Every year I seem to remember anew that I really like planning theme birthday parties. Just like my mom except with more emphasis on the cake and food and less pre-planning and organization. This year the boys-of-the-family birthday party theme is....fishing. The invitation idea is 100% stolen from Pinterest with the addition of some inappropriate puns by Mr. H and I. The party is this weekend and, honestly, the invites are the only thing done. And these week is crazy busy with baseball (two games for Oscar) and band (Biscuit performing at a minor league baseball game) and celebrations (new house for the in laws, birthday for a friends). So, yeah. Who knows when the rest of the party planning will happen! And it doesn't help that I uncovered a love for Swedish Fish and have just now polished off the entire bag that was purchased specifically for party/cake decor. Oops.
Notes on the invite. The vest is a paper grocery bag with the printed invite covering the grocery store logo. The fish were cut out of an old science book. The hook is a bent piece of wire (but a cut paper clip would have worked great) with a snipped off bit of a feather tied on with thread. I should have cut the neck of the vest higher as the text ended up showing so I had to add the green paper which doesn't look as good as I'd hoped. It was good it's just a family party because 6 was just about as many of these as I could handle making. Oscar's friend party was an evite.
Blurry photo so, the fish themed wording in case you can't read it:
Hope we can LURE you over for a REEL good time.
Our CAST of characters.
THE FISH WILL BE BITING around 4
Bring your BASS on over just for the HALIBUT (probably not appropriate for a 7 year old but oh well)