I planned my great neices birthday party again last year and diddn't know where to start. I had the 'soon to be' 4 year old with me and for inspiration we went on the internet to party city to look around. When I clicked on the Tinkerbell party supplies my neice perked up and said ooo. . I like that one!" So that started it all.      INVITES: I found a Tinkerbell stationary kit at the dollar store (gotta love the dollar store) so I use it to make the birthday invitations. I wrote on them ALL YOU NEED IS FAITH AND TRUST AND A LITTLE BIT OF PIXIE DUST. COME WITH US TO NEVER NEVER LAND TO CELEBRATE CIARA AND KAILEE'S 3rd and 4th BIRTHDAY PARTY. Here is where I put the when and where info. Then I added AS THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION GIRLS REMEMBER TO COME DRESSED IN YOUR "FAIRY" BEST AND BOYS COME IN YOUR PIRATE GARB. THEN BE PREPARD TO BE TRANSFORMED!!! After decorating and writing the information on the stationary I rolled them up into little tubes and wrapped mint green ribbons (left over from a previous sewing project) around them and secured it with a Tinkerbell sticker (from the kit). I kept them in a Tinkerbell jewerly box I found at a yard sale for a dollar as I handed them out to family and the girl's sunday school classes. The Adults gotta kick out of the presentation!     PLACE FOOD AND DECOR: Since their birthdays are in the summer I rented a patio room from a local resaturant for $25 (because I brought my own food instead of ordering from them) for the party. We decorated it with all Tinkerbell. We had purple green and yellow balloons and streamers hanging from every window. Against one wall we had the food table decorated with a yellow tablecloth and tinkerbell confettie. We had munchie food (I learned from last time and diddn't over-kill the food!) a plate with pepperoni cheese and crackers. A vegie plate with ranch dip (adults and the 4 year old loved that one). The girls helped me make cookies for the party before-hand shaped like flowers from a cookie press and they also help make chocolate covered strawberries and cherries. They had a blast and told everyone they help make them. We served fruit punch limonade cherry lime-aide and diet coke. On the wall above the table we put balloons streamers the Happy Birthday Banner and purple yellow and green paper lanterns. On the next wall was the cake and presents table decorated with a Tinkerbell tablecloth confetti and a pirate centerpiece. (I tried to keep boys in mind so I put pirates in here and there from never never land) The cake was terrific! We went to our local bakery (who is also a friend of ours the girls love her) I gave her some things to put on the cake and then gave her free design! The cake topper is actually a game piece I found for a quarter (25cents) at a yard sale (I cleaned it of course and it sat on a piece of cardboard so it didn't touch the cake). It's Tinkerbell sitting inside a bubble with flowers around her when you turn it on it's motion and sound sensor sets off music lights and her wings flutter! I also gave her some pirate things ( a telescope some coins and a toy compass all party favors I got from the dollar store) to put on the cake.       I hit wal-mart for all tinkerbell party supplies (plates napkins cups stadium cups for the birthday girls blowouts tablecloth confettie Happy Birthday Banner Pinata Tinkerbell tiaras loot bags ect.) Everything else came from the dollar store or was a great find among yard sales or thrift stores.     On the party table was yellow tablecloth and all the Tinkerbell tableware down at the end untill we needed them.     DRESS: The birthday girls came dressed as Tinkerbell with dress-up dresses and wings I got at wal-mart after Halloween sale for 4 dollars each. Also wearing the Tinkerbell party tiaras and birthday girl award ribbons. I had bought green wings and green necklaces from the dollar store for the guest to wear but I diddn't need them. EVERYONE came dressed in dance gowns tutus wings sequins tule you name it!! The youngest guest came dressed as Thumbelina! They took the theme running! I gave out the party tiaras to everyone and an impromptu fairy fashion show came about. The girls lined up and posed for everyone to take pictures! I had gotten some pirate gear (eye patches hats telescopes and toy compasses) for the boys that were invited but none came :(     ACTIVITIES AND GAMES: Afterward they sat at the party table and decorated extra balloons with Tinkerbell stickers. After balloons and munchie eatting the girls went outside the patio room to the patio where I had hidden some floral stones (little glass colored stones I got at -you guessed it- the dollar store) in the grass. I showed the girls one stone that I hadn't hidden and told them that it was a fairy tressure! Who ever found the most fairy tressures wins a prize! Kinda like easter egg hunting! The prize was a Tinkerbell notebook and matching ink pen (Thumbelina won!) Then we set up a bubble station. The kind with huge shapped wands and let the girls blow bubbles untill time for cake and sherburt! Imagine the look on the girls faces when the sang happy birthday and the Tinkerbell topper went off singing and fluttering!!! One little girl kept snapping her fingers to keep it going!      After cake the birthday girls opened presents then they got in line for the pull string pinata! They filled their goodie bags with pinata prizes (the goodie bags already had lipgloss silly straws stickers rainbow slinkies and tinkerbell crayons). The party had then came to an end the purple fairy had already fallen asleep! I'm glad so many people came and really enjoyed themselves. One of the parents of our guest had sent me pictures they had taken of the party.      The 4 year old told me yesterday what she wants for her 5th birthday party. BARBIE!!! Now what am I gonna do? Time to search for ideas. . . . "