The Amy Doodle Of It All . . .

BollyWood Party

Recently I had the opportunity to put together a sweet sixteen party for a sweet girl in my church. I only had 5 days to do it though! I think it turned out great, and the girls had a blast! we put a small canopy that was borrowed inside the living room and decorated it like a tent. The girls did Henna, and Bollywood make up by me. Then Affordable Excellence Photography came over and did professional pictures for the girls. Everything we used came from the dollar store, or donations from friends. The cost of the whole party was $70.00!

I bought the charger plate for .99 at walmart, and the plastic elephant at the dollar store. Then I spray painted the elephant gold. We made the small candle holders out of mason jars, glass paint, and gold puffy paint.

We scattered rose petals all over the floor, pillows, tables, buffet and a pathway to enter the party.

BollyWood make up on the birthday girl.

Photo by Affordable excellence Photography

Party Pictures of my Dollar Store Party!

So finally here are some pics from party that my good friend Carol took. Thanks Carol!

As you enter . . .

Entry way, spider protecting her egg sack and bats flying

Decor inside . . .

Heres what played on the TV all night...a flaming skull my husband made

Here's a shot with a flash so you can see some of the decor better

Here's two shots of my spooky family portrait wall one flash, one not

Doc Titus dancing it up

The Speciman Bar (AKA candy bar)

The food table

 

The food table was based on phobias...

fear of vegetables, birds, hands, cockroaches, etc

 

 

Still getting ready for my Halloween party

Still going strong and starting to layout everything so I can see what I have to work with...

These are the Apothecary Jars I made from Dollar Tree items for the Candy (I mean Specimen) Bar. Found great labels here. They are provided from Supermommoments.com.

The Rats from the Dollar Tree after I gave them a little extra creepiness...

love how their eyes look reflective

 I was able to get all my Dollar Tree Flowers and Skulls done...

And it's time for me to start doing test runs for Halloween Make-up...

Worked on my husband Zach. Turned out good, but needs a little more definition.

(that's why I have test runs for all my Halloween makeup clients)

I'll keep posting as I create!

 

 

Dollar store Halloween Goodness!

Still working towards my party ,

and having a blast dolling up my dollar store finds!

Next are these wonderful rats, and styrofoam pumpkins from the

Dollar Tree that need a little something!

 
 
I sprayed the rat with a little grey to make his fur stand out, used a hit of black gloss for the nose and feet. Painted his eyes red with a white highlight. It took about 5 min for each one. He looks a little more scary now!

I sprayed the pumpkin with black satin and painted the stem grey, and while the paint was still wet I sprinkled on some black glitter.

 

Next I took these skulls from the dollar store, spray painted them pink, let that dry and then took a heavy duty spray adhesive and sprinkled the whole think with purple glitter! Very messy, but fun!!!

 
 

 

Halloween Invitation

Here's my Invite! The Skeleton finger is made of plaster paris, and the coffin is made with paper using the Cricut cartridge

Happy Hauntings. 

The invitation is a coffin that when opened . . .

 
reveals a Skeleton finger resting on moss tied with a bow!

 

In the lid you'll find a scroll . . .

 

 
Open it and you'll see the invite!

 
Here's how the invite reads: