Last weekend we celebrated my daughter’s first birthday with a kitty cat birthday party. She loooooves kitties! Let me tell you how difficult it was gathering “real” kitty cat items for the party – all I could find were “cool” cats or hello kitty. Where are the real cats without all the cutesy stuff? We ended up doing a mixture of pink/paisley tableware with kitty cat accents like the favors and birthday signs and favor tags.

I had such fun making my daughter’s first birthday party favors ever. I used some frosted mini take out boxes we have in inventory and bought some neutral “cat” colored pipe cleaners and felt and created faces and tails for the boxes. Then I filled them with Trader Joe’s cat cookies in both chocolate and vanilla and attached a tag with the new kitty cat design. I wanted something simple but also cute and came up with this cat favor label and tag design.

Naturally, my daughter is too young to remember this birthday or these favors, but the day was so special for me that I wanted to something fun and memorable. I think Sarah enjoyed the oversized singing Elmo balloon from her Aunt more than anything else. Well, maybe the cat cake, because it was all sugar and all chocolate. Everyone that came the party got to take a favor box home with them and after such a wonderful day, they seemed happy to take some of the party home with them.