For my daughter Amber's second birthday, we had a Strawberry Shortcake Garden Party.  It took place at her Grandmother's lovely garden where Amber loves to play. I dressed her up as SSC and made her a SSC hat out of pink felt fabric and green, pink and white ribbons. I stenciled the strawberries on the hat with colored glues; it looked just like SSC's hat. Her invitation were made on the computer; I scanned a page from a SSC book and cropped my daughter's picture and added SSC and her friends to the page so that it looked as if they were standing in front of SSC house and it read, "You are invited to a Berry Special Birthday for a Berry Special Cupcake." For decorations, I used red, pink and green construction paper to make lots of small and large strawberries. I also made cutouts of Strawberry Shortcake, Orange Blossom, Ginger Snap, Angel Cake and my daughter, taped them to wooden skewers, and placed them all over the garden. I printed banners with my daughter, SSC and friends and hung them in the garden and patio.  Made lots of strawberries out of red and pink balloons and green tissue paper for the top and made dots with a black marker for the seeds. I also added green and white balloons for more color.  The centerpieces were watering cans just like SSC's with fresh pink roses and SSC dolls and friends from my daughter's personal collection. For games we had pin the bow on SSC hat (enlarged picture of SSC), hot SSC, musicale chairs and as a surprise for the kids I had SSC show up in person. She did face painting, balloon animals, magic and played games with the kids. I also purchased the SSC CD, which played all day long.  As my guest arrived, I sprayed them with Strawberry scent (purchased at Victoria's Secret). For party bags, I made all the girls a string tie backpack with a SSC iron-on printed from my computer and stenciled some strawberries with colored glues; each bag had the girls initial. I also purchased nail polish, lip-gloss and little plastic bottles and filled them with Strawberry lotion for the girl's goodie bags which also included different strawberry flavored candy. Every girl also received a SSC paper hat purchased at Target. I also made her cake and a piñatas; the cake was a two layer 16"round cake with SSC's house also made out of cake; for this, I used the pan for a doll cake dress turned it upside down and held it with chopsticks. I used gram crackers for the pathway, died coconut green for grass added gumdrops and lollypops to adorn the grass. I made candy letters to look like strawberries out of pink and green candy to spell out Happy Birthday Amber. She had three homemade piñatas, SSC's hat, strawberry and a # 2, made out of cardboard, newspaper, tissue and glue sticks. It was lots of work but well worth it. I started a couple of months in advance so it would not feel like a lot of work. Everyone enjoyed it and all her little cousins are asking when her next party will be.