Little Monster's First Birthday

My little monster is turning one and I decided to throw a Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum party. Disney Tsum Tsum are my latest obsession, they are these little plush dolls that you can stack. Let's get stacking!

I've been planning this birthday since the day she was born. A few weeks prior to the party, I started making all the party decorations. As for the cake, we had a friend make a Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum cake with a semi-smaller smash tsum tsum cake for the little monster.

Here's how the party came out:

 

My niece helped me make a welcome sign. Since it was raining all day we put the sign by the front door.

First DIY Project: Crayola Melting Art

So these Crayola melting art can be found all over Pinterest and my niece has been dying to do one of these projects. Since she will be staying with me for about a week over the summer, I decided to do this with her. I haven't done an arts and craft project in years, so I didn't have any material to even began. Our first step was to make a trip to Hobby Lobby and ended up spending hours there going through each aisle (especially the 80-90% section - more on that later). Below is a list of what we ultimately got for this project:

Material List (from Hobby Lobby)
- High Temp Hot Glue Gun (I didn't own one) $2.99
- 50-pack of Glue Sticks $4.99
- 2-pack of Canvas $7.99
- A Box of 94 Crayola Crayons $8.99

When we got home, I immediately made my niece sort out all the crayons and had her begin by picking out all the colors she liked. Meanwhile, I looked for tutorials online and decided to use this blog's tutorial for this project - 52 Kitchen Adventures.