Thursday, February 21, 2013

happy birthday dad!!

Oh we had a good weekend for my dad's birthday. :)

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Two days before we left for Ohio I found a pin on Pinterest that lead me to this adorable website. And honestly what better way to celebrate a milestone birthday with not one, but TWO pinatas!

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I'm actually so surprised at how simple and rewarding the craft project was, time consuming, but what was I to expect with only two days before we left? I wish I had a few more days to make the decorations a bit better, but the end of it I felt like I was just slapping gluing tissue paper on.

I think the hardest part was actually just cutting out the cardboard..

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Lucky for my that boy of mine was just as excited as I was and he cut out all the cardboard for me. Crippling his hand in the process, of course.

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The concept was so simple and I was afraid that they weren't going to be very sturdy pinatas-- but they turned out to be almost too sturdy!

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I'm not going to lie-- it was so much fun!!

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and I know that he loved them because it took some convincing for him to tear them to pieces! And I'm happy to say that I wasn't heart broken at all seeing them in shreds. :)

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Happy 50th Birthday Dad!

2 comments:

  1. Awesome! I'm definitely going to try to make one for my son's 7th birthday now. Good job, and way to be dedicated and persistent with the gluing on of the tissue paper ;O) I imagine that took a lot of patience.

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    1. thank you!! I followed her lead from Oh Happy Day in cutting up tissue paper (http://ohhappyday.com/2011/02/fringey-streamers-diy/) and I was so surprised that I only went through two packages of tissue paper for both! you can do it! it was a fun project :)

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