The Arquilla Antics: August 2014

When I was looking for things for my son's Spiderman Bday, I came across this gem.

The link once again is just a picture with no instructions so I thought I would share how I made them.

Materials:
Strawberries
Sturdy straw
White Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Piping bag and tools
Mini Cup Cake Wrappers

So I did buy two containers of strawberries and only used about 1/4 of a bag of each kind of chocolate. I also liked this because the chocolate wasn't overpowering the strawberries as in a traditional chocolate covered strawberry.

1. Wash the strawberries
2. De-stem them. I used the straw method.
3. Put one strawberry on it's side in each cup cake wrapper

4. Melt the milk chocolate and put in a piping bag with a narrow tip.
5. Pipe the eyes of spiderman. Almost like a "D" and backwards "D"

5. Melt the white chocolate and put in piping bags. Pipe a smaller "D" so you can still see the milk chocolate for an outline.

On display

So my little baby is three. I probably shouldn't call him a baby anymore huh? Well we had a fantastic time at his party - with everything under the sun linked to superhero's or spiderman! He was so excited.

I started with the invitations. In the past, I have spent a little more money and have gotten them printed on nicer paper - Best Value Copy is my go-to for this! They are pretty affordable, fast and good quality. But I actually tried creating the file as a .jpg and printed them at Walgreens and they turned out just fine. I think it's a personal preference, but I am not sure who keeps the invites anyways anymore and so I went with a very cheap option.

Here's how they turned out. I printed them as 4x6 pictures. The thank-you cards are similar.

After the invites were sent out, I then did a little photo shoot. I know I enjoyed it more than my little buddy. I printed these pictures as engineer prints at Staples for $2 each. Awesome decorations.

Then all that was left was to get supplies which I found at the Dollar Store! I also looked at C's toys. He had plenty of superhero toys to use around as centerpieces too. I also asked guests to dress up - a lot of inexpensive superhero shirts are all over the place lately and a few people followed suit.