Party Ideas – PopStar & OneDirection

This is a REAL party, in the park across from my own house. The hours and hours of preparation were REAL!

My very crazy fun and love-able daughter wanted a One Direction/ Pop Star party for her 6th Birthday. She had literally been planning it for 12 months. She started planning it on the night after her 5th Birthday. (Party Planner in the making)

We made lots of decorations ourselves including a very cool POPSTAR sign which took me more time than I care to admit.

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We printed off and laminated personalized Back Stage Passes which were handed out as the guests arrived. Some of the food was placed in these super cool Guitar Shaped Bowls which we saved for future use and the kids wiped their dirty faces on poor Justin Bieber.

We filled the photo frame with random pop stars and used a piece of vinyl checkerboard flooring to create a dance area. We finished off the dance area with the Rockstar Background from Oriental Trading.com.

The Inflatable Microphones were supplied by Oriental Trading and are $1.50. We used these for decorating the table, playing during the party and then I packaged them up into their take home favor bags. So they were very versatile.

I made the cake using a printed One Direction CD cover and icing. The headphones and iPod were made from sugar icing. We had a makeup station with pretty hair clips and tattoos to let the girls feel special. We had intended to make an iPod craft but totally forget all about it.

My 3 year-old son was self appointed security guard at the end of the red aisle runner and took his job very seriously.

It was loads of fun!

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Knitwear designers can get inspiration from almost anything when it comes to re-creating a color scheme, an image or a texture in stitches. Sometimes the inspiration isn’t always obvious in the finished project, but sometimes it’s more literal.

That’s the way it is with the Tin Ceiling Blanket from Purl Soho. Not just because the inspiration is in the name, but if you’ve ever seen one of these old ceilings you can see that the design of the blanket is quite similar to the pattern of the tin tiles.

This is also a good example of the idea that you don’t have to use fancy stitch patterns or lots of color to make a big impact with your knits. This single-color blanket (designed by Gianna Mueller and inspired by a washcloth and towel set designed by Sandi Rosner) is made completely with knits and purls, other than slipped stitches at the beginning of rows to make neater edges.

The pattern is written out row by row, but there’s also a chart, which means this project is a great opportunity to practice reading a chart where you can check your work against the written pattern if you need to.

It comes in two sizes, a crib blanket and a throw. The yarn used in the sample is an organic cotton sold by the cone, which is a great way to get a large quantity of yarn and have fewer ends to weave in. In fact, you can knit either size of the blanket with just one cone of yarn, which isn’t inexpensive but makes you a great, sturdy, heirloom quality but still washable blanket you’ll use for years to come. (Of course you can use any sport weight yarn you like to make this blanket.)

Check out all the details and grab the free pattern from Purl Soho.

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