A Visit to the Bow-tique

It's amazing how some themes just live on, I remember having a Minnie Mouse party for my second birthday. Well I guess I don't really remember the party as much as I remember the photos of the party from the album. Of course back then Minnie was red and white and not the cerise she is today. She also wasn't a career woman with her own bow-tique so I guess some things have changed.

I love working with silhouette version on Minnie and Mickey. I don't think they looked like this back when I was a kid either. But the round head with ears and a bow for Minnie works so much easier than trying to replicate the detail of the characters. And I think the simple image is far more aesthetically pleasing anyway.

This birthday banner turned out great using this concept. I made a stencil of Minnie's head and her bow and cut them out of cardboard. I couldn't find pink paper with white dots so I made my own dots by sticking round white stickers on the bows. I stuck with the traditional Disney font for this banner which I also cut out by hand. I then tied the Minnie heads together using pink ribbon with white dots.

The colors for the party were of course pink, black and white and we carried this into the table setup. We used tissue paper pom poms on the table as well as hanging to fill the empty space.

Other decor included a Minnie Mouse photo board.

The mousy food consisted of lollipops, mice crispie treats, cake pops and cookies.

A little added extra, which I don't often get to do for kid's parties, were these cute serviette rings that once again used the simple silhouette image of Minnie. This time I went with black ribbon with white dots as I knew the serviettes were going to be cerise and there needed to be a contrast.

For the party packs I used pink buckets and again used white stickers to add the Minnie dots. I also cut out some ears and made a bow with the same pink ribbon I used for the banner.

I also added a tag for each 

Apart from the party buckets the kids also all got to take home a pair of Minnie ears. Apparently the manufacturers of these didn't get the memo that Minnie is no longer rocking red.

Although not for this party, I made these Minnie Mouse cupcakes recently for a client and she clearly also still prefers the old school Minnie as she wanted them to be red and white.

And finally a Minnie Mouse cake

I must say I'm not the biggest fan of red and although it did make Minnie stand out from her other girly competitors I think re-designing her in pink was a very clever marketing ploy on Disney's behalf. Everything seems cuter and more girly in pink and this is what most little girls want. So well done Minnie on your re-inventing yourself, we'll be seeing you around a lot I believe.