It's a puppy party!

When I learned last Wednesday that my granddaughter Amelia had decided that what she wanted to do for her 6th birthday was to have a family party at Grandma's house I decided that I would try to make it special for her. I asked  what theme Amelia would like and found she had asked for a puppy theme. Amelia loves stuffies and especially puppies! My daughter in-law had visited a party store and I went to several stores that sell party stuff but we couldn't find anything with that theme. On-line I found lots of ideas, in fact many more than I would have time to do as I only had 3 days.

puppy party table

After checking out a puppy party on Martha Stewart, I went to my local thrift store to see if they had any stuffies. It was my lucky day! Someone must have just brought in a whole collection because there were so many there and really nice ones too! I bought all they had and took them home and machine washed them.

stuffies

and more stuffies......

 We had stuffies all over!

I then made a banner on my computer:

The cutting mat and grid ruler that my daughter gave me for 

Christmas sure came in handy! (thanks Janie)

Puppy Birthday Banner

The puppies on the banner were found at clipartfort.com and 

sweetclipart.com and  clker.com/clipart.

For the table place settings I found the dog bone mats at dollarama. 

They are meant for dog dishes but worked well for place mats.

As it was not possible for me to print on napkins I made napkin rings.

personalized party blowers

For both the blowers and the table centerpiece  I just took off the cardboard pictures 

and replaced them with my own. The puppy clip art for these came from clipartfort

 and dog clipart. I also made stickers to put on the paper cups.

personalized centerpiece

The balloon idea came from: marthastewartpuppy-themed-party-ideas 

although it was suggested to make the faces with felt pen I just copied 

the pattern and taped it on with double sided tape.

puppy balloons

Also with the treat bag pattern (on the same post) you were supposed 

to cut out the pieces and glue them on.  As I was crunched for time 

I just printed out the pictures on sticker paper and stuck them on brown bags.

puppy treat bags

I wanted to have a mini candy buffet and wanted the candies to

 be browns so it is mostly chocolate candies, nuts , caramel corn and 

some coke gummies.  The empty space is where a puppy was removed 

before we could get the picture.

I bought a bone cookie cutter and made cookies with my usual brown sugar cookie recipe

BROWN SUGAR COOKIES

preheat oven to 350 degrees

1cup butter

2 cups brown sugar

2 beaten eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

31/2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

Cream butter and sugar together

Blend eggs and vanilla and beat

into sugar mixture

Mix dry ingredients gradually

 and fold in until totally 

incorporated.

chill dough until cold. Roll out to

1/8 “ thickness between two sheets of 

plastic wrap. Cut out shapes. 

Bake on lightly greased cookie sheets

for 10-12 minutes

Makes about 5 dozen cookies

Recipe can be cut in half

Finally I made some puppy cupcakes :

puppy cupcakes

Amelia was a happy girl!



All in all it turned out great!
 (A special note of thanks to my hubby for taking all the pictures.)