Party planning is exhausting...

...especially if you are Queen of the Castle and planning a royal gala for the Princess of the Castle.  I think I am having much more fun doing this than all the little princesses of the land will have celebrating with us.  Well, maybe not quite as much fun as they will have. 

There are so many ideas to be sorted through, like this one,

(check!--but we will paint with watercolors)

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and this blog has me giddy with all kinds of pretty things to add.  Go see her ideas.  Fabulous if you are planning a party of your own or just need to make something cute. 

And then there are these:

 

from Martha, of course.

And I really hope that when it is all said and done, that it looks a little like this:

and this:

with lots of little princesses to fill the tables.  Oh, what fun it will be! And they will party happily ever after.