Olivia's First Birthday Party

Saturday May 10th was Olivia's first Birthday Party! It was through the Boston Terrier club we are part of. Not too many pups showed up that day but we still had a good time! Olivia wore a really cute red t-shirt for part of her party but then she got hot so I took it off her.

I can't believe my baby girl is old enough to have a birthday party!

How to Make a Paper Penant Banner

For Olivia's Boston Terrier Dog Park 1st Birthday Party I made a paper penant Happy Birthday banner. I got the idea from something I saw on Pinterest and I wanted to share how to make one.

First I bought a pack of brightly colored card stock paper. I drew out a triangle the size I wanted and I traced it on the back of the paper (on the white side).

Then I cut out all my triangles.

I also bought a stencil for letters and used stamp pads my mom had in stock instead of paint to apply the letters to the triangles.

stencil laid over a triangle

ink pads that I used instead of paint

When I had one letter per triangle and had spelled out Happy Birthday Olivia Rose I laid all my triangles on the table in the order they were going in and got some ribbon (also in my mom's stock) and a stapler.

I stapled the triangles onto the ribbon, making sure to leave enough ribbon on the ends to tie it up and separations between the words so that they don't run together.

stapled onto the ribbon
if I were to do this again
I would staple the ribbon to
the front instead of the back

I made it over several days, but it really isn't a very time consuming project and it looks super cute when it's done!

Thoughtless Thursday

By Ruckus the Eskie and co-host Love is being owned by a Husky