Pinkalicious!

My middle child turned 6 last month, and I got sick the day we were supposed to have her party.  So, we had a rescheduled Pinkalicious party this weekend.  If you don't know, Pinkalicious is a book character who LOVES pink.  She eats too many pink cupcakes and gets "pinkititis" so she has to eat green foods to cure it.    Since this was a rescheduled one, I went the extra mile and made her a Pinkalicious dress.

I modeled it after her Pinkalicious doll (I didn't get around to making a crown or wings or a wand, though).

The top is some cheap costume satin (hate that stuff) made like a peasant top (tutorial HERE) with shirring added.

For the skirt I used the sheer overlay that I salvaged from an old dress that had fallen apart and ziz-zag stitched some ribbon on top (my choices are straight or zig-zag with my machine, so I went fancy with zig-zag). The underskirt is some nightgown satin from my stash that someone had given me a few years ago.

I used knit from an old Tshirt underneath to attach the two layers while keeping them stretchy (to be able to get the dress on and off) and covering the ever-fraying seams. (I also hate knit, so this was a labor of love for sure!)

We don't throw huge, all-out birthday parties- inviting just our close family for some cake and ice cream still makes them huge in attendance, though.  I made cupcakes modeled after the ones in the book (those are Valentine peanut m&m's on top... of most of them.  I took this pic of the leftovers the next morning so some are missing)

 Besides cupcakes, and ice cream (we had homemade vanilla dyed pink and some other pink store-bought varieties) I try to put up a few balloons and some crepe paper (pink for this one, of course!)  It makes the kids happy for about $3, so why not?  I even did the tree!

 I also made a doily banner that said "Happy Birthday" and matches the book illustrations.

Whew!  That was enough pink for me for awhile....