For my 11th birthday which was only 3 days ago, I decided to have a Hollywood theme. INVITATIONS: For the invitations, I found a couple websites where you could create a magazine cover as an invite. Since I am very creative, I decided to make invitations myself on Word. I made the title of the magazine ELEVEN" instead of "SEVENTEEN" and put the words "August 2010" (my birthday month) under it in a smaller font. My mom and I took pictures of me outside all dressed up in a nice dress sunglasses and a boa. We chose a picture and pasted it in for the cover of the magazine. In the top left corner I put "Exclusive interview: Birthday girl Page- America's Eleven girl of the month- Page 45". I also included Hollywood party attire RSVP sleepover items and of course the main party info. I sent these out about three weeks before the party date. Along with the magazine cover I included "VIP Passes" made out of construction paper (small) with a hole through the top (middle) which I made into white sequined necklaces. On the front I put "VIP PASS" in big black letters. In the top corner I wrote "Pass 81899" (my birthday). On the back of the passes I wrote "Please present this pass to the bodyguard at the front door." Everyone RSVP'd on time and I recieved many comments on how creative the invitation was. DECORATIONS/ATMOSPHERE: My cousins and I strung crepe paper in gold white and silver along the walls of my screened-in porch. I also got shiny gold star garland and hung it around the door to the deck. On the door leading to the porch I put a sign that said "VIP ENTRANCE"  that I bought off of www.partycheap.com. Partycheap has lots of good cheap items and I got alot of stuff off of it. I also taped a oscar award cutout to the wall. In the front hallway I printed out movie posters and taped them to the wall along with a big sign that said "NOW SHOWING". On the porch I had set up my iPod dock (I could put my iPod touch in and play music out of the speakers) and my CD player. In the invitation I had asked guests to bring CDs to play in the music player. Outside next to my mailbox (which I had decorated with black gold and silver balloons) I put a sign that said ACTIVITIES: I bought a red carpet runner and rolled it out on our front walkway. The guests that had already arrived had recieved a LED flashing mini camera (bought at local office supplies store). When someone rang the doorbell (my brother didn't want to be the bouncer so we put up a sign that said "Gone fishing--- Use doorbell" on the front door) we would all open the door and pretend to be the paparazzi flashing our cameras at the guest. Everyone loved these favors. Beforehand I got regular printer paper and cut out names of celebrities like Miley Cyrus Johnny Depp and Taylor Swift. When everyone arrived we all stuck the pieces of paper to each other's forehead. We had to guess what name was on our forehead. That didn't work so well because some guests kept looking in the mirror. We started to make up our own and this went on for about 25 minutes. Another activity we did was Pin the moustache on the oscar award. Other ideas for that would be "Pin the oscar on the celeb" or "pin the tiara on the celeb" or something like that. For that I printed out moustaches in different colors for each guest and put tape on the backs of them. We each took turns putting a blindfold on being spinned around 5 times and trying to see who got their moustache closest to the oscar cutout's upper lip area. We didn't have any prizes in this game. Another fun game we did was make commercials. Beforehand I had ran around the house and collected weird and random items (bubbles socks stuffed animal nightlight pet rock ect.) and put them all in a bag. Each guest had to reach their hand in (without looking) and pull out the first object they touched. Then one by one I took each guest inside and they got to choose where to record their commercial. I recorded these with my Flip video camera. Afterwards we all watched the commercials and we all agreed they were very funny. While the other guests were waiting for their turns outside on the porch they got to do a hollywood themed word search. THE OSCARS: At night we set up chairs on the grass and had stairs leading up to a podium on the deck along with a fake glittery microphone (off of partycheap.com). We had our deck lights on. I had gone to a local craft store and bought wooden "awards" in different shapes like a star (best commercial) bear (most wild) teddy bear (most huggable) cat (animal lover) butterfly (awesome award) cake (best birthday girl) ect. With those I colored them and wrote what the award was. My mom was the award announcer and she called us up one by one  to receive our award and give an acceptant speech. PARTY SNACKS: For dinner we just had plain pizza. On my dinner table inside we put chex mix lots of chips cookies (star shaped preferably) any kind of junk food. But leave space for fruits and veggies and dip too. For drinks we bought plastic wine glasses and had Cheerwine Sprite Coke ect. CAKE: For my cake I had a funfetti cake in the shape of a star. We bought white letters that said "HOLLYWOOD" and got personalized candles that had my name on it. To make your cake stand out you could get a red Fruit-By-The-Foot and use some of it as a "red carpet" and have little mini people to stick in your cake. Edible yellow star confetti would be cool too. Along with the cake we had Birthday Cake ice cream. Yum! SLEEPOVER TIME: By the time night falls your guests will probably be tired. Settle down with a movie and setting up your sleeping bags. For my movie we watched Ponyo (we couldn't find any hollywood themed movies in our house). We bought popcorn that we put in classic red and white striped popcorn boxes. While watching the movie we played Truth or Dare would you rather ect. IN THE MORNING: When everyone woke up we trailed into the kitchen where there was muffins eggs pancake waffles juice milk and so on. While everyone was waiting for their parents to pick them up we played outside and just conversed with everyone. "