. So we had a park a day and time now for the supplies. First thing I did was get on Pinterest for some ideals. After I look through my cupboards I found gold plater plastic plates I got for last thanks giving from a dollar store I also had other plastic bowls.  It was now time to look though all my art crafts, I found sticker jewels, felt, and wood sticks. With the sticker jewels I put them around the gold plastic plate. 

After my son chose green and red for his theme colors. We made crest banners and my son chose this dragon for his banner. I'm not good at drawling so my sister made a stencil of this dragon and I trace and cut the felt out. I use fabric glue to bone the two felt material together then E6000 to bone the wood stick to the felt, I set this a side and let it dry for 24 hours. I then went to my local dollar store and pick up some supplies table clothes, red plates, napkins, cups, swords, princess crowns, and necklaces and little party favors to put in the piñata.Then party city for gold forks and cake plates, boys crowns. The piñata and boys create their own shields was from Amazon. 

My son wanted gold, silver, emerald sapphire, ruby, amethyst rocks. So we started collecting rocks and with gold and silver spray paint I painted rocks and with craft paint we made the others. 

I also spay paint old champagne bottles and got candlesticks from the dollar store

Me and my sister found this treasure chest at Ross in the home good department for $12 and I feel it withe the rocks we made. 

Last but certainly not least the cake and food. For food we chose midevil themed, fresh fruit, vegetables, bread rolls, cheese, nut trail mixs, roasted chicken and half a ham and juice and water. This was easy and cheap, most fruit came from our back yard and we chose vegetables in season. We had everyone make sandwiches from the chicken, ham cheese, lettuce, and we also brought muster and mayonnaise. 

Cake!!!! The cake had only one criteria chocolate. So again Pinterest came in handy. I found a picture of a chocolate castle cake. This look easy and it was but I suggest chilling the cake after applying the Hershey bars and when assembling the Oreos towers you put them aside and let the frosting chile. I simply used chocolate cake mix, dark chocolate Hershey frosting, Hershey squares, and chocolate Oreos. Follow the cake directions, let the cake cool completely before frosting, chill the Hershey squares so they do not melt in your hands why assembling, assemble the chocolate Oreos and frosting tower and put aside and tell frosting has stiffen. I use my son castle toys for decoration and candles I got at party city. 

This is the final result :) 

Happy 7th birthday!!!! 

So here the final cost, park was free, food under $50, party supplies less then $10, piñata and 8 shield from Amazon $18, candy and party favors $5, swords $1each,  girls crowns and necklace also$1 each, boys crown pack of 12 for $3, spray paint we had but you can pretty much find it anywhere and any would do for about $3.  This party was less then $100 and it was wonderful, my son friends would have been fine with just the sword and piñata but I think it came out great and my son love it and that's what counts. 

Inspiration For my Halloween

Ebay haul

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Women Chiffon Pleated Long Maxi Skirt Elastic Waist Band in the color Nude For $12.38

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Blouses For $13.99

Diy Flower sunglasses

My new floral sunglasses

All you need is your choice of sunglasses, mind our from shopvagabondyouth.com. The Floral embellishments, you can get them at any craft store. And your chose of glue I'm using hot glue but E600 works well.

Arrange your flower before you glue to see how you would like them to look. Once there glue there's no going back. Then once you find what fits you start to glue.

This is how mine came out. I love them.

Fun new DIY for your glass jars and vases

It's the most simplest way to update or just add color to your room or house. All you need is a glass jar of any kind. I used a salsa jar and candle jar and some vases I thrift. You will also need acrylic craft paint. I got my paint from Michael crafts store. I payed 69 cents. All you do is wash and dry the jars and then put a small amount in the jar a enough to caught the bottom. Then I turned the jar upside down and twirled it slowly until the paint covered the entire inside of the jar. Once the entire inside is covered in paint, turn the jars upside down on thick cardboard so all the excess paint can run out–there will be quite a bit. You will want to move your jars every 10-15 minutes so that the excess paint can escape. Once you feel that a majority of the excess paint is gone, turn the jars upright and continue to let them dry for a few hours. Acrylic paint is water based, so if you paint the inside of your jars you won’t be able to fill them with water without the paint washing away. But don't worry Micheal's craft store make beautiful fake flower and if you're like me you have no green thumb so fake flower are better.

What inspired you?

Take A look around you, What inspired you? For me it was this pillow I got a Target. It's black white and gray photo picture of a daisy field. This inspired me to make this spike and flower headband. The soft feminine white flower with pearl in there center adds sweetness to it but the black leather band and the spikes add a rough edge to it. And together you are left with this....

Review products

A pone first use of organix repairing awapuhi ginger shampoo and conditioner and dry styling oil I emptily felt my hair feeling softer and over the last 2 week my hair has soften. I wash my hair every 2 to 3 day and I didn't use any heat. After washing my hair and applying the oil I would bread my hair or put it up and let it dry on its own. I love the way my hair felt after using the product but I didn't care for the smell. The smell reminded me of hair dye a faint smell but still.Although it smell it was still worth the result I gotorganix repairing awapuhi ginger shampoo and conditioner and dry styling oil. Also Organix Intensive Moisture Mask, Hydrating, Macadamia Oil. All where $5.99 each.