Thanks to my creative juices returning again (Thank You, Lord), and of course to my new friend Pinterest, I had an abundance of inspiration for this party.

I hand-painted her invitations – I’m really pleased with how they turned out!

I love tissue paper poofs, as they add so much visual impact for little money. And they are very easy to make! The best tutorial on how to make them comes from, who else?, Martha Stewart. I made 13 in all, using four different kinds of tissue paper. I love how they mimic the feeling of ballerina tutus.

What’s a ballet party without tulle? I bought about 15 yards and my Mother in Law helped me sew these lace curtains for the dance floor. We adorned the sides with gigantic flowers (I picked up at Michael’s for 50% off) for the girls to flutter around during their Butterfly Ballet performance.

I also made the tutus you see in the picture. I could have saved myself hours&hours of work by choosing a different tutu, but I saw this tutorial and just fell in love with how these looked and twirled. Have you ever seen cuter tutus? Most other ones always look so scratchy and static and these are just so feminine! Do not be deceived – these are NOT no-sew tutus. I sewed 200+ ribbons onto each one of them. And, to make them stay in place you need to sew the waistband with a long stitch on your sewing machine. They were worth it.

I also made this wreath by taking a discounted Valentines’ Day wreath, adding a bow and a pair of Geneva’s old ballet slippers stuffed with coordinating tissue paper. Didn’t it turn out adorable?

For the tabletop I used a luncheon set of milkglass plates and cups that I inherited from my mother. Also from my mother’s tea party collection, lace napkin holders. They always make everything fancier.

And of course we displayed Geneva’s handprint tutu as well.

The fun thing about all these decorations is that we’ve moved them all into Geneva’s room. We took down her younger 1-10 animal prints (wow this picture is soo old – her room has gone through many changes since 09!) and now she has all the pink poof balls hanging from her ceiling. We also re-purposed the tulle curtains and turned them into a canopy over her bed. She’s in little girl bliss!