I'm Manda! Crafty AF, I'll inspire you to make cute things on a budget! ~In The Pursuit of Craftyness
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San Diego, CA
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I can‘t believe my babies are 8!
I‘ll never forget their first birthday, I thought it was THE biggest thing ever. Justice and Maddox, who we’ve adopted into one solid nickname of “JustMadd”, were turning the big 0-1. We had people in from out of town and it just had to be perfect, and well because I’m a Virgo ♍️, everything must be perfect.
Dr. Seuss’s Thing 1 and Thing 2 was the theme. I had a planning notebook, Dr. Seuss quotes printed and mounted on cardstock, booked a Jumphouse for Twin 1 year olds with no friends, maybe 2 other kids in the Fam, and a bunch of adults. I Handmade name signs out of red and blue felt to hang on their high chairs that we dragged from our condo to the park up the street where we had the party (shout-out to Daddio for helping trace the felt letters). Planned out the menu and desserts ; 2 smash cakes with RED frosting and the numbers 1 and 2 which was the most horrific idea because there little faces were stained red for 2 days. The cupcakes also had red frosting and blue cotton candy as the “hair” that I bought online for like $20 because I couldn’t find it locally. OH- and it was July in San Diego, so the $20 blue cotton candy hair melted in just minutes of arriving. The morning of the party when Dad went to get the balloons, I was informed that there was a helium shortage and there was none. After tears, demanding, and if I remember correctly, 3 or so stops and another $20-$30 later he found a place with helium and order was restored. How could I ever throw my children their first birthday without balloons!!
I could go on, but when I look back I can see how tremendously stressful that was. Although what I just described above sounds as if their first birthday was an absolute disaster, it was so far from it, that it was just what I wanted to be - perfect! No one ever knew that there was almost no balloons. The 2 kids jumped on that darn jumpy until the guy came to tear it down. Their chubby little red frosting dyed faces did eventually fade back to their smooth pink natural tone. The high chairs squeezed into the 5th and final trip from the park back home, and the Cotton Candy? What Cotton Candy, I didn’t know the cupcakes were supposed to have that on top?
