Sweet Sixteen

    My Sweet Sixteen isn’t happening for another seven months, but I’m already planning it. I know it seems like that’s a long time before I should even be considering it, but seriously, I’m going to need to work over the summer if I’m to have this thing.

So, the “theme” is going to be Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I love the total nonsensical imagery Lewis Carroll brought into it and would love to see it incorporated into one of my parties.

I’ve done some planning, but I’m betting it will be even more extravagant by the time I’m done with my ideas.

Anyway, I’ve pretty much settled on the fact that we’re not going to be having any actually nutritional foods at the party, since it will be all sweets, which I’ll be making myself. I fancy to think myself good at baking, though I’m obviously no chef. I’m going to be making  cupcakes decorated to look like mushrooms, cookies that say eat me, and a cake that is decorated as a chess board. Then, in celebration of the chapter The Lion and the Unicorn in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, I’ll be serving white bread, brown bread, and plum cake.

I only have one activity idea so far. I want to make a mini-golf course in my backyard, all in theme, mind you; and play, using plastic flamingos as the putters. I’m obviously going to need a lot of “props” to make the course, but I have some planned.

I want to make a blue paper mache caterpillar. I’m going to paper mache balloons together to get the bumpy-circular look and then paint it blue. I have no idea what to use for his hookah yet.

Then, I’m going to be making a garden of “singing” flowers, using fabric for the petals, leaves, and faces; green water noodles for the stems. I’ll put a small boom box near them to have it seem like they’re singing ‘Golden Afternoon’.

Remember those mini playhouses that we had as kids in the nineties? I’m not talking about the ones with the “built in electronic phones” that cost a friken thousand dollars. I’m talking about the plastic crappy ones that you could buy at Walmart for fifty bucks and could snap apart so they could be washed. Well, I have one, and I’m currently trying to find how to make legs and arms that can come out of the bottom and windows, alike to Alice in the Rabbit’s house.

Now here’s the easiest, I’m going to get big pieces of cardboard and paint them white and red, like the Heart Playing Card Army, and use material to make their heads and hands.

Anyone have any other ideas that they can contribute? I’d be awfully appreciative!