The party was organized chaos. I didn't take very many photos of the festivities, but I did manage to document the food table. We had Bee's lemon water (a delicious homemade beverage that's clear - perfect for living room dining), pulled pork sandwiches, clementines, bananas, cut veggies, chips and cake. The food was all pretty low-key except for the cake, which took a few hours to make entirely from scratch. I made a white cake with lemon curd and lemon frosting. It was deliciously moist and dense. MMM! I'll make it again and share the recipe with you, if you'd like. I used the Silhouette to cut a P out of paper to use as a stencil for the decorative sugar. It kind of looks gritty as if I spray painted the P on there. I like that. I kept the decorations simple by using balloons and a handmade garland using the same paper I used for the envelopes. It was really easy to make. If you'd like a tutorial for the garland, comment! I was going to make the vellum mobiles as seen on Oh Happy Day, but I didn't have enough time to run to the store for more paper, so I opted to make the strips into a garland instead. The vellum mobiles would've looked really rad, had time been on my side. I also made Penelope's party favors using the envelope paper and a variation on the petal box template (cut with the Silhouette). I filled the boxes with hard lemon candies and candy orange slices. The festivities were really simple: eating and dancing. It was great to keep things simple, otherwise it would've been like hearding cats. Plus, after spending so much time on the invitations, I wasn't about to plan a creative party curriculum. I'm much too lazy for that. The kidlets enjoyed dancing, screaming, fighting over balloons and playing hide and seek in the ikea garbage cans that we use for storing Penelope's toys. I say it was a great success! Also, the kids were so entertained, us parents had a great time catching up.

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Click here to read part III: The Thank Yous