Make a Splash Mermaid Party

Summer brings out the mermaids in

all of us at Purple Chocolat Home,

so we decided to have a Mermaid Birthday

Party for all of the little granddaughters this

summer.

Three of them have birthdays within a week of

each other, and we have celebrated big in the

past with combined birthday parties - 

Frozen, Cinderella, and Unicorn parties.

We had it at our pool at Tuscan Villas

so all of the kids and families who were

invited could swim.

I wanted to create a balloon arch,

so I made it the night before and tested

it at home.  I purchased the arch kit on

Amazon, and an electric balloon pump. 

Both were around $20 each and were great

investments.  I also found a green sequined

tablecloth and a mermaid table runner- green and purple.

The arch took me about an hour to blow up

the balloons and assemble.  I had purchased 20 - 12

inch balloons online for under $20.

  The balloon arch was carried

over to the party in the back of my Denali

in two pieces and then reassembled.

The arch clipped to the ends of a 6 foot folding table.

I had painted the mermaid sign last

year at a craft night with my SIL.  It was to

go down to the houseboat, but I brought it back

for the party.

I made cookie pops with Oreo Cinnamon Bun 

cookies - yummmmmy!  They were dipped in

white chocolate and covered in disco dust.

My glass shell bowl had a piece of foam placed

in it and it was covered in brown sugar for sand.

My DIL made signs for the treats.

My daughter made the sea water.

I created eight mermaid crowns for the party goers

to choose from, and purchased mermaid hair and

a mermaid necklace for them to wear.

The blow up clam shell was the setting for their

pictures.

The cake was purchased from Sam's Club.

They make a 3 tier cake for $65!

I then embellished it with chocolate and

fondant shells, fondant mermaid tails,

gumballs, sugar crystal suckers

for seaweed, cotton candy for seafoam 

and chocolate spheres.

Fondant clam shells,

The biggest white balls are chocolate spheres,

the medium ones are gumballs, and the small ones

are candy.

The mermaid tails and small starfish are

fondant and the large starfish and shells

are chocolate.

Fondant sea horses painted with gold.

Their cakes make an impressive yet easy

cake for a party, and it tastes really

good too.

It was topped with a cute mermaid birthday

cake topper.

I only included the birthday girls and their

sister's pictures, but all the little girls got their

photos taken.  We had over 40 people attend.  It

was a huge hit for all of the family members.

Of course the kids had to put the clam

shell floatie in the pool!

Thanks for swimming by to visit

our mermaids!

I will be sharing this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Share Your Cup Thursday

Dishing It and Digging It

Secretly a Mermaid - Mermaid Tail Cupcakes

As September wanes we try and stretch

out summer as long as possible.

I just had to share our Mermaid cupcake fun

with your before the leaves all fall and the

cold begins and we all start dreaming of

sitting by beaches! (Actually, I do that year round!)

I made these for a pool party.  The little

mermaid are diving into the sugar crystal

foamed waters.  

They were super easy with this 

wonderful silicone mold

purchased here .  You receive two sizes

for under $10 and they are on Amazon Prime

so they come really quickly.  

I mixed a little aqua blue gel food coloring

into my white fondant, and didn't knead it 

in completely, so I had a marbled effect.

Just press it into the mold and use a knife

to cut off any excess off the back of the

mold.  Turn out to dry.  if you want your

tail to have a little bit of a flip, let it dry over

a rolling pin.  

After they dried I painted a little purple lustre dust on

and added a few sparkly sprinkles to give them

more interest.  

My mermaid tails were made and used the same day.

I recommend letting them dry overnight.  Some

weren't hard enough and broke off.  As you can

see, I used those too.  It actually made them a little

more fun and unique.

I added a little rock sugar crystals

to imitate foam on the waves.

These were super easy and fun to make,

and they make your beach cupcakes spectacular.

Here are my little mermaids and sharks.

I made their tails for them.

Always be yourself,

Unless you can be a mermaid,

Then always be a mermaid!

Mermaids in my Garden

Mermaids are popping up everywhere this week!

Today they are in my garden -

my FAIRY GARDEN, 

and they love getting to be a part of the

action.

My friend Brianne told me that one of our

local nurseries, Cascade Nursery,

 had Mermaid Fairy Garden supplies,

so I headed on over and got the last three

mermaids.  They said they were getting more,

but I haven't been back.

Of course, when I saw the pirate ship with

the shark swimming out of it, I had to

get that for the boys.  I try to include

them in all of the Fairy Garden fun too!

I love this little leave sail boat.

and the Mermaid Wishes and Starfish Kisses

stand.  

We had to have this treasure!

This garden was made in one of my cement

flower pots.  It is so easy to make a fairy garden.

Pick any container or spot and use small rocks,

shells, glass bits and moss to create the areas.

Pop in the darling little fairies and accessories.

You can just picture the grandkids eyes when

they saw this!  I am always trying to make magic

for them, and they thought this was pure magic!

This is definitely my new favorite addition to the

fairy garden.

I will be posting this on

Mosaic Monday