Party planning mode.

I have a busy 4 months ahead of me...
I am on 2 committees at church. One for the Women's retreat that is in April and one for our VBS which, for the first year, is the first week of June.
My daughter, Amelia, will be turning 1 on April 26th and my husband turns the big 30 in June.
So...let's just say that the internet has been my best friend lately finding and collecting ideas for these 4 big events.

When my son turned 6 months old, I already had most of his party planned in my head...Amelia's is no different. I have had the theme in mind for a couple months, and am SO excited to get busy preparing for it. I already have a notebook dedicated to the party, and I even started shopping last night.
If you happen to follow me on Pinterest you have probably already seen me go crazy pinning everything...and you probably already know the theme to her party, which is Alice in Wonderland...or Amelia in ONEderland...ha..how clever is that.
Now...I have a pretty tight budget for her party...but that won't stop me from going "all out"
I am a bargain hunter..and I am pretty good at finding the good deals. I hit up Target last night to look at valentines day items on clearance. Since the story has The Queen of Hearts in it, I knew that this would be a great time to find party items...I didn't find everything I was hoping to find, but I was pretty happy with my deals.

Everything I bought was 50% off...now...in my head..that still wasn't as cheap as I would have liked to spend..I would have LOVED to wait until they were marked to 75%...but it was already pretty much picked over, and I knew if I waited, it would be too late and they would be completely out.

 Bags of heart shaped lollipops..marked down to .50.

 Photo frames. marked down to 2.49 each.

 Tea cups....(mad hatter tea party) $1.99 each

and my favorites...Glitter heart shaped plates. $1.24 each.

The best part is I will actually use this stuff after the party is over...its reusable..no paper or cheap plastic that will just get thrown away afterwards.

Here are the colors of her party...

And an idea for her cake...

I am a perfectionist when it comes to things like this...and I also think I need to do everything myself..
When I get an idea in my head its hard for me to just hand it over to someone else...so We will see how long it takes me to do this cake..lol. For my son's 2nd birthday his cake was much smaller but still took me 3 hrs to decorate with the fondant...Looking at this cake...it will take 6 hours..lol.

I am excited to see the whole party come together!