Happy Birthday Eldest!
Eldest turned 17 last week, indeed, but we squeezed the Birthday Party in a week late this year. She decided on a party with a music theme.Each guest was asked to come as their favorite musical artist. She made cupcakes which we then decorated with butter cream frosting, on which we sprinkled little sugar notes we created, and then topped them with glitter- edged hearts cut from 1920's sheet music.
The table was decorated with vintage sheet music, wooden glittered notes and a book for each of the guests, made with vintage music and wildflowers.
The sunroom, with the sun setting. Eldest and I had crafted pennant banners from vintage music to decorate the room.
In keeping with the dressing as a musical artist theme, Eldest chose to be Adele. Here, Adele gets her hair teased by "Killa K." her friend, and compatriot in the birthday preparations, as I was absent for most of the day at my other job.
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| Middlest chose to go as Jennifer Lopez, with a sleek bun. |
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| Here is "Jennifer Lopez, Killa K. , Adele, Ke$ha, Pink and Bruno Mars"... |
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| Arrival of the handsome, "Jason Aldeen". Oh, dear. |
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| The whole group, additions of Janis Joplin, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and, yes the blond in the orange jumpsuit holding the snake, that is Brittany Spears. |
The guests played some music games. One was a spin on "Name that Tune", and the competitive ones definitely tried very hard! Another game they played was each guest had an instrument, and they split into groups, made their own tune and then came together and played as a group. It was a bit noisy, but the musicians made it work. They had fun with it too. The guitar was joined by flutes, piccolo, drum, piano, Chinese gourd flute, saxophone, trumpet, we even had a beat boxing pair.
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| Jason Aldeen gets his guitar rolling. |
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| AdelEldest and J-Lo played a duet on the piano. |
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| AdelEldest serenaded us with her new Magic Microphone! |
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With such gorgeous teenage girls, it's a good thing we have a vicious dog in the house.
(Well, to be fair, in this photo, he's smiling.) |
What a great party theme!!!! Everyone looks beautiful (handsome?)... And WHAT a convincing J-Lo!!! Great job cousins!
ReplyDeleteI am sure you guys had a lot of fun. Even I want to have some kind of a theme on my birthday this time. It actually adds a little fun to the party. I have started looking for good New York venues for my birthday celebration. Can you help me with some cool themes like this?
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