My dear crazy fun friend Jodi (jojo, jodster) was trying to decide what to do for her daughter's 2nd birthday this month. She wanted to make it fun especially since her hubby is deployed again. Jodi loves the 80's and ever since Ava was a baby if she played the safety dance she immediately calmed down. She's a true child of an 80's lover! I suggested an 80's dance party theme. Jodi lives 4 hours away so I packed my car to the roof with tables, decorations, food etc and headed south. She rented a bounce house for the kids to play in while the adults enjoyed some 80's tunes and food. Not having kids of my own I didn't realize how fast kids can clean out a buffet of food and snacks that are eye level and not being supervised! WOW! My husband has nothing on the boys under 7!
The wreath was a vine wreath covered in some chic 80's zebra print I found in a fabric stash and topped with floral fans with inserts from some tapes I bought at goodwill attached to them to let everyone know they were here to party!
Love all the big hair on the men and women..Almost can't tell the difference between them :)
Big BRIGHT poms surrounded the light with paper decorations in between spelling A-V-A . This topped the gift and to go goodie bag table.
What 80's party isn't complete without candy to take home..My favorites are all here..Pixie Sticks, Fun Dip, Pop Rocks, Ring Pops, Smarties, Nerds, Air Heads etc!
We tried to keep the party outside since the weather was nice and dropped food is easier to clean up outside! We made a sign to put behind the beverage station that hosted homemade lemonade and some stronger beverages for the bigger "girls"
I searched the internet for old magazine covers from popular 80's music/movie star mags! I downsized them and hot glued them onto disposable wine glasses (6 for $1!) This was a great way to claim your glass for the night.. I had to grab the NKOTB! :)
Records in direct sunlight...not a smart move but lesson learned. the decorations and platters started to wilt and had to be hardened in the shade before the guests got there! I should have known making bowls from records just a little heat goes a long ways!
The wind wasn't cooperating with us this day and kept blowing decorations, plates, cups everywhere! :)
I decorated plastic bins from the dollar tree with parts of casette tape inserts and filled them with bubble wand microphones jazzed up with zebra ribbon and cut outs of the original mtv and vh1 logos...makes me want to break into singing Video Killed the Radio Star! I will spare you though! Threw in some snazzy 80's crochet gloves and chocolate covered pretzels!
After one failed attempt to make this tape vase I figured out the best way to attach them together is with a high temp glue gun and overlap the edges. I lined it with a cardstock paper to give it some extra support. Then I placed a cup with flowers inside. viola..a motley crue tape vase
I had practice making these record bowls as Christmas gifts this year..great as serving bowls for chips, hold candy etc. I didn't explain to my friends this gift was a bowl and they thought it was a cute taco shaper and stuck it in the oven with a tortilla in it..This makes me smile thinking about it. Heat the oven to 190 and place the record over the top of a glass bowl or dish. Take it out when the record melts around the edges of the bowl and shape the record while it's inside a cooled bowl/dish.
The cassette tape cases from the tapes used in the vase came in handy to make food labels. I printed out tape pictures and labeled them using 80's songs. Records glued to multicolored vases made great food servers for mini hot dogs and pretzel knots
Kid Friendly Foods like corn (muffin) dogs, pineapple cream cheese on hawaiian bread and fruit skewers
The crock pot came in handy for some warm snacks on a windy day bacon wrapped little smokies and buffalo chicken dip
The cake was made by publix to match the plates and napkins from Target!
Turn a muffin tin upside down and put sugar cookie dough on them to make cups. Didn't come out quite like the picture but they were delicious and the kids snagged them sans fruit ;) oh well..it's a party!
Birthday girl enjoying some cake (she snagged an extra piece when no one was looking! love this girl!)
Jodi and Me dressed in our 80's finest! grr baby!
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