Three Magee: Snow White Birthday Party, Regan turns 3!

I love this little girl. When asked how old she is her reply is "28." Which fits her personality. She had flip flopped on what party theme she wanted but this was the main request so that's what we did. I love celebrating with my family and friends. Regan gave quite a birthday girl performance smiling and posing for the camera, what can I say she takes after her mother.

I made the cutest little apple cupcakes. While they were a bit more time consuming than say frosting a cake, they were totally worth it and easy too. I found the idea on Pinterest and a cute little blog Design Dazzle. Seriously the best ideas. The day before her party was Dr. Seuss's Birthday and a local bakery happened to be giving away free cupcakes to kids that told them what their favorite Seuss book was. So I picked up some cake doughnuts to make the apple cupcakes with and birthday breakfast, making it easier on myself for the next day.

Apple Cupcake How To:

You will need: Red cupcake liners, cake mix, red frosting, red sugar, regular tootsie rolls, green fruit tootsie rolls and doughnuts (you need 1/2 doughnut per cupcake). You will also need a cutting board, scissors and a toothpick.

Bake your cupcakes and once cool slice the top off. Attempt to not eat all of the cupcake tops. While they are baking you can cut your doughnuts in half, like how you would cut a bagel, mix your red frosting. When cooled and cut dab a bit of frosting on the cupcake to hold the doughnut half. Frost the doughnut and then cover with red sugar. Once they are all frosted and sugared its time to make your stems and leaves. For the stems take a pair of scissors and cut a piece of the tootsie roll off, lengthwise. You can bend it, twist it, roll it to get a stem look. For the leaves you will want to roll out the tootsie roll and then cut out a leaf shape. Use a toothpick to make patterns on the leaf.

The Decor:

I decorated our wreath with tulle and a spray painted "R" tied on with red satin ribbon. I made a bunting from scrap vintage red and blue fabric and vintage yellow bias tape, I love being able to use up fabric scraps and upcycle something. I hung red, blue and yellow balloons from the ceiling using push pins and clear string. We decorated the table with a plastic blue tablecloth and red ribbon. I also did the birthday chair with the excess tablecloth and larger ribbon (I just hot glued that ribbon on to make it stay up!) I got some dirt and sticks from outside and hot glued some little birds on the "branches." That along with her Snow White doll and a stuffed deer we already had were the table decoration.

Snow White couldn't walk around in just anything so I made her a yellow tutu and embellished it with a red satin bow. I dyed one of her shirts blue and sewed some tulle onto the arms, another way to upcycle and use something we already had. I also make her a red head band to complete the look. I used the same ribbon for her tutu and head band on the table, chair and wreath. The tutu was so easy to make, it was my second one ever! I'll be giving a tutorial later this week!

It wasn't the fanciest or poshest party but it was perfect for our family and for my sweet and feisty Regan.