Breakfast At Tiffany's Sweet 16 Party!! Part 1

For Months now, we've been planning this Party! Every other Saturday, when Goodwill has their extra 50% off sale we hit up a couple of them, as well as our local Dollar Store & anywhere else we happen to be shopping & look for anything in Tiffany Blue that we could use. It's been a lot of fun & all our hard work has finally paid off!

We got these Big Initials for the girls & spray painted them, along with some old wooden Frames we had & our cardboard Eiffel Tower (from their Paris Party a couple years ago) in the Tiffany Blue color.

I took the day before the Party, the day of & the day after off work. And with dollar store wrapping paper, I turned the above picture into the below picture of props of Tiffany boxes! :)

We wanted to set up a "Photo Booth" at the party, where everyone could take pictures & ham it up with some fun Props. 

So the ever creative Erica made a bunch of fun Props for it! :) And the pics turned out so cute! You'll have to stay tuned to see for yourselves!

We used all the little "Treasures" we've collected over the last few months to put together all the Center pieces.

They were all so cute & no two were alike! So many cute details!

 

We printed off some sayings from, or about Breakfast At Tiffany's to use as well.

I just loved the look & how well it all turned out. So Lovely, Elegant & Chic & best of all, inexpensive! Win Win!!

There were a lot of details from the Book &/or Movie (which are different from each other, BTW) that we included as well.

Most of the Sweet 16 Party stuff out there is Hot Pink & Black (which I love, but Lexi is NOT into Pink at all!) so it was kinda fun to do something different, that you don't always see!

I found this large Audrey Hepburn Framed print at Ross! I just love it!

A new Friend of mine from our Church makes Candy Centerpieces & made these as a gift to us out of real Tiffany & Co. bags & boxes! Breakfast At Tiffany's is her Favorite Movie. They were so Beautiful!

I had an Idea for a Party Favor (and of course my Awesome Computer Tech of a Husband made them!) a wrap for a Breakfast bar with a picture of the Girls from their Breakfast At Tiffany's photo shoot, that says "Thank you for having Breakfast At Tiffany's with us."

Our Treat Bags had in them the Breakfast Bars, some Hershey Kisses & a lolly pop in our color. Of course some Black Sunglasses! (You can't Breakfast At Tiffany's without Black Sunglasses!) And a big Diamond Ring Key Chain (so cute, even though you can't really see it well in this picture!) And of course, with Twins, we had to include some Doublemint Gum! :)

And since we had boys coming to this party too (Yikes! :0) we had treat bags for them as well, with more Masculine, but still Black Sunglasses. And some novelty "Mustache" notepads for fun.

For food we decided on "Breakfast" type finger foods to go with our Theme, we had Chex Cereal Mix, mini Cinnamon Rolls & Powdered Donuts, Fruit, Tortilla Wraps & some Granola, along with some different kinds of candy! We had our Cake/Cupcake combo made at Sams Club. White Cake (my girls' favorite!) and Chocolate cup cakes! I told them I needed it to look like a Tiffany's box with a white bow! I think they did a really good job (even though they had to call me 3 times to get it right!) :) We added the little Pearl candies to the Cupcakes. And had them write on the Cake "Happy Sweet 16" then we changed up the Tiffany & Co. on several things for the Party to "Twins & Co."

 

When we picked up the Cake on the day of the Party, our Cashier at Sams Club was a young black guy in his early to mid 20's when he saw the cake he asked us about the party & when I told him the Theme was Breakfast At Tiffany's, he says "That is one of my all time Favorite Movies!" He then proceeded to Quote the entire Movie to us! He showed us a pic of his 21 year old Girlfriend (who is also a Twin! BTW) :) who he had just made watch Breakfast At Tiffany's, since she had never seen it! I told my girls' "And you thought no young person would know Breakfast At Tiffany's!" He is now our Favorite Cashier ever! And I think his Mom is now one of my Hero's, she must have raised her boy right! :)

So those are most of the details from our party planning. I started a private board on Pinterest with Party ideas that my girls & I could pin to. Guess I can make it public now! They just didn't want their friends to know what the Theme was before they received their Invitations! Everything about the Party turned out so Beautifully & Fun! Photos of the event itself will follow shortly! Still can't believe my Baby Girls are now Sweet 16!

Happy Birthday To My Man!

We met in our 20's!

(just a couple of years ago!) ;)

We navigated our 30's together!

Building our life & our Family!

And now, in our 40's

Life's still an Adventure we face together!

Yes, even after all these years, 

You're still the Man of My Dreams! 

I Love You! 

Happy Birthday!

Our Breakfast At Tiffany's Photo Shoot!!

