Pancakes Make People Happy

That's why we chose a Pancakes and Pajamas theme for Frances' 2nd birthday!

 

Here are the invitations...

 

I searched the internet over and never found any "pancake" invites that I just loved, so I decided to craft some myself!  The card stock and envelopes came from Paper Source and the fun wooden forks and Divine Twine came from Fancy Flours. 

The pink and yellow color combo came about from my initial idea to have a lemonade stand party.  When plans changed to accommodate breakfast, I decided the same colors would work--pink for the birthday princess along with some sunny yellow for a morning fete!

The plates, napkins and clear envelopes (filled with crayons for some coloring) were purchased at Shop Sweet Lulu. The fruit loops were on hand to make necklaces as a pre-breakfast activity.

I also threw in a little "piggy" theme too a la If You Give A Pig A Pancake!

I went a bit Fruit Loop crazy, filling the vases with them too!

 

Menu items included fruit salad, breakfast casserole, grits casserole, pineapple cheese casserole and, of course, pancakes complete with homemade whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries and pecans! There was also pink party punch (sprite, frozen pink lemonade and raspberry sorbet) along with orange juice and coffee. Yum!

 

 

 (My fried egg "fascinator" came from Bug Bites Play Food via Etsy.  The birthday girl would not wear the pancake one I made her (by simply hot gluing a hairclip to the felt food), but her cousins and sister all joined in!)

For the cake, a simple caramel cake from the local bakery got fancied up with some melted chocolate (aka syrup) and some banana laffy taffy (aka butter)!  I had them make a six layer cake, so that when we cut into it, it sort of resembled....you guessed it--PANCAKES!

And some fun pink and yellow cupcakes for the birthday girl!

A few party pics....

 

For the goody bags, we filled white gift bags with muffins, coffee, and a mug for the adults and breakfast snacks for the kiddos! Perhaps my favorite find during all of my party planning was the ADORABLE stationery shop, Gaddie and Tood.  If I had found the site sooner, I would have had matching invitations, but our homemade ones had already gone out, so we got these cute bag tags instead!

 

Happy Birthday, sweet Frances!