Monica’s latest party had a fun “super star” Hanna Montana theme, and I made her this electric guitar piñata. We had a lot of fun making it, because of the shape there was no need for balloons or any messes with flour. I basically just used a box from one of my RC airplanes, cut the shape with one face of the box and traced the bottom part with the other side. The corners were just slices from the same box folded to form the necessary shape. Lots of tape was needed for this.

Because I was using a box and no paper mache, I was afraid the kids were going to have a hard time breaking it but no, it stood its ground and then broke when the bigger kids started hitting it.

One fun little detail where the knobs and the cords made out of colorful threads. Also added a little Hanna Montana sticker to keep up with the theme of the party.

BTW one of the top searches I keep getting is for “transformer piñata”, which almost makes me try to do one (Starscream or Optimus I guess). Too bad my girls are not really into the Transformers, but maybe I could do just for fun or give it to a friend.

We all went to Disney’s Magic Kingdom last weekend, and I like this picture we took of the castle at night. Makes it look a bit spooky.

It only took a couple of days, but yesterday Monica was able to ride her bike with no training wheels by herself for a nice little distance around our street. I’m so proud of her, and it’s been a lot of fun teaching her how to ride a bicycle. We still have a lot of work to do, like perfecting those turns, but it’s really something to see your “baby” growing up so fast. I just thank God I’m blessed with these moments.

Oh I forgot to mention, we did have a couple of accidents along the way:

Don’t worry, that last pic is staged of course

We went to a local grocery store here in Tampa to celebrate the Chinese New Year with some good friends. I posted pictures of the event in the gallery.

The birthday party was last Sunday, and I finished the pinata the day before. This one didn’t turn out to be that difficult, and the way I did the rope finally worked so the pinata didn’t fall like it has in the past.

Only problem, I put too many layers! So the kids couldn’t break it!!! So next time I’ll be more careful, and maybe even try to put some soft spots on purpose to make this easier. We actually had 2 adults take a couple of swings, and they had difficulty breaking it.

All in all, it was worth it, the party was a success, we all had fun, and Monica was very happy, which is all that matters.

I have 2 trips and a lot of work this week, but the biggest challenge is going to be to turn the object above into a piñata of a purse. Right now it looks like a dino egg wrapped in newspaper but this is how it starts (well, this one started as a ballon …). A couple of years ago I started a tradition of making our own piñatas for our daughters’ birthdays and I can’t disappoint Monica this year. Her theme is a “fashion show”, so she likes the purse idea. I’m not too thrilled about it as I rather do characters, but it’s her party of course.

Wish me luck, hopefully this thing will be dry when I come back from Atlanta. I’ll also try to post a gallery of the past piñatas that I’ve made, since some of my friends have asked how to make them.

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