Hunters Pirate Party - Part 1

On 3 August my little man turned 1.  How quickly that first year has gone!

Hunter on the morning of his birthday. 

There is a local pirate, Captain Blackboots, who has his own Pirate Ship who is always in the Clevedon Christmas Parades.  I have always wanted to have him....what luck finally a son!  Of course the pirate and his ship were booked in straight away and the planning began.

First of all came the outfits!

I love the Bobux Jolly Roger shoes I found for Hunter.  http://www.bobux.co.nz

The top I had made for Hunter is just as awesome. It looks cool and is really good quality.  We have had so much use out of it.  I purchased this off a great shop on Etsy.  Awesome service too.  http://www.etsy.com/people/PricelessKids

The girls cute Jolly Roger skirts were handmade in NZ and purchased off TradeMe.  http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=444977

Hunters Birthday Suit

The Girls Birthday Outfits

 I love organising loot bags for parties.  I love to give adults something as well.  I think it makes it a little bit special to show them that they too are appreciated!

I got a great selection of the kids party favours from Charlie Horse Parties including cute Pirate Rubber Duckies for the babies. http://www.charliehorseparties.co.nz/category_4/Pirate.htm

The Kiddies Bags

For the adults favors, I made pirate magnets.  I purchased some pirate and jolly roger images off Etsy from Mauda Designs http://www.etsy.com/people/MaudaDesigns. I also made some of my own designs using Pirate wording.  I then had the images turned into flatback buttons. I had the buttons made by Buttons and Badges off Etsy who I have used before.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/buttonsandbadges  . I also purchased some adhesive magnets from Etsy http://www.etsy.com/people/teddybear2247 and adhered these to the back of the buttons.  I then put them all in a home made loot bag with a little rhyme on the front and on the back important events that occurred on 3 August...Hunters birth date.

The adult loot bags

 

The food was somewhat rushed.  I wish I had taken more time with this but the week had already gotten away on me.  As well as the normal party food I also made Pirate cookies, skull and cross bone chocolates and Jolly Roger crackles.

I got another amazing cake from http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Creative-Cakes-by-Suzanne/106111336167067.  This was so cute...and great tasting!

With some of the left over buttons from the adults favours I made wine charms by adding some pirate themed ribbon from Spotlight.

I also made a birthday sign for Hunter which we hung outside greeting all the guests.  This came from www.vistaprint.co.nz.

This post has taken so long to do!  I should have done it sooner.  Tomorrow I will post a selection of images from the party.