As you can see from my last post our Theme for my Daughters' Sweet 16 Party is Breakfast At Tiffany's! So when I started planning it, I wanted to make our own Invitations & I had the idea of them dressing up as Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's  & taking pictures to use as the Invites. So, this is the results of that Photo shoot . . .

I had seen this wall Painted in Black & White in down town Phoenix & a friend had had some of her Senior Photos taken there & I really liked them. So we went down town & I love how they turned out! 

 

We found black dresses at Good Will on the extra 50% off days for like $5.00! Score! They had Tiaras from when they were flower girls when they were little! And we got long black gloves at Party City, added Pearls & Sunglasses & just like that, we had our Audrey Hepburn's!

I like taking pictures & since they were little, they've been used to being my subjects! :)

I wrapped some little boxes in Tiffany Blue colored wrapping paper I picked up from the Dollar Store for the party to use as props!

Two Cute &/or Too Cute!! :)

We also took old wooden Picture Frames & Painted them our color to put Quotes from the Movie in at the Party & decided to bring them on our Photo Shoot as well!

 

This was the shot we used for our Invitation! (See Below)

Here's Looking At You Kid! ;)

Then we decided to go to Scottsdale Fashion Square where there is a Tiffany store. They were walking through the Mall repeating "This is so embarrassing!"

But after a few people made comments like "Oh, Breakfast At Tiffany's, I Love that Movie!" and "You Girls Look Beautiful!" They relaxed a little. But still wouldn't stay there long enough to get all the pictures I wanted, they are after all Teenagers! ;)

We did have to get the classic, looking in the Tiffany's Window shot, like Audrey Hepburn did in the Movie!

 

It was a fun day! And we were all really happy with how the Pictures & the Invitations turned out! I took the pictures & wrote out what I wanted them to say, then my gifted Hubby took my concept & created the Invites.  Just one of the MANY perks of being married to a Computer Geek! :) I can not wait for this Party & yes, I will be posting many pictures of the actual event, so stay tuned! :)

Sweet 16 X 2!!

Once upon a time . . 

There were Twin little Princesses

Who grew into Beautiful young Ladies

The Queen Mom couldn't be prouder of her girls

Who are now 16 & are very Sweet (Most of the time!) ;)

 So, in their honor, she threw them a Ball!!

Give Me Five: Movies That Are Better Than Their Books!

Yes, you heard me right! Now I know I always say "Don't Judge A Book By It's Movie!" and that "The Book Is Always Better Than The Movie!" and usually that is the case. But once in awhile you come across the exception to the rule!

That's right, I have found 5 Movies that I actually liked better than the Book! Now it took me awhile to come up with some of these, but some I knew right away! So here's my SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen the Movie or read the Book & intend to, I need to warn you that I may have to tell what happens in explaining why the Movie was better than the Book. So here they are . . . 

1. The Time Traveler's Wife

I saw the Movie first & walked out of the theater saying, "That was so Imaginative!" I wondered how someone came up with such a concept, it was so good & so different. So I had my Book Club (of Church women) read the Book & it was so overtly sexual that it took away from the story & the concept itself. Definitely stick to the Movie for this one!

2. The Notebook

Now these are both really good, let me just get that straight. It's just that the Movie is so Visually Stunning. It is Beautiful. And one of the best parts is the Shoes that Rachel McAdams wears in the film. If you've never noticed them before, watch it again just to see her shoes. You won't be disappointed! :) 

3. Breakfast At Tiffany's

Again, not a bad Book by Truman Capote, but I've got Two Words for you: Audrey Hepburn! Just like she Adores Tiffany's, I adore her! :) And the Book doesn't have so much of a Happy Ending as the Movie does, Cat finds a home with a new family & Holly gets on that plane & the writer never sees her again. There's no kissing in the rain to "Moon River" playing in the background, that makes the Movie, don't you think? 

4. Soul Surfer

Love this Movie! Love Bethany Hamilton! I took my Girls to hear her speak at a Church before, she is so Inspirational. And It's not that I don't love the Book, but please keep in mind this was written as a childrens/preteens Book by a 13ish year old girl. My Daughters have done a Book Report on her before. Great story.

And the Worst Offender: 

5. My Sisters Keeper

As you know I lost my only sister to cancer. So this movie really tugs at my heart. After seeing it for the first time, I decided to read the Book. The Movie is sad enough, but it ends how you think it will & should. The Books ending is Totally Different! As I was reading it, I literally said "What?!" out loud! I couldn't believe the twist Jodi Picoult threw in there. You'd think after reading her books before, I'd come to expect it! I just can't bring myself to tell you how the Book ends! Read it if you dare.

So there you have it, my picks of 5 Movies that I actually liked better then their Books! Though generally speaking, the Books are usually much better. So Keep reading! :) What are some of your good/bad comparisons of Movies & Books? I'd love to hear them!