'Real'ly cute Lanterns

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Real Easy Rapunzel Banners/Pendants

Real Rapunzel Birthday

Another decoration we used for Pumpkin's Rapunzel themed birthday party were these lanterns. As you may remember, in the movie Tangled the lanterns play a big role. I thought it would be appropriate to have some up for decorations. I found a pattern for making them on the Disney Family site. Sparkly Paper Lanterns

Real Easy Rapunzel Banners/Pendants

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Really Cute Lanterns

Real Rapunzel Birthday

Today I wanted to show you how I made those cute banners you may have noticed in the background of the pictures of Pumpkin's 5th birthday. Real Rapunzel Birthday. You really could use this pattern to make pendants for any party or occasion. I know to some people this won't be considered real easy as my title suggests, but I thought they weren't hard, just some time and figuring out how to put them together.
I liked using these rather than the other versions I found. The other versions were print your own (which I didn't want to use all that ink to print enough) or making them entirely from fabric. For me, this seemed like a nice in between version that I could handle making relatively easily.

The banners

(and the bagel bird feeder outside...made by pumpkin. It
has nothing to do with the party, but since you can see it I thought
an explanation would be nice.)

'Real-'ly Handy Birthday Party Organization Tip

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This was the first time I had tried this and I thought it worked really well, so I will share it with you. I don't personally like long birthday parties...you know the kind. You think the party will be 1.5 - 2 hours and 3 or 4 hours later the party is over and you wonder where your day went and think of all the things you needed to get done during that extra hour or 2. I don't want to sound all complain-y, but I am going to guess there are some of you who will agree with me. So, I always try to keep the party fun and on the shorter side (1.5 to 2 hours at the most). This party I had put 1.5 hours on the invitation, so I really needed to be organized and keep things moving. (I really should have said it would be 2 hours.)

I made a 'staging' area, that makes me sound so official so we will call it my 'staging' area. My oh so fancy official staging area was my laundry room...now it doesn't sound nearly as neat does it? But it is easily accessible from my kitchen which, since ours is an eat in kitchen, is where most of the action was going to take place.