A Roar-ing Jungle Party

I'm not sure what's with kids and animals - both little boys and girls alike, they just love animals. Wanted to have a girly theme party for my little princess (more for me really cos i've already done a jungle party). Something like a garden party or a butterfly party would be nice. I can already imagine how to transform our garden into a flowery wonderland - pretty & sweet. But no, my little girl wouldn't hear of it. She wanted a LION party. So oh well, a jungle party it is.

Jungle Gym in BSC is a great venue if you want a hassle free party (and it suits the theme just well). In case you are considering, party packages start from RM38 per kid for the most basic package. The basic package will do, since the kids most likely wouldn't want to eat or play games as was the case with our little guests. All they wanted to do was to run free in the 'jungle' playland.

And what's a jungle party without a cake befitting the theme? For a cost effective alternative to expensive decorative cakes, just buy your favourite cake from your local cake shop (we got ours from secret recipe) and decorate it yourself. These days you can buy ready made rolled fondant. All you need is a little bit of creativity and lots of googling for inspiration. And just like how you would do with playdough, just go ahead and do some modelling :-)

I'm making it sound really simple eh? If you're not up for it yourself, give us a buzz and we'll see if our in-house creative director is up for some freelance project at a reasonable fee. This is what she did... amazing isn't it? Except of course the cake turned out to be smaller than expected so we couldn't fit all the jungle buddies on the cake. Oh well... next time we have to coordinate better :-)

Party goody bags

It's been a while... a loooooong while since I last posted. Another birthday party is coming up and I'm scrambling to find the perfect goody bag to hold all the goodies I've purchased for my little guests. Problem is the ones out there are either too small, too big or too expensive. Wouldn't you rather spend the money on more goodies insetad of on the bag itself?

I've googled and googled, even comtemplating making my own paper bag (I need one that is of A4 size - yup i have some large items for the goody bag). Finally I stumbled upon Musings of a Mom who blogged about where to get brown paper bags in KL (refer to this link http://www.mom2ashley.com/blog/?p=3762). You cannot imagine how glad I was. Thank you so much mom2ashleyaidan for sharing. I hope the brown paper bags are still available :-)