Cinderella's Castle

We HAD to have Cinderella's castle when planning her table.  It is almost a requirement.  I had originally planned to try and make one, but I just ran out of time and the thought of building a castle that wasn't exactly like the icon just didn't seem right.

So instead, I went shopping at Amazon, because Goodwill just didn't have it this time. (DRAT.)

I found THIS 3D Cinderella castle puzzle.  I used my Gift Cards from Swagbucks to make it almost free (which is pretty good price wise if you ask me!)

I'd never built a 3D puzzle before and it was a little tricky trying to line up everything, so I put the puzzle together and Drama Queen figured out how to put it together.

And it looked awesome beside our pumpkin and Cinderella's magic slipper!

Sleeping Beauty Maleficent Dragon

My good fairies needed Maleficent to fight for our Sleeping Beauty table to be complete, so I found THIS plastic canvas pattern from Annie's Attic.

The pattern itself wasn't hard to cut or sew.  I even changed all the colors to look like the black and purple from Sleeping Beauty's dragon without too much trouble.  But putting it together was some serious work.  I'm not sure I got everything exactly as it was supposed to be.  The pattern was not very clear in the directions and I think they seriously need to work on that.

But overall, it took me only a week to work on and it looked pretty cool on the Sleeping Beauty party table.

Hercules' Muse Vase

When I knew I was making a Hercules table, I knew I needed to add the Muses somehow.  Since my skill at figurines is non-existent, I decided to add these lovely ladies on a vase as the centerpiece of the table.

It was pretty easy overall.

I started with a clear flower vase from, where else?  Goodwill.

Then, I spray painted it black.

Next I found a picture with all of the Muses on the Internet and printed it out.

I cut each of the ladies out and then lined them up around the vase.

Pretty easy!

Hercules Snakes

I had grand ideas for the Hercules table, but I had no luck trying to find the directions or supplies to make what was in my head.  I had hoped to try and make a minator or other Greek monster, but just couldn't figure out how to do it.

So instead, I made some cardboard toilet paper roll snakes to represent Medusa's snakes.

I found the idea here at Crafts by Amanda and had the Drama Queen spend the afternoon painting.  They really turned out cute in person and gave a little something extra to a rather bare table.  Plus, my boys loved playing with the snakes after!

Enchanted Table Decorations

Enchanted was another movie that I had a hard time coming up with ideas on how to decorate for.  I had originally come up with a plan to make a building and wrap a dragon around it, but could never quite get it to work right.  During the last week, these decoration ideas came to me and I think they turned out pretty cute.

I started with a light blue table cloth from my new favorite Party supply store Factory Direct Party.

Then I cut out a dress shape from the center of the table so it looked like Giselle had cut herself a dress out of it.  I free handed it so it wasn't perfect, but I think it looked fun.

Then I made a silver version of Cinderella's shoe.  I followed the same procedure, but used a silver glitter instead of gold.

I found a chipmunk to represent Pip at Jo-Anns when I was there a few weeks ago and put him on the table.

Then I represented the 3 apples that the Evil Queen tries to give Giselle.  I had a regular apple, a apple-tini, and a poison carmel apple on a helmet. (Instruction Post coming soon.)

Beauty and the Beast's Lumiere

So I wish that I could tell you how to make this AMAZING Lumiere decoration from Beauty and the Beast...but I can't.  But I just HAD to share it with you since it is so absolutely wonderful....

and the most amazing part of him?

Drama Queen made him!

Isn't it awesome?

She needed to make something fictional in art class in school, so she took paper mache, some clay, a little bit of tissue paper, and some paint...and TADAH!  Lumiere.

It's super cool in the fact that she made him so a tea light will fit in his arms and head.  So we reused 

the lights from the Tangled lanterns to make him shine.  It's so cool.

I don't think I can rave enough about my UBER TALENTED artist of a daughter.

And she was kind enough to let us use him for our Beauty and the Beast table (seen here with the Princess Belle) at last week's fundraiser.  We had more than one person who wanted to take him home, but we put a body guard on him and he'll soon have a permanent home in our living room!

Tarzan Monkey Trees

Tarzan was one of those tables that was hard to figure out how to decorate for.

I was lucky in that I found these trees at Dollar Tree a few weeks ago.  They have them in two different sizes and I bought a few of each so it looked like a jungle in the center of the table.

Next I found some cute monkey graphics and sized them to be about 2 inches tall.

I cut out, punched a hole in the end, and tied a piece of string to the monkey.

I tied the monkey to the underside of the tree so it looked like it was hanging from the tree.