Again I have been useless with the blog - change over to a new laptop so no photos and slow internet - it is soooo difficult to
pin with a slow computer!!
I have been really busy though - painting, up-cycling, rearranging my new birthday things and bargain finds and two significant birthdays!
The first was Finlay's 10th Birthday Nerf party. I told him he could invite 5 boys which he quickly convinced me had to be 6 then we decided his neighbours and cousins would need to come so it turned into two parties so the older ones could shoot themselves senseless at party one and then keep it tame with the younger ones in the afternoon. There was a lot of chat at the school about who was coming to the party and who wasn't. Finlay plays with everyone so it was a difficult decision for him but apparently there were fake invites going about - I had two parents messaging they had a handwritten invite on the morning of the party would it be ok for their child to come?! Haha. I would have gladly let them if I had extra party props but I was already flat out sewing sticking and cutting the night before trying to get organised for the 16 I already had coming so I had to let them down. Felt so bad - whole class parties are so much fairer!
Here are the official invites - no idea what the hand-written invites looked like! (also no idea why this photo is upside down and I can't seem to fix it...) These were made from toilet rolls wrapped in orange tissue paper and black tape.
A target I made out of an old box and ping pong balls.
Me and Finlay are addicted to making
rainbow loom bracelets so I made one for everyone coming to the party
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| I made little ammo bags for each of them |
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| Webbing and D rings |
Bullets inside
Party bags - Nerf badge, Nerf jolt gun, orange sweets, rainbow loom, cupcake all in a Nerf orange party box
And a homemade dog tag - Finlay's dad made these at his work they are fab! I found the bead necklace sold by the metre in Nickel and Dime and bought the little connectors off ebay. So there was no way I could add extra people onto the guest list! They wouldn't have personalised dog tags :(
Nerf bullet gingerbread biscuits,..yes ok they look disgusting!
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| Gingerbread targets to be... |
The Nerf cake
Finlay banner made out of foam
All the party boxes ready for the guests to arrive with their gun, dog tags, ammo belts and bracelet ready to use when they arrived.
The garden all set up for the assault course
Shoot the cans off the deck
Shoot the target
More cans to shoot
Crawl under the net
Jump the hurdles
Camo den
Shoot the ping pong balls off the golf tees - someone must have got to this before my photo!
Under the string
Shoot the cans
Getting camouflaged
Locked and loaded ... I didn't think this through they all shot me straight after the photo!
The desserts table
Orange and black
Gingerbread target biscuit
The gingerbread biscuits looking even worse with icing!
Cake
Perfect colour for a Nerf party - orange aero balls
Target biscuits - saw these easels years ago and knew they would come in handy one day!
Sweets
Fruit salads
Orange skittles - you don't get many orange in a bag of skittles! I now have a million other colours to get through!
Irn bru - a very Scottish Nerf party!
Orange jellies
My nephew ready to party
Even the footwear was Nerf! Uncle Grant's Nerfs
And Jacob's
My Grant has his on too but no close up
Hands up!
Eliza not very well but a wee bit of camouflage and finally getting to eat the orange skittles and she was happy
The kids got fed up but not the adults!
Looking good Aunty Gillian!
Hahahahahaha
Finlay the sniper
More jockey than soldier :)
Nerf station
We had a great time the weather wasn't the best but it added to the muddy army feel of the party. The food was not as much effort as I usually go to - pizzas, hot dogs, sausages and sausage rolls - it was much better not to have so much stress. Still too much hand sewing for my liking - but I got a new sewing machine for my birthday the week after this so next year's parties will be a blast!!! Haha I swore Finlay was not getting another party after last year's
superhero monstrosity party but 10!!! That's a big birthday! But that's it this time. No more parties....until his 18th of course! Might repeat the Nerf one actually after seeing the adults at this one! ;)
