DIY Birthday Party in a Box Gift Idea

Today's DIY is inspired by my one of my new favorite youtubers DIYLover, I absolutely love her DIYS, they are so creative and her videos are edited amazingly. I thought I'd do a slightly more grown up version of her Birthday In A Box video for my friend Eilis's birthday which was two weeks ago.

I used shot glasses that I bought from boots plus some apple schnapps and a cocktail mix as the main part of the present since my other friends had brought Eilis a cocktail Shaker and glasses for christmas and her birthday respectively.

 Then I added some balloons, confetti, sparklers and party poppers in cellophane bags before wrapping everything up in tissue paper.

To finish it all off I put everything in a pretty box and placed her birthday card (which explained what the gift was) on top.

I think she found the gift quite funny and it came in useful for her party so I'm very happy with how this DIY turned out. It's a great gift idea for any older people you know who perhaps are a little harder to buy for, or just anyway you know is having a party!

If you try it out tweet me a pic @KatieCorbett98

My 16th Birthday! What I Got & Celebrations

Sorry this post took me so long to get up, It was actually mine and my twin sister Megan's birthday on March 6th! I thought about splitting this into two posts-What I Got and the Celebrations- but in the end I have decided to keep it as one. Just a warning though, this a very long and photo heavy post but alas, let us begin... 

Originally Me and Meg had been just planning to have a party for our 16th, but it turned out 3 of my 5 best friends couldn't come. In the end I decided to go out for a cheeky nandos with them on the friday before my party on the Saturday. Here are some of the photos below. They even surprised with a mini chocolate cake (candles and all!) as you can see in the bottom right photo. I don't know why i look so scared though? I'd also like to point out that I have a confetti star stuck to my right cheek that was in my birthday card :)

 It was here that my gorgeous, amazing, beautiful, fantastic, brilliant best friends presented me with my INCREDIBLE gift! They all decided to club together and got me the gifts you see below, as soon as I saw the gift bags I was super excited! They brought me a GORGEOUS Pandora ring, Lush Twilight Bath Bomb (Review coming soon), a whole bunch of American Sweets (they know me so well!) and the money for a MAC lipstick because they didn't know which colour to get me. I simply cannot thank them enough so if they are reading this, thank you a million times to Rose, Liz, Eilis, Katie and Liv!

These things below are what I received off my brother, sister and parents. My brother got me a game of thrones hand of the king badge and a game of thrones cushion with isn't shown in this photo because it hasn't yet been released in the UK. My sister brought me the James Blunt CD and then the poster, bag, phone and silver cuff were off my parents. So thank you to all of them!

Now onto the party...

My AMAZING(!!) friend Elizabeth did my hair for me for my party, seriously how good is she! I curled my hair before she came round and then she just did my hair with no picture references or video tutorials or anything...I just don't know how she did it?! So thank you very much Liz! I also thought it looked especially good because of my ombred hair :D

And here are the photos from the party. We spent the night dancing, eating cake (Rainbow cake specifically, as you can see below), chatting and playing snooker (Or is it pool? I have no idea of the difference). I really enjoyed it and I hope that all my guests did too :)

My friends also brought me all of this amazing stuff and I can't thank them enough for how lovely and generous they've all been so thank you sooooo much!

I also got this amazing giant cookie off a bunch of my friends. Lessons I have learnt whilst eating this 1) all cookies should be iced 2) do not try and eat it all yourself...

And finally I'd like to say a huge thank you to Bronagh (She clearly reads the blog!) Not only for the brilliant present of Maybelline Colour Tattoos, but also for the adorable little quote that I found in the card! I have wanted the colour tattoos for what seems like forever but you know when you just never get round to buying something even though you really want them, well thats what happened with me. And well done to Bronagh for picking such gorgeous colours! I'll hopefully be writing a review on those soon!

So all in all I'd like to say a huge thank you to all my family and friends who made my 16th so brilliant! I'm also quite happy that the image on my side bar is finally accurate now I've turned 16 :)

16th Birthday Present Idea

 Since it was the 16th birthday of my best friend since I was four years old, I wanted to do something special. The basic concept is as she's 16 years old, she gets 16 presents for the 16 days before her birthday.

What I included in my gift-

1. Baby Lips Lipbalm 

2. Marshmallow Fluff (She loves american sweets)

3. 16th Birthday Badge

4. Earrings

5. Vimto Sweets (Her favourite)

6. Nail Polish+Blusher

7. 16 Keyring

8. Book

9. Handbag Organiser

10. Photos

11. Lumos Candle (DIY here)

12. Gryffindor Bauble

13. Bertie Botts every flavour bean (Box template here) 

14. Harry Potter lightning bolt ring

15. Dictionary Necklace (DIY here)

16. A Birthday Balloon

 

Then here they all are wrapped up, numbered and ready to go. Then I just placed them in the gift bag, attached the card to the balloon and tied the balloon to the gift handle. I gave the present to her 16 days before her birthday so that she could open one each day before her birthday. 

And although You'd expect this to be pretty expensive it turned out at less than £25 due to the fact that I DIYed a few of the presents.

Hope you like the idea, let me know if you try it out...