One of my daughter's favorite shows is Dance Moms (now you just hush your judgey thoughts. I'm sure your kid watches a shitty show too). She was really excited for the season premier (seriously… she looked forward to it all summer) and asked if she could have a couple of her "Dance Mom fan" friends over to watch it and sleep over. I thought it sounded like fun and said ok. Tallulah was just having 3 friends over but wanted to make some fun homemade invites because I recently got out my old rubber stamps and inks and we have been making some cool cards for the last couple of weeks. So invites were made and handed out. I told Tanner to have a friend come over too so he could do some dude stuff and wouldn't have to put up with a room full of crazy Dance girls. On the day of the season premier, I made some dance-themed cupcakes and we ordered a couple of pizzas for the kids.
The invites cracked me up. We had fun looking for funny pictures to use and this is what she came up with. So we stamped, cut, glued and completed the invites.
That tv stamp and the crazy spiral/target design were my favorite stamps back in the day when everyone was stamping (mid 90s?). Anyway, it was fun to get these back out again. Now Tallulah is really into stamping and making cards too!
The only other thing I did was make the cupcakes. Tallulah wanted them to be dance-themed. The closest thing I could find in my baking supplies were these ballerinas. I liked them but the pink and blue just didn't seem right for a girls Dance Moms tv party.
Soooo, I got out these Sharpie paint pens. I bought them awhile ago and never had a chance to use them. Glad I remembered I had them, otherwise they would have sat in the bottom of the kitchen junk drawer until they were all dried up! The colors were fun and festive- just what i wanted. Tallulah and I sat at the kitchen table together and jazzed up the blue and pink ballerinas.
We slopped a bit on the base of the ballerinas but I didn't care. I knew it would be covered in icing.
I made some strawberry and blueberry cupcakes to put them on. I had made these exact cupcakes the other day for a friend and i wanted to make another small batch for Tallulah's tv party because they just came out so darn cute. This is blueberry season out here and i just got 15 pounds of blueberries so I had plenty to use in the blue cake. I got a bunch of local Plymouth strawberries back in June and what we didn't eat, I cooked into a strawberry puree/reduction and froze it specifically for my strawberry cakes!
I loooooove these neon sprinkles! They're my favorites and looked really fun on these.
I used the neon sprinkles on half and on the other half and I used this awesome silver and gold star glitter!
Everyone had a good time! Last time I peeked upstairs was around 1am and the lights were finally turned off and the girls had gone to sleep. Tanner had fallen asleep in my bed watching tv with my husband long ago. I enjoyed the precious silence by staying up and watching an awesome 80's movie then went to bed around 2:30am. Needless to say I have been tired all day.
Where to buy:
The silver and gold star glitter, the ballerina toppers and jumbo baking cups:
http://www.layercakeshop.com
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