The Princess Bride Backyard Movie Night

Another end-of-summer backyard movie night?!?! Inconceivable!

 

There's a shortage of perfect parties in this world.  It would be a shame to miss this one.

 

 Fun, food, friends...fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles... all wrapped up with an outdoor screening of the fantastic, Princess Bride.

 

Guests were greeted with Inigo inspired "Hello" tags to fill out and mustaches to wear.

 

I used Avery 5141 tags and printed the template right on them in Microsoft Word.

Feel free to use the Word Document for yourself.

 

Guests had a blast filling out their tags.  Take a look at some below.

 

 

Rodent's of unusual size?  I don't think they exists.

 

My ROUSs were made from large black trash bags stuffed with blankets and decorated with grey construction paper.  Easy-peasy.

 

 

There's nothing, for miles.

 

I was inspired to paint these wood signs after seeing these on Etsy.com.

 

 

The girls at the party got to make Princess Buttercup crowns (above).

 

The boys got Dread Pirate Roberts masks and swords (below).



 

You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.

 

I found the image on my sign on Pinterest.  The link leads to myteespot.com.

 

To make the masks I used a 36"x36" piece of black felt, mask template, yard stick, white colored pencil and scissors.

 

 

I traced the mask template (printed to 8" wide and cut out) in the center of the felt and drew long "ties" using the yard stick.  I got 12 masks from the 36"x36" piece of felt.

 

 

 

 

 

Have fun stormin' da castle!

 

 

I love this print on Etsy, so when I wrote on my chalkboard sign, I used it as inspiration.

 

CAUTION: EEL INFESTED WATERS

 

I'd hoped to get some of these fantastic pool toys, but since they're discontinued, I ended up with these teeny-tiny toys.  The kids had fun with them anyway.

 

The signs were spray painted wood with a stencil I'd cut from my Cricut.

 

 

 

 

Can't have a Princess Bride party without serving up some MLTs!  Mutton (in this case, ham), lettuce and (perky!) tomatoes.  Mayo and mustard, on the side.  And don't you just love my fire place bellows? 

 

I was inspired by this sign to make my own.  My sign.

 

Hot R.O.U.S. dip (buffalo chicken), straight from the Fire Swamp, served with the Chips of Insanity (tortilla chips)

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MLT 2.0 (mozzarella, "lettuce" & tomato), caprese boats.  Mozzarella balls, grape tomatoes wrapped in a basil leaf, skewered with a sword (of course!) and drizzled with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

 

 

 

6 (chicken) fingered snack made with Tyson Anytizers Chicken Fries.

 

 

Peanut (Princess) Buttercup Cookies.  Yum!  I used this recipe from Real Simple.

 

Iocane.  I'd bet my life on it. 

 

I used these great bottles of candy powder then created labels from this great image by Purple Cactus Designs and taped them over the fronts of each bottle.

 

The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!

 

Dont'cha just LOVE my Fezzik doll?!  I won him when I entered a Princess Bride t-shirt contest, years ago.

 

Candy Rocks         Signage

 

 

No more rhymes now, I mean it!

 

Peanut M&Ms, salted shell peanuts and circus peanuts.

 

 

Pudding cups with "Lightening Sand" on top.  I used this wonderfully yummy recipe from Ma Nouvelle Mode.

 

 

Miracle Max's Miracle Pills.  I used this recipe for Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treat Balls, then put them on sticks.  I found the sign image on Pinterest.  The link led to the image only, no one to credit.  :(

 

 

True Love's Kiss(es) Brownies.  I used a box brownie mix, mini muffin tins and added a milk chocolate Hershey's Kiss 2 minutes after removing them from the oven.

 

 

Feel free to use my food tags.

 

 

And they lived happily ever after.  Well, except for Vincini. 

 

 

Movie screen.

 

Movie snacks.

 

 

 

 

Frog Party

My bestie's birthday was coming and I was thrilled when her hubby asked me to help plan a froggy birthday party for her.  Have a look.

 

 

To make these lily pad cookies, I cut a wedge out of round, green sugar cookies before baking them.  They were inspired by these.

 

Oh, yum.  Just thinking about this delicious Strawberry Puppy Chow makes my mouth water.  As a matter of fact, I think I'll go make some right now....

 

Ok... I'm back.  The jars are filled with green malted milk balls and Canada Mints.  The small plates have Peppermint Patties, drizzled with green and pink chocolate, to match the theme.  The pink cookies are chocolate chip cookies, tinted with pink food coloring.

Our Frogs on Logs are Little Debbie Swiss Rolls, drizzled with melted chocolate and topped with Gummy Frogs.  They were inspired by Gourmet Mom on the Go.

To drink, we enjoyed pink lemonade and green Hawaiian Punch.  The frogs on the front of the dispensers were cut on my Cricut.  Feel free to use them for yourself.  Frog.svg

 

 

These adorable pudding cups were inspired by Bird's Party.  I cut the lily pad on my Cricut.  The cups are 5oz tumblers.  The frog stickers came from Michaels.

 

  

 I found this adorable frog planter at Michaels, in their summer clearance.  His bucket is filled with pink and green rock candy.

 

  

 Mmm, cake!  The cake was frosted with an ombre style and topped with fondant lily pads and cattails.  It was inspired by Building Butter Cream.  The cake pops were topped with Wilton candy eyes and 1/2 a Wilton candy heart used at the tongue.  They were inspired by pops I saw on Cakepops.org.

 

 

just for fun

 

We had a blast playing with the party blowouts made to look like frog tongues.  Want to make your own?

 

If you have a Cricut, you can use this file Frog Blowouts.svg.  Be sure to add a 1/2" circle for the blowout before cutting.

 

If you don't have a Cricut, print this frog face 5" wide.  Once printed, cut out and use a 1/2" hole punch in the center of the smile for the blowout.  Add 2 large google eyes.

 

 Guests brought her a copy of their favorite book, as a gift.  Check it out here.

Books Make Great Gifts

My bestie birthday-girl is an avid reader, so we asked guests to bring her a copy of their favorite book when we had her birthday party, recently.  Take a look!

 

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I made bookmarks for people to use as gift tags, if they didn't have one.  The adorable book garland was inspired by Martha Stewart.

 

 Feel free to use my books signs.