birthday theme My sister's birthday is coming up and I just came upon a great birthday theme for her party. It's a milestone birthday and I don't exactly want to play that up, but what I would like to do is use a birthday theme that appeals to what she likes, and got to thinking that she loves gardening, so why not use a birthday theme that capitalizes on that. I could go to the plant nursery and get a bunch of flower and vegetable seedlings and order some flower bouquets online and put together a fun birthday party centered around gardening.

It could be a really pretty birthday theme to put together. First, flower and vegetable plants almost all look and smell good and I could get some shallow cardboard boxes and decorate them with some kind of wrapping paper, line them with kitchen plastic wrap, and put the six packs of seedlings in for a centerpiece on the table. It's so easy to order flowers online and a couple of bouquets would probably be all I'd need to brighten the rooms up. One of her favorite flowers is sunflowers and they are pretty much an all season flower so I could probably order them as the birthday theme's centerpiece. I found the Sunflower Bouquet photo shown in this blog entry at an online flower shop.

We could also use seed packets as part of the birthday theme. If my sister didn't want to plant them, she could let her guests take them home to put them in their own gardens. With a mid February birthday, this birthday theme would give her a leg up on getting her spring garden in (we live in Phoenix). Her yard is gorgeous and she has a big plot for fruits and vegetables, so I think that this birthday decoration idea could be a fun one to pull off.

I got the idea for the gardening birthday theme when I was looking for gift cards for her present. The site, Shop On Mine at http://www.shoponmine.com, popped up and I saw the link for flowers, clicked on it, and saw the beautiful bouquet of sunflowers. It made me think of gardening and my sister, and bingo, the birthday theme solidified in my mind. Now all I have to do is think of all the fun food to prepare using the gardening theme. Maybe I should look online for flower shaped cookie cutters and invite her kids to come over and decorate cookies and a cake with me for their mom's next birthday celebration. This is going to be a fun party to prepare for and the whole family could take part in the preparation and participation.