PURPLE HAZY

When it came time for my little girl to turn one… I needed a unique theme to celebrate the most special little girl I know.  We call our sweet little lady Hazel, Hazy… so I thought I would just go with a simple PURPLE HAZE theme. I just wanted it to be extra beautiful … fresh flowers and purple purple purple! I hand painted the watercolored party hats (which I hot glued fresh flowers to on the day of the party! So pretty!) and dip dyed the table cloths myself the week of the party… but I still need a WOW moment! I was driving back from a luncheon with my brilliant business partner when it hit me… the Jimi Hendrix PURPLE HAZE poster. I love that image…Jimi’s face with that mad fab multicolored afro! THAT was IT!!! The big WOW moment I needed! I had a friend print a black and white image of my Hazy on canvas, which I then hot glued to a larger piece of canvas. I painted the background blackest black and then got to the fun of spray painting the afros!! I ADORE how they turned out. So cool and fun — and the three of them behind the birthday girl at cake time made SUCH an impact. I have one of the paintings hanging in my house now — I love it so!!! All the super cool guests got afros and groovy round shades… and I hand made feather headdresses for all the little and big ladies (mommies!) at the party. I have a “there is no such thing as too much glitter” mentality…. so I went absolutely bananas in the glitter dept! Glittered the champagne bottles, glittered the champagne glasses, glittered the burlap goodie bags… glitter, glitter,glitter! I also made a large burlap flag pennant Banner that said (in gold glitter, natch!) SWEET HAZY… and believe it or not that #1 light up marquee sign… I made it with just foam board spray painted gold that I glued into the shape of a 1 and poked string lights through as the bulbs. It turned out great, I think! One of my other favorite features was the balloon chandelier I did over the bench in the play area. I did purple and tie dye (Lucinda found those for me!) and silver helium balloons with different pictures of Hazel throughout her first year hanging from each one. I tried to be sure to include all the guests in the pics as well. It turned out really lovely — and was so fun for people to find their picture with Hazy in the mix!!! The super amazing Julie from Blue Cupcakes did all my cakes and sweets. I ONLY use Julie for my events — and I think you can see why! She’s a true artist! I was so so happy with the party. Everything looked frilly and girlie and fabulous… and artsy and glittery and wonderful. It was all that I wanted it to be and more!!!!