Olivia's B-day Invites

Olivia will be 12 in just a couple of weeks. Whoa! Hard to believe. I am surely not old enough to have a 12-year-old, am I?

After perusing through my binder of birthday party themes and ideas (mostly all pulled out of magazines or copied from library books), Olivia decided she wanted to have a jewelry-making party (which was not one of the ideas in the binder). She has been making some cool bead and wire jewelry lately, and I have tons of beading supplies, so I thought this would be very fun too. She invited all the girls in her class (which is only eight girls) to come make jewelry & celebrate.

I had this idea for making invitations that involved re-using all those little Webkinz plastic mini envelopes (see, I knew there was a reason I was keeping those). We printed invites on white cardstock on our computer. We then filled the little clear envelopes with seed beads and a strand of jewelry elastic, sealed the envelopes with a sticker, and hot-glued them onto the top of the invitations. They look rather cool, and her friends can make a necklace or bracelet with the beads included. Should be a fun party. I'll post pictures after the event, and of course of the cake!