Craving Color-Confetti Birthday Banner

Hey, so remember when I made this?

Confetti Garland

My hand is cramping up in terror with the memory of cutting out all those circles. Ha!

Kristen of Craving Color made one for her nephews birthday,

 but she made the circles bigger and turned it into a Happy Birthday Banner!

She did such a great job on it and I love that she can make separate bottom banners with other names to change it up for different birthdays.

Go here to see how she made it.

Confetti Garland

While preparing for the Beanie Baby Birthday Bash
I came up with this super fun birthday garland.

I love it because it is so colorful and it looks like huge floating confetti.

I used a Yahtzee cup and traced a circle onto a piece of cardboard to use as a template.

I cut 30 circles out of 10 different colors of felt. 

I only used 15 of each color in this garland and plan to use the rest to make two additional shorter garlands.

Taking 2 colors at a time I ran them through the sewing machine one after another,

to make a chain of colorful circles.

I think that is it just so much fun!

On the ends I sewed in a loop of ribbon to make hanging easier.

Glorious happy color.

Bliss.

Confetti Garland.

Now I need to make some more fun birthday decorations and make a birthday box.

I am linking up with these super swell blogs:)

Beanie Baby Birthday Bash

 Brooklyn came home from school on Monday and told me that her beanie baby Herald, who she adopted for a class project, had a birthday coming up on January 7th.

We decided to have a little birthday party for her(Brooklyn decided that Herald was a her). When she checked the birth dates of her other two beanies she saw that they both had birthdays in December, so we made it a triple birthday party!

Meet the Birthday Beanies: SnoCap, Scoops and Herald.

I made a birthday garland for the beanies' party.

I call it the Confetti Garland and it will be making appearances at all our family parties from now on.

Here is Brooklyn with the birthday beanies and their friends from Toy Story.

It was quite a crowd!

Yep. We lit the candles...and sang.

Brooklyn helped them blow out the candles.

She was the happiest girl in the world that night.

She kept saying how it was the "Best day EVER!"

Oh, the things we do for our children;)