On Sunday we celebrated Alivia’s first birthday with a little party. I did my best with what I could find to put together something cute. I definately had to get creative, but truthfully, she didn’t really care about the decorations…she was pretty focused on the cupcakes! 🙂
I can’t even tell you what a special part of our family this little sweetheart is! She’s spunky, she’s snuggly, she’s the reason all the chairs in my dining room are tipped over (she’s a climber & we canNOT keep her off the table any other way!) She makes me smile everyday and I’m so grateful for our little Livie-lou.
Rebecca Cooper is a 42-year-old wife and mother of four from Alberta, Canada. As a photographer, crafter, author, and blogger, she finds joy and fulfillment in celebrating everyday moments. She loves to read and eat chocolate, and is a firm believer in afternoon naps. Rebecca shares her family’s adventures, photo tips, simple craft projects + more right here at Simple as That.
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Adorable! Love the simple, clean colors!
Perfection! Simply sweet! Happy Birthday to your sweet little one!
well it looks super cute!!! What a doll she is!
Happy Birthday Alivia!
How sweet, You know sometimes more simple is better. Love the plain brown wrapping actually.
Love your photos Rebecca! She is such a dolly. Your simple party is 10 times better than anything I’ve ever thrown. I LOVE it! I check in on you guys often. Looks fun there! Miss ya!
– Jewel
She’s a doll! Beautiful party decorations!
This is adorable! I love the brown paper packages tied up with string and the banner and flowers are to die for. So so cute.
Happy Birthday to Miss Alivia. Everything looked great & she’s just beautiful.
I LOVE every single one of those shots…absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I love the sweet name Alivia 🙂
What a little dear you have! The party looks so lovely!
wow happy birthday to little alivia she is so beautiful and decoration wise you could make anything beautiful with nothing to work with your so talented miss you!
looks gorgeous to me, also loving the brown paper and the decor…and I’m with Alivia – the cupcakes are what’s important, and licking off the icing! 😉
How sweet! Love her cakes!
I think your simple is beautiful and girlie. She is so cute and precious. Happy Birthday Alivia.
This is so sweet! Happy Birthday!
I LOVE that first picture of her just about eating her cupcake! That is the sweetest picture. Happy 1st birthday Alivia.
So, so beautiful, your little one.
Now that’s the way to eat a cupcake–no hands and face first. So cute! Happy Birthday, Alivia!
Your my hero, your pictures are beautiful, I hope someday I will be able to take pictures like that 🙂
You are my hero as well! 🙂 You are amazing! I wish I had a talent for making things look nice…I really fall short in that department! I used one of your templates for our Christmas card that I of course didn’t send out, but we passed them out here, and put it on facebook…thanks!
Thanks so much for the kind comments ladies! I’m DEFINATELY biased but we sure think she’s a cutie-pie too. 😉 And if you only knew about the decorations, etc. They are SO (so, so!) simple & cost me nothing!
The packaging is actually lunch bags that I took apart & used for wrapping paper with a few bits of salvaged string. The flower garland is made from real flowers that the kids helped me pick and I then strung them together with a needle & thread. I added a few flowers around the makeshift cupcake stand (a plate + a bowl + a baby food jar) & glued some to those branches with the gluegun I brought.
The bunting & her party hat I did with computer paper…its all I had on hand …but it worked just fine. Oh how I wish I had a small stash of cardstock/scrapbook paper but I couldn’t fit my scrapbook stash into the suitcases darnit.
Paper + some pencil crayons and done & done. No special tools or moolah required. 🙂
I love the simplicity here…simply beautiful! And it works so well for your little girl, turning one. Perfect. I’m taking a lesson from you here and will see what I can find to make my son’s 8th birthday coming up simple but meaningful, just as you did.
Pam K.
All beautiful!!
It was Brae’s bday yesterday and she is missing Miss Emily and Mark and I chatted about missing you guys this holiday season. Everything looks so good there though, makes us want to take on an adventure.
Hope all is well.
I love it!! I think the simplicity is what makes is so great! Wishing I had a birthday to plan now 🙂
Lorajean