Mexican Girl Doll

What do you think of the mexican dolls? I pretty much used what I had in the house already and I bought a few things. I had a tan colored canvas like material for the body and I bought flannel squares in different colors for the dresses. I also had pieces of lace to decorate the dresses. I made a template for the body of the doll and hand sewed the two dolls and dresses. It took me about 6 to 7 hours per doll to make.
I made Haley's doll with a more child like face and Sarah's doll with a preteen face.
They turned out beautifully.

2nd. Annual Girls Sleep Over Party

Sarah came up with a great idea last year. She wanted to have a girls family sleep over. Chris, her paternal grandmother, hosted the party. It was great fun so we decided to make it an annual event. This year I will be hosting the party. I have decided to do a Mexican Fiesta theme.

I worked on the invitations over the weekend. The date is set for Saturday April 17th
We will have 6 ladies- Chris, Sarah's paternal Grandmother, Pam, Sarah's paternal great Aunt, my daughters, Karen and Tammy, Carrie, Karen's cousin in law,myself and two children,my granddaughters, Sarah 10yrs old and Haley 1 year old.

The FOOD and Drinks

Frankie is making his cheese and sausage dip. I will buy store bought guacamole and make a salsa. So we will have nachos and dip for appetizers. Spiced popcorn for our movie.

I will be making frozen margaritas for the ladies and punch for Sarah and Haley.

For dinner we will have chicken enchiladas, chili and tacos. Red Spanish rice and vegetable salad. I am making a Tres Leches Cake for dessert and also Flan. For Sunday morning I am making huevos rancheros and of course pancakes. Sarah would never forgive me if I dont make pancakes.

THE PARTY

Ice Breaker

To begin the evening, we will each write 5 things about ourselves on a piece of paper. We will gather in a circle and pass the papers around the room. Once everyone has see eachothers paper, we will then use a ball of yarn to begin. The first person throws the ball of yarn to another person saying something they know about that person but holding onto the end. The next person does the same and so on until we have each gone around the room creating a web with the yarn.

After the icebreaker will will have dinner, after dinner play a game.. and around 9pm watch a movie. I have to find a movie that has some kind of mexican theme to it.

THE MUSIC

I am also getting some mariachi music to start the party going....O'le

Party Gifts

I bought a black ceramic salsa bowl for each of the ladies as a gift. I need to buy something for Sarah and Haley. I hope to find a small mexican doll. I did not find a mexican doll that I liked so I decided to handmake them each one. I will post pictures. They really turned out cute.

PINATA

I decided on making a mini mouse mexican pinata. It turned out so sweet that I just couldnt bare to see it demolished just for a few pieces of candy so my mexican mini mouse that my mom named Panchita will be our guest for the evening. I am now making a smaller smiley face pinata for Sarah and Haley to tear into.

Game

I am using photos of the development of Panchita to play a game. They will take a very good look at Panchita and then I will show them a photo of her before she was completed and they need to tell me which 10 items are missing. It should be fun.